'If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.'
~ Robert Anthony
'To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.'
~ Carl Sagan
'If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.'
~ Abraham Maslow
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Buddha
Excellent quotes, husker! Thank you! :wink:
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
It is no longer enough to be smart ?- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
'He who would travel happily must travel light.'
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
'Irony is the hygiene of the mind.'
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
'When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.'
~ Confucious
'A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.'
~ Balthasar Gracian
'Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.'
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
'Efficiency is intelligent laziness.'
~ David Dunham
'Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.'
~ George Patton
'Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.'
~ Michel de Montaigne
'Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
~ Benjamin Franklin
'Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.'
~ Mary Hemingway
'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
'If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.'
~ Edith Wharton
'If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
~ Lin Yutang
'Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.'
~ Helen Keller
'It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.'
~ Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr.
'Listen to your intuition, it will tell you everything you need to know.'
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo