Person to person

It's amazing how your life can change for the better if you open your mind (more than others think wise), risk (more than others think safe), fantasize (more than others think sensible), and do (more than others think possible). Here are some truisms that might be the jump-start you need to get you moving toward a better life. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." - Isaac Asimov "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali"The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives." - Erving Goffman "Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be." - Nelson Mandela "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead "One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman "Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us." - Jawaharlal Nehru "Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Miguel De Cervantes "To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela Linda Sapadin, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice who works with individuals, families and couples. Copyright © 2004