66 quotes found
“What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into...”
“Life is ever changing.We are ever transforming.”
“Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea whether its about politics or sports what do we do? We love it perhaps more tha...”
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
“Our sacred character develops; we connect to source of life, the Creator.”
“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”
“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
“To live without any regret is to act right.”
“We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.”
“Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.”
“Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?”
“among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn”
“...even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behaviour of another person, we can grant that every individual does have his private world of meaning, conceived out of th...”
“Resentment leads to rude behaviour.”
“ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do”
“At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.”
“Using porn to guide sexual activity, is like using Jackass to model behaviour.”
