Getting Better Quotes

“It's my 'One Good Thing Principle.' It goes like this: try to do one thing every day that makes you proud. It can be very small, like shopping for what you want to eat, paying a bill, learning a song, going for a walk, cooking something nice, helping someone, organising something - anything. Then, as you go to sleep, fix your mind on it. Just focus on that one good thing so that the bad things, the ones that make you feel scared or fed up, don't crowd your mind. Allow yourself to be proud of it. Allow yourself to say to yourself, 'I did that.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“Play is about you doing things because they amuse you. I think of play as 'trial and error without fear of failure.' The opposite of play are things like taking orders and following routines without knowing why.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“The opposite of play are things like taking orders and following routines without knowing why.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“People, buildings, countryside, weather - it's all changing all the time. There comes a point where you can ask yourself whether you want to change too, or not.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“And yet, there are quite simply other things to do and other things to feel other than sorrow.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“Sometimes, you might even change the outcome. But even if that's not always possible, there is power in the process.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“We have to gather up the things that make us proud. We can do it quietly, on our own, in our minds. It might be a bit or a small thing but being proud of something we've done is a very large part of how we hold ourselves together, how we find a purpose for what we do.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“We all encounter minor challenges that can hit us surprisingly hard.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

“When we feel we have no agency it might be ok for a while, but if it goes on and on, it's demoralising. You feel you have no control, no worth.”
― Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it