To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

If you think a situation cannot possibly get worse, it can and it will. So always be prepared.
- Terri Cole, President of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will
lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same
request, accept because you will gain one friend.
- St. Augustine

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
- William Hazlitt

Affairs are easier of enterance than exit; and it is but common prudence
to see our way out before we venture in.
- Aesop

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield

Throughout your life you should always be expanding your knowledge and
growing as an individual. Continuing to expand your skill set, finding
new ways to improve your health, wealth, and relationships.
- from the ebook _31 Days to a Minimalist Life_ (Kindle Publishing)

They are able because they think they are able.
- Virgil

Don't strive to make your presence noticed,
just make your absence felt.
- unknown

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up
to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution
of body nor knowledge of mind.
- Socrates

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a
fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares
may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has
implanted in the human soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Suffer the ill and look for the good.
- James Sandford

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
- Publilius Syrus

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects
of you. Never excuse yourself.Never pity yourself.Be a hard master to
yourself - and be linient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The person who uses the loudest voice is the one who has the weakest argument.
- unknown

I never make the mistake of arguing with people
for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon

Praise in public. Criticize in private.
- unknown

Never argue; repeat your assertion.
- Robert Owen
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. - Arnold Bennett What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Socrates Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. - Arnold Bennett To thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare Know yourself — Socrates. Control yourself — Cicero. Give yourself — Jesus. - unknown Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. - Robert H. Schuller Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. - George S. Patton, Jr Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour. - John Churton Collins Never argue; repeat your assertion. - Robert Owen Cessation of desire. - Jack Kornfield Life's easy when you live it the hard way.. and hard if you try to live it the easy way. - Dave Kekich Pay as much attention to how these people treat others, especially people from whom they need nothing, as to how they treat you. Watch, for example, how your prospective friends treat waiters and waitresses. Do they treat them as inferiors to be ordered around or with politeness and generosity? - Dennis Prager, _Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual_ You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. - Ben Goldacre, _Bad Science_ You don't need to take a person's advice to make him feel good - just ask for it. - Laurence J Peter Don't be troubled if the temptation to give advice is irresistible; the ability to ignore it is universal. - unknown Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash