"The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past . . . we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. . . . I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
Charles Swindoll
"Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles."
Robert Ingersoll
"Of all the manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
Thucydides
"Minding your own business . . . includes [avoiding] eavesdropping, gossiping, talking behind other people's backs, and analyzing or trying to figure out other people."
Richard Carlson
"Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about others."
Unknown
"Know thyself."
Socrates
"To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself."
Robert Ingersoll
"What doesn't destroy me makes me stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.
Aristotle
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Frederick Buechner
What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
Oprah Winfrey
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
William Penn
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back.
Maya Angelou
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
-Jimmy Breslin
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
-George Herbert Walker Bush
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else's pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world.
Frederick Buechner
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
Frederick Buechner
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
Frederick Buechner
Chinese Proverbs
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
A man must despise himself before others will.
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Remember... "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa
