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  • #1
    Toba Beta
    “When you are out of control,
    someone is ready to take over.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: out-of-control, readiness, take-over
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    Cathy Burnham Martin
    “Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.”
    ― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
    tags: anarchy, anger, attitude, out-of-control, protest, protestors, relationships, screaming, yelling
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    Sandra Lee Dennis
    “Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness

    Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD symptoms— hypervigilance, flashbacks and bewilderment—with broken trust, with the inability to cope with many situations, and with the complete shut down of parts of your mind, including your ability to focus and regulate your emotions.

    Nevertheless, if you are unable to recognize the higher purpose in your pain, to forgive and forget and move on, you clearly have chosen to be addicted to your pain and must enjoy playing the victim.

    And the worst is, we are only too ready to agree with this assessment! Trauma victims commonly blame themselves. Blaming oneself for the shame of being a victim is recognized by trauma specialists as a defense against the extreme powerlessness we feel in the wake of a traumatic event. Self-blame continues the illusion of control shock destroys, but prevents us from the necessary working through of the traumatic feelings and memories to heal and recover.”
    ― Sandra Lee Dennis
    tags: affect, affect-regulation, betrayal, betrayal-bond, betrayal-trauma, betrayal-trauma-theory, blame, control, emotional-health, emotions, higher-purpose, hypervigilance, illusion, memories, mental-health, mental-illness, out-of-control, posttraumatic-stress, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, powerlessness, ptsd, regulate-emotions, self-blame, shock, trauma, trauma-victims, traumatic, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-memories, traumatized, victim-blaming, victimhood, victimization, victims
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    Sandra Lee Dennis
    “Attitude Is Everything

    We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds here on the West Coast, where your attitude is considered the sole determinant of the impact an event has on you, it gets even worse.In these New Thought circles, no matter what happens to you, it is assumed that you have created your own reality. Not only have you chosen the event, no matter how horrible, for your personal growth. You also chose how you interpret what happened—as if there are no interpersonal facts, only interpretations.

    The upshot of this perspective is that your suffering would vanish if only you adopted a more evolved perspective and stopped feeling aggrieved. I was often kindly reminded (and believed it myself), “there are no victims.” How can you be a victim when you are responsible for your circumstances?

    When you most need validation and support to get through the worst pain of your life, to be confronted with the well-meaning, but quasi-religious fervor of these insidious half-truths can be deeply demoralizing. This kind of advice feeds guilt and shame, inhibits grieving, encourages grandiosity and can drive you to be alone to shield your vulnerability.”
    ― Sandra Lee Dennis
    tags: attitude, bad-advice, belief-in-self, betrayal, blind-to-betrayal, demoralizing, emotional-pain, false-perspective, guilt, half-truths, insidious, intolerance, invalidation, loss-of-belief, mental-health, positive-attitude, ptsd, responsibility, shame, stigma, stigmatization, suffering, trauma, traumatic, traumatization, traumatized, unsupportive, victim-blaming, victimhood, victims
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: abandonment-issues, anxiety, control, controlling, fear, loss-of-control, manipulative, out-of-control
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adult, blame, blaming, choices, denial, empowering-your-life, empowerment, family, friends, hurting-others, in-control, lack-of-control, life, maturity, not-taking-ownership, out-of-control, ownership, owning-your-actions, owning-your-issues, owning-your-mistakes, parents, relationships-101, responsibility, ruts, siblings, stayingpositiveu-com, taking-control, teenagers
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  • #7
    Tim Fargo
    “Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, best, contentment, cry, crying, experience, grow, growing, happier, happiness, happy, honesty, inspirational, joy, joyful, life, love, mistakes, optimism, out-of-control, sadness, smile, smiling, truth, unsourced, unverifiable, worst
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    Norton Juster
    “If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: nonsense, sense
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  • #9
    “Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: critic, critical, criticize, emotions, envy, insensitive, insensitivity, jeaously, judging, judging-others, resentment, sense, senses, sensitive
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    R.J. Intindola
    “The ultimate courage is fighting a battle one knows they will lose; but they confront the adversary, to prevent them from winning.”
    ― R.J. Intindola
    tags: adversary, confront, courage, courage-quotes, gandolfo-quotes, lose, quotes-by-rj-intindola, rj-intindola-quotes, ultimate, winning
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  • #11
    “Time is the ultimate wealth.”
    ― Sunday Adelaja
    tags: time, ultimate, wealth
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  • #12
    “Mental illness

    People assume you aren’t sick
    unless they see the sickness on your skin
    like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.

    My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
    Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
    Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
    Have you tried being more like me?
    Have you tried shutting up?

    Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
    and yes, I am still sick.

    Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
    sometimes demons attack you from the inside.
    Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth
    does not mean they aren’t ripping through me.
    Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

    Telling me there is no problem
    won’t solve the problem.

