“Pay attention to strange behaviour, no matter how much you love the person and think you trust them.”
Source: Happy Relationships: 7 simple rules to create harmony and growth
“Our emotions are encoded in the heart signals we emit. Use the energy you feel to know how they are feeling.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“People who are good for us make us ‘feel good’, emotionally and physically, most of the time; people who are bad for us make us ‘feel bad’, emotionally and physically, most of the time.”
Source: Happy Relationships: 7 simple rules to create harmony and growth
“Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Empathy is easier than anger, in the long-run.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Don’t let some people’s blase attitude towards human relationships in the modern world fool you into thinking that humans are dispensable, that family and friends are dispensable, that marriages are dispensable. They are not and they never will be. Good people are your key to sanity. Good people are your survival.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Either way, whether your anxiety is self-generated or externally-generated or both, your brain still needs to sound the alarm – and thank goodness it does! It’s essentially telling you: ‘Warning, something is sabotaging or might sabotage your goals, health, happiness and survival – find it, fix it!’ to which your mental response should be, ‘Gee, thanks, I’m on it!”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and
well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival
mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which
tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience
anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is
telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is our friend, not our
enemy. Even when anxiety is severe and out of control, it’s still
our friend because it’s telling us something seriously needs
addressing in order for us to survive and thrive, even if that severe
anxiety is a sign that our alerting system is unnecessarily working
overtime or even ‘malfunctioning’ of sorts.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Don’t choose to live with anxiety any more than you would choose to live with a bleeding arm.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is not intended for us to live with it. You use anxiety to your advantage to protect your mental and physical well-being and survival from a threat or danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Rumination doesn’t solve anything, reflection and introspection can solve all.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“It’s weird how much just one sentence uttered to yourself about the thing that you are doing, as you are doing it, can noticeably alter your behaviour right there and then. Just start watching how your thoughts play out.”
“Always being busy is not the sign of a winner, it’s the sign of your life being out of balance.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Just because we can achieve so much in little pockets of time doesn’t mean we should. Just because we can, doesn’t mean it’s good for us. Everything in moderation, right?”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“The quality of our close relationships matters more than, say, whether we're in a committed a romantic relationship or have lots of friends.”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Your brain is paying attention to how you treat yourself.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Jealousy of another means you need to work on making you proud of yourself.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Whatever you say to yourself, silently or aloud, tells your brain what to focus on. Simple!”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“We have to give our brain permission to search for, and find, answers. This permission comes in the form we talk to ourselves.”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Your words are steering your life; they are your hands on the steering wheel of your life, moving it left, moving it right, driving straight, driving smoothly, making jerky manoeuvres, and maybe honking your horn along the way.”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Where you are now is the result of your previous overriding thoughts and actions. Tomorrow is still in the making so plant good seeds...”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Our brains are like computers; it's our responsibility to programme them well, daily, and remove the viruses.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Introspection leads to insights; insights tell us what needs to change.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we’ve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Life is a series of puzzles; all you have to do is solve the puzzles.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“It takes effort and concern to really think about things.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“When you lack self-esteem it’s easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Confidence is subtle. Insecurity is brash.”
“We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.”