The great essentials

The great essentials
The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.
  

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Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.
The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.
Usesoft words and hard arguments.