Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”
Thomas Szasz: “Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.”
Israel Salanter: “Promote yourself, but do not demote another.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.”
Catherine de Hueck Doherty: “Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.”
Henry Miller: “Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!”
Confucius: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Logan Pearsall Smith: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
Jane Goodall: “My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.”
Charlie Chaplin: “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”
Eric Schmidt: “Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It’s not to have a detailed plan of everything that you’re going to do. You can’t plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”
Paul Klee: “A single day is enough to make us a little larger.”
Victor Borge: “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”
Carl Jung: “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
Derek Sivers: “I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn’t even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”
David P. Mikkelson: “The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.”
Robert Bresson: “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
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