- Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing laziness over work.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing pride over surrender.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose to avoid and escape rather than face and overcome.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose denial and suppression over coping and problem-solving.
- Most claim to want the highest; few take the path of suffering to attain it.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
© 2026 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 72 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The Path Must Be Chosen: 02-10-2026
Monday, February 9, 2026
Be True to Yourself: 02-09-2026
- Don’t change your virtues to fit in with the virtues of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your natural style to fit into the style of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your vibrations to fit into the vibrations of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your character to fit in with the character of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- If you give up your integrity for a relationship, job, group, or society, you will pay hell to regain it.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Choose Work for the Best Results: 02-08-2026
- If you don’t make the effort, don’t expect anything.
- If you talk big without working big, you will get small.
- If you don’t work for your dreams, your dreams won’t work for you.
- If you don’t work longer and smarter than others, then you will envy those who do.
- If you don’t take big risks, you don’t get big rewards. However, most big risks are not worth the price—choose wisely.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Search & Find: 02-07-2026
- When you search for problems, you find problems.
- When you search for solutions, you find solutions.
- When you search for ugliness, you find ugliness.
- When you search for beauty, you find beauty.
- When you search for corruption, you find corruption.
- When you search for good works, you find good works.
- When you search for the negative, you find the negative.
- When you search for the positive, you find the positive.
- You decide what you search for and focus on.
- You decide what to promote and protect.
Friday, February 6, 2026
Choose Success Or Failure: 02-06-2026
- If you believe in failure, you will find problems.
- If you believe in success, you will find solutions.
- If you believe in failure, you will find excuses.
- If you believe in success, you will find new information.
- If you believe in failure, you will find causes, defenses, and justifications for failure.
- If you believe in success, you will find encouragement, motivation, and new information and skills to keep you going.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Encourage Coping Statements: 02-05-2026
- A bad experience does not make a bad life or relationship.
- A step backward does not mean that you cannot take two steps forward next time.
- A failure does not mean success is impossible; it only means you need to learn new information and skills.
- Setbacks are part of progress, so if you experience one, encourage yourself to stay on the path and learn more, not quit.
- Obstacles are often insurmountable until you ask for help, admit shortcomings, admit errors, and learn more information and higher skills.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Dreams Must Involve More: 02-04-2026
- If your dreams are not plans, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams don’t involve new habits, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not require daily work, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not cause you to learn new skills, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not involve preparation, research, and study, they are fantasies.
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