"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-albert einstein

"change can be beautiful so do not be afraid to try,to learn, to grow."

Even a fool knows you can't reach the stars,
but that doesn't stop a wiseman from trying.

"You can't make someone else's choices.
You shouldn't let someone else make yours."
Life Philosophy of Gen. Colin Powell

Man is not the creature of circumstances,
circumstances are the creatures of men.
We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Life Philosophy of Benjamin Disraeli

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

There are always two choices. Two paths to take.
One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Life Philosophy of Zig Ziglar

You will never achieve what you never begin...

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Philosophy of Life by Andre Gide

"If one seeks advice, give them direction, not correction. "

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Philosophy of Life by Richard Bach

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. "
Philosophy of Life by George Macdonald

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,
but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Philosophy of Life by Peter Marshall

Don't take life too seriously. no one gets out alive, anyways.

Before you talk about what you want - appreciate what you have.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it,
or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Life Philosophy from Gene Roddenberry

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do,
but few people actually do what they know.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Life Philosophy from Anthony Robbins

If you believe you can, you probably can.
If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Life Philosophy from Denis Waitley

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Life Philosophy from Ben Stein

Find something you love to do
and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Life Philosophy from Harvey Mackay

Psychoanalysis

HUMAN CHARACTER AS A VITAL LIE

human behavior is basically dynamic. The root causes of all human behavior are hard to dig up. many psychologist are and were on the hunt in excavating all the roots of our diverse behavior. one of them found clues that leads to the trail and tried to uncover it. Earnest Becker, in his book the denial of death gives hint and explanation on the root cause of human characters.
He explained that most of our behavior is a vital lie. we tend to thwart away reality by covering our weakness and strength with a mask of fantasy. We are only evading the reality that we are supposedly seeking. we are afraid to stand alone on ourselves, we are afraid to take the risk to know ourselves because we might not be able accept the things that we can discover within us. In effect, we don't want to discover and test our capabilities to grow, to uncover the reality and become a real human of reality. we fear that our weakness and strength might swallow us,we might not be able to handle them. So in order to avoid the fear, we tend to formulate many defenses underlying fantasy, to act with a hoax to the world.
Becker also explained that we fear death and at the same time we fear life. During our childhood,we are confused to where ourselves laid. We don't know the world, our environment, the reason and purpose of our existence. Hence, since we don't know anything about us, we tend to stick to our parents because we are afraid and unsure to what to do. We believe that our parents help us to discover ourselves. But, like our parents' parents, they failed to show them reality. Then, our parents probably will fail to show us also the reality. We then become afraid to live because of the fear of the unknown world because sometimes the world that our parents introduced to us is different from the world that we are experiencing. Yet, we are also afraid to die, afraid to risk discovering our real self. We are afraid that taking an action is too dangerous and we might not be able to take its consequences, we might die on it. For example, you have done wrong action or you have sinned to someone and telling it to that someone might pronounce a peril to you. You are then formulating defenses, forging away the memory and the action that might suppose to give positive growth on you. Knowing that life and death are so fearsome, we tend to dress ourselves with grandiosity of lie and fantasy just to cope up with the real world.