A Word or Two

• "Stress - I don't suffer myself, but I know I'm a carrier".
  - Kenneth Calman
• "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment".
  - Marcus Aurelus
• " 'Future Shock'... the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time".
  - Alvin Toffler
• "change can only take place through inner struggle".
  - T I Rubin
• "If you tighten the strings too much, they will snap, and if you leave them too slack they won't play, but if they are tuned to the right point, then, and only then does the music start".
  - Siddhartha Gautama
• "The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human".
  - Pablo Casals
• "It is an awfully risky thing to live".
  - Carl Rogers
• "It is important to the healing process that you be with the pain, experience the desolation, feel the hurt. Don't deny it or cover it or run away from it. Be with it. Hurt for a while".
  - Colgrove, Bloomfield & McWilliams
• "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see. Oh, my fur and whiskers".
  - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland