July 10, 2018 by Banchi
LOVE

“Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked.” Katherine Anne Porter
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” Peter Ustinov

FORGIVENESS

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” Marcus Aurelius
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” Marcus Aurelius
“What is there that forgiveness cannot achieve?” Vidura

WORDS

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” Socrates
“Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. That arrow won’t turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.” Rumi

LIFE

“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” Marcus Aurelius
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.” Aristotle
“An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.” Confucius
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” C.S. Lewis
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

ATTITUDE

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”

Marcus Aurelius
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your backyard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Isaac Asimov
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius

GIVING

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.” C.S. Lewis
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” Marcus Aurelius
“The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose.” Mahatma Gandhi
“The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

GRATITUDE

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” Epicurus
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus

KINDNESS

“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be king.” St. Augustine
“Kindness is like a snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” Khalil Gibran
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” Mother Teresa

CHARACTER

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.” C.S. Lewis
“I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.” Aristotle
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” Zen Proverb
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” John Ruskin

COMMUNICATION

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.” Peter Drucker

HABIT

“How high a price we pay for the burden of habit!” St. Augustine
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” Samuel Johnson
“All things of value will be taken for granted with the passing of time. That’s what we call the law of familiarity. Without the discipline for paying constant daily attention, all things become vulnerable.” Jim Rohn

LEARNING

“Be like an eye always seeing your own faults, but be like a blind person toward the fault of others.” Atisha
“Nothing can be taught to a man, but it is possible to help him find the answer within himself.” Galileo Galile
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.” Gilbert Arland

ACTION

“O, see how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there, some great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.” The Dhammapada
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” Vince Lombardi

LEADERSHIP

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” Jim Rohn
“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

CHANGE

“Let him that move the world first move himself.” Socrates
“Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.” Jim Rohn
“There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.” Euripedes
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Maya Angelou

WORK

“The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘what am I getting?’ The most important question to ask is ‘what am I becoming?’ Jim Rohn
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” Napoleon Hill

HEALTH

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Ben Franklin
“Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one already feels thirsty or forging weapons after the war has already begun.” The Net JING

NATURE

“It’s always morning somewhere.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” Theodore Roethke
“Winter always comes. But so does the spring. Night follows day. But also day follows night. Sure the tide goes out, but it always comes in. Opportunity follows difficulty as surely as difficulty follows opportunity.” Jim Rohn

RELATINSHIPS

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” Epictetus
“Indifference is expensive. Hostility is unaffordable. Trust is priceless. It’s all about relationships.” Ted Rubin

WORRY

“Never let the future disturb you, you will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” Marcus Aurelius
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” Dale Carnegie

ANGER

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” Marcus Aurelius
“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.” Epictetus
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one getting burned.” Buddha

RESENTMENT

“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” Esther Lederer
“Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” Neil Kinnock