He who angers you conquers you. -- Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse,
pioneer in polio treatment (1880-1952)
"Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't
be wise." -- A quote from The Importance of Living - The Noble Art
of Leaving Things Undone, by the great Chinese-American philosopher
Lin Yutang
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. -- William
Penn, American colonial leader (1644-1718)
When a man is wrong and won`t admit it, he always gets angry. --
Thomas Haliburton, Canadian writer (1796-1865)
The liar`s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else. -- George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish
dramatist and wit (1856-1950)
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is
the same. -- Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American mystic and author
(1925-2000)
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it
is still an evil. -- Max Lerner, American editor and political columnist
(1902-1992)
Life
isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy, mother
of President Kennedy (1890-1995)
You cannot
do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be
too late. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and
poet (1803-1882)
Hell
begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you
could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not
do. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist, playwright,
scientist and philosopher (1749-1832)
Mine
honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life
is done. -- William Shakespeare, English dramatist (1564-1616), from
King Richard II
Great
teachers make hard things easy and make all students feel smart. --
Michael Josephson Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything
we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius
The elevator
to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step
at a time. - Joe Girard
The dread
of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
- Cyril Connolly
The most
important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say
or what we do, but what we are. - Stephen Covey
One should
never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll
tell anything. - Oscar Wilde
Life
is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.- Irving Berlin
Generally,
we see things not the way they are, but the way we are. - Hungarian
Saying
Education's
purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S.
Forbes
In youth
we learn; in age we understand. - Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
"The
person who takes a job just for the money has turned himself into
a slave." -Dr. Joseph Campbell
We spend
the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk
and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
Picture
yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably
to your success. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is
by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you
might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone
as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and
lost. - Richard Bach
Tell
me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are. - Arsene Houssaye
"Experience
is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards."
- Anonymous
You
can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much
like your own. - Louie Morris
Anyone
who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old
five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes
Sam Keen,
theologian and philosopher, writes "Our society has been eaten up
by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work
at jobs that don't mean anything. I think we're inevitably going to
be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention
on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. The
first questions we must ask ourselves are, 'What's my life about?'
and 'What gives me meaning?' Only after that should we ask, 'How do
I make a living?' and 'How do I provide for myself?'"
Charm
is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
- Unknown
If you
have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard
to friends. - Elbert Hubbard
Now and
then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Love
yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have
to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
I do
not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has
progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious
return to simplicity of thinking and living. - Lin Yutang
If a
man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he
will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships
in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson
Observe
your enemies, for they first find out your faults. - Antisthenes
Each
friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they
arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -
Anais Nin
A relationship
is like sand in your hand. If held loosely in the palm of your hand
it stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly it slips
through your fingers.
Remember,
we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand
in hand. - Emily Kimbrough
"Not
everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can
be counted counts." -- Albert Einstein
I used
to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't
it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? - Marcus, Babylon
5
God forbid
you be an ugly girl; of course too pretty is also your doom, because
everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
- Ani Difranco
A wise
man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese Proverb
When
we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the
only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves. - Eda
J. LeShan
Always
try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably
surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are
done for you. - Claude Bristol
When
you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure
he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon
others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. -
Sidney J. Harris
"The
Strongest man of the earth is he, who stands alone."
"The
Better always looks like the best, until the real best steps in".-Daxesh
Pathak.
If you
have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you
have discovered the secret of getting along -- whether it be business,
family relations, or life itself. - Bernard Meltzer
How can
anyone ever love you for who you are if you become someone else to
be with them? - Stephen Paul
When
you feel like you're losing control and about to become emotionally
upset, take TEN DEEP BREATHS. Breathe deeply until you FEEL your HEAD
is clear.
Maybe
we need to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so
that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be
grateful for that gift. - Unknown
The problem
in your relationship is not that you have problems. Your problem is
that you think having problems is a problem. - Unknown
"You
cannot be friends upon any other terms than equality." - Woodrow Wilson
It is
not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Nietzsche
"Loneliness
and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." -
Mother Theresa
"There
are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to
be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes
to be avoided." - Charles Curtis
"The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and
dead armadillos." - Jim Hightower
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed
that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
- William James
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means
full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." - Unknown
In "Soul Prints," Marc Gafni says, "We have lost sight of the truth
of our elemental loneliness because we cover the aloneness of our
being with the illusion of having... attempting to smother our aloneness
with things... Sometimes I wonder whether we Westerners are not more
accurately described as 'human havings' than human beings. Having
becomes a way to avoid being... We have become Grand Acquisitors,
oppressed by our own desperate need 'to have.'
" All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world
is for enough good men to do nothing.
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of
great moral crises maintain their neutrality." - Dante
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of
human relationships -- the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to
live together, in the same world at peace." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases
her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were
not." - H.L. Mencken
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones
"It is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose
steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
- Anna Louise Strong
"Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant
sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of
his own." - Ludwig von Mises
"Our greatest happiness lies in practicing a talent that we were
meant to use." -Goethe
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with
the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible
to the eye. - Saint-Exupery
"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." - Horace
"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of
all ways of giving." - Max Beerbohm
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an
argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and
steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect,
they don't even invite me. - Dave Barry
"If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem."
