Quotes from David Viscott

Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.

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

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.

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

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.

Your response is your own. It is created by no one else but you.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

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.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

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

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.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

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

Lists have always implied social order.

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

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.

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