“The problems that are in front of you are actually behind you; they are cracks in your foundation that are holding you back. Stop trying to dismantle symptoms, go back and identify the causes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When people care most about how their lives look is when they're most closed off to how their lives feel.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Instead of thinking you are someone who is attractive and successful, learn to think of yourself as someone who is resilient, hungry for new experiences, capable of deeply loving others, and so on.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Anxiety stems from shame. It is the idea that who you are or what you are doing is 'not right' - therefore eliciting a rush of energy designed to help you 'fix' or change it. You're suffering because there's nothing you can fix to make that urgent, panicked feeling go away. It's a mismanaged percept…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When things don't work out the way you want them to, you think you've failed only because you didn't re-create something you perceived as desirable. In reality, you likely created something better, but foreign, and your brain misinterpreted it as 'bad.'”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty.”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in…”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”— Alan Watts, Alan W Watts, amazon.com
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Everything is conditional. We just don't know what the conditions are.”— Doris Egan, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com
“'Should' is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com