David Viscott

Psychologist

1938-05-24

Quotes by David Viscott

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

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

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

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

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• Lists have always implied social order.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You don't have to try, you just have to be.

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

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