Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
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.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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