Friday 30 November 2018

Cognitive Dissonance

This is why people get upset when their beliefs are challenged. A mental conflict occurs when beliefs are contradicted by new information. This conflict activates areas of the brain involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats. The brain's alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal and emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they previously regarded as 'truth'.

Proverbs, Axioms, Maxims ...

As a man is, so he sees. - William Blake

Eat to live, not live to eat. - Socrates

Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced. - South African Proverb

When one sheep leads the way all the rest follow. - Chinese Proverb

The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood

All is fair in love and war. - Sun Tzu

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Unknown

Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson

Every picture tells a story. - Unknown

Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. - Creole

Little by little does the trick. - Aesop

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. - George Herbert

Lightning strikes the tallest trees. - English Proverb

Every dog is a lion at home. - Italian Proverb

Ill weeds grow fast. - John Heywood

Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb

Roll with the punches. - Unknown

Keep a stiff upper lip. - Unknown

Swords and guns have no eyes. - Chinese Proverb

Wednesday 28 November 2018

humour

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Sunday 25 November 2018

Love - Quotes

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other. - Christian Nestell Bovee

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. - Harold Lokes

Love is when someone breaks our heart into a million pieces, and the most amazing thing is that we still love them with all the broken pieces of our heart. - Unknown

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. - Leo Buscaglia

True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh

You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to the person to realize your worth. - Unknown

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. - Fernando Pessoa

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny. - Sergei Lukyanenko

The one who loves you will never leave you, because even if there are 100 reasons to give up, he will find one reason to hold on. - Unknown

Love is like a word written in Chinese; most of us don’t understand what it truly means. - Rodney M

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you… but trusting them not to. - Unknown

More on Love Here, and the book The Light of Love

Saturday 24 November 2018

Life - Quotes

Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. - Dean Koontz

In the Game of Life, sometimes people kick us as if we are football; but they don’t know that they themselves are sending us near the Goal. - Unknown

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes, you can if you will. -Charles R. Swindoll

If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. - Terry Pratchett

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. - C. Everett Koop

Life doesn’t allow for us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last. - Unknown

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. - C. Neil Strait

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. - Vince Lombardi

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. - Anthony Robbins

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Publius Terence

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.

Friday 23 November 2018

Humour

Instead of saying “Have a nice day”, I think I’ll start saying, “Have the day you deserve”. You know, let Karma sort that shit out. - Unknown

Marry someone who can cook. Looks go away, but hunger don’t. - Unknown

Silence is golden. Unless you have kids – then it’s suspicious. - Unknown

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. - Doug Larson

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. - Laurence J. Peter

Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes. - Unknown

Duct tape can’t fix stupid. But it can muffle the sound. - Unknown

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C. K.

Never in the history of calming down has anyone ever calmed down by being told to calm down. - Unknown

If someone says, “You’re gonna regret that in the morning,” I sleep in ‘til noon. Problem solved. - Unknown

To me, ‘drink responsibly’ means don’t spill it. - Unknown

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Thursday 22 November 2018

Quote Worthy

Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there who needs what you have to give. - Unknown

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions. - George Washington

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. - Thomas Carlyle

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. - Nikolai Lenin

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. - Lance Armstrong

Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship. - Vincent Rocchio

Certainly, every man can be courteous, for it costs nothing, and is within the ability of all. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

You cannot clap with one hand alone. - John Taylor Wood

Dare to be wrong and to dream. - Friederich von Schiller

No one reaches a high position without daring. - Publilius Syrus

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Søren Kierkegaard More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy

Wednesday 21 November 2018

Truth - Quotes

People can’t change truth, but the truth can change people. - Unknown

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R.R. Martin

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. - Aristotle

Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, the mind overlooks the plain truth of the moment. - Lao Tzu

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. - Dan Brown

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. - Joe Abercrombie

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. - Unknown

Questions are key to door of truth. - Charlie Chan

Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking. - Eliza Cook

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. - Henry David Thoreau

Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth can be hard. - Unknown

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. - Baltasar Gracian

Some people do not mind the lies told about them. It is the truth that bothers them. - Unknown

Some things are too terrible to be true. - Bob Dylan

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Zeal - Quotes

Looking for a quote on a particular subject? I have categorized the quotes to make the search easier This 'label' - ZQuotesZ - has all the quotes on subjects beginning with the Alphabet Z. You might want to search the labels on the right hand side of the page too.

