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“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“We can cope with uncomfortable internal triggers by reflecting on, rather than reacting to, our discomfort. We can reimagine the task we’re trying to accomplish by looking for the fun in it and focusing on it more intensely. Finally, and most important, we can change the way we see ourselves to get rid of self-limiting beliefs.”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“An individual’s level of self-compassion had a greater effect on whether they would develop anxiety and depression than all the usual things that tend to screw up people’s lives, like traumatic life events, a family history of mental illness, low social status, or a lack of social support.”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life