Determination - Quotes

A determined heart takes no counsel. - Quiros

A resolute determination is the truest wisdom. - Napoleon Bonaparte

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. - Thomas Fuller

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. - Denis Waitley

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. - Tony Robbins

Determination is the weapon with which I challenge all my challenges. - Sam Ade

Determination is winning by long strides and easy stages, preparing an advance for each march forward. It is knowledge of the existence of all good; the power that confidence gives. Knowing in advance that no problem evolved by mind cannot be solved by mind, it is that which presses us onward and upward toward that which we desire to accomplish, and which eventually lands us exactly where we wished to be. Often it follows a different route than we mapped out. Often we win by methods never before presented to us, but with full knowledge that we have within us that which can accomplish all things and solve all problems if we persist and follow. - Wesley A. Stanger

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable. - Lora Leigh

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George H. Allen

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. - Tommy Lasorda

The power of fate may be an intimidating force, but it is the power of determination, which opens all doors. - Unknown

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. - Sonia Johnson

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. - Ralph Marston

Quote Worthy

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others. - Francis Bacon  

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi  

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it. . . . Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. - Marcus Aurelius        

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success. -  Francis Saint De Sales  

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. - Paul De Gondi  

Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu was a Taoist sage, living sometime before 250 B.C. The book, by the same name, Chuang Tzu, is believed to contain both his own writings and writings by others about him and his teachings.

". . . ‘Chuang-Tzu’ is distinguished by its brilliant and original style, with abundant use of satire, paradox, and seemingly nonsensical stories. Chuang-Tzu emphasizes the relativity of all ideas. . . . He puts forward as the solution to the problems of the human condition, freedom in identification with the universal Tao, or principle of Nature."

- The Columbia Encyclopedia, 4th Edition.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. - Chuang Tzu

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. - Chuang Tzu

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. - Chuang Tzu

The Cosmos and I live on forever. All things and I are united as one. - Chuang Tzu

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature. - Chuang Tzu

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature. - Chuang Tzu

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him? - Chuang Tzu

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. - Chuang Tzu

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. - Chuang Tzu

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang Tzu

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. - Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools. - Chuang Tzu

Food For Thought

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. - Charles Colton 

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln

Part of human nature resents change, loves equilibrium, while another part welcomes novelty, loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war, but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster. - J. Bartlet Brebner

Stunning Senior Moment

           A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next  to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.

           'You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one,' the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to  hear. 'The young people of today are much more advanced than people your age. We grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon and the internet. We have cell phones, nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers, automated manufacturing, amazing technologies, ....and,'  he paused to take another drink of beer.

           The senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said, 'You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young.....so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shit, what are YOU doing for the next generation?'

           The applause  was resounding...

Devils - Quotes

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all. - Arthur Bryon Cover

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil. - Austin O’Malley

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused. - James Oliver Curwood

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. - John Steinbeck

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst. - Elbert Hubbard

Many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their tell-tale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise. - Dean Koontz

Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them. - Abraham Miller

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering. - George Eliot

The devil dances in empty pockets. - English Proverb

The Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn’t have to. That was what some humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven ... was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind. - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. - Philip Zimbardo

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge

A Short Poem

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,

Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;

I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,

For lo! my own shall come to me.

- John Burroughs

Diamonds - Quotes

A diamond on a dunghill is a precious diamond still. - American Proverb

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. - Chinese Proverb

A diamond, incarcerated in its subterraneous prison, rough and unpolished, differs not from a common stone. - Charles Caleb Colton

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. - Robert G. Ingersoll

It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. - Mark Twain

No pressure, no diamonds. - Thomas Carlyle

Dictators - Quotes

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty. - Evan Esar

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. - Winston Churchill

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! - J. K. Rowling

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

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. - Herbert Hoover

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake. - Clinton Rossiter

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. - Christopher Hitchins

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either non-existent or weak. - George B. N. Ayittey

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. - Winston Churchill

Diet - Quotes

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! - Karl Lagerfeld

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. - Michael Pollan

I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is 14 days. - Totie Fields

One of the main effects of dieting is that it contributes to actual loss of control over eating. Dieting causes increases in the preoccupation with food, making food more attractive, it alters responses to food, resulting in certain foods becoming "forbidden," which triggers specific states of mind, and it causes mood changes. All these contribute to actual loss of control and result in the dieter eating more than she would have if she hadn't dieted in the first place. - Jane Ogden

One swears by wholemeal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins or about roughage. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry. - Sir Robert Grieve Hutchison

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. - Pliny

Stop dieting, start living. - Barbara Godfrey

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. - George Denison Prentice

Differences - Quotes

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. - John Ralston Saul

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different – sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic. - Bethenny Frankel

