If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. --Wayne Dyer
Strong Soul
Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. --Thomas Carlyle
Fools Rage
Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end. —Proverbs 29:11
Improving the Universe
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. --Aldous Huxley
Self-exploration
“Self-exploration is a lifelong process, and I recommend that therapy be as deep and prolonged as possible—and that the therapist enter therapy at many different stages of life.” ― Irvin D. Yalom
Suffering and Meaning
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” ― Viktor E. Frankl
Becoming and Being
“Always place your becoming above your current being.” ― Jordan B. Peterson
Food of Addiction
Trauma, pain, fear, lies and isolation are the food that addiction devours to stay alive. --Steven R. Hobbs
Essential Components
Three essential components of psychological health are 1. the ability to openly and honestly communicate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with another, 2. the ability to honor agreements and disagreements, commonalities and distinctions, and 3. the ability to use personal resources to accomplish values-directed goals. --Steven R. Hobbs
Dare Mighty Things
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” --Theodore Roosevelt
Having and Enjoying
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” --Charles Spurgeon
Education and Ignorance
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” --Will Durant
Taste and Art
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art".” --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seeking Liberty
“Whoever seeks in liberty anything other than liberty itself is born for servitude.” --Alexis de Tocqueville
Nothing Will Work
“Nothing will work unless you do.” --Maya Angelou
If Pain Were Water
“If pain were water, the world would drown.” —Dennis Prager
Be Brave
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” --Paulo Coelho
Giving Advise
“When giving advice, remember: once is enough, twice is pushing it, three times is obnoxious.” —Jonathan Feldman, Martial Artist
Therapist as a Servant
“The therapist is a servant of the process that goes on in the patient's psyche.” — James F. Masterson
Life Unlived
“The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.” — Irvin D. Yalom