A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.
We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.
The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.
Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.