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5 Powerful Quotations To Stop You Taking Things Personally and Gain Inner Peace.
By Dr Linda Berman
waysofthinking.co.uk/2026/10… via @Lindaberman4
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5 Powerful Quotations To Stop You Taking Things Personally and Gain Inner Peace.
By Dr Linda Berman
waysofthinking.co.uk/2026/10… via @Lindaberman4
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
Alain de Botton, On Love
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
Alain de Botton
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
Alain de Botton
Dr. Linda Berman retweeted
Great meditation for today
The winds have dropped
It's time for a peaceful walk
5 Powerful Quotations To Stop You Taking Things Personally and Gain Inner Peace.
By Dr Linda Berman
waysofthinking.co.uk/2026/10… via @Lindaberman4
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Alain de Botton
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Judith Lewis Herman
If you believe that someone needs to change, you must first change yourself and how you present yourself to that person. It is only through your changing that another can be influenced to change. Change starts with you.
Jeffrey G. Duarte
“A sense of humour, especially a capacity to laugh at one’s own idiosyncrasies, has long been considered a core element of mental health.”
Nancy McWilliams
“The feeling of emptiness is the most fundamental experience of human existence, and yet it is the one we most desperately seek to avoid.”
Lacan
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better.
Sheldon B. Kopp
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
Viktor E. Frankl