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.

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

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

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

Lists have always implied social order.

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

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

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.

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

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

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

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.

Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

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

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

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