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Dream Big " If there were ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, it is now. Not for any grand cause, necessarily- but for something that tugs at your heart, something that's your aspiration, something that's your dream. You owe it to yourself to make your days here count. Have fun. Dig Deep. Stretch. Dream big. Know, though, that things worth doing seldom come easy. There will be good days. There will be times when you want to turn around, pack it up, and call it quits. those times tell you that you are pushing yourself, that you are not afraid to learn by trying. Persist. Because with an idea, determination, and the right tools, you can do great things. Let your instincts, your intellect, and your heart guide you. Trust. Believe in the incredible power of the human mind. Of doing something that makes a difference. Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping. Of lazy afternoons. Of lasting friends. Of all the things that will cross your path this year. The start of something new brings the hope of something great. Anything is possible. There is only one you. And you will pass this way only once. Do it right." Apple Macintosh advert from 1991 |
FRIENDS
& RELATIONSHIPS
Iron
sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend - Proverb
27:17
"It
is only the great hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly,
Can never know what true friendship means." - Charles Kingsley
Associate yourself with men of good quality
if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in
bad company.” – George Washington.
"We are not put on this earth for ourselves,
But are placed here for each other.
If you are there always for others,
Then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
- Jeff Warner
The more I traveled the more I
realised that fear makes
strangers of people who should be friends - Shirley MacLaine
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I
loved,
I did not say so -
David Grayson
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you
could make,
who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting? - Stephen Levine
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Ten Commandments of Human Relationships 2. SMILE at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile. 3. CALL people by name. The sweetest music to anyone's ears is the sound of his own name. 4. BE friendly and helpful. If you would have friends, be friendly. 5. BE cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do was a genuine pleasure. 6. BE genuinely interested in people. You can like everybody if you try. 7. BE genuine with praise - cautious with criticism. 8. BE considerate of the feelings of others. It will be appreciated. 9. BE thoughtful of the opinions of others. There are three sides to most stories-yours, the other fellows, and the right one. 10.BE alert to give service. What counts most in life is what we do for others. (From "Hospice Volce' Newsletter of the Hospice Association of Witwatersrand, South Africa.) |
THE
POWER OF THOUGHTS & THINKING
"We
are so powerful that we can convince ourselves that we are not. Then
make it come true."- Anthony S. Dallmann-Jones,
Ph.D. from Primary Domino Thinking ~ Creating the Life You Want
"
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul
None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know
You can regenerate and make yourself what you will."
--- William James
"I think we're all heroes, if you catch us at the right time."
--- Andy Garcia in the movie "Hero."
"Every
adversity contains within itself the seed of an equivalent or greater
benefit."
- W. Clement Stone
"Learning is finding out what you already know,
Doing is demonstrating that you know it,
Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do.
We are all learners, doers, and teachers." - Richard
Bach.
It
is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in men
- Psalm 118:8
“You
gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived
through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."...You
must do the thing you think you cannot do”-Eleanor Roosevelt
LOVE
& WISDOM
"Treasure
the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good
health has vanished." - Og Mandino
"Where the determination is, the way can be found."- George
S. Clason
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is
comfortable." - David T. Gentry
BEING
DIFFERENT, BEING YOURSELF
"Never follow anyone's path. Go your own way and leave a
trail." - Damien Heath
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened -Tao
Te Ching
"The
greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas." --- Anonymous
"It is never too late to be what you might
have been."
- George Eliot
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope
has everything."
- Arabian Proverb
"
We cannot become who we need to be,
By remaining who we are.
Invent yourself everyday."
- Unknown
"
A person's face may change over a lifetime,
But their heart can stay true forever."
- Author unknown
SIMPLE
STEPS TO INNER PEACE
Out
of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
- Albert Einstein, Three
Rules of Work
"Education's
purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Fortune
cookie
"Take time to
work, it is the price of success.
Take time to think, it is the source of power.
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star.
Take time to love & be loved, it is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to look around, it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul."
--- Old English Prayer
"Learn
to get in touch with silence within yourself,
And know that everything in this life has purpose.
There are no mistakes,
No coincidences,
All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"When in doubt, do
right and let God take care of the rest." - Unknown
"Always
do right. This will amaze most people, and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain
“
When someone is wronged,
He must put aside all resentment and say
My mind shall not be disturbed
No angry words shall escape my lips
I will remain kind and friendly
With loving thoughts and no secret spite."
--- From a Buddhist Prayer
MASTERING OUR MINDS / THOUGHTLIFE
"
All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times;
But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly,
Until they take root in our personal experience." - Goethe
" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death."
--- Robert Fulgham
INSPIRATION
FROM THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
"What
are we without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, we would
die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the
beasts, soon happens to us. All things are connected," - Chief Seattle
of the Suquamish.
