And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates?
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.
It was all in your mind, Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take...
Refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.
Happiness is a choice. If you choose to mope and be glum, you shall be; but if you wish to be happy and determine to enjoy what life has to offer, then you can have that as well. She said that nothing...
In order to move forward, you had to let the past go - and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others, it was about things in the physical world.
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape.
You live if you dance to the voice that ails you.
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self - preserving and self - benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to...
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
The final therapy, as Freud said, is work and love.
Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.
But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone....
Driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will; She can, though every...
The secret is to not let your imagination get carried away.
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....