Julie

“In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
― Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
― Pema Chödrön

“It seemed to him that anyone with any trouble at all eventually found his way to a city library, and the really troubled ones became regulars.”
― M.E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!