David Viscott Quotes (17 Quotes)


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

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

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

    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.

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


    The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

    The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.

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

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

    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.


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