“Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?”
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.”
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
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