Things do not change; we change. --Henry David Thoreau
Two Types of People
There are two types of people, those who are victims and those who are empowered. The victim focuses on the wrongs he has endured. The empowered focuses on not being a victim. --Steven R. Hobbs
Must and Can't
You must do the things you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Judgement
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. --Will Rogers
Hard to Fail
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. --Theodore Roosevelt
Hard Work Wins
Hard work wins. You get out of life what you put into it. You cannot control the outcome, but you are one hundred percent in control of the effort. And before you complain about what somebody did to you or said to you, go to the nearest mirror, look at it and say, what could I have done to change the outcome? And no matter how good you are, how hard you work, sooner or later, bad things are gonna happen to you. How you deal with those bad things will tell your mother and me if we raised a man. –Randolph Elder in Dear Father, Dear Son by Larry Elder
Curative
Every brand of psychotherapy regardless of its scientific, fundamental, or philosophical orientation, has converged on the idea that voluntary exposure to challenge is curative. — Jordan Peterson
Trip and Fall
The goal in life isn’t to never trip or fall, but, rather, to trip or fall less often than you used to. --Steven R. Hobbs
Preparation
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. --Elbert Hubbard
I Am Only One
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. --Edward Everett Hale
Change Your World
Change your thoughts and you change your world. --Norman Vincent Peale
Failure will never overtake me...
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. --Og Mandino
Largest Burden
The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it. ― Jordan B. Peterson
Secret of Life
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. --Horace Walope
The Life We Have Planned
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” --E.M. Forster
Great Man
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” --Chanakya
Cannot Do, Can Do
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” --John Wooden
Change, Grow, Live
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” --Gail Sheehy
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