Empathy for other people’s feelings requires a counter-balancing quality of toughness to not be controlled by their pain
– Al Siebert
Empathy for other people’s feelings requires a counter-balancing quality of toughness to not be controlled by their pain
– Al Siebert
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.
– Goethe
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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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
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
– Og Mandino
Do not waste your time giving explanations, people only hear what they want to hear
– Paul Cuelho
The wealth of options we face today has extended personal freedom to an extent that would have been inconceivable even a hundred years ago. But the inevitable consequence of equally attractive choices is uncertainty of purpose; uncertainty, in turn, saps resolution, and lack of resolve ends up devaluing choice.
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
– Viktor Frankl
The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists
– Spencer Johnson
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
– Abdul Kalam