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I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than
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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“In other words, change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation and self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t “take.”
― Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
― Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
“The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.”
― The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
― The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience. Leaning into the future, or rehashing the past, we leave the living experience of the immediate moment. Our trance deepens as we move through the day driven by “I have to do more to be okayâ€� or “I am incomplete; I need more to be happy.â€� These “mantrasâ€� reinforce the trance-belief that our life should be different from what it is.”
― Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
― Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
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