Nan Fairbrother Quotes

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it's a lot to deal with.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.