Quotes Well Worth
Reflecting On
¨ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. - Alan Paton
¨ My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. - Joseph Hunter
¨ If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
¨ The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great
¨ One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. - O. A. Battista
¨ People who invite trouble always complain when it accepts. - Lane Olinghouse
¨ People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren
¨ I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling
¨ Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm
¨ People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus
¨ To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. - Plato
¨ In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. - Samuel Johnson
¨ If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
¨ If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. - Benjamin Franklin
¨ To have more, desire less. - Table Talk
¨ To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. - Abraham Lincoln
¨ There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought. - Charles Kingsley
¨ Love is what you've been through with somebody. - James Thurber
¨ The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks. - John Rooney
¨ Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.- Thomas Carlyle
¨ Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.- Paul Tillich
¨ How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David B. Norris
¨ Dig the well before you are thirsty. - Chinese Proverb
¨ Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all. - Morris Mandel
¨ I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. - Albert Schweitzer
¨ Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
¨ To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. - Doug Larson
¨ The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. - Modern Maturity
¨ In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. - Karl Reiland
¨ Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things. - Buster Rothman
¨ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Anonymous
¨ There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. – Unknown
¨ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Reader's Digest
¨ Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine
¨ Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers