“It's about not taking things personally. Even when you feel the world is crumbling around you. It's about choosing happiness over suffering. It's about retraining the way we think.”
― This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
― This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
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