3. 3
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view
they take of them”.
Epictetus
4. 4
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of
which never happened.”
Michel de Montaigne
5. 5
"When confronted with a situation which we cannot
change, we are then challenged to change ourselves."
Viktor Frankl
6. 6
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their
minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
7. 7
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking
makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
8. 8
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all
within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
9. 9
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you
decide your problems are your own. You do not blame
them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
You realize that you control your own destiny.”
Albert Ellis
10. 10
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking
and planning.”
Winston Churchill
11. 11
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard,
solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for
easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing
pains some people more than having to think.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. 12
“We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them”.
Albert Einstein
13. 13
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at
anything which happens in life!"
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180.)
14. 14
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it
that matters.”
Epictetus
15. 15
“Have no fear of perfection- you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali
16. 16
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try
sometimes you just might find you get what you
need."
The Rolling Stones
17. 17
“There is nothing to fear except fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing
grievous but to yield to grief."
Francis Bacon
25. 25
"You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying
over your head, but you can prevent them from
building nests in your hair.”
Ancient Chinese Proverb
34. A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress
management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water,
everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half
full" question. Instead, she inquired: "How heavy is this
glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.
She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It
depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's
not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in
my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and
paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't
change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like
that glass of water. Think about them for a while and
nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they
begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you
will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything."
“Remember to put the glass down.”
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43. 43
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have
planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
E. M. Forster
44. 44
“You, and you alone, are 100 percent responsible for
your own successes, opportunities, and happiness.”
Linda Galindo
45. 45
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you
have the time to do it over?”
John Wooden
46. 46
“If "Plan A" doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more
letters.”
Anon
47. 47
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve
your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It is not
the mountain ahead that wears you out – it is the
grain of sand in your shoe.”
Robert Service
48. 48
“If I am not part of the problem, there is no solution.”
Anon
50. 50
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms...to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances.“
Victor E. Frankl
51. 51
"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new
lands, but in seeing with new eyes.“
Marcel Proust
52. 52
"What matters is our attitude toward facts rather
than the facts themselves. This also applies to the
facts of our inner life.”
Viktor Frankl
54. 54
"A human being, by the very attitude he chooses, is
capable of finding and fulfilling meaning in even a
hopeless situation.”
Viktor Frankl
55. 55
"Meaning rests on the attitude the patient chooses
toward suffering.”
Viktor Frankl
56. 56
"Neurotic fatalism is only another disguised form of
escape from responsibility."
Viktor Frankl
57. 57
"A human being is not one thing among others:
Things are determining each other, but man is selfdetermining."
Viktor Frankl
58. 58
"In the widest sense, logotherapy is treatment of the
patient's attitude toward his unchangeable fate."
Viktor Frankl
59. 59
"The Statue of Liberty on the east coast should be
supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the
west coast.”
Viktor Frankl
60. 60
“Fear is when ten guys with knives are after you,
anxiety is when you are safely at home thinking they
might come.”
Anon
61. 61
“It‟s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your
head.”
Sally Kempton
62. 62
“…when I was young nothing could hold me back. No,
sir! I thought I could change the world. It took me a
hundred years to figure out I can‟t change the world. I
can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain‟t easy
either!”
Bessie Delaney
64. 64
“The truth is what is. And what should be is a
fantasy…a terrible fantasy.”
Lenny Bruce
65. 65
“God grant me the courage to change the things I can
change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
67. 67
“Pilots have a saying, in order to learn how to fly in
the wind, you have to fly in the wind!”
Anon
68. 68
“Let me (or us) seek acceptance of life as I find it,
even though I may not approve of what I find,
wisdom to see what would be good to change,
willingness to act, willingness to follow through, and
gratitude for the opportunity to try to live my life as
best I can.”
Hank Robb
69. 69
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who
does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
70. 70
“There is nothing like returning to a place that
remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela
91. 91
“Age is something that doesn‟t matter, unless you are
a cheese.”
Billie Burke
92. 92
“Give people the right to be wrong. They will exercise
this right whether you give it to them or not.”
Windy Dryden
93. 93
“Oh I see. The universe must be run so that I always
get what I want. I should run the f****** universe!
Well, lots of luck on that one! Maybe you‟ll be the
first to achieve it.”
Albert Ellis
94. 94
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering what
he fears.”
Michel de Montaigne
95. 95
“I hear, and I forget.
I see, and I remember.
I do, and I understand.”
Chinese proverb
96. 96
“The goal of all life is death.”
Sigmund Freud
“The goal of all life is to have a @#*% ball”
Albert Ellis
97. 97
Care about what other people think and you will
always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
98. 98
"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather,
the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
Rollo May
99. 99
What it take to have a good relationships is for the
holes in his head to match the rocks in hers.
Albert Ellis