Thomas Edison | What you are will show in what you do |
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J R R Tolkien | Not all those who wander are lost |
Dalai Lama | Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. |
Einstein | The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome. |
William James | If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. |
John Locke | The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. |
Benjamin Franklin | There are three things extremely hard: steel, diamonds and to know one’s self. |
Abraham Lincoln | People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Aristotle | Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy. |
Confucius | Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. |
Jim Carrey | If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty or back to pain and regret. |
Walter Bagehot | Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Voltaire | Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. |
Thomas Paine | Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within. |
George Muller | The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. |
Proverbs 29:11 | A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. |
William James | It’s not the load that breaks you it’s the way you carry it. Lena Hornehimself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. |
Ralph Emerson | Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Carl Sandburg | Life is like an onion: You peel if off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. |
William James | The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated |
Tom Gates | Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to them you’re hurt |
Albert Einstein | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools |
Jewish proverb | Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure |
Nigerian proverb | Hold a true friend with both hands |
Father Jerome Cummings | A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway |
Henry Ford | If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be |
C T Jones | A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists |
Richard M Nixon | Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself |
Socrates | An unexamined life is not worth living |
Marcus Aurelius | Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception |
Chinese proverb | He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever |
Albert Einstein | If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x, y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut |
Rowland Whitehead | If you are an enthusiast, it communicates. And nothing communicates so much as a lack of it. |
Sartre | Introspection is always retrospection |
Ben Franklin | It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped |
Eugene Ionesco | It isn’t what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think |
Jean-Paul Sartre | Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does |
William of Wykeham | Manners maketh man |
Professor Ernest Jones | Many who go into the profession (psychoanalysis) do so in order to overcome their own neurosis |
Ivan Pavlo | Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality |
Albert Camus | Nature gave man two ends, one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most |
Bertrand Russell | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important |
Groucho Marks | Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that you’ve got it made |
William James | The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude |
Chinese proverb | Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand |
William James | The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated |
Walter Bagshot | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do |
Samuel Johnson | The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good |
Carlos Castaneda | Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all |
Chinese proverb | Two thirds of what we see is behind the eyes |
Anais Nin | We don’t see things as they are, but we see them as we are |
Albert Camus | You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them |
Dale Carnegie | You can close more business deals in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years trying to get people interested in you |
From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harpur Lee |
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it |
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