Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.
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When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I read more
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, read more
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking read more
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined read more
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.
, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the read more
, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we read more
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.
