Spencer Johnson
I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.Collection: Truth
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.Collection: Life
Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.Collection: Valleys
Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.Collection: Inspiration
Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.Collection: Life
Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to comeCollection: Life
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.Collection: Happiness
See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.Collection: Life
Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.Collection: Past
When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.Collection: Happiness
You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.Collection: Fun
Life moves on and so should weCollection: Moving On
If you do not change, you can become extinct !Collection: Life
When you change what you believe, you change what you do.Collection: Life
What would you do if you weren't afraid?Collection: Life
Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .Collection: Life
The biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself.Collection: Lying
Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.Collection: Inspirational
I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.Collection: Afraid Of Change
Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.Collection: Pain
The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.Collection: Graduation
Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.Collection: Life
He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.Collection: Life
He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he wasCollection: Life
Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.Collection: Life
If you don't change, you will become extinct.Collection: Change
The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.Collection: Life
It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.Collection: Valleys
It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situationCollection: Life
When you stop being afraid you feel goodCollection: Life
Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.Collection: Life
IF you don't change, you can become extinct!Collection: Moved On