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I find pithy one-liners to be excellent thought-stoppers, and when my mind revs up with negativity, I’m looking for that brake to pull. The lists I’ve published before are very popular with my readers, and I think it’s time for some more condensed wisdom. Enjoy!

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

What’s hysterical is historical. (Unknown)

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

What we think is helping may actually be hurting another – ask yourself if you are enabling (taking on a responsibility that really belongs to the other) (Insanely Serene)

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. (William S. Burroughs)

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. (William Wallace)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (Anais Nin)

What we resist persists. (Carl Jung)

When in doubt, don’t. (Unknown)

Where your attention goes, energy flows. (Unknown)

The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart. (Unknown)

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. (Denis Waitley)

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number. (Edith Armstrong)

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Vincent Van Gogh)

Share the wealth – send us your own one-liners and ideas for shortcircuiting negative thinking.

Other one-liner posts:

• One-liners that Interrupt Negative Thinking
• More One-liners that Interrupt Negative Thinking 
• One-Liners, Take Three

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