Archive for people
February 18, 2008 · Filed under Benjamin Franklin, ideas, opinion, people
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.” (David H. Comins)
February 18, 2008 · Filed under C. S. Lewis, future, life, people
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” (C. S. Lewis)
February 8, 2008 · Filed under life, people, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under C. S. Lewis, faith, God, obedience, people, trust
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” (C. S. Lewis)
February 1, 2008 · Filed under life, mind, people, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
January 15, 2008 · Filed under ability, people, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
January 15, 2008 · Filed under Abraham Lincoln, people
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” (Abraham Lincoln)
January 15, 2008 · Filed under aging, people, positive thinking
“Old. Young. Just words.” (George Burns)
October 24, 2007 · Filed under future, past, people
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” (Erich Fromm)
October 23, 2007 · Filed under adoration, chaos, order, people
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” (M. C. Escher)
July 18, 2007 · Filed under love, Mother Teresa, people
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” (Mother Theresa)
July 11, 2007 · Filed under baby, people
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.” (Don Herrold)
July 11, 2007 · Filed under faithfulness, people, promise
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.” (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
May 28, 2007 · Filed under kindness, people, Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” (Seneca)
May 28, 2007 · Filed under change, growth, people, personality, positive thinking
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving: that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner” (Aldens Harley)
May 24, 2007 · Filed under life, people, work
“Just as there are no little people or important lives, there is no insignificant work.”
May 24, 2007 · Filed under happiness, joy, open mind, people
“When we forget ourselves, we usually do something that everyone else remembers.”
May 22, 2007 · Filed under feelings, people
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” (William Arthur Ward)
May 22, 2007 · Filed under people
“There is no such thing as a weird human being. It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.” (Tom Robbins)
May 16, 2007 · Filed under Benjamin Franklin, people, time
“You may delay, but time will not.” (Benjamin Franklin)
May 16, 2007 · Filed under life, people
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” (Montaigne)
May 16, 2007 · Filed under people
“The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.” (Tom Morris)
May 16, 2007 · Filed under life, open mind, people, personality, Schopenhauer, wisdom
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.”
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
May 16, 2007 · Filed under people, power
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” (Leo Buscaglia)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under people, proverb
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.” (Arabian Proverb)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under heredity, people
“Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under failure, people, wisdom
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.” (William Saroyan)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under happiness, people
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.”
(Edith Wharton)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under people, storm
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” (Rose Kennedy)
May 15, 2007 · Filed under love, people
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” (Goethe)
