How To Stop Worrying and Start Living Quotes

“But if we put our guard up, we deny ourselves the opportunity to connect deeply with others. If we are unwilling to open up and accept the risk of pain, we are left with empty or hollow connections that don't truly satisfy us. We are unable and unwilling to metabolize negative feelings. If we lack a basic trust in ourselves, the situation is worse – we don't believe we can hold onto love even when we have it; we become jealous, dependent, suspicious.”
― Simeon Lindstrom, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living: What Other People Think Of Me Is None Of My Business

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― Simeon Lindstrom, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living: What Other People Think Of Me Is None Of My Business

“Don’t go into things with your mind closed before you’ve even started, making assumptions about what results you’ll receive. Be playfully curious, and let things emerge rather than wrangle them out.   Exercise”
― Simeon Lindstrom, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living: What Other People Think Of Me Is None Of My Business

“It’s no wonder that being creative and sharing your work with others is a project so fraught with ego. When someone rejects what you’ve slaved and laboured to create, it’s easy to shut down and think they’re wrong, that they’re being hostile. It’s easy to launch into believing that their opinion was worthless to you anyway, that they merely didn’t understand you, that their taste in art was crappy all along, that you in turn judge them, that they’re jealous, that they don’t know what they’re talking about, and on and on and on…   Now,”
― Simeon Lindstrom, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living: What Other People Think Of Me Is None Of My Business