"For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes."

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Source : Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

Kelly McGonigal

#Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes #Night Quotes

“You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.”

Source : "Scary Skinny: The Dark Side of Childhood Fame". abcnews.go.com. April 4, 2007.
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”
“Do not betray the people.”
“BBJ customers value long-range capability and cabin size, and this product offering enhances both.”
“Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.”

Source : Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.13, Ballantine Books
“I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.”
“Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books
“So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.”

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