My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent. Ariel Gore Read Quote
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn’t actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy. Ariel Gore Read Quote
New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter. Ariel Gore Read Quote
I’ve been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree – most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I’ve got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands. Ariel Gore Read Quote
They say change gets more difficult as we get older – each year we’re more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new. Ariel Gore Read Quote
In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing. Ariel Gore Read Quote
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason. Ariel Gore Read Quote
Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. Ariel Gore Read Quote
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that. Ariel Gore Read Quote
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness or even depression, it’s anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives. Ariel Gore Read Quote