"Live so you
wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip" - Will
Rogers.
“Everyone
may confirm his belief in the Divine when he considers those insects which,
when impelled by the craving of a sort of love, ardently seek
for a change from their earth-bound state to one like that of heaven. For this
purpose they creep into suitable places, weave round themselves a cocoon and
thus, as it were, return into the womb to be born again, becoming pupae and
finally butterflies. When they have passed
through these changes, and put on their beautiful wings after
their kind, they fly into the air as into a heaven of their own, where
they sport in happy mood, choose mates, lay eggs, and provide for
themselves a prosperity. In this state they feed upon a sweet and
pleasant nectar drawn from the flowers. Anyone who confirms his belief in the
Divine from the visible things of nature sees an image of man's earthly state
in them as insects, and of his heavenly state in them as
butterflies.”
-
Immanuel Swedenborg, The True Christian Religion
"There is more to life than simply
increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes
I go about in pity for myself, and all the whileA great wind is bearing me across the sky - Ojibwa Saying
Our
life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify - Henry David Thoreau
Motivateus:
http://www.motivateus.com/cibt.htm
Inspirational
messages dedicated to promoting a sense of courage, compassion, and
positive regard for the human spirit, regardless of philosophy or
religion.http://www.agelessinitiatives.com/inspire/dailymes.htm
Inspirational
quotes, prayers, and positive affirmations to promote positive thinking,
personal growth, success, and achievement in your career, relationships,
and life.http://www.motivationalquotes.com/
The
Quote Lady has over 2800 selected scraps of wisdom on her site in a
range of categories and you can subscribe to her quote of the day
service.http://www.quotelady.com/
Meat
in Due Season(food for serious spiritual contemplation)
http://www.meatindueseason.org
New
Zealand Revival Bulletinhttp://crash.ihug.co.nz/~revival/index.html
The
names and titles of Godhttp://www.shema.com/names.htm
Another
view of the names of Godhttp://www.ldolphin.org/Names.html
Spirit
& MeaningInspirational articles from the Clemmer Group
http://www.clemmer.net/excerpts/spirit.shtml
Morning
Star MinistriesRick Joyner’s unique prophetic view
http://www.morningstarministries.org/
"
Miracles rest not so much upon faces or voices
Or great healing powers coming to us from afar off,
But upon our perceptions being made finer so that, for a moment,
Our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us
always."
--- Willa Cather
Do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, I will help you.
I will uphold you with my victorious right hand."
--- Isaiah 41:10
One
of the most basic truths of the Bible is that faith in Christ is not
just an intellectual idea, to
be accepted and then stored in the back of our minds. True faith
affects every aspect of our lives, for Jesus Christ is to be not only
our Savior but our Lord and Master. "What good is it, my
brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?...As the body
without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead" (James
2:14,26).,” Billy Graham’s book, "The
Courage of Conviction"
Don't wait for it to come to you,
Life is not a rehearsal!"
--- Source Unknown
"
Life is like a piano --- what you get out of it,
Depends on how you play it."
--- Unknown
See
clearly
" Focusing on the positive does not mean ignoring the negative. It
is unrealistic and detrimental to deny that negative things exist.
Positive focus is determined more by how you respond than by how you
perceive. There is no positive value in refusing to see or acknowledge
your problems. In fact, that could be very harmful.
A positive attitude is not achieved by turning a blind eye to the
negative, but rather by responding to every situation in the most
positive way possible.
See negative things for what they are, and then respond with positive
action. Acknowledge and accept the problems, the difficulties, the
shortcomings, the abuses, and then do something positive about them.
Denial and evasion will do nothing to address your problems. Positive
action will."
--- Major Michael Q. Wade
"
It is easy to bring others down to your level,
Instead of bringing yourself up to their level,
But it is never ever right."
--- Chen Fawn Meng
At
Day's End
" Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?
Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does the man whose hopes were fading,
Now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day, or lose it? Was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God will say,
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?"
--- John Hall
"
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
--- Confucius
"
I'd rather believe time is a companion
that goes with us on a journey,
and reminds us to cherish every moment.
Because, it will never come again."
--- Jean Luc Picard - Capt. USS Enterprise
RISK
IT
"To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing,
Has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But they simply cannot learn,
Feel, change, grow, love or live.
Risks must be taken because,
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free."
--- Leo Buscalia
"
Look to this day,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a,
Dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a,
Vision of hope.
Look well,
Therefore to this day."
- English translation of a Sanskrit Proverb
To realize where the real lies."
