Some Useful Things for Myself

Dr. Alan Mandell

Real treasures of life silently sit right in front of us:

Thank you for the roof above me, thank you for the food on the table, thank you for the people who cared about me, Thank you for this body that carries me though this life, thank you for giving the strength to get through what I thought would break me, etc.

JP:

You’re in a damaged structure, you’re a damaged structure, you’re ina damaged structure.

JP:

It has to be that the fragility is built into the courage. If it wasn’t the case that you could be hurt or ended up in failure, where is the moral courage in the endeavour.

JP:

In many sense, you’re made of the unknown. The more you voluntarily encounter it, the more you get made of it. The more you get made of, there more is to you.

JP:

You need an antidote to your suffering.

CW:

Action is the antidote to anxiety

JW:

If you’re afraid of doing something. Do it anyway. That’s the response to fear.

Job in the midst of his suffering:

I will do good no matter what. No matter what happens to me. No matter how much suffering comes my way. No matter how much undeserved and unjust suffering comes my way, in spite my of innocence. I will not lose faith and I will do good.

JP:

You have to spend your life developing your character.

JP:

So now Pinocchio has to face the thing he’s afraid the most!

A truth by JP that I have experienced as well:

Everything I actually did, paid off!

TT:

Solving a math problem isn’t about winning or losing; it’s about if you learned something from it.

WC:

Succes is the ability tp go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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