Favorite Self-Help Quotes PArt 2 (Newsletter No. 39)
AKA the ones I keep sending everyone
First post of self-help quotes here
“ Many of the truly committed compassion practitioners are also the most boundary-conscious people. Compassionate people are boundaried people. The heart of compassion is acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become. But it’s difficult to accept people when they are hurting us or taking advantage of us or walking all over us. So if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable for their behavior.”— Brené Brown
“If we learn to trust our intuition, it can even tell us that we don’t have a good instinct on something and that we need more data. Our need for certainty sabotages our intuition is when we ignore our gut’s warning to slow down, gather more information, or reality-check our expectations. When we charge headlong into big decisions, it may be because we don’t want to know the answers that will emerge from doing due diligence. We know that fact-finding might lead us away from what we think we want. “Intuition is not a single way of knowing—it’s our ability to hold space for uncertainty”—Brené Brown
Occam's razor, (Latin: novacula Occami), is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity" Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate, or more simply, the simplest explanation is usually the right one. —Via Wikipedia
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionally strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical examination.— Sir Peter B. Medawar