Growth...

" Growth, then, demands detachment; and both growth and detachment are difficult to man. Psychologists who think like Fromm will say that it is precisely the refusal to accept the fact of growth that causes complexes, psychological retardations, and neuroses. For human nature shrinks from growth just as the child is reluctant to leave its mother's womb and it's mother's breast, and as the adolescent shrinks from the unknown adult world that rises before him. For psychological growth is a journey into unknown territory, and no one likes to leave the drab Platonic cave where he sits in sad security. Hence, man must muster all his psychological force to overcome each crisis and to avoid slipping back into infantilism."

-William Johnston

Attitudes...


" The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it...."

-Charles R Swindoll