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Take note when a thought pops up, then smile to yourself and do your best to let it go. It can sometimes help to note the thought by saying something like “thinking.” It won’t be long before another equally distracting thought pops up.
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“...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.”
― Imperial Bedrooms
― Imperial Bedrooms
“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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