Wisdom, Life & Humor

quotesThe greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself.
– Garth Brooks

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
– Julia Child

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
– Charles M. Schwab

Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
– Benjamin Spock

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
– Harriet Tubman

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.
– Tommy Lasorda

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who has not served cannot command.
– John Florio

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
– Charles de Gaulle

Strategic advantage lies in the leverage of knowledge.
– Robert Buckman

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.
– Warren Buffett

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
– J. Paul Getty

Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates.
– Thomas Szasz

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
– Leon Suenens

No great performance ever came from holding back.
– Don Greene

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
– Ira Eaker

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
– Bruce Barton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
– John Churton Collins

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
– Francis Chichester

One should count each day a separate life.
– Seneca

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
– Oscar Wilde

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
– Lyndon B. Johnson

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
– Thomas Jones

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
– Havelock Ellis

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
– Jane Austen

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
– Rabbi Julius Gordon

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
– Ben Hecht

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
– Albert Einstein

Silence is the virtue of fools.
– Sir Francis Bacon

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
– Phyllis Diller

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
– Jules Renard

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun.’
– Phillip Lopate

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
– G.K. Chesterton

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
– Aldous Huxley

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Conflicts and Difficulties

“Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing theme as parts of one whole.”
~ Evelyn Underhill, in The Spiritual Life

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