| 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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