Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it’s very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it’s best to do nothing.
Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.
Swearing when in heavy traffic.
Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.
Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.
Always saying, “I tried” when you didn’t really try at all.
Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don’t have the energy.
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
Believing that you can be sure of everything you’ve achieved.
Assuming that women don’t like football and that men aren’t intersted in home decorating and cooking.
Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a “powerful personality.”
The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.
Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition.
Fear of failure leads to failure.
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it’s over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.