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Confusion is not understanding something clearly or being uncertain about what to do

• Confusion: Uncertainty about what is happening, intended, or required.    The state of being bewildered or unclear in one’s mind about something. Oxford Dictionary
• Confusion: A situation in which people are uncertain about what to do or are unable to understand something clearly. The feeling that you have when you do not understand what is happening or what is expected.  Merriam Webster
• Understanding,  Clarity,  Complexity,  Doubt,  Chaos,  Clutter

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To be confused is part of the human condition

• People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. Daniel Handler

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The wold we live in is awash in confusion and it’s our purpose to find some truth in it

• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us –  and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. Carl Sagan
• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. Woodrow T. Wilson
• How dreadful…to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. Caroline Stevermer
• Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. Julian Barnes
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Science tries hard to turn confusion into understanding, but doesn’t always succeed

• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why? Erwin Chargaff
• Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding. Brian Greene
• Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. Wilhelm Reich
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Overthinking causes confusion

• I find that thinking about our problems beyond a certain point is bound to create confusion and worry. There comes a time when any more investigation and thinking are harmful. There comes a time when we must decide and act and never look back. Dale Carnegie
• The surest way to become tense, awkward, and confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much. Benjamin Hoff
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Information overload causes confusion

• There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man’s environment. To cope with this diversity, man’s perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged “typical instance. Jerome S. Bruner

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Chaos and lack of order causes confusion

• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana
• When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer
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Great change causes confusion

• Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan
• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch
• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they’ve always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you’re a leader, you can’t let your people hang on to the past. Richard Marcinko
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Pleasure, and our attitudes to it, often causes confusion

• Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. Lama Yeshe
• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. Rebecca West
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Love is a cause of confusion …

• Love is when two people who care for each other get confused. Bob Schneider
• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury. T.H. White
• If love isn’t real, why do we depend on it so much? K Prescott
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… or is it?

• Love doesn’t hurt. Love is not the problem. – Don’t blame love if a failed relationship interfered with your other important relationships, or robbed you of your self-esteem and personal freedoms.  No, don’t blame love.  For it wasn’t love that stole from you.  It was possession.  It was obsession.  It was manipulation.  It was confusion.  Love had nothing to do with your situation.  For love doesn’t close the door against all that is good.  It opens it wide to let more goodness in.  Love creates freedom and abundance.  Marc and Angel Chernoff

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Strong emotions, especially if they’re mixed, bring confusion

• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman
• Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a “map” for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant
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Having many choices can bring confusion

• As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. Jasper Johns

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Confusion is the cause of much of our worry in life

• Confusion is the chief cause of worry. If a man will devote his time to securing the facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge. Dale Carnegie
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Overcome confusion by knowing what you want and creating a plan to get there

• Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterise our age. Albert Einstein
• Half of the secret to achieving clarity in any situation is asking, “What are we trying to do here?” David Allen
• Clarity precedes success. Robin Sharma
• In this respect, clarity is terribly important. Successful people have tremendous clarity about who they are, what they want, and how they are going to get it. Unsuccessful people usually are unsure and confused about who they are, what they want, and where they are going. Brian Tracy
• Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde
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Overcome confusion by making decisions

• Nothing builds momentum like decisive action. Similarly, nothing kills momentum like confusion and a lack of clarity. Just decide. J.D. Meier
• Nothing brings order to a disordered mind like making a decision and letting it stand. Tony Robbins
• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. Rita Mae Brown
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Overcome confusion by taking committed action

• No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. George F. Nordenhold
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Overcome confusion through creating order

• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. Alan Lightman
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Overcome confusion through organising …

• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively. Larry King
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… but be careful it doesn’t become counterproductive

• I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. Petronius Arbiter

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Overcome confusion by listening to your heart

• None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart’s guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life’s true path, but viewing it from a distance. Caroline Myss
• Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
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Overcome confusion by realising that life is a paradox

• As we proceed along the Purposeful Path, the degree to which you can allow yourself to be with the paradoxes we run into and the degree to which you can be with the state of confusion will proportionately determine how effective you’ll be along this leg of the journey. Said another way, confusion is a fairly normal state of consciousness at this point. Brad Swift
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Overcome confusion through self-knowledge

• We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge, we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives. Thubten Chodron
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Overcome confusion by spending time alone

• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony. Anthony Lawlor
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Overcome confusion through reflection

