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“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”
--Rebecca Solnit
“Refrain from trying to win other people’s approval and admiration. You are taking a higher road. Don’t long for others to see you as sophisticated, unique, or wise. In fact, be suspicious if you appear to others as someone special. Be on your guard against a false sense of self-importance.”
--Epictetus
“The more laws, the less justice.”
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”
--Brene Brown
“If you’re alone in a room and you’re suffering, eventually it will dawn on you that you’re the one who’s causing it. Checkmate.”
--Byron Katie
“You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.”
--Joyce Meyer
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
--Ernest Hemingway
“Everyone who is interesting has a past.”
--Jeanette Walls
“We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves…It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.”
--Eric Hoffer