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"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."
"Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart."
"If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph."
"Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."
"Attitude, not ability, determines destiny."
"Love and Friendship, when you have them or lose them they are much like the Greek story of Icarus...You can make you feel like you're soaring above the clouds with happiness when you have them or feel like you are plummeting to the depths of hell with despair when you lose them."
"To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something."
"If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?"
"Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required."
"One step and then another and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another and the deepest snow is laid."
"None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
"Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation."
"If you love someone let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with."
"Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment."
"If at first you succeed don't take any more stupid chances."
"No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd."
"A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than for a glass of beer for which he cannot pay."
"As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity." Each of these systems promotes itself by pointing out the moral failings of the other, but these moral failings are actually failings brought about by people acting within the context of large organizations. What is truly needed is to learn a structure of organization of human beings that provides for the organized group the same capacity and propensity for moral behavior that is possessed by individuals."
"Friends are like stars you don't always see them but you know their always there."
"And when I was born I drew in the common air and fell upon the earth which is of like nature and the first voice which I uttered was crying as all others do . . . For all men have one entrance into life. The Apocrypha Monday's child is fair of face Tuesday's child is full of grace Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go Friday's child is loving and giving Saturday's child works hard for a living But the child born on the Sabbath day Is happy and wise and good and gay."
"There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness."
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
"A lawyer must first get on then get honor and then get honest."