Pearls of Wisdom
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
- Ken Blanchard
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Vernon Law
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
- Wayne Dyer
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- Erin Majors
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes DeMille
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig
'Character' is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
- J.C. Watts
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel
Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
- Kobi Yamada
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a
new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney J. Harris
Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
- Unknown
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.
- Rose Kennedy
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate
importance. It's what resides inside.
- Fred (Mr.) Rogers
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
- Horace Greeley
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Everyone has three characters: that which one shows, that which one has, and that
which one thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
- Syrus
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
- Emily Dickinson
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
- William Feather
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried.
- William Shakespeare
He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it
on the bottom of his heart.
- Tao saying
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
- Marie Beynon Ray
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of
tomorrow.
- Anonymous
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the
joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his
friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
A sorrow shared is half a sorrow, a joy shared is twice a joy.
- Unknown
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get
through, but how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer J. Adler
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like
expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's
your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor
was given to us to console us for what we are.
- Mark McGinnis
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius.
~ Comte de Buffon
We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.
~ Madame de Choiseul
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to
reveal to him his own.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
~ Edgar J. Mohn
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent
Here are the two best prayers I know:
'Help me, help me, help me' and
'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'
~ Anne Lamott
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. (So true!)
~ Elizabeth Stone
Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
~ A.C. Jolly
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
~ R.E. Shay
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~ Yiddish proverb
The Three Grand Essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do
something to love
and something to hope for
~ Jose Addison
You wake up in the morning and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life. It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
~Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~Coco Chanel
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving soul over another".
~George Eliot
Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
~Goethe
I don't think of all of the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank
I am great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
~Coleman Cox
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Hannah More
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
~Joseph Joubert
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast, you can't wait do your excercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~George Burns
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
~Linus Pauling
One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
~Sigmund Freud
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out- it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
~ Robert Service
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Matrin Luther KIng Jr.
If you want something you've never had before, you've got to do something you've never done before.
~ Drina Reed
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~Abraham Lincoln
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
~Henry Chester
It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
~Unknown
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~Annette Funicello
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort...
~Herm Albright
Write the bad things that happen to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
~Coleman Cox
The truth of the matter is that you always know the
right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
~Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff
"If you want happiness for an hour- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month- get married.
If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime- help others."
~Chinese Proverb
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of
being great.
~Cher
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead
by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
~ Og Mandino
"Everyone who got where he is had to begin with where he was.
~Richard L. Evans
"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."
~ H. Jackson Browne Jr.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
~Sally Berger
"Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing."
~Nancy Otto
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Just because some one doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. "
~ Unknown
"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. "
~ Unknown
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long -and so regretfully- upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
~Elizabeth Taylor
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~ Henry B. Adams
The above quotations were taken from the newsletter Beliefnet
"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
"Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King
"We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world."
Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan."
"The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect."
~ Peace Pilgram
"On Marriage: One of the things I have realized -- and people who have been married a long time realize -- is that marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person: you're giving to the relationship just as the other person is, then it becomes life building, a life fostering and enriching experience, not an impoverishment because you're giving to somebody else."
~ Joseph Cambell
Instructions for Life
Take into account that great love and great
achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three "R"s:
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them
properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great
friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take
immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of
your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best
answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the
foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve
immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in
which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
~ Life's Little Instruction Book
H. Jackson Brown.
More "Pearls" to Come...
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
- Ken Blanchard
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Vernon Law
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
- Wayne Dyer
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- Erin Majors
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes DeMille
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig
'Character' is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
- J.C. Watts
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel
Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down.
- Kobi Yamada
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
- Lady Bird Johnson
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a
new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney J. Harris
Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
- Unknown
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.
- Rose Kennedy
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate
importance. It's what resides inside.
- Fred (Mr.) Rogers
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
- Horace Greeley
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Everyone has three characters: that which one shows, that which one has, and that
which one thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
- Syrus
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
- Emily Dickinson
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
- William Feather
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried.
- William Shakespeare
He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it
on the bottom of his heart.
- Tao saying
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
- Marie Beynon Ray
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of
tomorrow.
- Anonymous
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the
joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his
friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
A sorrow shared is half a sorrow, a joy shared is twice a joy.
- Unknown
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get
through, but how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer J. Adler
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like
expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's
your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor
was given to us to console us for what we are.
- Mark McGinnis
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius.
~ Comte de Buffon
We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.
~ Madame de Choiseul
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to
reveal to him his own.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
~ Edgar J. Mohn
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent
Here are the two best prayers I know:
'Help me, help me, help me' and
'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'
~ Anne Lamott
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. (So true!)
~ Elizabeth Stone
Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
~ A.C. Jolly
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
~ R.E. Shay
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~ Yiddish proverb
The Three Grand Essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do
something to love
and something to hope for
~ Jose Addison
You wake up in the morning and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life. It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
~Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~Coco Chanel
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving soul over another".
~George Eliot
Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
~Goethe
I don't think of all of the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank
I am great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
~Coleman Cox
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
~Hannah More
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
~Joseph Joubert
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast, you can't wait do your excercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
~George Burns
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
~Linus Pauling
One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
~Sigmund Freud
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out- it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
~ Robert Service
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Matrin Luther KIng Jr.
If you want something you've never had before, you've got to do something you've never done before.
~ Drina Reed
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~Abraham Lincoln
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
~Henry Chester
It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
~Unknown
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~Annette Funicello
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort...
~Herm Albright
Write the bad things that happen to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
~Coleman Cox
The truth of the matter is that you always know the
right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
~Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff
"If you want happiness for an hour- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month- get married.
If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime- help others."
~Chinese Proverb
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of
being great.
~Cher
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead
by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
~ Og Mandino
"Everyone who got where he is had to begin with where he was.
~Richard L. Evans
"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."
~ H. Jackson Browne Jr.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
~Sally Berger
"Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing."
~Nancy Otto
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Just because some one doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. "
~ Unknown
"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. "
~ Unknown
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long -and so regretfully- upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
~Elizabeth Taylor
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~ Henry B. Adams
The above quotations were taken from the newsletter Beliefnet
"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
"Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King
"We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world."
Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan."
"The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect."
~ Peace Pilgram
"On Marriage: One of the things I have realized -- and people who have been married a long time realize -- is that marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. But marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person: you're giving to the relationship just as the other person is, then it becomes life building, a life fostering and enriching experience, not an impoverishment because you're giving to somebody else."
~ Joseph Cambell
Instructions for Life
Take into account that great love and great
achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three "R"s:
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them
properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great
friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take
immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of
your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best
answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the
foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve
immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in
which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
~ Life's Little Instruction Book
H. Jackson Brown.
More "Pearls" to Come...