Quotes by Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of m — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the f — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this persp — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
...once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret virtually any e — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce b — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different sta — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of fai — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
A person who has resolved to ‘think positive’ must constantly scan his or her mind for negative thoughts – there’s no ot — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting ti — Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking