Archive for February, 2004

Happiness

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. Samuel Johnson

Serious anger

Every day you get many chances to become angry. For instance, a driver cuts in front of your car on the way to work. Someone else criticizes you. Another person doesn’t return your call. All these are anger invitations. You could accept every one, in which case you’ll be angry all the time. Instead, you [...]

Keep your promises

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves. Lawrence LeShan

Everyday pleasures

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin

Take the first step

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy

Bird dog

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets. Robert Kiyosaki

Be patient with yourself.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbor’s faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will [...]

Kinds of men

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. Cyrus H. Curtis

Love in life

The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. R. D. Laing

Cheat

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. Phillip James Bailey