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"Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement."
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"There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself."
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"The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."
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"You're only as sick as your secrets."
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"We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was depressed and possibly suicidal that day" or "Annie seemed particularly happy that day."If I have to tell you, I lose. If, on the other hand, I can show you a silent, dirty-haired woman who compulsively gobbles cake and candy, then have you draw the conclusion that Annie is in the depressive part of a manic-depressive cycle, I win."
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"The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you."
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"Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."
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"Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear."
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"Madness is blackness."
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"Meditation is the energy of the mind."
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"Meditation nourishes the mind."
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"We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread."
Romance
"When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope."
Life
"Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged."
Wisdom
"And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid."
Relationship
"Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad."
Creativity
"It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how."
Relationship
"I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with."
Survival
"Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?"
Mythology
"Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you."
Life
"I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways."
Life
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