Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 23

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

A person whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

If you are standing upright, don''t worry if your shadow is crooked.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don''t blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Knowingthat everything''s futile but still fighting, still raging against the dyingof the light that''s what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that senseof futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

It is all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you''ve got a problem.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Don''t wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

It''s not the size of the dog in the fight, it''s the sizeof the fight in the dog.

Take care, don''t fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.