David Viscott Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

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.

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

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.

The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.