- Do more. If you have time to be regularly consumed by irrational, spiraling thoughts, you need more to focus on, more to work toward, more to suffer for. Make sure you’re living more than you’re thinking about living.
(Book: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think - Brianna Wiest) - “Attitudes are more important than facts.” That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.
(Book: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results - Norman Vincent Peale) - Rock bottom becomes a turning point because it is only at that point that most people think: I never want to feel this way again.
(Book: The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery - Brianna Wiest)