Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance
or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
- Thomas Jefferson
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Caring - Kindness - Compassion - Appreciation ...
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
It is a fact that cannot be denied:
the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness
because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
- Carl Jung
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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