Montag, 6. Juni 2011

Wise sayings

  • You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.  ~Leo Aikman
  • Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find your liberty.  ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
  • The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.  ~Plato
  • 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
  • See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.  ~Pope John XXIII
  • I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.  ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
  • Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.  ~Robert Brault,
  • Just remember there are a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else does it the right way.  ~ Colonel Potter
  • Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.  ~African Proverb
  • If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.  ~Robert Brault,
  • It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  ~Albert Einstein
  • Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.  ~Charles Dickens
  • We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.  ~Robert Brault
  • When you start treating people like people, they become people.  ~Paul Vitale
  • I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older.  But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.  ~From the television show Scrubs
  • The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.  ~Shiloh Morrison
  • Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.  You may both be wrong.  ~Dandemis
  • Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.  ~Chinese Proverb
  • Do not fall before you are pushed.  ~English Proverb
  • Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.  Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown
  • Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein

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