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Thought Provoking Quotes About Anxiety

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Anxiety affects millions of people every year. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting around 18 percent of the population.

Here are 10 thought provoking quotes about anxiety and how it affects people.

1. Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far. Jodi Picoult

2. P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it. Danielle LaPorte

3. Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

4. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh

5. The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. Alain de Botton

6. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Walter Anderson

7. You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. Eleanor Roosevelt

8. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. Grenville Kleiser

9. People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. George Bernard Shaw

10. Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10 Interesting Quotes About Attitude

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Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Walter Scott

It is good people who make good places. Anna Sewell

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelis

 

Which quote is your favorite?

Interesting Quotes About The Internet

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“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” Stephen Hawking

“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” Noam Chomsky

“If television’s a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won’t shut up.” Dorothy Gambrell

“People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it’s right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.” Ben Mezrich

“Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.” John Green

“You are what you share.” Charles Leadbeater

“There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.” Edward de Bono

“The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.” Tim Berners-Lee

“Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.” Beeban Kidron

“Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.” Douglas Adams

QUOTES ABOUT LAZINESS

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Everyone is lazy sometimes! Here are a few quotes about laziness – what do you think of them? Do you disagree with any, or do any ring true with you? Let me know with a comment 🙂

 

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” Robert A. Heinlein

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.” N.H. Kleinbaum (Dead Poets Society)

“If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.” Joyce Chapman

“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” Jules Renard

“How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.” Stephen Richards

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” Anne Frank

“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.” Stephen Richards

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” Elbert Hubbard

“When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.” Walter Annenberg

“There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!” Mehmet Murat ildan

15 POWERFUL QUOTES ABOUT FAILURE

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Everyone experiences failure during their lifetimes. Rather than being a terrible thing, failure often makes you smarter and more successful. It offers you a change to learn and grow as a person – although it can be pretty painful at the time.

 

Check out 15 powerful and inspiring quotes about failure.

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”- James Joyce

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

“For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.” – Tina Fey

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.” – Chris Hardwick

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” – Nathan W. Morris

“I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.” – Dolly Parton

20 WONDERFUL QUOTES ABOUT READING

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Do you love to read? I have loved reading for as long as I can remember – and I am not a fussy reader either. I’ll read anything that I can get my hands on! I think reading is amazing; you can escape to other worlds, educate yourself, scare yourself among many other things.

Check out 20 wonderful quotes about reading here.

No two persons ever read the same book. – Edmund Wilson

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. – P.J. O’Rourke

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. – Arthur Helps

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. – Angela Carter

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. – Denis Parsons Burkitt

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

What you don’t know would make a great book. – Sydney Smith

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. – Isaac D’Israeli

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Joeseph Addison

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. – John Green

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. – Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. – W. Somerset Maugham

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

Are you an avid reader too? Let me know what some of your favourite books are with a comment!

20 QUOTES TO MOTIVATE YOU

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Quotes from successful leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs can inspire and motivate us to work towards our own dreams and goals. Part of success is your mind-set; successful people are focused and driven, so check out 20 quotes to help motivate you.

1. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

2. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” -Anonymous

3. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson

4. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” -Anonymous

6. “You can do anything, but not everything. -Anonymous

7. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” -Robert Collier

8. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” -Pablo Picasso

9. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” -Earl Nightingale

10. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” -Maya Angelou

11. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” -Jim Rohn

12. “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” -Theodore N. Vail

13. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” -Lolly Daskal

14. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain

15. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” -Gurbaksh Chahal

16. “To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” -Mike Gafka

17. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” -Denis Waitley

18. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” -Dale Carnegie

19. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” -Truman Capote

20. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -Herman Melville

QUOTES TO MOTIVATE YOU

15 QUOTES TO MOTIVATE YOU

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Today I thought I would add together some more of my favorite quotes that help to inspire and motivate me. Hopefully these quote will help to get you feeling motivated too!

“We are all self-made but only the successful admit it.” Corey Leja

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” Benjamin Mays

“If you think you made it, you’re at the wrong place, never stop.” Chris Pardo

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” Hal Borland

“Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.” Danielle Luedtke

“The grass is greener where you water it.” Danielle Luedtke

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” John Maxwell

“Every time you stay out late; every time you sleep in; every time you miss a workout; every time you don’t give 100% – You make it that much easier for me to beat you.” Unknown

“Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.”  Lisa M. Amos

“If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you’ll be ready to stop managing and start leading.” Mark Gonzales

“Create your own destiny. If you don’t, someone else will.” Chris Leber

“Learning from success is important but learning from failure is vital to succeeding.” Jason Platnick

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert Schweitzer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” Chinese Proverb

What did you think of these quotes? Do you find any of them motivating or inspiring?

17 Great Quotes To Motivate You

17 Great Quotes To Motivate You

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Do you struggle to motivate yourself to work? Check out these quotes from successful people on life, achievements, success and hard work. The first one motivated me yesterday and I ended up having a super productive day!

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese proverb

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon

“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” Jimmy Spithill

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” Aristotle

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Tony Robbins

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” Teddy Roosevelt

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Chinese proverb

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” Farrah Gray

What do you think of these quotes? Did any of them help to motivate you or make you think? Comment your favorite inspirational quotes below – I’d love to hear them!

5 things you should tell yourself every day

4 THINGS YOU SHOULD TELL YOURSELF EVERY MORNING

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Do you think you have a positive mind-set? Some people struggle to motivate themselves every day, but there are some things that are true every day for everyone – and they may help you to feel happier, more proactive and more relaxed.

Check out 4 things you should tell yourself every morning.

1. “Today Is A New Day”

You will have super-productive days, days where you accomplish nothing, and days where you laugh all day. Every day is different, and it doesn’t matter – today is a new chance to be happy and progress in your life. You can do what you want and you can be whoever you want to be, and telling yourself this will remind you of the possibilities each day holds.

2. “Yesterday Is In The Past”

Yesterday is over now, whether you had a great day or a bad day. Don’t be too hard on yourself or congratulate yourself too much either way – one day doesn’t define you or your life, so don’t put too much importance on it.

3. “I Can’t Change Today”

You can’t fast forward to the weekend or go back to your favorite memories, but today could be even better than the weekend – or you could even make better memories today. Live for the day, work hard, play hard, and sleep tonight peacefully because you know you made the most of your day.

4. “Everyone In The World Has Secrets”

Everyone has secrets and this isn’t a bad thing. Do not feel ashamed that you have secrets and that you are not perfect – not one person in the world is. Simply be the best version of you that you possibly can be.

What did you think of this article? I tell myself all of these four things every morning, and most of the time it helps me to be happier and more productive throughout my day, whether I am working or relaxing. Do you tell yourself something every morning too, and if so – what is it? I love to hear how other people motivate themselves to work!