“You can't force your mind to stop thinking negative thoughts!...What we are after is not mind control but mind training.”
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“Whenever you are faced with a choice, a decision, or an opportunity, choose in favour of your passions.”
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“...the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
“I knew what I had to do. I had to ignore the thoughts, resist the compulsion, let the anxiety build, and then let it decay to extinction all over again.”
― The Man Who Couldn't Stop
― The Man Who Couldn't Stop
“But God, famously, moves in mysterious ways.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
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