Thoughts 10-31-12

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind."   Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . A narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict."