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Peace visits not the guilty mind. -- Juvenal

平和のための有罪判決を気にしないを訪問する。 -ユウェナ
リス
Learning to live what you're born with is the
process, the involvement, the making of a life.
-- Diane Wakoski 学習をしていると何年生きていくプ
ロセスは、関与して、生活のこと。 -ダイアンWakoski
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this by falling into
place easily, often miraculously. -- Shakti
Gawain ときに私は信じている自分自身されて...私の人生
のすべての場所に簡単に、頻繁に奇跡的に下がり、この反映
されます。 -シャクティガウェイン
Discouragement is simply the despair of
wounded self-love. -- Francois de Fenelon がっ
かりさせるだけで負傷者の自己絶望愛です。 -フランソワド
フェネロン
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want
peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
-- Peter McWilliams 場合は、けんかを止め、平和を望
む。もし、あなたの考えとの戦闘停止の心の平和を望む。 -
ピーターマクウィリアムズ
We will discover the nature of our particular
genius when we stop trying to conform to our
own or to other peoples' models, learn to be
ourselves, and allow our natural channel to
open. -- Shakti Gawain 我々は学び、自分自身に、私
たちの特定の天才的な自然が我々や他の人々のモデルに独自
に準拠しようとすると停止検出され、私たちの自然チャネル
を開くことができます。 -シャクティガウェイン

I am who I choose to be. I always have been

what I chose -- though not always what I
pleased. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

First say to yourself what you would be; and

then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus
に準拠しようとすると停止検出され、私たちの自然チャネル
を開くことができます。 -シャクティガウェイン

I am who I choose to be. I always have been

what I chose -- though not always what I
pleased. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

First say to yourself what you would be; and

then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched

together with good intentions.
-- Augusten Burroughs

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

-- Diane Ackerman

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person

you truly are. -- Amy Bloom

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the

universe against me.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the secrets of life is to be honestly who

you are. Who others want you to be, who you
used to be, and who you may some day
become ... these are fantasies. To be honestly
who you are is to give up your illusions and
face today with courage.
-- Bill Purdin

If one advances confidently in the direction of

his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which
he has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Be who you are and say what you feel, because

those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

-- Albanian Proverb

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched

state. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know your limits is a state of self-delusion.

-- Bill Purdin

The body is a sacred garment. -- Martha

Graham

Until you've lost your reputation, you never

realize what a burden it was.
-- Margaret Mitchell
state. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know your limits is a state of self-delusion.

-- Bill Purdin

The body is a sacred garment. -- Martha

Graham

Until you've lost your reputation, you never

realize what a burden it was.
-- Margaret Mitchell

You have to know how to accept rejection and

reject acceptance. -- Ray Bradbury

Actions have consequences...first rule of life.

And the second rule is this:
You are the only one responsible for your own
actions. -- Holly Lisle

It is as hard to see one's self as to look

backwards without turning around.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Running from your problems is not "moving

forward." -- Bill Purdin

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second

rate version of someone else.
-- Judy Garland

The thing that is really hard, and really

amazing, is giving up on being perfect and
beginning to work on becoming yourself. --
Anna Quindlen

... the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. --

Jim Beggs

The real power behind whatever success I have

now was something I found within myself --
something that's in all of us, I think -- a little
piece of God just waiting to be discovered. --
Tina Turner

Reputation is what other people know about

you. Honor is what you know about yourself. --
Lois McMaster Bujold

Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life,

and live vicariously through it, than take some
responsiblity to change our lives into lives we
might like. -- Tish Grier

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a

feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it
become uncomfortable. -- Maya Angelou

We should every night call ourselves to an

Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life,
and live vicariously through it, than take some
responsiblity to change our lives into lives we
might like. -- Tish Grier

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a

feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it
become uncomfortable. -- Maya Angelou

We should every night call ourselves to an

account; What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation
resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will
abort of themselves if they be brought every
day to the shrift. -- Seneca

It is easy in the world to live after the world's

opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the great man is he who in the midst
of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude. -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson

I was brought up to believe that how I saw

myself was more important than how others
saw me. -- Anwar el-Sadat

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own

power. -- Seneca

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy

vices. -- Benjamin Franklin

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide

the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness.
The hardest thing to hide is something that is
not there. -- Eric Hoffer

So long as you are praised think only that you

are not yet on your own path but on that of
another. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we

finally learn that self-care begins and ends with
ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance
and happiness from others.
-- Jennifer Louden

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with

its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. --
Diane Ackerman

Every time you don't follow your inner

guidance,you feel a loss of energy, loss of
power a sense of spiritual deadness. -- Shakti
Gawain

