Lizards Eat Butterflies Quotes

“You perceive and remember that to which you can relate. When you observe something aberrant, your tendency is to build a metaphor to explain what you didn't understand.”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“Would you be able to recognize 'better' when you're in the mindset that life in its present form is somehow not good enough?”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“If we could be participants in, rather than creators of, our lives, we'd let go of most of the judgements, critiques, fears, and doubts that keep us from loving life.”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“When we see ourselves and our world defined by stereotypical expectations, the very nature of our engagement alters. And our susceptibility to this transformation of behavior may diminish our capacity to appreciate important nuance in our surroundings. In a world where we're looking for 'familiar' or 'similar' through favorable lenses and seeing 'unfamiliar' as somehow lesser, we are at risk of being blind to the self-evident.”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“What would you call yourself if you didn't use anyone or anything else's associations to label you?”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“I struggle with the fact that who I am has often been hidden behind stories that I tell myself derived from my perceptions of others' thoughts, statements, actions, or indifference.”
― David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

“You perceive and remember that to which you can relate. When you observe something aberrant, your tendency is to build a metaphor to explain what you didn't understand.”
― Dr. David E. Martin, Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction