My email from Linda Graham MFT today included these wonderful quotes from Theodore Rubin, American psychiatrist and author: Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of that is the beginning of wisdom. Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Have you considered that if you dont make waves, nobody, including yourself, will know that you are alive? Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original course, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, love and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:08:43 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015