Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

- Desmond Tutu

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

-- Lou Holtz



"Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others."

Steve Maraboli

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

- G.K. Chesterton

"...Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of humbleness without being dissipated by disputes, showdowns, or down-right self-righteousness. ("Wit of the staircase")


- Erik Pevernagie

"Never let someone who has done nothing, tell you how to do anything" - Anon

* PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. ---Sayings



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* Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ---William Beveridge

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* The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. ---John Calvin

If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.

- Sadhguru

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

'Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.'

- Oliver Cromwell

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

Marcus Aurelius