Collected Sayings

  • Death is as light as a feather, but duty is as heavy as a mountain (Japanese saying)
  • Most suffering in the world comes from wishing that the world is a way that it is not (Buddhist saying)
  • A thousand mile journey begins with the first step (Chinese proverb)
  • Easy does it (Alcoholics Anonymous)
  • Suffer in Silence (Japanese saying)
  • If you want to get love, you have to give love (Steven Stosny)
  • It explains it, does not excuse it (Unknown)
  • ‘Denial’ is not just a river in Africa (Gavin DeBecker)
  • If you do not think something will happen, you will not take any steps to prevent against it (Gavin DeBecker)
  • Casinos are places to go with you do not need money (Unknown)
  • All living creature and organisms only have two modes of being - either improve or degrade - no pause button. If not improving then you are degrading (Steven Stosny)
  • The brain has two modes - focus or scan (Steven Stosny)
  • Habits cannot be changed of modified, but you can make new ones (Unknown)
  • Every good guy needs a bad guy (Unknown)
  • Don’t search for a light switch in the dark (Gavin DeBecker)
  • Only you can make yourself feel lovable (Steven Stosny)
  • The more a diamond is cut, the more it sparkles (Unknown)
  • The greatest virtue in life is moderation (Aristotle)
  • Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional (Buddhist saying)
  • Courage is overcoming fear (Unknown)
  • Don’t tell me that worry doesn’t do any good. I know better, the things I worry about never happen (Unknown)
  • Whatever you are trying to avoid won’t go away until you confront it (Unknown)
  • Fall down seven times, get up eight (Japanese saying)
  • If a nail sticks up, hammer it down (Japanese saying)
  • The more you tell yourself to not do something, the more you will do it, do something else instead (Unknown)
  • If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow (Chinese proverb)
  • The best way to feel good is to do good (Steven Stosny)
  • Begin running when you like, and finish when you like (Dodo Bird)
  • Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck (Daila Lama)
  • Efforts to fix one’s problems, often makes them worse (Anna Freud)
  • Because you can do something, it does not mean that you should (e.g. I can drive my car into a tree) (Unknown)
  • Let me know what I am saying so I know what I think (Pugu)
  • I have met the enemy, and the enemy is me (Pugu)

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