People are stupid and just want to be loved. That's the only reason anyone does anything
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz of Persia
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. -Will Smith
"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them." --- Cato the Elder
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -Dalai Lama
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. ~Fred Rogers
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. ~Robert Brault
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -Dalai Lama
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. -Robert Brault
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -Richard M. Nixon
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." ~Wayne Dyer
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. -Jackie Robinson
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown'
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. ~Colin Powell
Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell
You know the difference between good and bad, right and wrong. No matter how much the voice inside your head tries to fool you, deep down, you know how your actions will affect the universe around you. Obey the silence inside. Ignore the noise.
Well then let them hate you but let it be because you are a good person in a bad world and bad always hates good.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left. ~Author Unknown
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco
"Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." --- Lorraine Hansberry
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world." --- Al Franken, "Stuart Saves His Family"
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." --- Fredrich Nietzsche
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" --- Gandhi
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
"Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others." --- Ann Landers
Be like a rose which gives its fragrance even to those who crush it.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation ~ Wayne Dyer
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick)
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours." — Kurt Vonnegut
What is to give light must endure the burning. -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. However, there's one thing that we do know. Man is here for the sake of other men, above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends. And also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy." -- Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. ~Nathan Croall
Apologizing does not always mean you are wrong. It means you value your relationships more than your ego.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. ~Robert Brault
Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.
Robert Brault
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen
The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. -Maya Angelou
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. -Maya Angelou
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. -William J. Clinton
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz of Persia
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. -Will Smith
"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them." --- Cato the Elder
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -Dalai Lama
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. ~Fred Rogers
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. ~Robert Brault
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -Dalai Lama
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. -Robert Brault
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -Richard M. Nixon
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." ~Wayne Dyer
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. -Jackie Robinson
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown'
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley
Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. ~Colin Powell
Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell
You know the difference between good and bad, right and wrong. No matter how much the voice inside your head tries to fool you, deep down, you know how your actions will affect the universe around you. Obey the silence inside. Ignore the noise.
Well then let them hate you but let it be because you are a good person in a bad world and bad always hates good.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left. ~Author Unknown
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco
"Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." --- Lorraine Hansberry
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world." --- Al Franken, "Stuart Saves His Family"
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." --- Fredrich Nietzsche
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" --- Gandhi
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
"Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others." --- Ann Landers
Be like a rose which gives its fragrance even to those who crush it.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation ~ Wayne Dyer
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln
"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick)
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours." — Kurt Vonnegut
What is to give light must endure the burning. -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. However, there's one thing that we do know. Man is here for the sake of other men, above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends. And also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy." -- Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. ~Nathan Croall
Apologizing does not always mean you are wrong. It means you value your relationships more than your ego.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. ~Robert Brault
Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.
Robert Brault
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen
The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. -Maya Angelou
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. -Maya Angelou
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. -William J. Clinton
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing