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“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”
― Earl Nightingale

“Yet there wasn’t a single day when I sat down to write an article, blog post, or book chapter without a string of people”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

“Yet there wasn’t a single day when I sat down to write an article, blog post, or book chapter without a string of people waiting for me to get back to them. It”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

“Be aware of the cost of constant connection. If your focus is always on others—and quenching your appetite for information and external validation—you will miss out on the opportunity to mine the potential of your own mind. Recognize”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

“Again, I've missed you by a minute”
― Zdravko Čurdinjaković

“You have to feel it to experience it. It’s not just what you see, it’s not just where you go and it’s not about the depth or the incredible scenery of the vast underwater canyon; it’s all of it rolled into one. You’re naked, exposed to the vastness of the ocean, steering your way through it, flying like a pilot with all his plans, instruments and experience. You’re travelling through space and walking on the moon.”
― John Kean, A WALK ON THE DEEP SIDE

“They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.”
― Scott Thomas, Kill Creek

“In ACT, we view depression not as a problem to be solved but as an important signal that something isn’t working quite right, that your life is out of balance in some important way We want to use the information contained in your depression to help you create a new life plan that doesn’t involve suppressing how you feel or avoiding important life situations that can determine your overall quality of life. In ACT, we believe that controlling your emotions, avoiding the situations that produce them, is the problem, not the solution.”
― Kirk D. Strosahl, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living

“The reason mindfulness skills work so well in depression is that they help you create a space between you and your thoughts and impulses. This allows you to pick approach behaviors instead of avoidance behaviors.”
― Kirk D. Strosahl, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living

“Colors, therefore, should be understood as subjective cultural creations: you could no more meaningfully secure a precise universal definition for all the known shades than you could plot the coordinates of a dream.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

“Absolutes do not exist in this universe. If you try to force your experiences into absolute categories, you will be constantly depressed because your perceptions will not conform to reality. You will set yourself up for discrediting yourself endlessly because whatever you do will never measure up to your exaggerated expectations. The technical name for this type of perceptual error is "dichotomous thinking." You see everything as black or white—shades of gray do not exist.”
― David D. Burns, Feeling Good: Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Proven Techniques

“Growing up with tragedy changes a person, trains them to expect still more tragedy around every corner. It’s the mind’s way of protecting you; and it is a very powerful defense.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Finally, being sensitive to the discomfort, disapproval, or anger of others probably made you quick to follow every rule as perfectly as possible, afraid to make a mistake. Being so good all the time, however, meant ignoring many of your normal human feelings—irritation, frustration, selfishness, rage. Since you were so eager to please, others could ignore your needs when, in fact, yours were often greater than theirs. This would only fuel your anger. But such feelings may have been so frightening that you buried them. The fear of their breaking out would become yet another source of “unreasonable” fears and nightmares.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“Do not overschedule yourself. Allow time to think, to daydream. 6. Keep your expectations realistic. 7. Do not hide your abilities. 8. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself. 9. Accept it when you have narrow interests. Or broad ones.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“Individuation is, above all, about being able to hear your inner voice or voices through all the inner and outer noise. Some of us get caught up in demands from others. These may be real responsibilities or may be the common ideas of what makes for success—money, prestige, security. Then there are the pressures others can bring to bear on us because we are so unwilling to displease anyone. Eventually, many, if not most, HSPs are probably forced into what I call “liberation,” even if it doesn’t happen until the second half of life. They tune in to the inner question and the inner voices rather than the questions others are asking them to answer.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“Being so eager to please, we’re not easy to liberate. We’re too aware of what others need. Yet our intuition also picks up on the inner question that must be answered. These two strong, conflicting currents may buffet us for years. Don’t worry if your progress toward liberation is slow, for it’s almost inevitable.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“With,” Metzner added, “explosive and antisocial features.” It was an important distinction. Insane people don’t know the difference between right and wrong. But a serial killer with an antisocial personality disorder knows the difference. He simply doesn’t care.”
― Steve Jackson, Monster

“Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don’t really do as adults,” says cartoonist Chris Ware. We’re all going around in a “cloud of remembrance and anxiety,” he says, and the act of drawing helps us live in the moment and concentrate on what’s really in front of us.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“If you draw,” said the cartoonist E. O. Plauen, “the world becomes more beautiful, far more beautiful.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“A dominant-tertiary loop occurs when an INFP ceases to consult their extroverted intuition function and moves directly from their introverted feeling to their introverted sensing. These loops are pervasive patterns of thinking that generally develop as the result of a negative experience or overwhelming life change that the INFP feels incapable of handling. Rather than rising to the new challenge that is facing them or taking action on their current situation, the INFP retreats into themselves to reflect and analyze the chain of events that led them to where they are.”
― Heidi Priebe, The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

“The longer an INFP stays stuck in a dominant-tertiary loop, the more paralyzed they feel to take any sort of action—because Si has been continuously feeding them reminders of the mistakes they have made in the past. The INFP is likely to feel as though there’s no point in trying new things or attempting to change their circumstances, because they will undoubtedly just mess things up again.”
― Heidi Priebe, The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

“The INFP’s quest for perfection before action is a thoroughly impossible one, which can easily eat up years of their lives if they’re not careful.”
― Heidi Priebe, The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

“We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal specters, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed today by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no long rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.32”
― James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

“If you’re focused on getting things done, there’s a danger that you will do this indiscriminately—trying to do everything, for everyone, all the time. But when you step away from your to-do list and look at the big picture, some things strike you as more important than others, either because you care about them more, or they are areas where you can make a bigger difference, or both. From this perspective, being “busy” starts to look like an excuse, a distraction from your real business in life. Once you see your real priorities clearly, it’s harder to go back to the old way of doing things.”
― Mark McGuinness, Productivity for Creative People: How to Get Creative Work Done in an "Always on" World

“Freedom isn’t about reinventing the wheel every single day: it’s about making decisions you are happy with. Some decisions—like choosing what to eat at the restaurant—are fun to make afresh each time. But others—such as what hours/days to work—can be made once and only revisited if you don’t like the results. You’re still exercising your freedom, while freeing your mind up for more interesting activities.”
― Mark McGuinness, Productivity for Creative People: How to Get Creative Work Done in an "Always on" World

“Where the River Elbe flows through the Czech Republic, summer water levels have recently dropped so far that ‘hunger stones’ have been uncovered – carved boulders used for centuries to commemorate droughts and warn of their consequences. One of the hunger stones bears the inscription ‘Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine’: ‘If you see me, weep.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“We are often more tender to the dead than to the living, though it is the living who need our tenderness most.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“People with input feel valued when they are given the opportunity to have stream-of-consciousness conversations.”
― Zach Carlsen, Strengths Life Upgraded, Volume Four: Take Your StrengthsFinder Results to the Next Level

“Knowing. Strategic people operate from a deep place of just knowing and they generally feel bothered by having to explain the hows and whys of their thinking. Asking “How do you know?” is annoying to them because they generally cannot show their work (i.e. A + B = C).”
― Zach Carlsen, Strengths Life Upgraded, Volume Four: Take Your StrengthsFinder Results to the Next Level