People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.
If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.
Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.
I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
Many things may become baggage, may become encumbrances if we cling to them blindly and uncritically
Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.
I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.
I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
I have learned one thing in my life: If I put too much pressure on myself, then everything goes wrong.
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.
People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
I don't know what a losing habit is.
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
