You don't have to try, you just have to be. David Viscott More Quotes by David Viscott More Quotes From David Viscott If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. David Viscott growth angel character Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time. David Viscott trying today way The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' David Viscott clay lists stones Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water. David Viscott toes risk water This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole. David Viscott trying america people In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. David Viscott The worst thing one can do is not to 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 - never knowing. David Viscott Your response is your own. It is created by no one else but you. David Viscott 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. David Viscott us because good disease 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. David Viscott you future opportunity love 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. David Viscott man faith life believe 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. David Viscott you change home time 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. David Viscott up empty reading life No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. David Viscott old live year think Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject. David Viscott place good future people Before you decide to have an argument, think about what you really want to accomplish. Do you just want to let your feelings out, or is there a point you are trying to make? What is it? David Viscott think you feelings trying 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. David Viscott living together relationship people From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe. David Viscott stress doubt time believe It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives. David Viscott parents feel disappointment children 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. David Viscott shadow heart love life