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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Anger Vengeance Forgiveness Blame Guilt
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ugliest word in the world is revenge.
It spells hate; it spells fear; it spells greed.
For my loss, I must kill; I must steal - must avenge.
It's your fault; you must pay; you must bleed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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