Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Oliver Burkeman
Age: 54
Journalist
Thinking
Case
Vastly
Negative
Scenario
Saps
Positive
Confronting
Inducing
Cases
Scenarios
Brittle
Worst
Fleeting
Sap
Happiness
Reached
Dependable
Power
Anxiety
Generates
Much
Calm
Visualization
More quotes by Oliver Burkeman
Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt Do whatever you're resisting the most as a philosophy of life.
Oliver Burkeman
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
Oliver Burkeman
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.
Oliver Burkeman
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman