“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”
— Albert Einstein
“Nature itself is the best physician”
— Hippocrates
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“To flourish means to live within an optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience. ”
“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think”
— The Buddha
“Enjoy the present moment, it is all that is real, all else is vanity, chasing the wind”
— Qohelet / Ecclesiastes
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
— Williams James, Ph.D.
“You have the power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.”
— Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D.
“You wanted justice didn’t you? There isn’t any … there is only love. ”
— J.B. Archibald MacLeish, from his Pulitizer Prize winning play of the story of Job with a modern ending
“At the end of life, in your 80’s, it’s not money, fame, or cholesterol that determines your health and happiness, it’s the quality of your relationships”
“There is huge empirical data showing that by far the vast amount of variance of therapy outcomes is accounted for not by brand name, by kind of therapy, the technique but by personality factors and relationship factors, these are the things that explain change in psychotherapy. ”
— Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.
“All relationships should begin with a kayak because it takes cooperation to not turn over, and a spirit of adventure ”
— Dr. Ruth Westheimer
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”
— Abraham Lincoln
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”
— Albert Einstein
“The goal of choosing to turn inward and work with one’s self — with difficult emotions — of seeking to understand and embrace emotional distress and suffering is psychological liberty. To become free and liberated from whatever is blocked, negative, destructive and wounded in ourselves. It is a process of becoming increasingly freed from fears and conflict.”
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
— Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.
“When things change inside you, things change around you ”
— Unknown
“one might miss some of what is truly relevant if one sees dispassionately, without engaging one’s emotions . . . without emotions, we do not fully register the facts or record them with the sort of resonance and importance that only emotional involvement can sustain” ”
— N. Sherman
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way”
