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What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment
without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.
Appropriate rituals channel your emotions
and life energy toward the light.
Without the discipline to practice them,
you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
- Lao Tzu
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Manage through the uncertainties.
Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.
Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:
celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.
Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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