#eh

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fate #behavior

Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes. ↗

— John McPhee

#home

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#freedom

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#action

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#behavior #change #conversation #day #fear

I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness. Now that is what you call a true confession! ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#human-behavior #humor #inspiration #motivation #self-help

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#change #self-improvement #change

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#cowardice

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Joe Navarro

#sherlock-holmes

Omne ignotum pro magnifico, ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes