Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsJealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- AnonymousLove looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh BillingsWhen people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver StallionWhoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas ChamfortThe optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston ChurchillMinds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas DewarTrust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter DunneCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert EinsteinI am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. FieldsLove me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie FudimIdealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John GalsworthySuccess is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. GibbonsIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre GidePrejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William HazlittWhen you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel HoffensteinA grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin HubbardThe greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William JamesYou must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. LecLet go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph MarstonCriticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. MenckenMy loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir NabokovConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich NietzscheAs a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom RobbinsWe can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty ShabazzThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard ShawBoredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas SzaszStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret ThatcherA true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar WildeYou can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom WilsonAnd now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery