"Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm."

-- Oliver Burkeman

#Positive Thinking Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Sap Quotes

“Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.”
“Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.”
“I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.”
“After being compared to Jay Leno for so long, you don't think of yourself in that way.”
“Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”
“There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.”
“The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.”
“Life's a pudding full of plums.”

Source : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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