- Our participation in the happiness of a full and human life is determined by our personal perception of reality.
- What you see is what you get.
- Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, one saw stars.
- There can be no real change, no real growth in any of us until and unless our basic perception of reality, our vision, is change.
- To be fully alive means to be open to the whole human experience.
- Fully alive people are always thoughtful and reflective.
- Fully alive people are glad to be alive and to be who they are.
- Fully alive people experience failure as well as success.
- Five essential steps into the fullness of life are these: (1) to accept oneself (2) to be oneself (3) to forget oneself in loving (4) to believe (5) to belong.
- Only people who have joyfully accepted themselves can take all the risks and responsibilities of being themselves.
- The size of a person’s world is the size of his or her heart.
- There is no learning to live without learning to love.
- Our perceptions cause our emotions and affect our behavior.
- You need to know I love you whether you do your best or not so that you will have the strength to do your best.
- In every change there is a death and a rebirth.
- No one should be deprived of joy in one’s life and work.
- We must do the truth as well as believe it.
- There should be quiet times in every life for such reflection, reevaluation, and reinterpretation.
- People are not emotionally and psychologically disturbed by events or things but by the views they take of those events or things.
- We must be willing to admit a lesser or greater credibility gap between who we really are and who we pretend to be.
- More rationally oriented people want to do well for their own sakes and satisfaction, not in order to be better than others.
- They stay on top of the situation instead of letting situation bury them.
- The rational person knows that happiness is not determined by outside forces and events…. Happiness comes from within.
- As long as you think you can’t, you can’t.
- Let life question you.
John Powell, "Fully Human Fully Alive"
