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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates…

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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,…
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this…
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and…
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would…
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really…

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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. — Leo Buscaglia
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change… — Richard Dawkins
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a… — Giorgio Vasari
Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount… — Lou Priolo
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing — Mark Twain
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. — A.J. Cronin
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,… — Oliver Burkeman
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a… — John Wimber
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran

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