The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.