A Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Viktor E. Frankl

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Before Pleasant Tasks Unpleasant

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Viktor E. Frankl
Austrian - Psychologist
March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Bertrand Russell

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

Elaine Dundy

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

David Bohm

When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

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It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Nelson Mandela

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Theodore Roosevelt

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Sharon Salzberg

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Hans Selye

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Epictetus

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

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Mel Gibson

Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Richard Bandler

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.