• We need to find the “middle way” in our own lives. It is the art of finding balance.  Reflecting upon our lives, we soon discover what serves us well–nurturing calmness, ease, and simplicity.  We also discover what it is that leads to entanglement, confusion, distress, and anxiety.  Wisdom is being able to discern the difference, then knowing what we need to nurture and what we need to learn to let go.  Christina Feldman
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Overcome confusion through writing

• I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! Isabel Allende
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Overcome confusion through the power of gratitude

• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense out of the past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
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Overcome confusion through the power of faith

• Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. Thomas S. Monson
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Overcome confusion through stillness and spiritual practices …

• For me the appropriate metaphor for the inner spiritual centre is a garden, a place of potential peace and tranquillity. This garden is a place where the Spirit of God comes to make self-disclosure to share wisdom, to give affirmation or rebuke, to provide encouragement, and to give direction and guidance. When this garden is in proper order, it is a quiet place, and there is an absence of busyness, of defiling noise, of confusion. The inner garden is a delicate place, and if not properly maintained it will be quickly overrun by intrusive under- growth. God does not often walk in disordered gardens. And that is why inner gardens that are ignored are said to be empty. Gordon MacDonald
• When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. Dzogchen Ponlop
• Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. Max Ehrmann
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… like meditation

• Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently. Mark Epstein
• Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned. Wayne Dyer
• When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is ‘Zen.’ Not to be confused internally is ‘meditation.’ External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by ‘Zen meditation.’ Bill Porter
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Overcome confusion by choosing to believe the best in people

• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. Anne Frank
• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling
• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. Saint Vincent de Paul

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Acknowledge and shine awareness on your confusion rather than denying it and bottling it up

• Encourage yourself by remembering that any detection of negativity within you is a positive act, not a negative one. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Honest self- observation dissolves pains and pressures that formerly did their dreadful work in the darkness of unawareness. Vernon Howard
• If we try to smooth over, or avoid acknowledging, that certain things seriously annoy us, or make us angry, or sad, or frustrated, or confused, or scared, we are bottling up our emotions, and this never leads to anything good. Emotions need to be acknowledged, expressed appropriately, felt, and then ultimately released. If we do not take the time, and make the effort to process emotions in this way, they will eat away at our wellbeing. Amanda Harvey
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Share your confusion with a true friend who will listen and not advise

• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re- perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. Carl Rogers
• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri J.M. Nouwen
• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. Walt Whitman
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Confusion can be a creative force

• The capacity to be puzzled is … the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Eric Fromm
• Keeping that not knowing is the best way to interface between the known and the unknown at the kind of edge of creativity and science. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
• Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. Michael J. Gelb
• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! William Shakespeare
• History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. Gerald R. Ford
• When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. Annie Lennox
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Learn to be embrace confusion and uncertainty

• Enlightened space, the place of unconditional love, cannot be achieved until and unless one is willing to be comfortable with paradox and confusion. Ralph Walker
• Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find my security. Deepak Chopra
• Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen. George Saunders
• I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. Albert Einstein
• We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette
• To be given permission to be confused — and remain confused — for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. Janet Jackson
• The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of. Samuel Beckett
• Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Become comfortable with the state of “not knowing”

• Become at ease with the state of ‘not knowing.’ This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. Eckhart Tolle
• Be still… And don’t know.  Swaraja
• It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure. Mark Scandrette
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Think of confusion as a stepping stone to clarity

• ‘Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,’ he told me. ‘The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It’s only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don’t fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride. Alan Cohen
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Think of confusion as a stepping stone to spiritual growth and awakening

• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven’t totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward “place of mind” can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the “dark night” sets in and makes its presence felt. Nicholas Schmidt
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Even go as far as promoting some confusion once in a while

• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings–artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers–to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. Tom Robbins
• Why do we insist on being right all the time? Try losing arguments. It’s great fun and interrupts patterns in people. Seeing people get confused is a lot of fun. Henri Junttila
• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dalí

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Don’t confuse desire with need or expectation

• Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. Yet do not confuse desire with expectation, or with need. Desire has an entirely different quality to it. You can desire something without needing or requiring it. That little difference makes everything work. That little difference is the whole trick. Desire, do not Require. To desire propels. To require compels. Life will not be compelled, but it can be coaxed. Neale Donald Walsch
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Don’t confuse confidence with arrogance

