Psychology & Human Nature | |
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Thomas Edison |
What you are will show in what you do |
J R R Tolkien |
Not all those who wander are lost |
Dalai Lama |
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. |
Einstein |
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome. |
William James |
If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. |
John Locke |
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration. |
Benjamin Franklin |
There are three things extremely hard: steel, diamonds and to know one's self. |
Abraham Lincoln |
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
Aristotle |
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. |
Confucius |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. |
Jim Carrey |
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty or back to pain and regret. |
Walter Bagehot |
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Voltaire |
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. |
Thomas Paine |
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within. |
George Muller |
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith. The beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. |
Proverbs 29:11 |
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. |
William James |
It's not the load that breaks you it's the way you carry it. Lena Hornehimself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. |
Ralph Emerson |
Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Carl Sandburg |
Life is like an onion: You peel if off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. |
William James |
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated |
Tom Gates |
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to them you're hurt |
Albert Einstein |
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools |
Jewish proverb |
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure |
Nigerian proverb |
Hold a true friend with both hands |
Father Jerome Cummings |
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway |
Henry Ford |
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be |
C T Jones |
A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists |
Richard M Nixon |
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself |
Socrates |
An unexamined life is not worth living |
Marcus Aurelius |
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception |
Chinese proverb |
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever |
Albert Einstein |
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x, y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut |
Rowland Whitehead |
If you are an enthusiast, it communicates. And nothing communicates so much as a lack of it. |
Sartre |
Introspection is always retrospection |
Ben Franklin |
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped |
Eugene Ionesco |
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does |
William of Wykeham |
Manners maketh man |
Professor Ernest Jones |
Many who go into the profession (psychoanalysis) do so in order to overcome their own neurosis |
Ivan Pavlo |
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality |
Albert Camus |
Nature gave man two ends, one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most |
Bertrand Russell |
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important |
Groucho Marks |
Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that you've got it made |
William James |
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude |
Chinese proverb |
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand |
William James |
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated |
Walter Bagshot |
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do |
Samuel Johnson |
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good |
Carlos Castaneda |
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all |
Chinese proverb |
Two thirds of what we see is behind the eyes |
Anais Nin |
We don't see things as they are, but we see them as we are |
Albert Camus |
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them |
Dale Carnegie |
You can close more business deals in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years trying to get people interested in you |
From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harpur Lee |
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it |