Wise Words - "PROVOKING POINTS TO PONDER"
01/08/2012
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can not read -- Mark Twain
Disappointment -- too many people miss the silver lining because they are expecting gold
-- Maurice Seltter
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; its ten to one if they hang long together -- Douglas Jerrold
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it -- Eliza Tabor
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater -- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
Doubt -- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking -- Alfred Korzybski
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Crisis -- You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose -- Indira Gandhi
Hope -- There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow -- O S Marden
Mistakes -- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing -- George Bernard Shaw
Anger is seldom without argument - but seldom with a good one --Hallfax
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason -- Publilius Syrus
Anybody can become angry - that is easy - but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time - and for the right purpose and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy -- Aristotle
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them -- Joshua Liebman
Forgiveness -- Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury -- E. H. Chapin
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive" -- Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note -- torn in two - burned up - so that it can never be shown against one -- Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship -- True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost - Charles Caleb Colton
Reality -- It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end --Ursula K Leguin
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice - It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved -- William Jennings Bryan
Purpose -- I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul -- William E Henley
Knowing -- Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always paradise; so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents -- Friedrich Nietzche
Compassion --Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds, Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts -- Barbara Garrison
What we anticipate seldom occurs -- what we least expect generally happens -- Benjamin Disraell
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01/08/2012
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can not read -- Mark Twain
Disappointment -- too many people miss the silver lining because they are expecting gold
-- Maurice Seltter
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; its ten to one if they hang long together -- Douglas Jerrold
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it -- Eliza Tabor
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater -- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
Doubt -- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking -- Alfred Korzybski
Read More Link on Right
Crisis -- You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose -- Indira Gandhi
Hope -- There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow -- O S Marden
Mistakes -- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing -- George Bernard Shaw
Anger is seldom without argument - but seldom with a good one --Hallfax
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason -- Publilius Syrus
Anybody can become angry - that is easy - but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time - and for the right purpose and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy -- Aristotle
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them -- Joshua Liebman
Forgiveness -- Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury -- E. H. Chapin
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive" -- Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note -- torn in two - burned up - so that it can never be shown against one -- Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship -- True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost - Charles Caleb Colton
Reality -- It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end --Ursula K Leguin
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice - It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved -- William Jennings Bryan
Purpose -- I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul -- William E Henley
Knowing -- Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always paradise; so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents -- Friedrich Nietzche
Compassion --Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds, Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts -- Barbara Garrison
What we anticipate seldom occurs -- what we least expect generally happens -- Benjamin Disraell
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