Lighthouse

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
- Samuel Richardson


The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
- John Dryden


He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
- Frederick Buechner


He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
- Simone de Beauvoir

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
- Helen Keller

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
- Sophia Loren


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill


Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon


When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
- William Lyon Phelps

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
- Benjamin Frankl

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller 

In the world to come, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?"
- Rabbi Zusya

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
- Mary Engelbreit

Growth is a painful process.
- Wilma Mankiller

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- Carl Rogers

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
(frequently attributed to Charles Darwin)
- L. C. Megginson

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
- James Yorke


If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
- Gloria Steinem 

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl S. Buck

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin