ALL GOOD WRITING IS EMOTIONAL, THOUGH NOT ALL GOOD WRITING IS INTELLECTUAL. MARK KULANSKY
THERE is little success where there is little laughter. A.Carnegie
THE LONGER THIS LIFETIME GOES, The more convinced I am that our primary responsibility in life is to find a way to make peace with ourselves, our past, and our present — no matter what we face and no matter how often we need to do that.
IT’S ALSO OUR JOB to mindfully practice self-love. Every day. For all our lives. It’s not a narcissistic or obnoxiously selfish attitude toward life and our relationships. Self-love is a humbler, quieter thing. you’ll get used to it. I like it; you may too.
GRATITUDE MAKES SENSE OF OUR PAST, BRINGS PEACE FOR TODAY AND CREATES A VISION FOR TOMORROW.
MELODY BEATTIE “CODEPENDENCY NO MORE”
IF YOU’RE NOT CAREFUL, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. MALCOLM X
I STOPPED LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT. DECIDED TO BECOME IT INSTEAD.
DALE CARNEGIE 1888-1955 “How to Win Friends”.
FEAR DOESN’T EXXIST ANYWHERE EXCEPT IN THE MIND.
THE ESSENCE OF ALL ART IS TO HAVE PLEASURE GIVING PLEASURE.
EACH NATION FEELS SUPERIOR TO OTHER NATIONS. That breeds patriotism — and wars.
FLAMING ENTHUSIASM, backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
FEAR NOT THOSE WHO ARGUE BUT THOSE WHO DODGE.
IF only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worry.
MOST of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
IF you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
TAKE A CHANCE! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
WHEN dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic but creatures of emotion.
MOST OF US have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
IT isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
ACT ENTHUSIASTIC AND YOU WILL BE ENTHUSIASTIC.
FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF and your present condition is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
WE ALL have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
THE ROYAL ROAD to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
SPEAKERS who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
THE IDEAS I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
I WISH WOMEN WOULD HURRY UP AND TAKE OVER. L, COHEN
BARUCH SPINOZA 1632-1677 “Ethics” “Principe Philosophy . . .”
GOD is not the creator of the world but the world is part of God.
PEACE IS NOT an absence of war — it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
HAPPINESS IS A VIRTUE NOT ITS REWARD.
LAURENCE STERNE 1713-1768– “Tristram Shandy”.
ONLY THE BRAVE know how to forgive . . . a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
I TAKE A SIMPLE VIEW OF LIFE. IT IS KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND GET ON WITH IT.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles — but much more when he laughs — it adds something to this fragment of life.
WRITING when properly managed is but a different name for conversation.
RELIGION which lays so many restraints upon us is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
KEYHOLES are the occasions of more sin and wickedness than all other holes in this world put together.
BARUCH SPINOZA: ALL THINGS EXCELLENT ARE AS DIFFICULT AS THEY ARE RARE.
THE highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.
IF you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
WE FEEL and know that we are eternal.
ALL HAPPINESS OR UNHAPPINESS solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
GOD is the indwelling and not the transient cause of things.
THE WORLD WOULD BE HAPPIER IF MEN HAD THE SAME CAPACITY TO BE SILENT THAN THEY HAVE TO SPEAK.
DESIRE IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF MAN.
I CALL HIM FREE WHO IS LED SOLELY BY REASON.
PRIDE is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
THERE IS NO HOPE UNMINGLED WITH FEAR AND NO FEAR UNMINGLED WITH HOPE.
WILL AND INTELLECT ARE ONE AND THE SAME THING.
NOTHING exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.