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Search your own heart with all diligence,
For out of it flows the issues of your life.
--Psalms
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that the human beings can alter their lives
by altering the attitudes of their minds.
--Albert Schweitzer
Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do,
while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.
--Buddhist Advice
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations.
They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal.
Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.
--Amos Oz
The greatest battles of life are fought out daily
in the silent chambers of our own selves.
What is money?
A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night
and in-between does what he wants to do.
--Bob Dylan
In relationships, the little things are the big things.
--Steven R. Covey
Passionate choices lead to potent consequences.
People prefer the role of immaculate victim of circumstance
to that of principal author of their own misery.
--Theodore Dalyrmple
We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that
we’ve forgotten.
--Debbie Ford
Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.
--Harville Hendrix
Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
You can’t talk yourself out of a problem you behaved yourself into.
--Steven R. Covey
The Judeo-Christian tradition tells us we will be judged on the quality
of care we have shown.
--Edward C. Sellner
Every man dies, not every man lives.
--Braveheart
The road to happiness lies through the land of honest endeavor.
In a higher world it is otherwise. But here below, to live is to change,
and to be perfect is to have changed often
--Cardinal J.H. Newman
Most of us aren’t very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we
want them met.
--Michael Ventura
You can tell a lot about a person when you tell them "no."
Tis night: now do all fountains speak louder.
And my soul is also a bubbling fountain.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
--Steven R. Covey
You don’t create your mission in life. You detect it.
--Victor Frankel
We each need to become our own hero.
--Debbie Ford
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your own house. Give love to your
children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor...Let no one ever
come to you without leaving better and happier.
--Mother Teresa
Unless we change direction,
we are likely to end up where we are headed.
--Chinese proverb
When one door closes, another opens
--Helen Keller
You need not worry about whether you will make a difference in your students’
lives. This is a given. The question is whether you will make a positive or a
negative difference.
--Tony Armenta
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.
Be ashamed to die until you have done something for humanity.
Character is ultimately revealed by what a person does, not by what he says.
--Jo-Ellen Dimitrius, Ph.D.
A cheerful heart is good medicine,
But a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
--Proverbs 17:22
That which we do not bring to consciousness, appears in our lives as fate.
--C.G. Jung
Despair is the only cure for illusion.
--Alexander Lowen
You don’t need to find someone who is perfect.
You just need to find someone
who’s wounds are dear to you.
--Arthur Kovacs, Ph.D.
In-between stimulus and response is a space. In that space lies our power and
freedom to choose. How we wield those choices determines our happiness.
--Steven R. Covey
We cannot do great things on this earth.
We can only do small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa
Adults today seem to think children are brazen, impetuous, unreliable,
irresponsible and uncaring. I wonder how adults think we got that way?
--Marisa Jaffe, age 15
That which does not kill me
makes me stronger.
--Nietzche
Whoever is in a hurry
shows that the thing he
is about is too big for him.
--Lord Chesterfield.
Self-actualization cannot be attained
if it is made an end in itself,
but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
--Victor Frankel
No one tests the depth
of a river with both feet.
--Ashanti Proverb
We lie loudest
when we lie to ourselves.
-Eric Hoffer
There is no God
higher than Truth.
--Mohandas K. Gandi
The way in which a man accepts his
fate and all the suffering it entails,
the way in which he takes up his cross,
gives him ample opportunity to add
a deeper meaning to his life.
--Victor Frankel
He who has a why to live for
can bear almost any how.
--Nietzsche
Life is like being at the dentist.
You always think that the worst is still to come,
yet it is already over.
--Bismark
Live life as if you were living
already for the second time and
as if you had acted the first time as
wrongly as you are about to do now.
--Victor Frankel
It does not require many words to
speak the truth.
--Chief Joseph
We are all exceptional cases...
Each man insists on being innocent,
even if it means accusing the whole
human race and heaven.
--Albert Camus
The sad truth is that most evil is done
by people who never make up thier minds
to be good or evil.
--Hannah Arendt
The devil cannot penetrate our intellects
to make us reason crookedly, but can
fire our imagination and arouse our passions
to such an enjoyable degree that
we do not wish to use our intellects.
--Gerald C. Treacy
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
--Publilius Syrus
Non-cooperation with evil
is as much a duty as is
cooperation with good.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
The great man is sparing in words
but prodigal in deeds.
--Confucius
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and
frequent questioning. For by doubting we
come to inquire and by inquiry we arrive at truth.
--Peter Abelard
Power corrupts the few
while weakness corrupts the many.
--Eric Hoffer.
One may smile and smile, and be a villain.
--Shakespeare
One can have no more mastery over the environment,
than one has over himself.
--Leonardo da Vinci
Plant a thought, reap an act.
Plant an act, reap a habit.
Plant a habit, reap a character,
Planat a character, reap a destiny.
--Nelly Hershey Tullis
In three words I can sum up
everything I’ve learned about life.
It goes on.
--Robert Frost
Who is rich?
He who is content with his portion.
--Talmud
The only thing truly within our power,
may be whether or not we will behave
in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
--Lawrence Kushner
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
--Pittacus
Self-acceptance does not breed complacence. On the contrary,
kindness, respect, ecouragement, support, firm but caring
discipline...these are the soil and climate for development.
--Anonymous
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
--The Declaration of Independence
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Gandhi
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Dwell in possibility. --Emily Dickinson
Before you say something to someone, ask yourself three questions. Is
it true? Is is helpful? Is it kind?
Any truth, separated from it's complementary truth, is a half-truth.
---Pascal
We don't see things as they are, says the Talmud, we see things as we are.
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