"How about a boat that's not a boat? Take one plank out, and it's the same as it ever was, it's just got a hole in it, that's all.
Take out a whole lot of planks, and then suddenly you need to ask yourself, "What the fuck am I looking at? That ain't no boat, that's just a fuckin pile of wood, man."
“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” Harvey MacKay.
There is a lot more that is to be said then that is what is actually simpler and more powerful.
It is more efficacious to act your way into a new way of thinking .... than it is to think your way into a new way of acting.
Most therapists make the exact same mistake that people in troubled relationships make.
They waste incredible time, energy and breath trying to convince somebody to think differently.
Right. When all they have to do is insist that they behave.
--- Character Disturbance and Word and Thinking Disorder.