Combatting ANTs

Inspirational & Self-Affirming Quotes to keep in mind, and to offset ANTS (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
Find and repeat your favorites, until a more natural, automatic neural pathway is established.
Whatever you practice, strengthens.
The thoughts you repeat to yourself change the structure of the brain.

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Use your mind to change your brain in a favorable way.
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• “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin
• “The  important thing is somehow to begin.” – Henry Moore

• “Knowing what you want is the first step to getting it.” – Louise Hart
• “The  only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the  next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
• “What   lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what      lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I   cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert B. Swope
• “Experience  is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
• “A  happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of  hardships.” – Helen Keller
• “If  you’re going through hell, keep going. ” – Winston Churchill
• “I  have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” – Dr. Seuss
• “To face despair and not give in to it, that’s courage.” – Ted Koppel
• “Little  by little does the trick.” – Aesop
• “Everything  is okay in the end, so if it’s not okay, then it’s not the end yet.”

Incorporated from Arielle Bair