Developed by Christine Miserandino (2003)
How can you expect anyone else to like you if you don't like yourself?
Your emotions and outlook are choices. Choose well.
I HAVE SPOKEN, FOR I AM THE MAN OF THE HOUSE, AND I HAVE MY WIFE'S PERMISSION TO SAY SO!
Thank you for calling. Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line until your call is no longer important to you.
Stop petting my peeves, they may go off.
Freedom consists of the distribution of power, despotism in its concentration.
The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude towards the problem.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
Beware the anger of a patient person.
A bad spouse takes advice from everyone but their mate.
Every eye forms its own fancy, for beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The full stomach does not understand the empty one.
Don't marry the one you love, rather marry the one who loves you.
Common sense is like deodorant: The people who need it most never use it.
You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. In the end, you'll thank them both.
A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Don't look for bad things in the good that you do.
One who wants to build high must dig deep.
The wise talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the commoners about what they eat.
Each country's customs are as different as each meadow's grass.
If you endeavor, fate will favor you.
Without council there is no wisdom, without praise, no heroes.
Union is source of success.
Above all else guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend.
Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
Words kill and words give life. They're either poison or fruit. You choose.
Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
"All the News That's Fit to Print" has become "Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology"
If it's difficult we do it immediately. If it's impossible it takes a little longer. Miracles by appointment only.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
Courage is endurance for one moment more...
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me.
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
The essence of bigotry is refusing to others the rights that you demand for yourself. Such bigotry is inherently incompatible with freedom.
My greatest fear is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave becoming the Land of the Controlled and the Home of the Cunning.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world! Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom; and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more, we had no awareness of the real situation... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
עם קצת רצון וקצת יכולת, גם פיל יכול להשחיל תרנגולת
Isn't it crazy that people of little or no talent or success can be so critical of those whose accomplishments are great with no retribution
Many journalists are honest and great - but some are knowingly dishonest and basic scum. They should.be weeded out!
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
If you are lucky enough to catch a knockout assaulter before getting slugged, and you carry a gun, shoot the bastard (teach them a lesson)!
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!
I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle.
These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
Our Government, originally created of the people, by the people and for the people has now turned Against We the People. No one is safe.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work, and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
