“While I may laugh at the words scrawled across a cupcake-shaped sticky (“I am loved? But by whom, and why are they choosing to inform me this way?”), I certainly don’t begrudge the psychological benefit these anonymous affirmations may provide others.”— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.”— Jen Sincero, amazon.com
“Figure out what you most need to heal within yourself by seeing what you most want to change in others.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Imagine speaking with your oldest, wisest, most optimal future self. What you're doing is tapping deep into your subconscious. Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Instead of thinking you are someone who is attractive and successful, learn to think of yourself as someone who is resilient, hungry for new experiences, capable of deeply loving others, and so on.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Anxiety stems from shame. It is the idea that who you are or what you are doing is 'not right' - therefore eliciting a rush of energy designed to help you 'fix' or change it. You're suffering because there's nothing you can fix to make that urgent, panicked feeling go away. It's a mismanaged percept…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com