56 Quotes by Gary John Bishop

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius.

The gap between how life is and how we think life is, is often the black hole in which we fruitlessly labor.

We often view ourselves as procrastinators or lazy or unmotivated. When in reality, we’re simply unwilling. We put things off or avoid them completely because we tell ourselves we just don’t want to do it or that we can’t do it.

People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period.

If you took the time to be with what I’m saying, you’d realize that what causes most of your worry is trying to predict the future and then refusing to accept things when they don’t or aren’t going to go your way.

Our minds would love to predict and plan for everything that’s going to happen. But it’s simply not possible. And these expectations not only have a negative effect on our emotional state, they actually leave us less powerful than we really could be.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus.

There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day.