“Much of your pain is self-chosen.“
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round.
Soon, he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.”
James Thurber
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.”
Don Juan Matus as quoted by Carlos Castaneda
“Wisdom is more easily absorbed by the feet than by the mind.”
Dr. Godzoff
“Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.“
Corey Ford
“Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy!
Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess that you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.”
Anthony de Mello
“If You Spot It … You Got It.”
My Buddy Bill
“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart,
far more damaging to yourself than to them.”
Lawana Blackwell
“Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.”
OSHO
“How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.”
Millicent Fenwick
“Expectations are premeditated resentment.”
Author Unknown
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly
than the passion of resentment.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due."
Will Rogers
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. “
C. S. Lewis
"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed--
borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."
OSHO
“Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave.
Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest. “
Frederick Bailes
“When we come close to those things that break us down,
we touch those things that also break us open.”
Wayne Muller
"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
Will Rogers
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
Henry Ward Beecher
“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
Charles C. Noble
“The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.”
Og Guinness
“Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.”
Zen Proverb
“People have become so scared of dying
that they forget about living.”
Joe Schwarcz
"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
Anonymous
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