Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. Eliot
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Henry Stanley Haskins
Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.
Anonymous
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
To do is to be – J. S. Mill.
To be is to do – Jean-Paul Sartre.
Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra.
You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.
Anonymous
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.
William Gibson
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of chips and a chocolate cake. I feel better already
anon
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
I can sympathize with people’s pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it takes nine visits.
Anon
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
Margaret Chittenden
Psychiatrists urge me to take my tranquilisers. When I don’t they become agitated. I take their pills to calm <strong>them</strong> down.
Brian Spellman
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your three best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you.
Ann Lander
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
C. G. Jung
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard I. Evans
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese Proverb
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
William James
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
Socrates
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life 1859
We’re all in the same boat on a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
GK Chesterton