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Life is too short...

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it'd be worth it."
~Author Unknown

If you don't know where you're going...

2008-06-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

"If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up somewhere else."
~Yogi Berra

The aim of argument...

2008-06-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
~Joseph Joubert, Pensees (1842)

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

2008-04-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
~Jackie Robinson

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste...

2008-04-02T12:01:00.000-07:00

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

~Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, 1927

The secret of human happiness...

2008-03-10T08:38:00.001-07:00

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
~Theodor Reik

I have everything in the world that is necessary...

2008-03-05T08:18:00.000-08:00

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do.
~Anna Howard Shaw

Most organizational change flounders...

2008-02-16T22:30:00.000-08:00

Most organizational change flounders because the experience of loss is not taken into account. When the threats of loss are so severe as to increase people's sense of helplessness, their ability to master themselves and their environments decreases. To undertake successful organizational change, an executive must anticipate and provide means of working through that loss.
~Harry Levinson, Psychological Man (1976) as quoted by W. Warner Burke in Organization Change - Theory and Practice (2008)

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder...

2008-02-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
~James Douglas Morrison

Computers are like Old Testament gods...

2008-02-05T19:11:00.000-08:00

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
~Joseph Campbell

Is it ignorance or apathy...

2008-02-05T19:07:00.001-08:00

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
~Jimmy Buffett

Self-respect is a question of recognizing...

2008-02-05T19:03:00.000-08:00

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
~Joan Didion

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life...

2008-02-05T18:58:00.000-08:00

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.
~Laura Teresa Marquez

Some cause happiness wherever they go...

2008-01-23T22:07:00.000-08:00

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
~Oscar Wilde

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than...

2008-01-23T22:05:00.001-08:00

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't...

2008-01-23T22:04:00.001-08:00

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
~Henry Ford

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies...

2008-01-23T22:02:00.000-08:00

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

2008-01-17T19:57:00.000-08:00

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
~Maya Angelou

To love someone deeply gives you strength.

2008-01-16T12:53:00.000-08:00

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
~Lao Tzu

What greater thing is there for two human souls...

2008-01-15T09:05:00.001-08:00

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain...
~George Eliot

Three Rules of Work...

2008-01-11T04:44:00.000-08:00

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein

It is not death that a man should fear...

2008-01-10T20:21:00.000-08:00

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship...

2008-01-09T05:17:00.000-08:00

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
~Warren G. Harding

To the world you might be one person...

2008-01-07T18:41:00.000-08:00

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
~Author Unknown

Good things happen to those who hustle.

2008-01-07T06:19:00.000-08:00

Good things happen to those who hustle.
~Anais Nin