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Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
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To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.: Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
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Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.: Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.: Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.: Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
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He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose.: Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
What self-control doesn't mean is mindless self-sacrifice or knee-jerk self-denial. On the contrary, it represents an affirmation of self, for it requires not the negation of instinct but its integration into a more complete form of character-one that takes account of more than just immediate pleasures and pains. The self-control I'm talking about means acting in keeping with your highest level of reflection.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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