Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. Criticizing is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and makes them justify it. When dealing with people keep in mind that they are not creatures of logic, they are creatures of emotion.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Today’s bread is the only kind of bread you can possibly eat. Take one grain at a time by taking one task at a time. Today is a new life.
We may not be saintly enough to love our enemies, but, for the sake of our own health and happiness, let’s at least forgive them and forget them. That is the smart thing to do.
Instead of hating our enemies, let’s pity them and thank God that life has not made us what they are. Instead of condemnation and revenge, let’s give our enemies our understanding, our sympathy, our forgiveness, and our prayers.
The only way in this world you can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.
I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street; I meet a man who had no feet.
Let’s not waste a second worrying because we are not like other people. You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again. You’ve got to be you with all your faults and limitations. You can’t possible be anyone else. You are something new in this world. Be glad of it. Make the most of what nature gave you.
When you are kicked and criticized, remember that it is often done because it gives the kicker a feeling of importance. It often means that you are accomplishing something and are worthy of attention. Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated or successful than they are. No one ever kicks a dead dog.
If we hear that someone has spoken ill of us, let’s not try to defend ourselves. Every Fool does that. Let’s be original and humble and brilliant!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Quotes from Unkown
Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore... and who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn't oversleep.
The best vitamin for making friends... B1.
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
True love doesn’t come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
A true friend sticks with you through think and thin no matter what.
A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you have forgotten it.
Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore... and who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn't oversleep.
The best vitamin for making friends... B1.
The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.
If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! It is never too late to become what I might have been.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
True love doesn’t come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
A true friend sticks with you through think and thin no matter what.
A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you have forgotten it.
Famous Quotes that have helped me
“Do unto others as you would have other do unto you.” Jesus
“Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.” Buddha
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.” Old proverb
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” Lincoln
“I judge people by their own principles –not my own.” ML King
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.” Ben Franklin
“When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” Helen Keller
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
“To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day.” Horace
“Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments.” Sir William Osler
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” Indira Ghandi
“True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst.” Lin Yutang
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” Charles Kettering
“I’m too busy. I have no time for worry.” Winston Churchill
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” – Tennyson
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” William James
“When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.” Elsie MacCormick
“Bend like the willow; don’t resist like the oak.” The Jujitsu way
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell of heaven.” Milton
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Emerson
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” Shakespeare
“To be wronged or robbed, is nothing unless you continue to remember it. An angry man is always full of poison.”–Confucius
“In the long run, everyman will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds.” DC
“The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, and hate no one.” Epictetus
“O Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging and criticizing a man until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.” -Sioux Indians
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” -Eisenhower
“I am going to meet people today who talk too much –people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn’t imagine a world without such people.” From the diary of Marcus Aurelius
“The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.” Aristotle
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.” Schopenhauer
“The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.” Dr. Samuel Johnson
“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” Angelo Patri
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better and for worse.” – Emerson
“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”-William Bolitho
“Always remember that it takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight than it does to stay and fight” –Mr. Loftin
“When you are good to others you are best to yourself.” -Ben Franklin
“Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.” -Santayana
“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal life.” The prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.
“Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.” Schopenhauer
“Do what you feel in your heart is to be right, for you’ll be criticized, anyway. You’ll be ‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’” Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Great friends are like amazing jeans: they offer incredible support and cover you rear when you need it the most.” Holly Eagleson
“Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.” Buddha
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.” Old proverb
“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” Lincoln
“I judge people by their own principles –not my own.” ML King
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.” Ben Franklin
“When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” Helen Keller
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
“To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day.” Horace
“Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments.” Sir William Osler
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” Indira Ghandi
“True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst.” Lin Yutang
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” Charles Kettering
“I’m too busy. I have no time for worry.” Winston Churchill
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” – Tennyson
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” William James
“When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.” Elsie MacCormick
“Bend like the willow; don’t resist like the oak.” The Jujitsu way
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell of heaven.” Milton
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Emerson
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” Shakespeare
“To be wronged or robbed, is nothing unless you continue to remember it. An angry man is always full of poison.”–Confucius
“In the long run, everyman will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds.” DC
“The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, and hate no one.” Epictetus
“O Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging and criticizing a man until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.” -Sioux Indians
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” -Eisenhower
“I am going to meet people today who talk too much –people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn’t imagine a world without such people.” From the diary of Marcus Aurelius
“The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.” Aristotle
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.” Schopenhauer
“The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.” Dr. Samuel Johnson
“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” Angelo Patri
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better and for worse.” – Emerson
“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”-William Bolitho
“Always remember that it takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight than it does to stay and fight” –Mr. Loftin
“When you are good to others you are best to yourself.” -Ben Franklin
“Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.” -Santayana
“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal life.” The prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.
“Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.” Schopenhauer
“Do what you feel in your heart is to be right, for you’ll be criticized, anyway. You’ll be ‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’” Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Great friends are like amazing jeans: they offer incredible support and cover you rear when you need it the most.” Holly Eagleson
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