Emotional Agility by Susan David

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Striving to be perfect – or always perfectly happy – will only set you up for frustration and failure.

Thoughts in isolation do not cause behaviour.

Acceptance is a prerequisite for change. This means giving permission for the world to be as it is, because it's only when we stop trying to control the universe that we make peace with it. We still don't like the things we don't like – we just cease to be at war with them. And once the war is over, change can begin.

When we lack compassion, we see the world as just as unforgiving as we are, so the very idea of failure is crippling.

thoughts and emotions don't always speak the truth, and they come and go.

Thoughts and emotions contain information, not directions.

Nature favours evolution, not revolution.

change is a process, not an event.

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