Archives for May 2011

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves.
—Christian Nestell Bovee

If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
—Herbert Agar

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn’t really have any effect on me.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities … And above all, accept these things.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion … . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
—Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
—Rosalia de Castro

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
—Don Juan DeMarco

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

How would you act differently if you knew you already had everything you need within you? Who or what would you stop chasing?
—Mastin Kipp

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
—Carlos Castaneda (Peruvian-born American Anthropologist)

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
—Daniel Defoe (English Writer)

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution.—The right use of the bold, therefore, is, that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds under the direction of others.—For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)

The way a man wins shows most of his character,|The way he loses shows all of it.
—Unknown

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
—Japanese Proverb

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
—Tim Ferriss

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire (French Poet)

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It’s been said that knowing something doesn’t make a difference. But taking what you know and doing something with it makes all the difference.
—Steve Goodier

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
—Domenico Cieri (Mexican Writer)

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There’s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
—Cullen Hightower (American Humorist)

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
—Denis Waitley (American Motivational Speaker)

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
—B. C. Forbes (Scottish-born American Journalist)

Whatever is hateful to thee, do not to thy neighbor.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
—Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (French Essayist)

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose; all other things, to reign, to lay up treasure, to build, are at the most but mere appendixes and little props.
—Michel de Montaigne (French Philosopher)

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.
—Robert Nardelli

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
—P. T. Barnum (American Businessperson)

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
—Unknown

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
—Buddhist Teaching

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
—Shoshana Zuboff

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

Prayer is communion with God, usually comprising petition, adoration, praise, confession, and thanksgiving.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (American Universalist Preacher)

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
—Common Proverb

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
—Philibert Joseph Roux (French Surgeon)