If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

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 one's time.

Lists have always implied social order.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.