Seth Roberts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's wife might wish her husband would stop drinking...On examination of her beliefs, she may discover she was frightened of not achieving her own goals and actually encouraged the alcoholism so she would not have to face her own failure.
-- Seth Roberts

#Husband #Drinking #Ideas
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.
-- Seth Roberts

#Children #Play #Long
I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children's play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.
-- Seth Roberts

#Sex #Children #Thinking
No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.
-- Seth Roberts

#Belief
You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.
-- Seth Roberts

#Belief #Deals
Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.
-- Seth Roberts

#Media #Stupidity #Arrogance

I dream of a true husbandâ€”a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Seth Roberts famous quotes

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