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Roger's Quotes Section D Self
Know thyself! ~ Oracle at DelphiTo thine own self be true. ~ William ShakespeareMy great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my individuality. ~ Oscar Wilde to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.... ~ e.e. cummings Who we are looking for is who is looking. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~ Henry David ThoreauNo matter where you go, there you are. ~ Dan Williams No man takes my measure but my tailor. ~ Samuel Johnson Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~ Edna Woolman Chase You need to claim the events of your life and make yourself yours. ~ Anne-Wilson Schaef
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint ExuperyIndividualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ~ Louis Kronenberg
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. ~ Johann von Goethe
Still around the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait 'till that other is ready. ~ Henry David Thoreau Everyone must row with the oars he has. ~ English proverb Avoid the company of deluded people when you can- When you cannot, keep your own counsel. ~ Buddha No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A man wrapped up in himself makes a small package. ~ unknown
Only the shallow know themselves. ~ Oscar Wilde
Beware of any job which requires new clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau There is but one cause of human failure and that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ~ William James
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tommorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." ~ The Buddha
Things do not change, we do. ~ Henry David Thoreau
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. ~ Lao-Tzu
Desiderata Go Placidly amid the Noise & Haste & remember what Peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant, they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain & bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be Yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither, be cynical about Love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefuly surrrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at Peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep Peace with your Soul. With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
No one that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsucessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~ Calvin CoolidgeIt is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~ unk. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau Imagination is the true magic carpet. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham Too much of a good thing is wonderful! ~ Mae West Nothing succeeds like success! ~ old proverb
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. ~ Hugh PratherYou can't cross the sea by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ~ Rabindranath Tagore Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~ Abraham Lincoln Success is not having whatever you want; rather, Success is wanting what you have. ~ unknown A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
Start by doing what's necessary; then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ~ Henry Chester
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. ~ Helen Keller
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe. ~ Abraham Lincoln A special Man Dares to have dreams and to pursue them. Uses his head for himself and his heart for others. Lives his life with the purpose of leaving the world a better place than he found it. ~ unknown (Greeting card) The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. ~ Marcel Proust
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. ~ Mark Twain No one gets anywhere while straddling a fence. ~ common wisdom You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~ anonymous
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ~ Samuel Johnson
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ~ French proverb
My life seems like one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle. ~ Jack Parr Zu lieben und werk. ~ Sigmund Freud Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
All anyone ever has is today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. ~ Douglas Lurton The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ~ John Burroughs Few things are impossible to dilligence and skill... Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverence. ~ Samuel Johnson
The only thing to do with temptation is to give in to it. ~ Oscar Wilde Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is often perseverence in disguise. ~ Henry Williard Austin Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. ~ Henry Van DykeWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. ~ Buddha
A man is what he thinks about all day long. ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonA man's life is what his thoughts make of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius They can because they think they can. ~ VirgilIf thou canst believe, all things are possible, to him that believeth. ~ Mark 9:23For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ~ Proverbs, 23:7
What do you think? Your thoughts are how you choose your life. Make a good choice! ~ unknown
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~ EpicurusYou have your views and your feelings and I have mine, and I don't mind in the least if they don't match. ~ Ruth Sargent
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~ George Santayana Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~ Karl Menninger It is the first law of friendship that it be cultivated; the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected. ~ Voltaire You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. ~ Woodrow Wilson Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in half. ~ Francis Bacon
Home is the place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow up wanting to get back to. ~ John Ed Pearce
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ~ Publius Syrus There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it. ~Seneca
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it. ~ Seneca Feelings are everywhere - be gentle. ~ J. Masai Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. ~ George Bernard Shaw A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~ Winston Churchill
To give your care of a sheep, a large, spacious meadow is the best way to control him. ~ Buddha
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? ~ Jack Kornfield
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ~ Mark Twain Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ~ Proverbs
Getting to know yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~ Alan Watts To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light. ~ C. G. JungTo be restored our sickness must grow worse. ~ T. S. Eliot
That which we resist, persists. ~ therapeutic maxim Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all the other thoughts are drained. ~ Arthur Somers Roche Confusion is the doorway to a new understanding. ~ unknown The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ~ William James Being in love is a transient state of psychosis. ~ John Bradshaw The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like the seasons of the year. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
A dream is a wish your heart makes. ~ Walt Disney's Cinderella Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~ Charles William Dement
If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? If I am only for myself, What am I? and, If not now, When? ~ Rabbi Hillel You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean is not dirty. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi Life is not so short that there is always time for courtesy. ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonBe awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. ~ Jimmy Durante
Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it. ~ unknown Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ~ Krishnamurti
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it. ~ William Penn
...All things... that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. ~ Matthew 7:12
A poltician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. ~ Thomas Jefferson The time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ~ Thomas Jefferson The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Some men look at the world as it is and ask why. I look at the world as it might be and ask why not. ~ George Bernard Shaw If you are not part of the solution - You are part of the problem. ~ Stokely Carmichael I like a little rebellion now and then. It's like a storm in the atmosphere. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ~ Mark Twain
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing ~ unknown
The nation that destroys its soul destroys itself. ~ Franklin D. Rosevelt
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It is hardly necessary to say, that by "patriotism" I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare - never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship. ~ Erich Fromm
My first fight is with the demons inside of me, My second finght is with the demons in my people, and only my third fight is with the British. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
One must care about a world one will not see. ~ Bertrand Russell
We are all fellow-passengers on the same planet and we are all equally responsible for the happiness and well-being of the world in which we happen to live. ~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. ~ Kahil Gibran
This we know; the earth does not belong to man man belongs to the earth. this we know; All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ~ Chief Seattle
The universe is like a safe which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe. ~ Peter de Vries
Reality, what a concept. ~ Robin Williams
I've investigated reality and there's really nothing to it. ~ Liz VogelReality is a primative form of crowd control that got out of control. ~ Lily Tomlin
Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open. ~ unknown
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Kahlil Gibran Things do not change, we do. ~ Henry David Thoreau You need to have Chaos in order to give birth to a dancing star. ~ Frederich Nietzsche If all you have is a hammer, everything begins to appear as a nail. ~ Baruch
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world. ~ Buddha
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ~ Woody AllenLife is the childhood of our immortality. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In one sense there is no death~ the life of a soul on earth lasts beyond his departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you that spirit looking out of other eyes, talking to you in the familiar things he touched, worked with, loved or familiar friends. He lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him. ~ unknown (Greeting Card)
Death is not a period, but a comma, in the story of life. ~ unknown ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne All composite things are by nature impermanent. Work out your salvation with dilligence. ~ Shakyamuni Buddha
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