If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities
Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. . . I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.
When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.