“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Viktor Frankl
“If you take your responsibilities not as a burden but as a game, you will play with them with lightness and cheer. “
— Unknown
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
-— Mohsin Hamid
“There is a part of you that is perfect and pure. It is untouched by the less-than-perfect characteristics you have acquired by living in a less than perfect world. This part of you is a still and eternal star. Make time to reach it and this will bring you untold benefit.”
— Unknown
“Navy SEALs say when you’re under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. Train well!”
— Jon Gordon
“What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you.”
— Gospel of Thomas
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way — in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.”
— Stephen Levine
“If you are patient in one moment of anger,you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
— Chinese Proverb
“When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,the latter becomes irresistible.”
— Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
“When angry, count to ten before you speak.If very angry, count to one hundred.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.”
— Dale Carnegie
“It takes years to build up trust,and only seconds to destroy it.”
— Anonymous
“Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.”
-– Brian Vaszily
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all happiness and growth occurs when you’re climbing it.”
— Andy Rooney