- “I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
- “To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.”
- “…nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.”
- “The only difference between the wise man and the fool is that the wise man knows he is playing.”
- “Nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.”
- “You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?”
- “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
- “I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.”
- “A thousand plastic flowers don’t make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don’t fill an empty room.”
- “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”
- “Learning is the discovery that something is possible.”
- Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.”
- “To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own.”
- “The person most in control is the person who can give up control.”
- “You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?”
- “Anxiety is excitement without breathing.”
- “If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.”
- “I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
- “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
- “It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.”
- “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
- “Pain is meant to wake us up… Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
- “Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself, because then the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.”
- “The only difference between the wise man and the fool is that the wise man knows he is playing.”
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth – Dolores Cannon
January 5, 2023
