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"You're mature when others recognize you are. When you claim your
own maturity, it's really a wishful reflection."
~Unknown
"I find that the "cooler" I am, the less friends I really have
amoungst the many praising me."
~Anonymous
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing..."
~Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
"The first sign of love in a man is shyness, for a woman it is boldness"
~Victor Hugoe
"A word is not a bird: once on the wing, it can never be caught again"
~Russian Proverb
"In order to get any truth about myself, I must have contact with another person. The other person is indispensable to my own existance, as well as to my knowledge about my self."
~Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is thus with most of us, we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."
~Eric Hoffer
"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions."
~Paul Watzlawick
"There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so."
~Shakespeare, Hamlet
I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you desend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing you fear in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering the alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risk."
~Leonard Zunin
"When you point one accusing finger at someone, three of your own fingers point back at you."
~Lous Nizer
"Beware of the man whose belly does not move when he laughs."
~Chinese Proverb
"As friends, we don't see eye to eye. But then we don't hear ear to ear either."
~Buster Keaton
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
~Henry David Thoreau
"If you think communication is all talk, you haven't been listening."
~Ashleigh Brilliant
"Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
~Alfred Tennyson
"Of all the Ten Commandments, 'Thou shalt not murder' always seemed to me the one I would have to worry the least about, until I got old enough to see that there are many different kinds of death, not all of them physical. There are murders as subtle as a turned eye. Dante was inspired to install Satan in ice, cold indifference being so common a form of evil."
~Anne Truitt, Daybook.
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."
~George Bernard Shaw
"It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be 'egotistic' is not suffering from too much ego, but from too little."
~Sydney J. Harris
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
~Benjamin Franklin
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
~James Baldwin
"Are there genuinely nice, sweet people in this world? Yes, absolutely yes, and they get angry as often as you and I. They must-otherwise they would be full of vindictive feelings and slush, which would prevent genuine sweetness."
~Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight then to lose."
~Billie Holiday
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the callosity formed round a broken bone makes it stronger than before."
~St. Francis De Sales
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