“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.” IfsWayNeedsGivingHas BeensSelfReasonDoneFeelingsHandsMovingOrderAsksPrayerViewsBlameGuiltIllPainfulCirclesUnhappyTreatedMoving ForwardAntidoteWrongedIll WillLove PrayerPainful Feelings Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.” IfsLittlesDoeSelfFeelingsWindLaughterPityDryAntidoteVigorousSelf PityExposingMalady Author:Mary McCarthy
“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.” WantBelieveLittlesSoulReasonFeelingsCareLawWishBornRaceVirtueTruth IsProtectionReason WhyChampionHonorableVulgarPettyKnightsAntidoteTransactionsDecadenceLamentDegradingRace CarDay LifeProbity Author:Frances Trollope