Stop Whining, Start Living Quotes

“There is, I believe, no such thing as unconditional self-acceptance. Those who say so are promulgating a pernicious lie. One must first live a decent, honorable and productive life. Only then do you get to feel good about yourself.

Seeking to heedlessly gratify your desires or impulses of the moment to do things (or fail to do things) your conscience knows to be contrary to your standards of right, worthy and virtuous behavior is, in a mental, emotional and spiritual sense, akin to spending capital that you have not earned, and therefore will eventually cause you to feel very negatively … about who and what you are. You cannot in the long run have your cake and eat it too. The longer … you behave in certain ways, the more it comes to define you, not only to others, but also to yourself.”
― Laura Schlessinger, Stop Whining, Start Living

“I believe happiness is a habit—not a circumstance.”
― Laura Schlessinger, Stop Whining, Start Living: Act Instead of React—A Guide to Better Relationships and Positive Life

“the less you behave like you care, the less you come to care. The less you care, the more you can stay on track with your personal mission and the more frustrated the bad guys become because their mission is destruction.”
― Laura C. Schlessinger, Stop Whining, Start Living: Act Instead of React—A Guide to Better Relationships and Positive Life

“Real life requires a sense of humor and a margin of forgiveness. The sense of humor helps you accept the things you cannot change by transforming them into smiles, and forgiveness helps you let go of the bitterness that gets in the way of loving life.”
― Laura Schlessinger, Stop Whining, Start Living: Act Instead of React—A Guide to Better Relationships and Positive Life

“Jane represents a lot of you who are terribly determined to avoid risk. You stay with the pain you know and avoid the possibility of joys, for the pains they might bring with them. You whine about your predicament and unhappiness, but choose that predicament and unhappiness over throwing your preoccupation with caution to the wind. Life becomes even shorter when you don’t fill it. Separate Reasonable Negative Emotions from the”
― Laura C. Schlessinger, Stop Whining, Start Living: Act Instead of React—A Guide to Better Relationships and Positive Life