Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

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




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[Chris Ryser]

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, ...................................









such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Vernon Howard




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[Chris Ryser]

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it,..............................







but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

Whenever I make a bum decision, ..................................................







I go out and make another one.

Harry S Truman




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[Chris Ryser]

"There is much pleasure to be gained ........................................








from useless knowledge."

Bertrand Russell



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[Chris Ryser]

"The best way to have a good idea......................................








is to have lots of ideas."

Linus Pauling



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[Chris Ryser]

"Insanity: ......................................................







doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

Albert Einstein



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[Chris Ryser]

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. ....................................................








It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise Lament




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[Chris Ryser]

The fragrance always stays in the hand ............................






that gives the rose.

Hada Bejar





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[Chris Ryser]

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. ........








When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. .......................








That's relativity."

Albert Einstein, On relativity




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[Chris Ryser]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind ........................................







and won't change the subject.

Sir Winston Churchill





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[Chris Ryser]

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way ............................






that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red,



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[Chris Ryser]

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. ...................................







Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

Henry Ford




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[Chris Ryser]

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. ....................................







You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

David Lloyd George




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[Chris Ryser]

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; ...........................................







both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincare






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[Chris Ryser]

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. .........................................







They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell




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[Chris Ryser]

"If there is something to pardon in everything,......................................







there is also something to condemn."

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888




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[Chris Ryser]

"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." .........................






Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. .................




HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!"


Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit", 1945



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[Chris Ryser]

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, ......................................






you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverb




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[Chris Ryser]

"Only those who dare to fail greatly .........................................







can ever achieve greatly."

Robert Francis Kennedy




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[Chris Ryser]

"Effort only fully releases its reward ..........................................













after a person refuses to quit."

Napoleon Hill





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[Chris Ryser]

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks..................................






that others throw at him."

David Brink





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[Chris Ryser]

A critic is a man who knows the way ...................................








but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan





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[Chris Ryser]

"The only real mistake is the one .....................................







from which we learn nothing."

John Powell




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[Chris Ryser]

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness ............................................







and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

Ralph W. Sockman




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