"The next time you catch yourself starting..." - Quote by Guy Finley
The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?
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“Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.”
“Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.”
“The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!”
More on Self Awareness
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.”
“On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.”
More on Emotion
“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”
“Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.”
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”