God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
A loving relationship is one in which
the loved one is free to be himself -
to laugh with me, but never at me;
to cry with me, but never because of me;
to love life, to love himself,
to love being loved.
Such a relationship is based upon freedom
and can never grow in a jealous heart.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"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
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
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
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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)
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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