NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 431

 

• ·       “Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.” ~ Epictetus

  ·       “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.” ~ Etty Hillesum

  ·       “You have power over your mind not outside events, realise this and you will find strength.” ~ Seneca

  ·       “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

  ·       “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James

  ·       “Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person or that person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in right now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” ~ Epictetus

  ·       “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” ~ Alain de Botton

  ·       “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

  ·       “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” ~ Arthur Somers Roche

  ·       “There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.” ~ Ryan Holiday