Old age is not as honorable as death, ...............................
but most people want it.
American Indian Proverb, Crow
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Old age is not as honorable as death, ...............................
but most people want it.
American Indian Proverb, Crow
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. .............................
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological Reflections
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“It’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird”
Am I a pessimist ?
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Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye...
Karl Joseph, Prince de Ligne
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, ..............................................
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, ............................
and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up...............................................
that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
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"Technological progress ..............................................
has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
Aldous Huxley
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; ......................................
what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
-G. C. Lichtenberg
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Beware of the man who does not talk, .....................................
and the dog that does not bark.
American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne
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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence ......................................
is the key to unlocking our potential
Liane Cardes
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"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, ..........................................
and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
Mark Twain, Mark Twain at Your Fingertips
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Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, ..................................
but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition
Cavett Robert
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, .......................................
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
Chinese Proverb
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance ........................................
and consciencious stupidity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not everyone is attracted to politics…. [S]cholars found that more than half the adults in Wayne County (Detroit) Michigan thought that politics was dirty and dishonest. ......................................................
Nearly half the political volunteers and political workers in the county thought so, too.
David Botter, Politicians and What They Do, 1960
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"Experience is not what happens to you;........................................
it's what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley
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Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. ......................
However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
George Carlin
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another ...............................
with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
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"The rich are different from you and me..........................................
because they have more credit."
John Leonard
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Everything is clearer in hindsight, we all have it, so lets use it today :D
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, ................................
and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson, The astronomer,
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"The problem is not that there are problems. .......................................
The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin
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"One has to be able to count................................................
if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty."
Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs, 1914
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It is better to have less thunder in the mouth .........................................
and more lightning in the hand.
American Indian Proverb
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