Blind zeal is a sword in a madman's hands. - Flaxel

Every creed has its zealots. - Zosimus

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. - Isaac Barrow

Too much zeal spoils all. - Diocletian

True zeal is a soft and gentle flame that will not scorch anyone's hand. - Cudworth

Zeal in good cause is just. - C. P. Villiers

Zeal is an edge-tool, which children in understanding should not meddle withal; and yet it most frequently possesseth the weakest minds. - John Tillotson

Zeal is an enchantment. - Zamoyski

Zeal is one of the dynamic forces for accomplishment. This is more than talk, more than declaration and perception; it is putting your entire being into what you are doing for maximum output. - Bilson Kings

Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone. - Anthony Mwami

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. - Pasquier Quesnel

Zeal should not outweigh discretion. - P. Jarrige

Zeal without judgment is like gunpowder in the hands of a child. - Eliza Cook

Monday 19 November 2018

Love - Quotes

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love. - Leo Buscagalia

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Hoosier Farmer

Don’t give up on love because there is always someone who loves you EVEN it’s not the person you were hoping for. - Unknown

If you love someone, you’ll be willing to give up everything for them. But if they love you, they’ll never ask you to. - Unknown

Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today. - Michelle C. Ustaszeski

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time. - Honore de Balzac

Love is the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. - M. Scott Peck

Loving someone is a leap of faith. You are giving them your heart and trusting them not to break it. - Unknown

Love is timeless, it’s the memory of yesterday, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. - Unknown

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out - Rumi

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. - Alexander the Great

Love is when you sit beside someone, doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy. - Unknown

More on Love Here, and the book The Light of Love

Sunday 18 November 2018

Life - Quotes

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety. - Bryant McGill

Life's joys and sorrows meet us every day, but some are blinded by their tears of sorrow and see no joy. - S. Moore

Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? - Robert Brault

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. - Tibetan Proverb

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realized how blessed you are. - Unknown

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. - Abraham Hicks

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - Bertrand Russell

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. - Chuck Palahniuk

All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives. - Tony Blauer

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Tony Robbins

It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. - Shauna Niequist

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.

Saturday 10 November 2018

Life - Quotes

Man is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing in life, including our circumstances or potential, is fixed. Reality is bendable to our will. - Brendon Burchard

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. - Jimmy Buffett

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll

So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for having felt regret today. - Fernando Pessoa

Sometimes, life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts. - Dave Wilson

Sometimes, life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes, you have to take a step back and realize what’s important in your life, what you can live with, but more importantly, what you can’t live without. - Unknown

The best philosophy in life is to keep the mind happy. We don’t know whether success gives happiness or not, but a happy mind can always lead to success. - Unknown

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston S. Churchill

The greatest things in life – truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion – are already inside us, and they’re all free. - Yanni

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.

Sunday 4 November 2018

Love - Quotes

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. - Gwendoline Christie

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wayne Dyer

Never rush into falling in love, because love never runs out; Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides true love is worth waiting for. - Unknown

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. - Sai Baba

I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up. - Felicity Kendal

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. - Bruce Forsyth

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi

A relationship of true love is one where both people have an equal desire to make one another happy. - Unknown

Everybody loves you when you love everybody. No one love you if you do not love any one. - Unknown

Love is like a bed of roses, which means love brings about two things pain and happiness. - Unknown

Before you set out to love someone else, you must muster the courage to love yourself. - Shriyaa

Love has a unique property which none else has: It’s both a strength and a weakness! - Unknown

More on Love Here, and the book The Light of Love