“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” --Gail Sheehy
Change the Way You Look
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. --Wayne Dyer
Wait for Others to Change
“If you wait for others to change, you’ll wait forever.” —Dr. Stephen Marmer; December 9, 2022; The Dennis Prager Show
5 Behaviors Guaranteed to Increase Happiness: #3 of 5
“View yourself as actively capable of making changes in your life, rather than as a passive, helpless victim. Make use of your own agency. Take responsibility for being the architect of much of your own misery, and choose to build success instead.” —Dr. Stephen Marmer; December 9, 2022; The Dennis Prager Show
Difficult Families
“With difficult families, the therapist must be predictable enough to be relied on by the family, but not so predictable that he can be easily anticipated, thus he can bring about change. One must be predictable in one’s commitment to solving the family problem but unpredictable and inconsistent in moment-to-moment maneuvers.” --Jay Haley in Leaving Home: the Therapy of Disturbed Young People, pg. 276
The Most Difficult Thing
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” —Amelia Earhart
Healthy Things
“Healthy things grow, and growing things change.” —Christine Caine
Failure
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” —John Wooden