You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
© Pearl Buck
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
© Wayne Dyer
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
© Aldous Huxley
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
© Eleanor Roosevelt
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
© Lee Womack
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
© E.M. Forster
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
© Vaclav Havel
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
© Buddha
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
© Thomas Jefferson
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
© Abraham Lincoln
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
© Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
© H. Bertram Lewis
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
© Leo Aikman
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
© Harold Nicolson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
© Ralph Emerson
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
© Harry Burchell Mathews
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.
© Chinese Proverb
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
© Marcus Aurelius
At first you may not have succeeded, but neither did Albert Einstein.
© Byron Pulsifer
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
© Confucius
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
© Norman Cousins