Best 43 quotes of Daniel V Chappell on MyQuotes

Action wanes anxiety because when you act, you improve the circumstance you were anxious about which then improves the thought you're responding to.

A fool is a man who disregards legacy.

All pain can be thought of as some type of loss.

Aristotle said that some men are meant to be slaves. I disagree, because I don't see any men meant to be masters.

Compassion is a function of strength.

Dear Readers, Valentine's Day! And to those who are single, I'd like to say something. Society has misconstrued romantic love and has certainly misunderstood love in general. What we believe to be romantic love is actually attachment, lust, and fear (of loss). Society preaches passion as a function of romantic love, and passion CAN be a function of love, but it functions where one demonstrates heroism, selflessness and sacrifice to benefit the life of another. It has nothing to do with touch nor sexual desire. Love is everything. Life teeters on the spectrum of love and fear. Love is multidimensional, beyond the experience of mere emotion. Love is a hand extended to the shoulder of a distressed stranger, the smile of a child, it's the gratitude towards something beyond ourselves when circumstance benefits us. Anybody who has told you that you need another being to supplement your experience of love has misguided you. To live meaningfully is to celebrate love everyday.

Depression has always registered to me as clinical despair.

I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.

I do believe that people can change, but the ones that do are not the ones emphatically and desperately pleading with you to understand that they have.

I don't think something can constitute a journey unless it leaves one's world looking different than before.

If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.

I have been given so much in life merely for knowing how to ask for it.

I'll never understand the arrogance of some atheists. It doesn't seem outlandish to me for a creation to believe he or she has a creator.

Impulsivity is its own form of evil.

Impulsivity is its own form of evil. It forces one to spend many moments suffering a decision made in one.

Interactions with nature are conversations with the creator.

It's both terrifying and flattering to look around and realize that the reason nobody in your world can help you with your given task is because nobody has yet tried to do what you're doing.

It's fictitious to believe that we can intuitively navigate misfortune with the inherent skills we've come into the world with.

It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.

Motivation for an insincere person to reform should be that their company to those in their life is inherently inferior to that of sincere people.

Never act out of desperation.

Never once has my intuition had me understand a sincere person to be insincere, an honest person to be dishonest, nor a good person to be bad. Your's probably hasn't either.

Offer a man something he's starved for, suddenly take it away, and watch hell ensue.

Once you begin to conquer your fear of failure, things that once registered as risks don't anymore.

People remember us, think of us, and speak of us for how we make them feel.

Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.

Sincerity is one of the worst qualities to feign. It's a characteristic that continues to test the person who portrayed the quality until the truth reveals itself.

Society has misconstrued romantic love and has certainly misunderstood love in general. What we believe to be romantic love is actually attachment, lust, and fear (of loss). Society preaches passion as a function of romantic love, and passion CAN be a function of love, but it functions where one demonstrates heroism, selflessness and sacrifice to benefit the life of another. It has nothing to do with touch nor sexual desire. Love is everything. Life teeters on the spectrum of love and fear. Love is multidimensional, beyond the experience of mere emotion. Love is a hand extended to the shoulder of a distressed stranger, the smile of a child, it's the gratitude towards something beyond ourselves when circumstance benefits us. Anybody who has told you that you need another being to supplement your experience of love has misguided you. To live meaningfully is to celebrate love everyday.

Some of the games that you can't win weren't meant to be played.

Success is often experienced through the absence of a past sensation rather than the presence of a new one.

The awful irony about addiction is that it brings one further away from whatever desire the vice was meant to satiate.

The beautiful thing about hope is that it acts exclusively of the thing being hoped for. During a dark day, the prospect of a bright tomorrow offers you strength today regardless of what tomorrow actually holds.

The journey from innocence to experience is also often the journey from companionship and fellowship to isolation and solitude, because once we learn, feel, or see what we're meant to from those in our life, they go away.

The longer you desire something, the further the desire predicates upon your ability to obtain that thing than it does the thing itself.

The most effective way to understand the dissonance between our thoughts about reality and reality itself, is to consider how many times we've felt like our world is ending and how many times it actually has.

The most insulting aspect of insincere people is that while they're pretending to be something other than what they are, they're inherently positing a different reality to you.

There is nothing messier than the mind of a psychologist in the process of being their own psychologist.

There is nothing messier than the mind of a psychologist while being his or her own psychologist.

There is nothing messier than the mind of a psychology in the process of being his or her own psychologist.

Those who avoid reality mustn't dare counsel others on what reality is nor how it shall be dealt with.

We must rely upon strategy, discipline, and patience to derive our must yearned desires from this world. Because there are few things we want that others can provide us, and those who can usually don't.

We're never unhappy until we remember why we're supposed to be unhappy.

What's unfortunate is that some people in your life may not wish the absolute worst for you, but they certainly don't want you to have the best. What's fortunate is that those people reveal themselves fairly easily.