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened
for us. - Helen Keller
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -
William James
"Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before
you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts --
only then can you be successful." - Raquel Welch
"When you give away some of the light from the candle, by lighting
another person's candle there isn't less light because you've given
some away--there's more. That works with love, too." - Unknown
Sometimes
I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should
live next door and just visit now and then." - Katherine Hepburn
A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill
"Never
in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love."
- Buddha
"Let
go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more
open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others,
without being crippled by your own judgment." - Ralph Marston
"Experience
tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." - Stan Smith
"Work
like you don't need the money; dance like no one is watching; sing
like no one is listening; love like you've never been hurt; and live
every day as if it were your last." :Irish proverb
"If
you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa
"The
person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness
in another's keeping." - Claudius Claudianus
"Tell
me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -
Charles Sainte-Beauve
"Note
how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other
argument is necessary to suggest that you never miss the opportunity
to give encouragement." - George Adams
Life
is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends
on what you're made of. - Jacob M. Braude
"The
test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We find comfort among those who agree with us and growth among those
who don't." - Frank A. Clark
"Adam
and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the
men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the
way his mother cooked." - Kimberley Broyles
A
hungry man is not a free man. - Adlai Stevenson
To
accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. - Anatole France
Regret
is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only
good for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield
"It's
only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life
is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?" - Unknown
"Keep
in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a
person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
As
I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses
my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
"When
in doubt, consult your inner child." - Unknown
"It
does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength
to know what to do." - Jess Lair
"I
have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas
Alva Edison
"I
submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will
die for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A
friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have
been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to
grow." - William Shakespeare
In
the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence
of our friends. - Martin Luther King
"More
powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." - Unknown
"Beauty
is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't
any sense." - Ken Hubbard
A
lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill
"We
must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Often
we have no time for our friends, but all the time in the world for
our enemies." - Leon Uris
"You
don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday.
You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
- Barbara De Angelis
Freedom
begins between the ears. -Edward Abbey
"Decide
what you want; decide what you are willing to exchange for it; establish
your priorities and go to work." - H.L. Hunt
"Coming
together is a beginning; staying together is progress; working together
is success." - Unknown
"It
is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle
a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert
"I
think that people want peace so much that one of these days government
had better get out of their way and let them have it." - Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"The
mockingbird can change its tune eighty-seven times in seven minutes.
Politicians regard this interesting fact with envy." - Unknown
"Jealousy
is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely
records the degree of the lover's insecurity." - Margaret Mead
"Peace
is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those
who with open minds and hearts seek out connections." - Katherine
Paterson
Your
living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by
the attitude you bring to life. - John Homer Miller
"Expecting
the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little
like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey
"Love
is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition." - Alexander Smith
An
intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way;
an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles
Bukowsky
"Nothing
ventured, nothing gained."
Honeymoon:
"A short period of doting between dating and debting." - Ray Bandy
"The
only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
- Oscar Wilde
"I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"By
all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and
if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher." - Socrates
From
what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a
life. - Arthur Ashe
"We
are so vain that we care even for the opinion of those we don't care
for." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever
you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash
"If
something can go wrong, it will."- Murphy's Law
"Getting
divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting
married just because you do." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Don't
ever slam the door; you might want to go back. - Don Herold
"The
joy that isn't shared dies young."- Anne Sexton
"Cockroaches
and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and
eat anything." - Herb Caen
Love
your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin
"Some
people ask the secret of our long marriage, We take time to go to
a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner, soft music
and dancing. She goes Tuesdays; I go Fridays." - Henny Youngman
When
choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before. - Mae West
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right,
shame on you. - Louis Armstrong
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e. e. cummings
Man's
mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The
best things in life aren't things. - Art Buchwald
Laughter
is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins
The
injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighted in the same scales.
- Aesop
"Standing
in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down
by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher
"In
politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything
done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
"When
you have to make a choice and don't make it, you've already made it."
- Anonymous
"When
a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women
try their luck; men risk theirs." - Oscar Wilde
"If
you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Hermann Hesse
"Grief
can take care of itself, but to get the full value out of a joy you
must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"Be
kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"I
can summarize everything I have learned about Life in three words:
IT GOES ON!" (Dr.Leo Buscaglia)
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible
poverty." - Mother Teresa
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses
of action you should take -- choose the bolder." - William Joseph
Slim
"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested
in you." - Dale Carnegie
Never
be ashamed of not knowing a thing, only be ashamed of not wanting
to know.
"What
happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Thaddeus
Golas
"A
successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
- Andre Maurois
"Life
without a friend is like death without a witness."- Spanish Proverb
"In
the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus
one equals nothing." - Mignon McLaughlin
"He
that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke
"Courage
is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something
else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"Marrying
a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time
in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't
always go with everything else in the house." - Jean Kerr
"No
man who is not pleased with himself can please others." - Frederick
Saunders
"The
people in my life reflect back to me the choices I have made." - Paul
Ferrini
"Clothes
and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly
improve his appearance." - Henry Ward Beecher
"All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share
it." - Clara Ortega
"A
friendship that can end never really began." - Publius Syrus
"You
are only what you are when no one is looking." - Robert C. Edwards
"Immature
love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need
you because I love you.'" - Erich Fromm
"Treat
people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to
become what they are capable of being." - Goethe
"With
confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence,
even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." - Jim Loehr
"It
takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart
and soul to go with it." - Lee Haney
