Archives for August 2013

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
—M. Scott Peck (American Psychiatrist)

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
—Norman Cousins (American Journalist)

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
—John Wesley (British Methodist Religious Leader)

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

If a woman doesn’t chase a man a little, she doesn’t love him.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
—E. W. Howe (American Novelist)

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
—Gustave Flaubert (French Novelist)

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
—William Lawrence Bragg

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities—those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
—Martin Luther (German Protestant Theologian)

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard
—Carol Gilligan

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
—Havelock Ellis (British Sexologist)

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
—Sigmund Freud (Austrian Psychiatrist)

Cling steadfastly to that which is good.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.
—Marsha Norman (American Playwright)

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

When the wise is angry, he is wise no longer.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)