The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
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
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
You don't love someone for their looks,
or their clothes, or for their fancy car,
but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Anonymous
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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