Quotes

 I read a lot, and often find quotes and some of the best parts of a book or article.  Here are a few...

• Happiness is the absence of mental and emotional discomfort and pain.
• Think for a moment about the things you tell yourself?
• The amount of suffering we experience due to sustained bouts of negative thinking and battered emotions is outrageous!
• Once we yank our the irrationalities and lies from our thoughts and  replace them with truth, we can lead satisfying, rich and fulfilling lives
• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little Franklin D. Roosevelt January 20,1937
• Loneliness is a growing health epidemic and it leads to suicide, obesity, heart disease, addictions
• A good future is dependent on education and families being willing to pass down values and work ethic
• It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man/woman that he/she ought to lift himself/herself up by his/her bootstraps  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• A community that allows a large number of young men in broken families...never acquiring a stable male authority...that community asks for and gets chaos.  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1965
• "Keep your coins, I want change"  Homeless man...
• Your diet is not just what you eat, it is what you watch, listen to, read and the people you hang out with 
• Many of us don't fully understand the time it takes to change.  There is not a neat, simple quick fix program that guarantees instant victory.  Success really does take hard work.  Dr. Caroline Leaf

Wishing you peace today...