Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Voltaire

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

There's this "nexting" thing, right? Where you're sitting in one spot and you're thinking about where you should be next. […] It's always the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. That's creating this pervasive anxiety.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Thinking is by far the most underrated activity. People consider it "unproductive" to sit on a bench and think. So they spend their lives doing things they never thought through. An hour of clear thinking, can yield a conclusion that changes your life.

Tell it to your anxious thought, always worrying about the future, that "I will worry about it when that actually happens".

Get it done now. The anxiety of continually thinking about a task you're not doing, and beating yourself up over it, is often more difficult (and time-consuming) than actually doing it.

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