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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Forgiveness
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Dale Carnegie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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