Some quotes I’ve enjoyed lately. I don’t have any of the authors, sorry:
- “For all of my flaws, which are MANIFOLD, at least I am doing this. At least I am taking care of myself. At least I am of use to my family, and to the other people around me. At least I am moving, stumbling upward, under the load I have determined to carry.”
2. “Want to lose half your friends? Work on yourself for six months. Want to lose the rest? Keep going.”
3. “Pros and cons of dating me are ironically both my mouth.”
And finally:
“Imagine sitting in a room, looking up at a tiled ceiling, and you notice that one tile is missing. JUST ONE. What would you concentrate your vision on the most? The answer is, of course, the missing tile.
Now that’s fine for ceilings- but not for life. Most of what is missing in our lives, or what we think is missing, cannot be replaced. Unlike a ceiling, life can never be made perfect. For that reason, concentrating on the missing tiles in your life is a big problem.
It makes happiness almost impossible.
There will always be something missing in your life.
No matter if it is our spouses, our work or our looks. The list is endless.
That’s the way we play tricks on ourselves and undermine our happiness, by concentrating on the missing tiles every one of us has.
So we really have a simple choice: do we focus on the rest of the ceiling, on all of the tiles we do have, or do we focus on the ones we’re missing?
To a large extent, the answer to that question will determine how happy you will be.”