The best Quotes by David Viscott

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Parents are but a child's first connection. Even though we don't want to be seperated, there will come the day when you must walk your own path.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

"Me?", said Hermione, "Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery."

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.