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated. - Doris Lessing

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. - Wesley Clark

It seemed ... such nonsense – inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. - Virginia Woolf

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. - Ivan Turgenev

Our greatest strength as a human race is our ability to acknowledge our differences, our greatest weakness is our failure to embrace them. - Judith Henderson

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. - Unknown

The fact that we’re all different is the one thing we all have in common. - Justin Young

There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you’ve had enough. - Unknown

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. - W. Clement Stone

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. - Unknown

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring. - Catherine Pulsifer

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. - Paul Valery

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter

We may have different religions, different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race. - Kofi Annan

You’re different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. - Matthew Quick

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. - John Wooden

Difficulties - Quotes

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. - Thomas H. Huxley

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.- Lao Tzu

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. - Dan Reeves

Difficulties make you a jewel. - Japanese Proverb

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. - William Hastie

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. - Rene Descartes

If one does not climb over the rock of difficulties one cannot reach the plateau of happiness. - Unknown

It is difficulties that show what men are. - Epictetus

It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. - Seneca

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. - Titus Livius

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right. - Unknown

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. - Samuel Smiles

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. - Will Rogers

The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most. - Unknown

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. - Jim Rohn

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests. - Epictetus

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. - Theodore H. White

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. - Samuel Smiles

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. - Samuel Smiles

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Unknown

To strive with difficulties and to conquer them is the highest form of human felicity. - Samuel Johnson

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before; and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times. - George Washington

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Saint Francis De Sales

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. - Dan Rather

Quotable

Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy. - Catherine Rippenger Fenwick

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, as what is straight seems crooked through the water. - John Dryden 

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyse it, and appropriately act on it. - Stephen R. Covey

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. - Harry A. Overstreet

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke

Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go. - Sylvia Robinson 

Dignity - Quotes

All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection. - Napoleon Bonaparte

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. - Laura Hillenbrand
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. - Luigi Pirandello

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. - Rick Bragg

He who hurries cannot walk with dignity. - Chinese Proverb

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker. - Evan Esar

Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you. - Frank Barron

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox

Place confers no dignity upon some men; like a balloon, the higher they rise the smaller they look. - G. D. Prentice

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. - Dejan Stojanovic

Trruth

All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings, in destruction; meetings, in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth. - Milarepa

Language is limited. It cannot be used to express colour to the blind nor sound to the deaf and cannot be used to express truth. Truth, being above the limitations of language, can only be expressed symbolically or by analogy, and the comprehension of truth so expressed is relative to the understanding of the recipient. - Henry N. Gerguson

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth... - Huang Po

When wisdom awakens in you, you will see truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. - Ajahn Chah

The truth is open for all who can understand. You must be lamps unto your selves. You must depend upon no eternal refuge, depend on no leader, and depend on no teacher. Look within. You are the Buddha.

When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you've learned how to read - you can then read anywhere you go.

Truth is both the way and the goal, the direction to the destination and the destination itself.  

Food For Thought

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. - Henry Ward Beecher

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves. - Vernon Howard

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. - Charles Colton 

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Life

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written, and cannot be written. - Unknown

Our lives are made up of myriad unique experiences. These are tightly woven together to form a tapestry that depicts the story of our lives. And the people we meet in our life’s journey are the threads that would eventually become an intrinsic part of your life's tapestry. - Unknown

There is no security in life. You are born a baby and will definitely end up dead – one day. It is more important to make your life meaningful before your time is up, rather than to hold on too tightly to the security you thought you had but never did! - Unknown

When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1,000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear. - Unknown

Diplomacy - Quotes

A diplomat is a man who can juggle a hot potato long enough for it to become a cold issue. - Vernon K. McLellan

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

All war represents a failure of diplomacy. - Tony Benn

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. - Sir Henry Wotton

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths. - George Horace Lorimer

Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skilful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims. - James Ellis

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. - Iain Pears

Diplomacy is cutting the other fellow's throat without using a knife. - Vernon K. McLellan

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. - Sue Monk Kidd

In order to be a diplomat one must speak a number of languages, including double-talk. - Carey McWilliams

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. - Tom Clancy

Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due. - James Buchanan

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

People - Quotes

It is very difficult to know people. For men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives’ tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the things they believed in. You can know them only if you are them.

There are people who are physically attractive on the outside yet emotional wrecks on the inside. There are people who turn us off at first glances, but later on, we found out they are gems on the inside. The point is we only have one opportunity to make a first impression, which is why our physical communication is so important.

There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it, and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

Most people – one may say the best sort of people – greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.  

People sense how you feel about them. If you want to change their attitudes toward you, change any negative attitudes you may have toward them.

