“Remove the “cruise control” before you really do lose control.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Some things that appear to be fixed just may need to be broken.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Critical thinking is not always negative thinking, nor should it be quickly confused with a tone of arrogance or condemnation.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“The moment when what is most familiar to you is contested, the safety net of justification comes to the rescue.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Becoming defensive without active evaluation is self-deflating and self-defeating.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Start be’leaving the old patterns and MINE-sets and boldly step into the new. I believe in you friend.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“IF IT’S NOT BROKE, BREAK IT!”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“MINE-SETS ARE LONELY AND COSTLY.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“We cannot change what we don’t acknowledge. We cannot conquer what we don’t confront. If we don’t deal with it, it is certain to deal with us. This is where many often get derailed, disabled, and eventually defeated.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“You don't have to work to earn money to feed and clothe a body when it's dead. No one can take your dignity away when you're gone.
I wish I could say what shuts down that thought is love for myself as a person deserving of life, or the fear of breaking the hearts of those who love me. Those feelings are present, but they aren't enough to shut it up. What makes me turn it off is another sensation that's always with me - a burning rage, sometimes morphing into total hatred. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Fuck you for making me even consider that for a second. You may not want me to live how I need to live in order to be happy, but I won't give you the satisfaction of no longer having me as a problem. I will never stop being a burden on the state when the state decided to make me one in the first place. If I have to scam, commit crimes, and become a nuisance to the taxpayer, so be it. And I'll never once feel guilty. I can't say I didn't try doing things 'the right way'. If you don't allow me to exist as a person, I have no choice but to exist as a problem.”