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Elizabeth May
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“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
― My Losing Season: A Memoir
― My Losing Season: A Memoir
“Unconscious learning happens automatically and unintentionally through experiences, observations, conditioning, and practice.4 We’ve been conditioned to believe we enjoy drinking. We think it enhances our social life and relieves boredom and stress. We believe these things below our conscious awareness. This is why, even after we consciously acknowledge that alcohol takes more than it gives, we retain the desire to drink.”
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
“You drink to get the feeling of peace that someone who is not dependent on alcohol always feels.”
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Existentialist psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom identified what he calls humans’ ultimate concerns: death, isolation (loneliness), freedom, and meaning.118 These concerns reflect our deep fundamental needs. We search to understand the meaning of life, but no question provokes more debate. We feel desperate to experience gratification, so much so that we often rob ourselves of it by overindulging”
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
― This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
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