This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

But the story of Endurance has always been for me the most perfect example of what hope is, what hope can do, and how there are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored.

I learned that the proper way to prepare for someone’s death is by being alive in the same room with them for as long as you are allowed.

But here’s the thing: there are some things in life from which you do not heal. The tunnel never ends. There is no other side of it. If your child dies? You will never heal.

The truth is that people who cannot stop drinking are people who, however guilty they may feel and however dire the consequences, have become so addicted to the drug and the experience that they prefer it to the remainder of their lives. While they may truly want to be sober, they want to drink more.

We enter therapy and discuss our past. We formulate opinions about what happened. We create a rich, detailed world. In therapy or on our own, we focus our attention on something that no longer exists in order to understand or have perspective or acknowledge or own what has happened. And only after we decide this understanding or recognition has tak

In disease, it is the anticipatory stress that causes much of the suffering and anxiety. Thinking about something that could happen to you is always worse than when the very thing you dread actually happens. When it does, you are surprised to see that it’s okay.

When your life reaches the state of emergency and the only thing you can think to do is to end it, maybe the thing to do is break

It is through work that challenged me and required continuous freshness that I began to occupy not the past but this, right now. My advertising career had not been challenging. Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here. And this, here, this line, that comma. That’s what freed me from the past. The present kidnapped

Another way to think about it is like this: if you can let go of the dream, you probably should. If you can’t let go of the dream, don’t.