Surround yourself with people who know your worth. You don’t need too many people to be Happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for exactly who you are.

If people don’t make an effort to be in your life, don’t try so hard to be in theirs; It’s not worth it. - Unknown

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you are down will be the ones to help you get back up.

When people are well-informed, they do not just listen to you; they also question you.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.

Don’t worry too much about what people think, because they seldom do.

People who can agree on what's funny can usually agree on other things.

Places don't make people; it is people that make places.

Discipline - Quotes

A person without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in the storm of life. - Robert Elias Najemy

A person's attitude toward discipline is the measure of that person's own orientation to order. - Max van Manen

A sense of discipline is like the earth itself. It is the ground from which all good qualities can grow forth. - Tsoknyi Rinpoche

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. - Hebrews 12:11

Always remember that discipline is like a two-edged sword; it is not only to correct children when they are wrong, but to direct them to a way that is right. - James Merritt

Children expect discipline. Even though discipline can be unpleasant, everyone who has experienced good discipline knows not only that he needed it, but also appreciates, and loves those who had the courage to give it to him! To attempt to raise a child without discipline is like trying to build a complex building without a blueprint, or like leaving the rebar out of concrete when it is poured, or deciding not to install the steel beams and girders into a skyscraper – you steal its spine – you create a disaster. - Zester Hatfield

Corrective discipline is like surgery – it corrects something that's gone wrong in the body so that more serious injury doesn't result. - Mark Dever & Paul Alenxander

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph. - Alexis Carrel

Discipline in its highest notion is not punishment or self-punishment. It is rather something seminal to the self. It is our foundation. It is our architecture. It gives us structure. It allows us to steer our energies and pull our wagon. - Noah Benshea

Discipline is a moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader. - Unknown

Discipline is a necessity, as a regulator of society, so that those who break its rules may be taught the necessity of obeying them. - Engineer Lockhart

Discipline is important simply because we live in an organized society where, if you have not learned life's requirements at early age, you will be taught later, not by those whose love tempers the lesson but by strangers who could not care less about the harm they do to your personality. - William E. Homan

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not. - Michael J. Fox

Discipline is learning what to do, when to do it and in what manner it should be done. - Unknown

Discipline is like a vaccine. It inflicts lesser pain now to avoid greater pain later. - Dan Doriani

Discipline is like moonlight to cool the wild mind that is burning with anger, attachment, ignorance, jealousy and so forth. One becomes calm, concentrated, and magnificent, towering over ordinary beings like Mount Meru rising above the world. Others will be drawn to one's strength and will find great inspiration and confidence in it. It pacifies our own being, and it brings peace into the way other people and sentient beings relate to us. Thus wise practitioners protect their discipline as they would their eyes. Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho

Discipline is like sandpaper. It feels rough and abrasive when it's in motion, but the final result is a smooth and polished surface. - Jerry L. Parks

Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for it ourselves but feel sure it would be good for everybody else. - Unknown

Discipline is like the helm of a ship; it gives direction. - Zester Hatfield

Discipline is necessary and good. You can't raise successful children without it, but discipline should not repress or tyrannize. Discipline should lead to powerful habits of direction, work, and good judgment. Good discipline produces strength, not weakness; creativity, not banality; responsibility, not self-indulgence. - Zig Ziglar

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony. - Charles F. Stanley 

Discipline is teaching a child the way he should go. Discipline, therefore, includes everything you do to help your child learn. Unfortunately, it's one of the most misunderstood words in the English language. Most people generally think of it as punishment or as something unpleasant. We need to understand that discipline is something you do for a child. Punishment is something you do to a child when discipline fails. Both Greek and Hebrew words denoting discipline include the meaning of chastening, correction, rebuke, upbringing, training, instruction, education, and reproof. The purpose of discipline is positive – to produce a whole person, free from the faults and handicaps that hinder maximum development. - Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn

Discipline is the duty and the hope of all who would enjoy the benefits of society and of instruction. - John H. A. Bomberger

Discipline is the process by which energy is directed along certain lines to the exclusion of others. Instead of being expended in many ways in unreflecting response to every stimulant applied, it is concentrated and made to focus itself upon a single point, or rather is confined within certain narrow limits. Discipline is often spoken of as acquired power. A more exact statement would seem to be that discipline is ability to make energy effective by confining it in a certain channel. - Geo P. Brown

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. - Roy L. Smith

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak and esteem to all. - George Washington

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. - Bernard Montgomery

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. - Brian Tracy

Fair and reasonable discipline is like a fence that provides protection and defines limits, demonstrating both care and concern. - Les Christie

Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection. - Stanley Greenspan

Grabbing hold of the true concept of discipline is like trying to pick up liquid mercury – just when you think you have it cornered, it squirts from your grasp. - Thomas Mccafferty

