LAUREN BACALL. 1924-2014. “To Have and Have Not”.
IMAGINATION IS THE HIGHEST KITE ONE CAN FLY.
WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MEDIOCRITY.
YOU LEARN to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
I AM NOT A HAS-BEEN. I AM A WILL BE.
I AM ESSENTIALLY A LONER.
I’M A TOTAL DEMOCRAT. I’M ANTI-REPUBLICAN.
YOU CAN’T ACQUIRE A VOICE. EITHER YOU HAVE IT OR YOU DON’T.
MEN NEED TO FEEL IMPORTANT. They feel better when they’re with younger girls or unknown girls.
STARDOM ISN’T A CAREER, IT’S AN ACCIDENT.
LAURENCE J. PETER. 1919-1990. “The Peter Principle”.
DON’T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES — DEPEND ON THEM.
SPEAK when you are angry — and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
DO IT NOW. THERE MAY BE A LAW AGAINST IT TOMORROW.
A MAN DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE KNOWS UNTIL HE KNOWS WHAT HE DOESN’T KNOW.
COMPETENCE, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
IN SPITE OF WARNINGS, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
NOBLEST OF ALL DOGS IS THE HOT DOG; IT FEEDS THE HAND THAT BITES IT.
A PHILOSOPHER is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
AMERICA IS A LAND OF TAXATION THAT WAS FOUNDED TO AVOID TAXATION.
THE PROBLEM WITH TEMPTATION IS THAT YOU MAY NOT GET ANOTHER CHANCE.
POLITICAL SUCCESS is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
MIDDLE AGE is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
THE REASON CRIME DOESN’T PAY is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
THE UNEXPECTED ALWAYS HAPPENS.
MY PROBLEM is I say what I’m thinking before I think what I’m saying.
THERE are two kinds of egotists: those who admit it and the rest of us.
IT IS WISE to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
THE ADVANTAGE of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of there world.
EVERY GIRL should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
TWO THINGS REDUCE PREJUDICE: education and laughter.
REAL CONSTRUCTIVE MENTAL POWER lies in he creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER 1926-2015. “Tough Times Never Last”.
LET YOUR HOPES, NOT YOUR HURTS, SHAPE YOUR FUTURE.
IF you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS CAN BECOME POSSIBLE MIRACLES.
FAITH IS REACTING POSITIVELY TO A NEGATIVE SITUATION.
I SEE the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.
LORD, make my life a window for your light to shine through and a mirror to reflect your love. Amen.
THE GOOD NEWS is that bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
HAVE FAITH IN YOUR FAITH — AND DOUBT YOUR DOUBTS.
THE TRUTH of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. the hard part is doing it.
EVERY ACHIEVER that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me’.
KAREN HORNEY 1885-1952 “Our Inner Conflicts”
“Neurotic Personality” “Self Analysis”
FORTUNATELY analysis in not the only way to resolve conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
THERE IS NO GOOD REASON why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
A NORMAL HUMAN BEING . . . DOES NOT EXIST.
IF I COULDN’T BE PRETTY, I DECIDED I WOULD BE SMART.
THE MOST comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs.
BASIC ANXIETY can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray envy . . . and special in thesis the child’s feeling that the parents’ love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity . . . may only be a pretense.
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