Veronica Roth Quotes

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.

I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting.

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.