Self - Understanding
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Start where you are, but don’t stay there.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail (armorthat none can pierce.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Improvement begins with I.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money.
SELF - UNDERSTANDING:
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.