I want to take IBM back to its roots.
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.
Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. . . . the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.
I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.