Five Minutes to Happiness

To avoid confusion and misunderstanding we must realize that it doesn’t matter who is right but what is right.

remove our emotional scars and give another chance not only to someone else but to ourselves.

I explained that in thirty years of practice as a plastic surgeon I had never seen a case of vanity...that patients with disfigurements, child and adult alike, seek the aid of the plastic surgeon for psychological and social reasons

.to the same environment of the past unless this negative feedback makes us modify our course, not stop it;

This success is now registered in the electronic computing machine or tape recorder in the midbrain to be used thereafter in subsequent performances of picking up a coin. The unsuccessful way has been discarded.

The birds fly to a warmer climate without a compass and the squirrel gathers nuts even before it ever knows that winter or snow exists.

The best cure for aggressiveness is work—work toward a goal.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

THE SUCCESS MECHANISM IS OUR GREEN LIGHT to move forward to our goal. The failure mechanism is our red light. It should make us stop, think, listen.

We cure this and other failure symptoms not by will, but by understanding.