If you are going through hell…
If you are going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
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Misunderstanding Others
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It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
— Karl A. Menninger, The Human Mind
This quote is a more poetic version of the one I posted yesterday that said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
According to Dr. George Watson at the University of Delaware, Karl Menninger was an early psychoanalyst who was probably referring to the criminal mind in this quote. Dr. Watson provides an expanded context of the quote.
Skill and Imagination
ByHeather
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
— Tom Stoppard
Create Your Own Reality
ByHeather
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
Getting What You Want
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The Crucible of Doubt
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My hosannahs have all be forged in the crucible of doubt.
Life’s a tough proposition…
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Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.