David Viscott Quotes

“Before you decide to have an argument, think about what you really want to accomplish. Do you just want to let your feelings out, or is there a point you are trying to make? What is it?”

“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.”

“You don't have to try, you just have to be.”

“When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows”

“In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.”

“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”

“It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.”

“A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.”

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.”

“There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.”

“Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.”

“You are the only one who has to live your life.”

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

“This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.”

“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

“The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.”

“Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.”

“In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.”

“People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.”

“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.”

“Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.”

“To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”