people were spending a lot of time week after week rehashing where things came from in their past. And in reality, what they really needed was some hope about what to do on Tuesday. It's like, I have to have this talk with my boss on Tuesday and I have all these feelings about it and you're spending week after week figuring out why you have feelings about authority figures, but Tuesday is coming.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
William Hazlitt — Characteristics
There's a Japanese notion called "the red thread of fate" that says we're all connected by an invisible string to people whose lives we're meant to touch. Whether or not you believe that literally, I love the idea that our lives are constantly intersecting in ways we'll never entirely understand.
Polina Pompliano
We spend so much time preparing ourselves for disappointment that we rarely consider the opposite skill: how to receive success, happiness, love, or abundance without immediately bracing for its disappearance. When life becomes better than we imagined, we sometimes stop trusting that it will last & we start waiting for the other shoe to drop. We become so afraid of losing the thing we love that we don't even enjoy having it.
Polina Pompliano