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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
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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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.
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or 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
The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"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
(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]
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)
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
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- 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
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
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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
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
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's not in the DOing, it's in the BEing.
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your greatest contribution
to current and future generations
will be the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
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
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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