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And it was not the loneliness of the dreamer, the poet, or the misjudged prophet, it was just the cold and terrible loneliness of man, of every man, and of the lost American who has been brought forth naked under immense and lonely skies,
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“She knew how to hit to a hair’s-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions. She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind — or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.”
― Complete Works of Thomas Hardy
― Complete Works of Thomas Hardy
“Maybe there’s another way. Maybe if stress is caused by unkindness and by living in the future, the answers may involve staying in the present and being kinder. To others, but even more, to ourselves.”
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
“How often do you hear one person in a dinner party argument say, ‘Yes, on consideration, I’m persuaded by your argument. You’ve helped me to see things differently. Thank you for helping me to become wiser.’ No, what you witness is two combatants beating each other over the head with predetermined opinions that have as little chance of shifting as those of the Reverend Ian Paisley. It’s a pity, as the fear of being shown to be wrong, or to shift one’s opinion, does a lot of harm, causes us a lot of unnecessary stress and keeps us as ignorant as a politician.”
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
“I need to acknowledge the obvious: some people have such terrible and intractable adversity in their lives that there is nothing that I can write that will make things OK. I know that, but I can say this: I see far more people whose stress is at least to some degree chosen, than those for whom there are no answers. It may be worth reading on unless you are absolutely sure that your stress is 100 percent external, that you play no part in it and have no influence at all upon it. And in any case, have you really ever cared enough about yourself to think about running at a pace that you can comfortably and healthily sustain? I doubt it. If you haven’t ever given it a thought, because you don’t matter as much as others, you need the rest of this book.”
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
“Personality is merely a description of behaviors and can change at any time. Sure enough, people behave the way they do for a reason, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t change the behaviors should they choose to. If they do so for long enough, they will also change the way they feel and think. For example, if an introvert wants to become more extroverted, he can if he acts in an extroverted way for long enough. He’ll need some help as he won’t know how to do it at first, and he’ll be acting, but that won’t matter in the end because of the basic psychological principle that you become the way that you act. I’ll come back to this later. The same is true for ‘type A’ people. They can change by making different choices and behaving differently; tricky at first, but easier as time goes on.”
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
― Overcoming Stress: Advice for People Who Give Too Much
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