Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
Zhuangzi is especially insightful about the human pretension to know. The Zhuangzi tells a story about a frog who lives in caved-in well. Because he is the lord of this little world of his, king of the pollywogs, he is very proud of himself. But he doesn't know how small his world is until a turtle comes and tells him about the vastness of the sea. We human beings are like the frog, not realizing how little our worlds are.
In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside. ” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]
Dogs are my favorite people.
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
Vanity prevents improvement