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Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.
Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life, is the source from which self-respect springs.
He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon.
Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' He said. They came. He pushed them…and they flew.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Always behave like a duck, keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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.
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
