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“If a soul only knew love and peace, it would gain no insight and never truly appreciate the value of these positive feelings. The test of reincarnation for a soul coming to Earth is the conquering of fear in a human body. A soul grows by trying to overcome all negative emotions connected to fear through perseverance in many lifetimes, often returning to the spirit world, bruised, or hurt” Page 69

“The words you speak have real power.
Don’t complain, don’t gossip, don’t speak poorly of others, and intentionally speak positive words.”

“Don’t tell people who aren’t supportive friends too much about what you are up to and what your dreams are. Studies have proven that if you tell people the big plans you have, they can get excited for you, start celebrating with you, then you subconsciously feel that you have already achieved that goal and you may stop working toward it.”

“Transfixed by our glowing screens—all those shiny lights, all those beeping, buzzing sounds—have we fallen into the totalitarian trap? Have we sleepwalked right into an invisible prison for our minds and our bodies?”

Starting over since I started and stopped several times in the past 4 years.

“What forgiveness means is to stop being resentful towards someone.”

“Once something is put in motion, we rarely have control over the outcome, no matter what our intentions are.” -Envy

“He never grew a relationship with the land, choosing instead the splendid isolation of tech. He was like one of those little withered seeds you find in the bottom of the seed packet, the one who never touched the earth.”

‘My car,’ he said. ‘In my car. It provides me with everything I need, in just the way I like it. My favorite music. Seat position fully adjustable. Automatic mirrors. Two cup holders. I’m safe. And it always takes me where I want to go.’ Years later, he tried to kill himself. In his car.

“Bestsellers are chosen.”

“You are the most magnificently disruptive thing that’s ever entered in my life.”

“We need all the witches we can get, and you’re the most powerful one. Or you will be, when I’m done with you.”

“I am often asked if I believe in Hell. The answer is no, I do not believe that after death there is a place we go to suffer for eternity. I believe that Hell exists right here while we are on Earth. Hell is created within our own minds and experienced as suffering. Suffering is when The Voice in our head disagrees with the way it thinks things should be.”

“The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason, clearly, impairs you for making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.” Pg. 262

“I understood that all the happiest moments of my childhood were a lie. They were wrong and unsafe and illegal. They were freakish. My mother was freakish, and I’d probably inherited the freakishness from her.” Pg. 115

“We cannot allow fear of the future to stop us from living in the present.”

“Who have I wronged lately that wants to take revenge on me?”

“We humans want desperately to believe that our life on Earth has a purpose, and when it ends there will be something magnificent wait- ing for us on the other side. When someone we love dies, we want to believe that they have gone to a place of peace and wonder. It gives us faith and allows us to live a better life if we believe that there will be a reward at the end of our lifetime.” Page 112.

“But relatively few marriages fail because of incompatibility. Almost all of them fail because of external control and the deadly habits.”

“For example, if neither the husband nor the wife is very controlling and you still don’t get along well enough so that you are faithful to each other, I think you are incompatible and should consider divorce.”

“The other reason we choose to depress or use other symptoms is to help us avoid doing something that we believe will cause us more pain than we are already feeling.”

“Specifically, depressing, if we are willing to put up with the misery, is a very effective way to control the people around us, but usually for only a while. If it goes into many months or years, we have to increase the depressing to get the attention we want.”

The choice theory alternatives to the seven deadly habits are supporting, encouraging, listening, accepting, trusting, respecting, and negotiating differences.

The seven deadly habits of external control: criticizing, blaming, complaining, nagging, threatening, punishing, and rewarding.

“There is no happiness in an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth.”

“Good choices are those that bring us closer to the people we want to be close to. Bad choices tend to separate us from those people.”