Tuesday, March 27, 2007

A Little Beauty


The door is open. Enter at your own risk.
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." ~Socrates~
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." ~Samuel Johnson~
"A cleaver horse needs only one touch of the whip." Chinese saying
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." ~Confucius~
Fear is an emotion which involves the prediction of a negative outcome.
When faced with uncertainty or ambiguity, it is easy to respond with fear, rather than curiosity or having a sense of adventure.
Fear is a difficult emotion to deal with, in part because it is frightening and painful to feel it.
Paige Harrison
There are three things extremely hard: Steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” Benjamin Franklin
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. -- Erich Fromm
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels." ~Orison Swett Marden~
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded."
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale

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