    This is not how miracles are born.
    This is not how sickness works.”
    ― Emm Roy, The First Step
    tags: chronic-illness, chronic-pain, emotional-pain, invisible-illness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-illness, misunderstood, pain, poem, prejudice, stigma
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    Jasmine Warga
    “I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”
    ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
    tags: depression, love, mental-health, physics
    304 likes

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  • #14
    Matt Haig
    “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
    ― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
    tags: life, mental-health, mental-illness
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    J. Cornell Michel
    “I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
    ― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
    tags: apocalypse, apocalyptic, brain, brains, craziness, crazy, creatures, happiness, happy, head, human, human-nature, humanity, humans, innocence, innocent, integrating, integration, kind, kindness, like, little-nibble, live, living, living-life, mean, mean-people, mental-health, mental-illness, nasty, nasty-people, nibble, nibbling, people, post-apocalyptic, reality, realization, realize, world, yourself, zombie, zombie-apocalypse, zombies, zompoc
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  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To think too much is a disease.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double
    tags: mental-health, mental-illness, overthinking
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  • #17
    “I lied and said I was busy.
    I was busy;
    but not in a way most people understand.

    I was busy taking deeper breaths.
    I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
    I was busy calming a racing heart.
    I was busy telling myself I am okay.

    Sometimes, this is my busy -
    and I will not apologize for it.”
    ― Brittin Oakman
    tags: anxiety, inspirational, mental-health, self-care, time, wisdom
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  • #18
    Susan Forward
    “Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
    ― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
    tags: anxious, boundaries, children, control, controlled, failure, family, fearful, helplessness, manipulation, mental-health, parents, ris, toxic, toxic-parents
    147 likes

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  • #19
    Stephen Fry
    “I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.

    Here are some obvious things about the weather:

    It's real.
    You can't change it by wishing it away.
    If it's dark and rainy, it really is dark and rainy, and you can't alter it.
    It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.

    BUT
    it will be sunny one day.
    It isn't under one's control when the sun comes out, but come out it will.
    One day.

    It really is the same with one's moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. Depression, anxiety, listlessness - these are all are real as the weather - AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE'S CONTROL.
    Not one's fault.

    BUT
    They will pass: really they will.

    In the same way that one really has to accept the weather, one has to accept how one feels about life sometimes, "Today is a really crap day," is a perfectly realistic approach. It's all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. "Hey-ho, it's raining inside; it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow, and when it does I shall take full advantage.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: analogy, anti-stigma, anxiety, coping-strategies, depression, depression-quotes, emotional-pain, listlessness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, positive-attitudes, validation, weather, weathering-hard-times
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    Laura Davis
    “Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”
    ― Laura Davis
    tags: abuse, child-sexual-abuse, courage, fear, healing, mental-health, survivors, trauma
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    Nathaniel Branden
    “Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”
    ― Nathaniel Branden
    tags: discipline, health, life, mental-health, productive, psychology, purpose, self-esteem
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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception
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  • #23
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
    1272 likes

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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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    Germany Kent
    “How to win in life:
    1 work hard
    2 complain less
    3 listen more
    4 try, learn, grow
    5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
    6 make no excuses”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: achieve-your-dreams, achievement-and-attitude, achievements, achievements-success, attitude, attitude-inspiration, attitude-toward-life, authentic-self, authenticity, author, author-quotes, authority, authors, award-winning-authors, be-honest-with-yourself, believe, best-selling-authors, challenge-and-attitude, challenge-inspiration-motivation, challenges-in-life, challenges-of-life, change, changing, changing-your-life, changing-yourself, character, comfort-zones, complain, complaining, complaining-about-your-struggles, complaining-quotes, complaints, complete, control, direction, don-t-settle, ethics, everyone, evolving, future, germany-kent, germany-kent-quote, germany-kent-quotes, grow, growing, habits, habits-of-action, habits-of-mind, happiness, happy-endings, happy-soul, have-faith, hope-guru, how-to, influence, inspirational-attitude, inspiring, joy, joyful-life, know-your-worth, know-yourself, knowledge, knowledge-of-oneself, knowledge-of-self, learn, learning, life, life-lessons, lifetime, listen, live-each-moment, live-truly, manifest, motivation, motivational-authors, motivational-speaker, motivational-speaker-quotes, motivational-speakers, motivational-writers, no-excuse, no-excuses, no-excuses-mindset, no-filter, no-limit, no-limit-people, opportunities, passion, past, pay-attention, pay-attention-to-your-thoughts, perception, perfect-timing, perseverance, persistence, personal-development, personal-growth, personal-power, positive, positive-attitude, positive-outlook, positive-thoughts, positivity, principles, progress, psychology, purpose, real-talk, regret, rules, sacrifice, sacrifice-for-gain, sacrifice-in-life, sanity, self-help-authors, significant, significant-life, step-out, step-out-of-your-comfort-zone, strength-through-adversity, success, successful-people, the-hope-guru, try, trying, trying-hard, trying-new-things, win-in-life, winners, work-hard, worth-the-wait, your-journey, youth
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    John Steinbeck
    “You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: expectations, perception
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    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    ― William Gibson, Zero History
    tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology
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    “All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. ”
    ― Richard Lamm
    tags: civilisation, engineering, engineers, law, lawyers
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    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love
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    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true
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