We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
–John Newton
Oct 19, 2020.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Nov 2, 2020.
Die with memories, not dreams.
Nov 16, 2020.
Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about the birth.
–Japanese Proverb
Feb 15, 2021.
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
— Mark Twain
Jan 4, 2021.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
–E. Joseph Cossman
Feb 8, 2021.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.
–Johann Hari
Sept 28, 2020.
The first step of communication is: listening
Oct 10, 2020.
Wag more, bark less.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
–George Bernard Shaw
Jan 18, 2021.
The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.
–Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oct 5, 2020.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
–The Buddha
Jan 11, 2021.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow
–Swedish Proverb
Nov 30, 2020.
Don’t believe everything you think!
Nov 23, 2020.
Oct 26, 2020.
You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything.
Jan 25, 2021.
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”
— Elbert Hubbard
Mar 8, 2021.
“If you want to fly, you have to give up everything that weighs you down.”
— Toni Morrison
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
— Suzy Kassem
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
–Tenzin Gyatso, Fourteenth Dalai Lama
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
–Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
I want to go to bed content and to wake up excited.
–Unknown
When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.
— Thomas Monson
Oct 10, 2021.
Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.
–Dr. Sue Johnson
Nov 15, 2021.
If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
–Dhirubhai Ambani
During a concert, a pop singer talked to the large audience, telling them that it is not true when they say to themselves that they are not beautiful, not important, and so on. Then she continued with some simple words that resonated with the audience:
“Now, let me tell you the things you REALLY are not:
You are NOT the opinion of somebody who doesn’t know you.
You are NOT damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life.
You are NOT going nowhere just because you haven’t gotten where you want to go yet.”
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
–Henry Ward Beecher
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
–Robert Frost
If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
–Albert Einstein
There are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation who work long, hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.
–Nigel Mars
Mar 1, 2021.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
–Dale Carnegie
The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.
–Robin Sharma
Your day is your life in miniature.
–Robin Sharma
Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant.
–Anonymous
Life would be perfect if Anger had a Mute button, Mistake had a Back button, Hard time had a Fast Forward button and Good time had a Pause button.
–Anonymous
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
–Samuel Goldwyn
Jul 27, 2016.
Psychiatric care providers who operate from either a dogmatic psychotherapeutic paradigm or a psychopharmacological paradigm are hobbled by having access to only half the patient.
–David Mintz, MD
Mar 8, 2016
…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
–(Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2)
Mar 1, 2016
We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realize we only have one.
–Confucius
Feb 22, 2016
Shakespeare on the effect of alcohol on sex:
…it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
—(Macbeth Act 2. Scene 3)
Feb 15, 2016
Psychiatry is the stepchild of medicine and addiction is the stepchild of psychiatry.
–Dheeraj Raina, MD
Feb 8, 2016
People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.
–Anonymous
Feb 1, 2016
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
–Winston Churchill
Dec 14, 2015
Change breaks the brittle.
—Jan Houtema (via Paul Graham)
Dec 4, 2015
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
–Anonymous
Nov 24, 2015
Focusing attention has been compared to controlling a troop of wild monkeys. Attention craves novelty. It needs to be entertained and loves to leap from branch to branch making new connections.
(Heard in a different context but so relevant to ADHD!)
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