David Viscott

Lists have always implied social order.

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.

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

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

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

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

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

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

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.

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

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.

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

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

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

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

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.

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

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.