self improvement

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - Franklin D. Roose...

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as sil...

When your life is about serving, your needs will always be met. When your life is about obtaining your needs, your needs will always elude you. - Bill Ferguson, author/speaker,...

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. - Solon This simple, concise maxim delivers a great wealth of benefit. Why would you not want to please your friend, ...

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. - Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962) Is she ...

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Much as I would like to agree with Mr. Tolstoy, this observation is not so universa...

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) Funny. But odd once you think about it. The west...

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 New fashions, seeming to defy the passage of time...

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh Of the many peculiarities of hum...

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. - RD Laing, psychiatrist and author (1927-1989) One dictionary defines insanity as a "relatively permanent...

"I’d spent my whole life feeling like a freak and an outsider and that nobody understood me and suddenly I felt like it's OK to feel different." - Madonna...

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.<br> - Neil Armstrong<p><p&...

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. <br> - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)<br><p> It's an odd characteristic of human nature that we...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) I find the term "religion of solitud...

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick A sobering thought for consideration. Mr. ...