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“Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.”

Knows I Can Feelings Hate Passion Process Know How Opposites Handle Despite Indifference Love And Hate Polar Opposites

Book:This Girl

Source: This Girl

“People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.”

People Thinking Writing Ideas Feelings Might Running Dies Asks Morning One Day Opposites Wake Up Ask Me Dry Drawers

Author:Woody Allen

“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”

Want Art Two Feelings Problem Wealth Balance Art Is Opposites Depth Realism Symbolism Two Opposites

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.”

People Kind Feelings Band Opposites Sparks Indifferent Polar Opposites Polarizing

Author:Ben Gibbard

“None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.”

Writing Book Ideas Enough Feelings Might Interesting Opposites Patient

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.”

World Feelings Individual Social Can Do Moral Movement Lonely Opposites Witness Solidarity Superiority Bearing Witness

Author:Ellen Willis

“The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.”

Feelings Pain Depression Opposites Absence Spontaneous Vitality Gaiety

Book:The drama of the gifted child

Source: The drama of the gifted child

“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”

Feelings Humor Levels Emotion Fashion Bears Birth Opposites Relation Rising Closest Turmoil Wellspring

Author:Constance Rourke

“Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Feelings Might Would Be Moving Leadership Information Ten Years Ago Opposites Intuition Being True Guts Logical Ironic Leading Me One Direction Gut Feelings

Author:Donna Shalala