The most important thing is to be whatever you

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with
its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. --
Diane Ackerman

Every time you don't follow your inner

guidance,you feel a loss of energy, loss of
power a sense of spiritual deadness. -- Shakti
Gawain

The most important thing is to be whatever you

are without shame. -- Rod Steiger

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are

doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills

Blessed are they who heal you of self-

despisings. Of all services which can be done to
man, I know of none more precious. -- William
Hale White

The first principle is that you must not fool

yourself -- and you are the easiest person to
fool. -- Richard Feynman

You are in control of your life. Don't ever forget

that. You are what you are because of
the conscious and subconscious choices you
have made. -- Barbara Hall

Cherish your own emotions and never

undervalue them. -- Robert Henri

Each person's only hope for improving his lot

rests on recognizing the true nature of his or
her basic personality, surrendering to it, and
becoming who he or she really is.
-- Sheldon Kopp

What I am is good enough if I would only be it

openly. -- Carl Rogers

No one can make you feel inferior without your

consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Let the world know you as you are, not as you

think you should be. -- Fannie Brice

Men and women are not prisoners of fate, but

only prisoners of their own minds.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is the habitual thought that frames itself into

our life. It affects us even more than our
intimate social relations do. Our confidential
friends have not so much to do in shaping our
lives as the thoughts which we harbor. -- J.W.
Teal
Men and women are not prisoners of fate, but
only prisoners of their own minds.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is the habitual thought that frames itself into

our life. It affects us even more than our
intimate social relations do. Our confidential
friends have not so much to do in shaping our
lives as the thoughts which we harbor. -- J.W.
Teal

Kwitchyerbellyakin. -- Irish saying

Take pride in how far you have come, have

faith in how far you can go. -- Anonymous

We know what we are, but know not what we

may become. -- William Shakespeare

You grow up the day you have your first real

laugh - at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are

overdressed. -- Kate Halverson

At some point your heart will tell itself what to

do. -- Achaan Chah

Be honorable with yourself if you wish to

associate with honorable people.
-- Welsh Proverb

Enlarge your consciousness. If your

consciousness is small, you will experience
smallness in every department of your life. --
Robert Pante

We don't see things as they are, we see them

as we are. -- Anais Nin

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man

knows himself to be a fool.
-- William Shakespeare

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,

then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle

The shortest and surest way to live with honor

in the world, is to be in reality what we would
appear to be. -- Socrates

To thine own-self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.
-- Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3

Look well into thyself; there is a source of

strength which will always spring up if thou wilt
The shortest and surest way to live with honor
in the world, is to be in reality what we would
appear to be. -- Socrates

To thine own-self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.
-- Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3

Look well into thyself; there is a source of

strength which will always spring up if thou wilt
always look there. -- Marcus Aurelius

It may be all right to be content with what you

have; never with what you are.
-- B.C. Forbes

Some say that my teaching is nonsense.

Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside
themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.

I have just three things to teach:

simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

-- Tao Te Ching

He that respects himself is safe from others;

He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
-- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Seek out that particular mental attribute which

makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,
along with which comes the inner voice which
says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have
found that attitude, follow it. -- William James

Man is what he believes. -- Anton Chekhov

Never think you're not good enough yourself. A

man should never think that. People will take
you very much at your own reckoning. --
Anthony Trollope

I thank God for my handicaps, for through

them, I have found myself, my work and my
God. -- Helen Keller

Everyone should carefully observe which way

his heart draws him, and then choose that way
man should never think that. People will take
you very much at your own reckoning. --
Anthony Trollope

I thank God for my handicaps, for through

them, I have found myself, my work and my
God. -- Helen Keller

Everyone should carefully observe which way

his heart draws him, and then choose that way
with all his strength. -- Hasidic Saying

Everything that irritates us about others can

lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Jung

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still

voice within. -- Mahatma Gandhi

When we see men of a contrary character, we

should turn inwards and examine ourselves. --
Confucius

No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own

wings. -- William Blake

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more

respectable he is.
-- George Bernard Shaw

No one can give you better advice than

yourself. -- Cicero

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered

to one's self. -- Nietzsche

An old man sat outside the walls of a great city.

When travelers approached, they would ask the

old man, "What kind of people live in this city?"

And the old man would answer, "What kind of

people live in the place where you came from?"

If the travelers answered, "Only bad people live

in the place where we came from," the old man
would reply, "Continue on; you will find only
bad people here."

But if the travelers answered, "Good people live

in the place where we came from," then the old
man would say, "Enter, for here, too, you will
find only good people."

-- Yiddish folk tale

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself

is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself
But if the travelers answered, "Good people live
in the place where we came from," then the old
man would say, "Enter, for here, too, you will
find only good people."

