David Viscott

Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered. ”

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

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there. ”

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. ”

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

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him. ”

In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”