A man is sometimes lost
in the dust of his own raising.
-David Ruggles
To delve into a matter which matters little,
is like raising dust from the ground.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We have first raised a dust
and then complain we cannot see.
-George Berkeley
Raise not dust from the ground;
it will enter into your eyes.
Sprinkle some water on it
that it may settle down
and lie under your feet.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We are all practical in our own interest
and idealists when it concerns others.
-Kahlil Gibran
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life,
and gets less, than intolerance.
-Giacomo Leopardi
Confusion is just a local view of things
working out in general.
-John Updike
We never really know what stupidity is
until we have experimented on ourselves.
-Paul Gauguin
Learning too soon our limitations,
we never learn our power.
-Mignon McLaughlin
He who says, "I cannot tolerate,"
shows his smallness;
he who says, "I cannot endure,"
shows his weakness;
he who says, "I cannot associate,"
shows his limitation;
he who says, "I cannot forgive,"
shows his imperfection.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Anger is a weed;
hate is a tree.
-Saint Augustine
Hatred is a thing of the heart;
contempt a thing of the head.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Resentment is fermented anger.
Arrogance is fermented egotism.
-Anonymous
Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.
-Malcolm S. Forbes
Negligence is the rust of the soul
that corrodes through all her best resolves.
-Owen Feltham
Reactions take root
and our life is the ground
in which roots have grown.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every life is a march from innocence,
through temptation, to virtue or vice.
-Lyman Abbott
Every mood is selfishness dressed up.
-Kenneth G. Mills
There are no friends more inseparable
than pride and hardness of heart,
humility and love,
falsehood and impudence.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
In the ocean of baseness,
the deeper we get,
the easier the sinking.
-James Russell Lowell
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious.
which is why their existence is denied.
-Vernon Howard
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
-Andrew Carnegie
A remark generally hurts
in proportion to its truth.
-Will Rogers
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
-Edith Clara Summerskill
It is a fault to wish to be understood
before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
-Simone Weil
False humility is of conceit
-The Oculatum
Too much modesty is half conceit.
-Yiddish Folk Saying
Anyone well aware of their humility
is no longer humble.
-Jacob Klatzkin
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do for yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Complaining is never powerful
because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness.
-Dennis Prager
Worrying is using your imagination
to create something you don't want.
-Esther Hicks, "Abraham-Hicks"
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right,
it's ended up not being right.
-Mario Cuomo
It infuriates me to be wrong
when I know I am right.
-Moliere
Every extreme attitude
is a flight from self.
-Eric Hoffer
Don't feel sorry for yourself.
If you have chosen the wrong road,
turn around!
-Edgar Cayce
Act nothing in a passion.
Tis putting to sea in a storm.
-Thomas Fuller
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery
but also our weakness.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
One promises much to avoid giving little.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
We promise according to our hopes
and deliver according to our fears.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou
How ruthless we are
when we live on the surface of life!
-Mabel Dodge Luhan
Warmth, warmth, more warmth!
for we are dying of cold and not of darkness.
It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
-Miguel de Unamuno
In struggling against anguish
one never produces serenity;
the struggle against anguish
only produces new forms of anguish.
-Simone Weil
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated
is a refusal to be educated.
-Margaret Halsey
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue.
Realize the strength, move on.
-Henry Rollins
The mark of the immature man
is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of a mature man
is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-Wilhelm Stekel