--- Author unknown
Be kind and
compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ
God forgave you.- Ephesians 4:32 (NIV) Forgiveness is the
fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.-
Anonymous
Forgiveness is the key
to action and freedom.- Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the
sweetest revenge.- Isaac Friedmann
Forgiveness means
letting go of the past.- Gerald Jampolsky
The forgiving state of
mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.- Catherine Ponder
He that cannot forgive
others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would
ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven.- George Herbert
"I can forgive,
but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will
not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note--torn in
two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.- Henry Ward
Beecher
It is easy to forgive
others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having
witnessed your own.- Jessamyn West
It is in pardoning that
we are pardoned.- Saint Francis of Assisi
Life is an adventure in
forgiveness- Norman Cousins
Many promising
reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come
prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.-
Charles Williams
One forgives to the
degree that one loves.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Resentment is like
taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.- Malachy McCourt
Resentment is one
burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to
forgive; and forgive yourself first always.- Dan Zadra
There is no revenge so
complete as forgiveness.- Josh Billings
There's no point in
burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.-
Sydney Harris
To carry a grudge is
like being stung to death by one bee.- William H. Walton
To err is human, to
forgive, divine.- Alexander Pope
To understand is to
forgive, even oneself.- Alexander Chase
We achieve inner health
only through forgiveness--the forgiveness not only of others but also of
ourselves.- Joshua Loth Leibman
The weak can never
forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.- Mahatma Gandhi
The art of living does
not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of
happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being
disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed
to grow up.- Charles Langbridge Morgan
Being happy is
something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying
"Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career
that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself."
If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for
that, too.- Harrison Ford
But few have spoken of
the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating
something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost
invisibly and anonymously.--Paul Wiener
The foolish man seeks
happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.- James
Oppenheim Grief can take care if
itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to
divide it with.- Mark Twain
Growth itself contains
the germ of happiness.-Pearl S. Buck
Happiness: a way
station between too little and too much.-Channing Pollock
Happiness consists in
activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.-John Mason Good
Happiness does not come
from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes
after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our
best.--Theodore I. Rubin
Happiness in this
world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit,
and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some
other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught
happiness without dreaming of it.- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness includes
chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can
possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some
paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.- Arnold
Bennett
Happiness is a
butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit
down quietly, may alight upon you.- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a
by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.- Samuel Levenson
Happiness is neither
virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are
happy when we are growing.- William Butler Yeats
Happiness is not a
goal; it is a by-product.- Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is something
that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving
open.- Rose Lane
Happiness is the
realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and
thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of
the love of God.- White Eagle
The happiness of your
life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to
virtue and reasonable nature.- Marcus Aurelius
I can but think that
the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on
the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to
be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful
ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.-
John Lubbock, Sir If in our daily life we
can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone
will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.- Thich
Nhat Hanh
If you want happiness
for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.- Chinese proverb
It is not how much we
have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.--Charles Spurgeon
It is only possible to
live happily ever after on a day to day basis.- Margaret Bonnano
Joy does not simply
happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It
is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found
in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can
take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are
unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional
distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love
away.--Henri Nouwen
Many persons have a
wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.--Helen Keller
The secret of happiness
is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your
reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as
possible friendly rather than hostile.- Bertrand Russell
There is no value in
life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any
place except what you bring to it yourself.- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way
to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond
the power of our will.--Epictetus This is the true joy in life--being
used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being
thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a
force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments
and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to
making you consistent.-George Bernard Shaw
To strive with
difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.-Samuel
Johnson
Too many wish to be
happy before becoming wise.--Susanne Curchod Necker
True happiness comes
from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things
new.--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True happiness involves
the full use of one's power and talents.--John W. Gardner
True happiness is...to
enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.-Seneca
The truth is that all
of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life
whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.--Smiley
Blanton
We always have enough
to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have--and not worrying about
what we don't have.--Ken Keyes, Jr.
We choose our joys and
sorrows long before we experience them.--Kahlil Gibran
We find greatest joy,
not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live
for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but
in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to
teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it;
fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives
the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life
itself.- R.J. Baughan
We tend to forget that
happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.- Frederick
Koenig
PATIENCE
Forgive, forget. Bear
with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be
patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or
malicious.--Phillips Brooks
- Patience is the
companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine
- Patience is the key to
contentment.--Mohammed
- There is no road too
long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste;
there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for
them with patience.--Jean De La Bruyere
- There is no royal road
to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That
which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly,
endures.--Josiah Gilbert Holland
- To him that waits all
things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to
deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.--Coventry
Patmore
- The two most powerful
warriors are patience and time.--Leo Tolstoy
WORRY
As a rule, men worry
more about what they can't see than about what they can.-- Julius
Caesar
- A day of worry is more
exhausting than a week of work.--John Lubbock
- Difficult times have
helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and
beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one
goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...--Isak Dinesen
- Don't take tomorrow to
bed with you.--Norman Vincent Peale
- If you believe that
feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future
event, then you are residing on another planet with a different
reality system.--William James
- Let us be of good
cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come.--James Russell Lowell
- One cannot change the
past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the
future.--Anonymous
- The reason why worry
kills more people than work is that more people worry than
work.--Robert Frost
- There are two kinds of
worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't.
