David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
As if !
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Who's on first.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
There's no crying in baseball !
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Don't think it, ink it.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Well, nobody's perfect.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Shut up and deal.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
For Love is Immortality.
God doesn't make junk.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The show must go on.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Yo, Adrian !
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
One million dollars !
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.