Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

You mainly feel the way you think.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.