Anyone who's ever been in therapy with me will tell you (perhaps with a groan!) that I love quotes and use them often in session. So here are some of my favorites from a HUGE collection I have. 

See
here for the quote that I think so much of that I've carried it around for many years
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.-Marlene Dietrich

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.-Albert Schweitzer

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.-Winston Churchill

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.-William Arthur Ward

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Dr Wayne Dyer


Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Go back a little to leap further.-John Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.-Theodore Roosevelt

I failed my way to success.-Thomas Edison

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.-Thomas Hood
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. - John F. Kennedy

When you can't have what you want, just choose what you have.-Owen Wister

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.- Mark Twain
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content- Helen Keller

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. -Seneca

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.-Mahatma Gandhi

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