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People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

— David Allen

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday

If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not,…

— Dennis Lehane

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

— Epictetus

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in…

— Marcus Aurelius