• Don’t confuse confidence with arrogance. Arrogance is being full of yourself, feeling you’re always right, and believing your accomplishments or abilities make you better than other people. People often believe arrogance is excessive confidence, but it’s really a lack of confidence. Arrogant people are insecure, and often repel others. Truly confident people feel good about themselves and attract others to them. Christie Hartman
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Don’t confuse celebrities with heroes

• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. Daniel J. Boorstin
• Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs. Sherman Finesilver
• Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck
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Don’t confuse busyness with effectiveness

• Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin
• Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway
• Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness. Douglas B. Reeves
• Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. Steve Maraboli
• Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction. Bhagavad Gita
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Don’t confuse greatness with lesser things

• Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs. Sherman Finesilver
• I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. Lois McMaster Bujold
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall
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Don’t confuse your things with who you are

• I am unhappy if I think I am my things – job, friends, appearance, money. Sure, I can have fun with them, but I must not confuse with Who I Am. They have nothing to do with displaying or experiencing my True Self – and that is what I came to do. Neale Donald Walsch
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Don’t confuse money with happiness and success

• Money—beyond the bare minimum necessary for food and shelter (and I am not talking caviar and castles)—is nothing more than a means to an end. Yet so often we confuse means with ends and sacrifice happiness (end) for money (means). Tal Ben- Shahar
• Don’t confuse wealth with success. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Don’t confuse inner peace with insensibility

• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out. Criss Jami
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Don’t confuse your thoughts, beliefs, perceptions and opinions with reality

• Thinking is something that you do by virtue of being human, and you need not confuse thinking with reality. Wayne Dyer
• Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception–do not confuse them with “facts” or “truth”. Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint. John Moore
• There is no truth. There is only perception. Gustave Flaubert
• I confused things with their names: that is belief. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. Marilyn vos Savant
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Don’t confuse worry with planning for the future

• Worry is defined as being immobilized in the present as a result of things that are going or not going to happen in the future. You must be careful not to confuse worrying with planning for the future. If you are planning, and the present- moment activity will contribute to a more effective future, then this is not worry. It is worry only when you are in any way immobilized now about a future happening. Wayne Dyer
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Don’t confuse money with security

• Don’t get caught confusing money with security. There are lots of ways to build a life that’s more secure, starting with the stories you tell yourself, the people you surround yourself with and the cost of living you embrace. Money is one way to feel more secure, but money alone won’t deliver this. Seth Godin
• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
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More things not to confuse

• A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety. Paulo Coelho
• Acknowledging our inner divinity as a step on the path to embodying it is not to be confused with narcissism or individualism, since we must further admit that everyone’s divine birth-right is the same limitless creational potential of unconditional love. Sol Luckman
• Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. Charles T. Sprading
• Don’t confuse comfort with happiness. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Don’t confuse mere inconveniences with real problems. Jackson Brown Jr.
• He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two. Gary Zukav
• Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal. Neale Donald Walsch
• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. Robert Charles Whitehead
• We often confuse what we wish for with what is. Neil Gaiman
• The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman– it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused. Lemony Snicket
• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint-Laurent
• We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish. Seth Klarman
• When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. Alston Chase
• The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies. Friedrich Nietzsche
• We have confused the free with the free and easy. Adlai E. Stevenson
• If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. Criss Jami
• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. Rumi

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• Today I will honour, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others- and their expectations-have on me. Melody Beattie

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• A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
• Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation. Edward R. Murrow
• Don’t get confused between my personality and my attitude. My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are.
• Expert: a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
• Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity. Gregory Nunn
• I always confuse the words exotic and erotic; that made for a very awkward conversation at my local pet store. Tom Sibley
• I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Robert McCloskey
• I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. Johnny Depp
• I’m as confused as a baby in a topless bar.
• I’m as confused as a mosquito in a nudist colony.
• I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed. Robert Frost
• If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. Larr Leissner
• If I look confused it is because I am thinking. Samuel Goldwyn
• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. Walter F. Mondale
• If you can’t beat ’em, confuse ’em. Harry S.Truman
• If you cannot convince them confuse them. Harry Truman
• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. Tom Peters
• It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• Listen, my mind is made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts.
• May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. George Carlin
• One night I was so confused that I got into the bath without taking off my clothes. But it didn’t matter, because I’d also forgotten to turn on the tap.
• Peace is a period of confusion and unrest between two wars.
• Stress is the confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it.
• The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. U. Peter

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