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I can take the next thing that comes along.’ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You can’t say it’s three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it’s colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

When you control your emotions you are also managing the story you tell yourself After my dad passed away my emotions fluctuated. ” way of thinking even though that way isn’t helping, or running from some truth that you don’t wish to face. But if you wish to control your emotions more effectively in the long run you must let go of resistance and instead cultivate “acceptance” in at least four ways. But by reacting to things as they are rather than the way we wish them to be, by peacefully co-existing with uncertainty, by opening to the idea that our lives may move in mysterious ways, and by a willingness to find meaning and hope in hardship, we will discover that our emotions inform us but do not manage us

But most of the time, life’s challenges begin when (get ready…) But once you get your own overthinking mind out of the way, the gods, the universe, nature, and unexpected wizards, may cross your path and assist you. Crucial insight: If your self-improvement hurts someone else’s feelings or disrupts their vision of their life, keep in mind that perhaps they need to learn from this. In that way, every loss can help you be stronger; every mistake can bring forth an insight; and every hurt can eventually heal you and become a healing balm for others.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. “Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.