Heather - Just Geeking By

“You can’t stop the triggering of unhappy memories, self-critical thoughts and judgmental ways of thinking – but you can stop what happens next. You can stop the spiral from feeding off itself and triggering the next cycle of negative thoughts. You can stop the cascade of destructive emotions that can end up making you unhappy, anxious, stressed, irritable or exhausted.”
― Mark Williams, Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world

“But in doing so—moving forward, in Greta’s mind—he’s still dealing with the past. It’s always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn’t matter if we flushed it down: Everyone still knows what we did there. So it’s fine to say it’s all done and you have no connection with the past, that you’re a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn’t made of the old one.”
― Kevin Hearne, Staked

“They think they’re at a petting zoo, or in a Disney movie. They’ve never learned the real rules, so they think they can just make up their own. This is called anthropomorphizing.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Maybe some instinct told them it was time to swap evolution for devolution, reach back to who they were to take back what was theirs.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre