"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
"When we give cheerfully
and accept gratefully,
everyone is blessed."
-Maya Angelou
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four
Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three
best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown
"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from
being a camel."
G.K. Chesterton
"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
Condorcet
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from
God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
Kahlil Gibran
-The Visit of Wisdom
"Receivers...assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself
and him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on
wings; for to be over mindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity."
Kahlil Gibran
"I vow to cultivate speech and
deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and to relive
them of their suffering."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person
is pleased."
Katharine Hepburn
"When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is
part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us."
Hermann Hesse
"Listening with compassion means putting judgments aside. This
quality of listening creates a safety for people to be free to express
themselves and go to the level of their deep concerns. It has everything to do
with caring for the state of another human being"
Carol Hwoschinsky
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves."
Carl Jung
"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that
they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny
to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in
our own guidance."
Henry Miller
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and
they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
General George S. Patton
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark
from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of
those who have lighted the flame within us."
Albert Schweitzer
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than
thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."
William Shakespeare
