Schnarch Quotes & Sayings

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. — Trevor Noah

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become. — Thomas S. Monson

You don't think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking. — David Schnarch

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient. — David Schnarch

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem. — David Schnarch

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being. — David Schnarch

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project. — David Schnarch

There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them. — Alan Ayckbourn

A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect. — David Schnarch

If you can't regulate your own emotional temperature, you'll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable. — David Schnarch

People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they're also incredible generalists - something businesses that want to grow need. — Leah Busque

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans
and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating. — Bill Maher

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. — Carroll Quigley