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“Happiness is not something you can chase. It is something you have to allow. This likely will come as a surprise to many people, as the world is so adamant about everything from positive psychology to motivational Pinterest boards. But happiness is not something you can coach yourself into. Happiness is your natural state. That means you will return to it on your own if you allow the other feelings you want to experience to come up, be felt, be processed, and not resisted. The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier you will be. It is often just trying too hard to feel one certain way that sets us up for failure.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“Emotions are temporary, but behaviors are permanent. You are always responsible for how you choose to act.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“If you want to master your life, you have to learn to organize your feelings. By becoming aware of them, you can trace them back to the thought process that prompted them, and from there you can decide whether or not the idea is an actual threat or concern, or a fabrication of your reptilian mind just trying to keep you alive.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
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