A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?
Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her. . . . It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.