-- Yiddish folk tale

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself

is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself
is true power. -- Tao Te Ching

If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out

and dance with it.
-- Carolyn MacKenzie

People often say that this or that person has not

yet found him or herself. But the self is not
something that one finds. It is something one
creates. -- Thomas Szasz

There is only one corner of the universe you

can be certain of improving, and that's your
own self. -- Aldous Huxley

I am always ready to learn, although I do not

always like being taught.
-- Winston Churchill

People travel to wonder at the height of

mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the
long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of
the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without
wondering. -- St. Augustine

No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.

---Danish Proverb

People seem not to see that their opinion of the

world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one

is possessed by what is not, the compulsions,
the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the
void. -- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven

I would rather be the man who bought the

Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.
-- Will Rogers

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've

got. -- Betty Ford

Do you see the world as it is, or do you see the

world as you are? -- anonymous
I would rather be the man who bought the
Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.
-- Will Rogers

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've

got. -- Betty Ford

Do you see the world as it is, or do you see the

world as you are? -- anonymous

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him --
Bible, Proverbs 26:12

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is

emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather
than problems, to seek out culprits rather than
the flaws in the system. God knows it is
emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that
righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood
of sinners.

But God also knows that what is emotionally

satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

-- William Sloane Coffin, The Courage to Love

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
--Anonymous

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. --

Charles De Gaulle

Love not what you are, but what you may

become. -- Cervantes¬Ý

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are

sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply
because someone else is not sure of you. --
Stewart E. White

The way life treats you is a merciless mirror

image of your attitude toward life.
-- Anonymous.

They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they

asked for copies and I handed them out as if
they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy
Yard, I could drink with men because I worked
with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with
men because I drew their pictures. The world
was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was
bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I
wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone
in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a
story that had lost its plot. -- Pete Hamill, A
Drinking Life
they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy
Yard, I could drink with men because I worked
with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with
men because I drew their pictures. The world
was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was
bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I
wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone
in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a
story that had lost its plot. -- Pete Hamill, A
Drinking Life

They are as stubble before the wind, and as

chaff that the storm carrieth away.
-- Job 21:18

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense

your conern for others outweighing your
concern for yourself. -- John MacNaughton

If you want to test your memory try to

remember what you were worrying about a
year ago today. -- E. Joseph Cossman

A man's greatest strength develops at the point

where he overcomes his greatest weakness. --
Elmer G. Letterman

Be not merely good; be good for something. --

Henry David Thoreau

We can never be certain of our courage till we

have faced danger.
~ Duc Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace. --

Lao-Tzu

As long as you think you're green, you'll grow.

As soon as you think you're ripe, you'll rot. --
Scott Horton (courtesy of Nicole Smith.)

Once to every man and nation comes the

moment to decide. -- James Russell Lowell

The largest room in the world is the room for

improvement. -- Anonymous

More people would learn from their mistakes if

they weren't so busy denying them.
-- Anonymous

Signs of Emotional Security

1. Ability to deal constructively with reality.

2. Capacity to adapt to change.
3. Few symptoms of tension and anxiety.
4. Ability to find more satisfaction in giving than
receiving.
5. Capacity to consistently relate to others with
mutual satisfaction and helpfulness.
they weren't so busy denying them.
-- Anonymous

Signs of Emotional Security

1. Ability to deal constructively with reality.

2. Capacity to adapt to change.
3. Few symptoms of tension and anxiety.
4. Ability to find more satisfaction in giving than
receiving.
5. Capacity to consistently relate to others with
mutual satisfaction and helpfulness.
6. Ability to direct hostile energy into
constructive outlets.
7. Capacity to love.
-- Dr. William Menninger

HOW TO BE PERFECTLY MISERABLE.

1. Think about yourself.

2. Talk about yourself.
3. Use "I" as often as possible.
4. Mirror yourself continually in the opinion of
others.
5. Listen greedily to what people say about you.
6. Expect to be appreciated.
7. Be suspicious.
8. Be jealous and envious.
9. Be sensitive to slights.
10. Never forgive a criticism
11. Trust no one but yourself.
12. Insist on consideration and respect.
13. Demand agreement with your own views on
everything.
14. Sulk if people are not grateful to you for
favors shown them.
15. Never forget a service you may have
rendered.
16. Be on the lookout for a good time for
yourself.
17. Shirk your duties if you can.
18. Do as little as possible for others.
19. Love yourself supremely.
20. Be selfish.

This recipe is guaranteed to be infallible.

-- Gospel Herald.

And a hymn for Easter, a celebration of

mankind's redemption from selfishness.

