The tormentof human

The tormentof human
The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.
  

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Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.
Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.
Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.
You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.
If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!