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2022-03-28 08:11:55 “In short, avoiding what makes you anxious leads you to restrict your activities, which makes your anxiety generalize, which then prompts more avoidance, which in turn promotes more generalized anxiety, which stirs up even more avoidance. As you can see, it becomes a vicious cycle. The key to taming your amygdala is to break this vicious cycle. You must make sure that you expose yourself to what you were fearful of in the past. By keeping your behavioral options open to anxiety - provoking experiences, you allow yourself to be flexible and resilient in changing situations. By exposing yourself to what made you anxious in the past, you can learn to recondition yourself and habituate to the situation.”

~ John B. Arden

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-22 21:42:53 “Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”

~ James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-21 15:27:47 We are deeply conditioned to see people through the lens of pure good and evil. We feel justified in punishing criminals because we attribute their behavior to sinister motives. The case that what we sometimes call evil is rarely a case of malicious intent. More often, harmful behaviors result from a lack of self-regulation skills, and weak “willpower muscles.” If we could cultivate greater self-control in ourselves and others, many of our individual and societal issues would vanish.

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-20 15:11:25 Are you doing enough with your life? Did you get enough done today? Have you optimized every minute of your time for maximum effectiveness? Productivity hacks are everywhere today, and along with them come the assumption that time not spent actively chasing a goal is time wasted. The abilities to know, manage, and direct ourselves are our fundamental life skills. Living, being, and experiencing, are our ultimate occupations - everything else is secondary.

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-18 18:36:44 None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

~ Goethe

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-17 20:52:16 "You see what a victory costs. The blood of our enemies is still the blood of men. The true glory is to spare it."

~ Louis XV to Louis Ferdinand following the Battle of Fontenoy

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-17 11:50:16 Do not Waste Influence

Great confidence should not be used for trivial matters; doing so is a waste of a good thing. The sheet anchor should only be used at the very end. What remains after you have used up the great for minor ends? Nothing is more valuable than a protector, and nothing is more expensive than a favour nowadays. It has the power to create or destroy the entire world. It can both give and take away sense. Because Nature and Fame favour the wise, Luck is generally envious of them. It is thus more important to maintain the favour of the powerful than goods and chattels.

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2022-03-16 09:06:45 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

~ Virginia Woolf

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-15 18:52:00 Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. ” ― Rumi

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo

2022-03-12 20:44:00 "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ Abrir / Cómo