Eternal Mind the Potter is,

And thought the' eternal clay;
The hand the fashions is divine,
His works pass not away.
Man is the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power and grace,
Immortal; perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face.

God could not make imperfect man

His model infinite;
Eternal Mind the Potter is,
And thought the' eternal clay;
The hand the fashions is divine,
His works pass not away.
Man is the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power and grace,
Immortal; perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face.

God could not make imperfect man

His model infinite;
Unhallowed thought He could not plan,
Love's work and Love must fit.
Life, Truth and Love the pattern make,
He is the perfect heir;
The clouds of sense roll back, and show
The form divinely fair.

God's will is done; His kingdom come;

The Potter's work is plain.
The longing to good and true
Has brought the light again.
And man does stand as God's own child,
The image of His love.
Let gladness ring from every tongue,
And heaven and earth approve.
-- Mary Alice Dayton

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a

split second when it can be recalled and,
perhaps, remedied. -- Pearl Buck

There is no satisfaction that can compare with

looking back across the years and finding
you've grown in self-control, judgment,
generosity, and unselfishness.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant

loquacity. -- Cicero, De Oratore

The goal in life is to die young -- as late as

possible.
-- Ashley Montagu, Anthropologist

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know

what I'm doing. -- Werner von Braun

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring

some with you. -- Joseph Joubert

When you are looking in the mirror, you are

looking at the problem. But, remember, you are
also looking at the solution. -- Anonymous

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin,

we cut the string. But God ties it up again,
making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts
the string, God ties another knot drawing us up
closer to Him. -- Meister Eckhart
When you are looking in the mirror, you are
looking at the problem. But, remember, you are
also looking at the solution. -- Anonymous

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin,

we cut the string. But God ties it up again,
making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts
the string, God ties another knot drawing us up
closer to Him. -- Meister Eckhart

Think. Believe. Dream. Dare.

-- Walt Disney's "Four Most Important Words."

Still I am learning. -- Michelangelo, on his death

bed

I am obliged to exercise unlimited forgiveness

because, if I did not forgive, I should thus act
as if I were not guilty in the same way as the
other has been guilty with regard to me.

I must forgive the lies directed against myself,

because my own life has been so many times
blotted by lies.
I must forgive the lovelessness, the hatred, the
slander, the fraud, the arrogance which I
encounter, since I myself have so often lacked
love, hated, slandered, defrauded, and been
arrogant.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

-- Albert Schweitzer

He that is good for making excuses is seldom

good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Love work.
Turn a deaf ear to slander.
Be considerate in correcting others.
Do not be taken up by trifles.
Do not resent plain speaking.
Meet offenders half-way.
Be thorough in thought.
Have an open mind.
Do your duty without grumbling.
-- Cicero

The accusations really say more about the

condition of the accusers than that of the
accused. -- Roderick MacLeish

Take time to laugh.

It is the music of the soul.

Take time to think.

It is the source of power.

Take time to play.

The accusations really say more about the
condition of the accusers than that of the
accused. -- Roderick MacLeish

Take time to laugh.

It is the music of the soul.

Take time to think.

It is the source of power.

Take time to play.

It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to read.

It is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to pray.

It is the greatest power on Earth.

Take time to love and be loved.

It is a God-given privilege.

Take time to be friendly.

It is the road to happiness.

Take time to give.

It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to work.

It is the price of success.

-- Anonymous

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the

job to others. -- Anonymous

No conflict is so severe as his who labors to

subdue himself. -- Thomas A. Kempis

It is what it is. -- Tony Sasso, Marblehead Town

Adminstrator

You grieve you learn

You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn
-- Alanis Morissette, from her album "Jagged
Little Pill"

The remarkable thing is that we really do love

our neighbors as ourselves; we do unto others
as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when
we hate oursleves. We are tolerant toward
others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive
others when we forgive ourselves. It is not love
of self but hatred of self which is at the root of
the troubles that afflict our world. -- Eric
Hoffer: U.S. Writer
Little Pill"

The remarkable thing is that we really do love

our neighbors as ourselves; we do unto others
as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when
we hate oursleves. We are tolerant toward
others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive
others when we forgive ourselves. It is not love
of self but hatred of self which is at the root of
the troubles that afflict our world. -- Eric
Hoffer: U.S. Writer

Most of the shadows of life are caused by

standing in our own sunshine.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you live only for yourself you always in

immediate danger of being bored to death with
the repetition of your own views and interests.
-- Walter Beran Wolfe

He who believes in nobody knows that he

himself is not to be trusted.
-- Berthold Auerbach

The mind may wander, but let not the senses

wander with it. If the senses wander where the
mind takes them, one is done for. -- Mohandas
Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi