The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. - Martha Washington
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. - E. V. Lucas
The best care for anger is delay. - Seneca
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. - Goethe
Confidence is contagious. So is a lack of confidence. - Michael O'Brien
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights, and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. - Norman Vincent Peale
It's better to have some questions that to have all the answers. - James Thurber
Each of us has his own little private conviction of rightness and almost by definition, the Utopian condition of which we all dream is that which all people finally see the error of their ways and agree with us. - S. I. Hayakawa
Fear is a little darkroom where negatives are developed. - Michael Pritchard
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing. The monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. - Frances Picabia
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate "I's" into one worldview. - Harriet Lerner
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. - Deborah Tannen