Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.
Peter McWilliamsPeople who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
Peter McWilliamsMistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Peter McWilliamsThere are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.
Peter McWilliams