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Edwin H. Friedman:

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Er einmitt að fara á námskeið í Chicago í sumar á vegum Arbinger stofnunaninnar um samskipti og þessi tilvitnun er í samræmi við það efni.  

hamingjan

Kevin Kelly's phrasing of Daniel Gilbert, of "Stumbling on Happiness"

- via swissmiss

Mótvindur

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem.  Everything else is inconvenience.  ~Robert Fulghum

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.  ~Orson Scott Card

The problem is not that there are problems.  The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.  ~Theodore Rubin

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.  ~John Steinbeck

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems.  Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.  ~Olin Miller

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.  ~Morris Mandel

Tík

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch" Jack Nicholson

"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man." Joan Crawford

"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch." - Bette Davis

"I do get called a bitch quite often. What I do NOT get called is pushover, stupid, sweetheart, dear or doormat. Works for me." - Rebecca M. 

Forrest Gump

Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?

Jenny: Yeah.

Forrest: Aren't I going to be me?

kvót

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight." 

- e.e. cummings

 

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"True joy is being happy, not trying to convince others that we are."
-Jules Renard

Heima

  

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you" - Christian Morganstern

"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home" - Thornton Wilder

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence." - Franklin P. Jones

 

 

 

Mynd eftir Carl Larsson. Gallerí hér. 

Paradox

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness - I hope you're getting this down. ~ Woody Allen

kvóts

"The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

 

" You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. --Beverly Sill

 

"Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to."

- mynd héðan.