The Missing Manual of Unwritten Laws: PART 2
- You dishonor yourself if you let anyone ghostwrite any aspect of your story.
- “More” is not a goal, yet its elusive appeal contains hope and happiness.
- Grief unspoken will seek another language of the body or heart.
- Each moment we actively construct what we think, feel, believe, and experience.
- We suffer most from our anticipations, and limit ourselves most by our assumptions.
- The only people who seem perfect are the ones we really don’t know.
- Remember to not compare your inside with someone else’s outside.
- Assumptions and beliefs, like traumas, are ways of stopping time.
- We feel most like a child at the very moment we realize we are no longer one.
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to yourself.
- Our true purpose begins when we recognize that everything we do matters.
- When you’re addicted to something, the hardest thing to do is nothing.
- Your body is the projection of your mind’s software; to change your body, you have to revise the software—your body image.
- Our experiences are always consistent with our theories.
- Sometimes not getting what you want is exactly what you need.
- It is the process of looking to someone or something else to fill what is missing that creates something missing.
- Unless you are free to say “no,” “yes” has no meaning.
- If someone else chooses your boundaries, they become restrictions; if you choose them yourself, they become principles.
- Anticipating an experience can create it.
- One is never more aware of what was missed in the past than when creating it in the present.
- Wisdom relinquishes all hope of a better past.
- What you decide to accept undergoes a change.
- To argue is to ask for permission or cooperation to maintain your point of view.
- Everything is OK in the end. If it’s not OK, it’s not the end.