Quote Worthy

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. - Herodotus

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself: "It all depends on me." - Andre Gide

  

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. - Charles F. Kettering

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. - Tony Robbins

Hugs - Quotes

A hug is like a boomerang: you get it back right away. - Bil Keane

A warm hug from a loved one is a little bit of Heaven on Earth. - Unknown

Hug is the best wordless way of showing your love. No other feeling is better when you feel the arms of your lover tighter around you. This is the action that makes you happy and forgets any pain. - Unknown

Stretch out your arms and give your loved one a hug today; it will do both of you a world of good. - Unknown

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. - Unknown

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs. - Robert Heinlein

Fathers - Quotes

A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. - Frank A. Clark

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. - Billy Graham

A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. - Unknown

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. - Frank Abagnale

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown Author

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. - Anne Geddes

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. - Naveen Jain

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. - Reed Markham

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers – and fathering is a very important stage in their development. - David M. Gottesman

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. - Sigmund Freud

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

It’s really bad when dads cry. - Sarah Ockler

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honour how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it. But if we are honest with ourselves, we'll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it. - Barack Obama

One father is more than a hundred school masters. - George Herbert

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. - Confucius

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. - Angelo Patri

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russel

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. - John Green

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than a hundred rebukes or chidings. - John Locke

There is probably no more terrible enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man – with human flesh. - Frank Herbert

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honour that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be. - Kent Nerburn

Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life – the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So, Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too. - Kevin Leman

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. - Robert Brault

Lao Tzu, the Patriarch of Taoism

Empty the heart, fill the abdomen.

Explanation:

Relax, and empty your mind and heart of all thoughts. Breathe in gently and deeply, so that the incoming cosmic energy fills the energy centre at your abdomen. - Lao Tzu

The supreme good is like water,

Which nourishes all things without trying to.

It is content with the low places that people disdain.

Thus it is like the Tao.

- Lao Tzu

In dwelling, live close to the ground.

In thinking, keep to the simple.

In conflict, be fair and generous.

In governing, don't try to control.

In work, do what you enjoy.

In family life, be completely present.

- Lao Tzu

When the highest type of men hear Tao,

They diligently practice it.

When the average type of men hear Tao,

They half believe in it.

When the lowest type of men hear Tao,

They laugh heartily at it.

- Lao Tzu

Quote Worthy

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. - Hosea Ballou

   

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. - Honore De Balzac

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. - Edward Frederic Benson 

There are no such things as incurable. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. - Bernard Baruch

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. - Richard Bach

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. - Joan Baez

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. - Gamaliel Bradford

Outsmarted

The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen.

After several minutes, the older worker had had enough.

“Why don’t you put your money where your mouth is?” he said. “I will bet a week’s wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that building that you won’t be able to wheel back.’’

“You’re on, old man,” the young guy replied.

The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then he turned to the young man and said, “Alright. Get in.”

Giving - Quotes

All that is given cheerfully and generously to another comes back to you and enriches your life in unexpected ways. - Unknown

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles. - Haney Ward Beecher

Give alms, if thou can; if not, a sweet and gentle word. - Unknown

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. - Nigerian Proverb

Give to those in need. One day you may benefit from the kindness of someone who does likewise. - Unknown

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. - Barbara Bush

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. - Ethel Percy Andrus

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. - Kahlil Gibran

No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank

The deep rewards of giving go to those who give out of a concern for others, and take pains to see that their giving is wisely done, to meet real needs or seize promising opportunities. - F. Emerson Andrews

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. - Baltasar Gracian

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. - Max Beerbohm

When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more – and so love is planted and grows. - David J. Lieberman

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson

You give but little when you give of your possessions.  It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Khalil Gibran

Faults - Quotes

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others. - Norman MacDonald

A sure way to hear of your faults is to boast of your virtues. - Norman MacDonald

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d. - Shakespeare

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Consider not one fault where there are many virtues. - Edward Counsel

Easily seen are other's faults; hard indeed it is to see one's own faults. - Unknown

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it. - Shakespeare

Faults are more easily recognized in the works of others than in our own. - Leonardo da Vinci

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. - Benjamin Franklin

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus

If you feel you have no faults, that makes another one. - Unknown

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin

It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. - Unknown

Men sometimes reproach themselves with fancied faults, that they may be thought less guilty of real ones. - Norman MacDonald

Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds – by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle. - Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is easier than to find a fault, and nothing more difficult than the ability to substitute the proper correction. - Norman MacDonald

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own. - William Penn

Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. - William Shakespeare

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. - Georg G. Christoph Lichtenberg

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. - Unknown

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it. - Unknown

Some people have a way of making their faults pleasing, while others have a way of making their virtues repulsive. - Lewis F. Korn

The easiest thing to find is fault. - Unknown

The faults that are visible in ourselves should, at least, teach us tenderness with respect to those we imagine in others. - Norman MacDonald

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. - Dale Turner

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. - Publilius Syrus 

We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience. - Luc de Clapiers

We often appear unconscious of our faults, merely from frequency of viewing them. - Norman MacDonald

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. - Benjamin Franklin

Quote Worthy

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. - Aesop

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. - Marquis De Vauvenargues

I like the dream of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. - Sir Walter Scott

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

Only those who risk going too far can find out how far one can go. - T.S. Elliot

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one’s self. - John Gay

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. - Arthur Schopenhauer 

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. - James Allen

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Johann Von Goethe

Humanity - Quotes

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, desiring attainment for himself, helps others to attain. - Unknown

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Martin Luther King Jr

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiencies of humanity into the process. - David Baldacci

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. - Tom Robbins

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. - Thurgood Marshall

It wants not merely microscopic but telescopic power to know humanity in its essence; a power to discern its grandeur as well as its littleness, the infinity of its relations as well as the meanness of its pursuits. The human soul is a great deep. We must take into view the nebulous possibilities that are brooding and waiting there, and notice the buds and films of light that reveal themselves even in the darkest spaces. - E. H. Chapin On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. - R. Buckminster Fuller

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. - Joseph Campbell 

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity. - William Ellery Channing

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. - Henri Frederic Amiel

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness. - Charles Baudelaire

The darkness of humanity's past threatens to eclipse the brightness of its future. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. - Mahatma Gandhi

The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. - Dean Koontz

The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small designs of happiness and love. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. - H.L. Mencken

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. - Victor Hugo

Throughout most of our history, nothing – not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons – has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. - Tom Robbins

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment. - Horace Mann

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. - Dan Simmons

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. - Chinua Achebe

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi