Walter Inglis Anderson Quotes

The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Nothing quells anxiety like action!

At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

Beware by whom you are called sane.

How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.

The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.

Focus on the solution, not the problem

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.