Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values… Our generation… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless centuries, The long and heroic struggle of mankind . . . O my Soul, dare to trust this truth! Dare to rest in God's kindly arms, Dare to look confidently into His face,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
