“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes. ”~ […]

“…No matter what happens in life, you make up your mind how you’re going to live and what road you’re going to take in your life and that you must not allow other people to pull you off that trail, to bring you down to their way of life just because they need company…that you […]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” “People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.” […]

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.   Saint Thomas More, Utopia, […]

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, that is not easy.   Aristotle 

“Live life as an adventure, and expect change and endorse it, embrace it.” Barbara Beskind

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”   ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have […]

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