"Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can..." - Quote by Guy Finley
Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.
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“Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.”
“It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.”
“We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.”
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“She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.”
“Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.”
“I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.”