Quotable Quotes 12

[Daniel E.]

While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

- Martin Seligman

 

[Daniel E.]

Work on your strengths, not your weaknesses...It's difficult to change any aspect of your personality by sheer force of will, and if it is a weakness you choose to work on, you probably won’t enjoy the process. If you don’t find pleasure or reinforcement along the way, then—unless you have the willpower of Ben Franklin—you’ll soon give up. But you don’t really have to be good at everything. Life offers so many chances to use one tool instead of another, and often you can use a strength to get around a weakness.

- Jonathan Haidt

 

[Harebells]

 

[Daniel E.]

"In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you."

~ Albert Ellis

 

[Daniel E.]

From the mental health unit of a Arizona jail:

 

[Daniel E.]

"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

- Victor Hugo

 

[Daniel E.]

“We want to be, when we are young,
A little man.
I would like to be a big child,
Stronger and fairer than a man,
And more lucid than a child.”

― Paul Éluard (1895-1952)

 

[Daniel E.]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

- Marcel Proust

 

[Daniel E.]

Of all the fantasies human beings entertain, the idea that we can go it alone is the most absurd and perhaps the most dangerous. We stand together or we fall apart.

- George Monbiot

George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

 

[Daniel E.]

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

- Marcel Proust

 

[Daniel E.]

"One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret."

"A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves."

- Irvin D. Yalom

 

[Daniel E.]

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

 

[Daniel E.]

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

 

[Daniel E.]

Give yourself permission to acknowledge that you’re feeling terrible (or bad, or whatever it is you are feeling), and then do a little thing, just one single thing, that you probably don’t feel like doing, and I PROMISE you it will help.

- Wil Wheaton

My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed.

 

[Daniel E.]

"My life is, by every objective measurement, very very good.

And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self esteem, my self worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being."

- Wil Wheaton

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.

- Richard Hooker

 

[Daniel E.]

"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire."

- Jung

 

[Daniel E.]

“Our only enemies are guilt, fear and shame. Such unresolved negatives prevent us from living fully...”

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

[David Baxter PhD]

“Remember how far you've come, not how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” ~ Rick Warren