He who hath not Discipline is like a race-horse without a rider. - John Ballou NewBrough

If love is the heart of the person, discipline is the skeleton, giving a person form and protection. - Henry Cloud & John Townsend

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak. - William Feather

It is not crazy to think of discipline as a chariot. Without discipline we would drive ourselves crazy. - Noah Benshea

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. - Zig Ziglar

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. - Vince Lombardi

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. - Immanuel Kant

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. - Seneca

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. - George Washington

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck. - Carl Zuckmayer

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. - Barbara Tuchman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert

Self-discipline is the free man's yoke. - John W. Gardner

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. - Julie Andrews

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown Jr

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune. - Robert Bridges

The best discipline is self-discipline. Without discipline, there is no life at all. - Unknown

The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. - Lee Iacocca

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tryon Edwards

The man under no discipline is like the spoiled child whom nothing satisfies. - Chester B. Lord

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. - Marcel Proust

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. - Bum Phillips

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. - Unknown

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfil and satisfy us--things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives. - Joyce Meyer

Without disciple we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems. - M. Scott Peck

Quote Worthy

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. - Frankfort Moore

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. - Bob Edwards

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Pearl Bailey

When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace. - John Lubbock

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. - Jawaharlal Nehru

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jeffeson

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes

   

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. - Miguel de Cervantes

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. -

Alexander Chase

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. - Louis Dembitz Brandeis  

Dark Chocolates Cut Heart Attack Risk? Not Quite

              If you are thinking of throwing out your cholesterol medication and chomping on dark chocolate instead, don’t.

              A group of cardiologists here has rubbished a recent study in Australia which claims that eating dark chocolate is a cost-effective way of cutting one’s risk of cardiovascular disease.

              The study is flawed, they say.

              Just published in the British Medical Journal, the study claims daily consumption of dark chocolate over 10 years would cut the number of fatal strokes and heart attacks by 15 for every 10,000 people, and the number of non-fatal strokes and hear attacks by 70 for every 10,000 people.

              The team from Monash University said: “Daily dark chocolate consumption could be an effective cardiovascular preventive strategy.

              Flavonoids, found in dark, but not milk chocolate, are known to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels – two risk factors for heart attacks.

              The Australian researchers calculated that if the country invested A$40 ($50) a person a year in a “chocolate strategy” with advertisements, education and possibly a subsidy, it would reap good returns.

              Dr Reginald Liew, a cardiologist at Singapore’s National Heart Centre, said while it is true that previous studies have shown the beneficial effects of eating dark chocolate, the researchers did not take into account the large amount of sugar and fat that would also be consumed, “which may undo some benefits found in this study”.

              This is a failing even the Monash team admits.

              Another flaw which limits the usefulness of the result is that the study was based on statistical modelling, meaning that the outcomes are “hypothetical” and not base on “real data”, said Dr Liew.

              He added that even if the findings were real, people would need to eat a lot of dark chocolate daily over 10 years – for “very modest benefits”.

              Dr Pipin Kojodjojo from the National University Heart Centre said: “Before you rush out to stock up on dark chocolate, be aware that the study has many flaws”.

              It is unrealistic to expect people to eat a 100g bar of dark chocolate every day of their lives, he added. Even if one assumes that a chocolate bar cost only $1, it would cost more that $40 million to prevent 70 non-fatal strokes and heart attacks and 15 deaths among 10,000 people.

              Dr Kojodjojo added: “I would argue that we’d prevent more strokes and heart attacks and save more lives if we could get 10,000 people to exercise for 20 minutes daily for 10 years, or 10,000 smokers to stop smoking for 10 years, or 10,000 at-risk patients to eat a healthier diet for 10 years.”

- Salma Khalik

Food For Thought

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -  Albert Schweitzer

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know”, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. -  Robert Heinlein

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare. -  Mahatma Gandhi

At The Supermarket

           A  young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following  him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him.

           She finally overtook him at the checkout, and  she turned to him and said, "I  hope I haven't made you feel ill at ease; it's just that you look so  much like my late son."   

           He answered, "That's okay."

           "I  know it's silly, but if you'd call out "Good bye, Mum" as I leave the  store, it would make me feel so happy."

           She then went through the checkout, and as she was on her way out of the store, the man called  out, "Goodbye, Mum."

           The little old lady waved, and smiled back  at him.

           Pleased that he had brought a little sunshine into  someone's day, he went to pay for his groceries.

           "That comes to  $121.85," said the operator.

           "How come so much ... I only bought 5 items.."

           The operator replied, "Yeah, but your Mother said you'd be paying for her things, too."