It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
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
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
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