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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Anger Vengeance Forgiveness Blame Guilt
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ugliest word in the world is revenge.
It spells hate; it spells fear; it spells greed.
For my loss, I must kill; I must steal - must avenge.
It's your fault; you must pay; you must bleed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
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