Don't spend any time on the latter.-- Duke Ellington
- There is a great
difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a
problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.--Harold Stephens
- There is only one way
to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are
beyond the power of our will.--Epictetus
- True happiness is…to
enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the
future.--Seneca
- We always have enough
to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have--and not worrying
about what we don't have.--Ken Keyes, Jr.
- We are, perhaps,
uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry
away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present,
unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.--Lewis
Thomas (The Medusa and the Snail)
- While most of the
things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different
story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones
that happen.--Ruth Rendell (Talking to Strange Men)
- Worry is like a rocking
chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you
anywhere.--Dorothy Galyean
- Worry a little every
day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something
is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry
never fixes anything.--Mary Hemingway
- Worry does not empty
tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.--Corrie
Ten Boom
- Worry is interest paid
on trouble before it is due.--William Inge
- Character cannot be
developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired, and success achieved.--Helen Keller
- Fire is the test of
gold; adversity, of strong men.--Seneca
- A gem cannot be
polished without friction, nor a man perfected without
trials--Cicero
- It is easy enough to be
pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is
the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test
of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And
the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that
shines through tears.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The moral test of
government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life--the
children; those who are in the twilight of life--the aged; and those
who are in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy and the
handicapped.--Hubert Humphrey (speech, 1977)
- Wise are they who have
learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic.
Tribulation is a test tube.--William Arthur Ward
- Again and again, the
impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a
tough decision waiting to be made.--Robert Schuller
- Ah, mastery ... what a
profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new
set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those
skills can open, even as another door is closing.--Gail Sheehy
- The best way to escape
from a problem is to solve it.--Brendan Francis
- Don't dwell on what
went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies
on moving forward toward finding the answer.--Denis Waitley
- Don't find fault, find
a remedy.--Henry Ford
- For every complex
problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong,--H.L.
Mencken
- If you can't solve it,
it's not a problem--it's reality.--Barbara Colorose
- If you can talk
brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion
that it has been mastered.--Stanley Kubrick
- If you only have a
hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.--Abraham Harold
Maslow
- If you tell people
where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the
results.--Gen. George Patton
- In the final analysis,
the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes
itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why
something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend
to do now that it happened.--Harold S. Kushner
- It is wise to direct
your anger towards problems--not people; to focus your energies on
answers--not excuses.--William Arthur Ward
- It isn't that they
can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.--G.K.
Chesterton
- It may seem to your
conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward
improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must
believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society
is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in
a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment
kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than
hysteria, happiness rather than misery.--Bertrand Russell
- It's not a problem that
we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the
problem.--Mary Kay Utech
- The mere formulation of
a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be
merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new
questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new
angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in
science.--Albert Einstein
- The only difference
between a problem and a solution is that people understand the
solution.--Charles Kettering
- Our task is not to fix
the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.--John
F. Kennedy
- Our tendency to create
heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems
require collective solutions.--Warren Bennis
- Plurality should not be
assumed without necessity.--William of Ockham (also known as
Ockham's Razor)
- A problem is a chance
for you to do your best.--Duke Ellington
- The problem is not that
there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking
that having problems is a problem.--Theodore Ruskin
- Problems are only
opportunities in work clothes.--Henry J. Kaiser
- Real difficulties can
be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are
unconquerable.--Theodore N. Vail
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.--Adlai Stevenson - Sometimes the situation
is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked
at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that
the problem no longer exists.--Edward de Bono
- Success is relevant to
coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those,
who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something
to do.--Fred Waggoner
- There are three ways
you can get to the top of a tree: 1) sit on an acorn 2) make friends
with a bird 3) climb it.--Anonymous
- There are two ways of
meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter
yourself to meet them.--Phyllis Bottome
- There is a great
difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a
problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.--Harold Stephens
- There's two possible
outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a
discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've
made a discovery.--Enrico Fermi
- To solve any problem,
here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do?
Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?--Jim Rohn
- We cannot solve our
problems with the same thinking we used when we created
them.--Albert Einstein
- When I'm working on a
problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.--R. Buckminster Fuller
- You must live with
people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve
them.--P.T. Forsyth
For the soul
by
Solomon
Each heart knows
its bitterness,
but no one else
can share its joy. Proverbs 14:10.
I applied my
heart to what I
observed and
learned a lesson from what I saw. Proverbs 24:32
He who
gets wisdom loves his own soul, he who cherishes understanding
prospers.
Proverbs 19:8
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