Quotes by David Viscott

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

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

“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.”

“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”

“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”

“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.”

“In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.”

“There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. Its up to you to find it, and you can.”

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

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”

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

“The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.”

“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.”

“Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend ones time.”

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

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

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

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

If your life is ever going to get better youll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.