"Forgive yourself and others. Forgiveness helps release the anger and pain that haunt the past. When we forgive others, it helps us far more than them. We can assume they’ll never own up to the damage they did, but it doesn’t matter. As soon as we choose to release them and forgive, a tremendous weight falls away from us. It’s not easy but it is essential."
-- John F. Westfall
"Human connection is a powerful tool for stress resilience. Your relationships change your biology and psychology."
-- Julie Smith
"Any marathon runner or bike racer or Olympic athlete must focus on the finish line. They must keep the cobwebs out, go through their routine endless times. They visualize their technique and what to avoid along the way. In other words, they psych themselves up or motivate themselves. The true sign of a winner is that they expect to win. Many winners never once think of failure or that they might not succeed."
-- John Paul Carinci
"Mozart did not write a single piece of music that became a resounding success and retire a wealthy man. Mozart wrote hundreds of pieces of music and many of them were masterpieces that made him famous but most of them were regular pieces of music that were forgettable and forgotten by history. Shakespeare did not write Macbeth as a stand-alone piece of genius. He wrote it alongside some of the worst plays that he had ever written. The point here is that these geniuses did more than most. They wrote more than most. They practised more than most. They published more than most and in so doing they refined their craft. They shut up and did things. They lived action words like did, wrote, practised, published and built. They did not think about building, doing, writing, they did them."
-- Nicholas Haralambous
"Realize that at every moment you have a choice. The choices you make reflect your priorities, so be sure you’re making those choices deliberately."
-- Bill Perkins
"The quantum model of reality tells us that to change our lives, we must fundamentally change the ways we think, act, and feel. We must change our state of being. Because how we think, feel, and behave is, in essence, our personality, it is our personality that creates our personal reality. So to create a new personal reality, a new life, we must create a new personality; we must become someone else. To change, then, is to “be” greater than our present circumstances, greater than our environment."
-- Dr. Joe Dispenza
"Think about who you want to be now. We are not trapped, and the things we endured or experienced don’t have to define us. Just because we were victimized doesn’t mean we have to be a victim now. Just because we failed doesn’t make us a failure now. Just because our hearts are broken doesn’t mean we won’t love or be loved again. It may seem normal to hold on to past pain, but it is also normal to let it go when we are ready."
-- John F. Westfall
"Remember that the subconscious mind will accept whatever is being fed into it on a constant basis. Be very careful what you routinely think about and what influences you allow to penetrate this most powerful part of your mind. In other words, the subconscious will accept fact or fiction that is consistently passed into it through our conscious thoughts. Therefore, if I were to repeat a series of positive statements, or affirmations, as they are often called, they would be absorbed and accepted."
-- John Paul Carinci
"Healthy body weight. Avoid obesity. Without being fanatical, maintain a body weight in the normal range, eating in a moderate, healthy way without yo-yo dieting or crazy restrictions you can’t maintain over the long run."
-- Arthur C. Brooks
"The relationship between sleep and mental health works both ways. Prioritizing sleep will help your mental health, and making changes to your day will affect your sleep."
-- Julie Smith
