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I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi (via larmoyante)
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You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you’ll never know.
— Jerry Spinelli (via larmoyante)
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Most of us don’t realize how much of our thinking is narrow, black and white, at times, and also very repetitive. Not to mention, often, negative and protective, often without cause. These kinds of thought patterns are always destined to give us similar feelings. Feelings that create anxiety and worry and leave us fearful and even angry. Feelings that, if acted upon, often produce very unwanted impulsive self-defeating and regrettable behaviour.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
Posted on September 27, 2012 (♥ 15)
+ negative + black and white + thinking + narrow + depression + tunnel-vision + distorted + catastrophe + rigid + anxiety + repetitive + depressing + worry + fear + angry + impulsive + self- destructive + defeating + regret + behavoir + mindfulness + tara brach + acceptance + cause
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I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts. On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say it doesn’t work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
Posted on August 16, 2012 (♥ 3)
+ emily giffin + anxiety + fear + worry + panic + subconscious + feel + thinking + notion + cheated + control + sense + misguided
