Words of Wisdom

“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.
"Because revenge is shallow. He has grown weak in his hate and I have grown strong in my love.” Beneath a Marble Sky
“Great friends are like amazing jeans: they offer incredible support and cover you rear when you need it the most.” Holly Eagleson
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” Elie Wiesel
“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” Blaise Pascal
“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.