CHINESE PROVERBS
Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch.
-- Chinese Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in a pocket.
-- Chinese Proverb
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.
-- Chinese Proverb
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb
QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -- Oscar Wilde
"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."
-- Jesse Jackson
"Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door."
-- Simeon Strunsky
"I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either."
--Bessie Delany
"It is a secret, both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things at once."
-- Francis Bacon, "Of Regiment of Health," Essays, 1625
"Change is the progress by which the future invades our lives."
-- Alvin Toffler, introduction to Future Shock, 1970
"Change is constant."
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh, Scotland, 29 October 1867
"A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good."
-- John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
-- Sandra Carey
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The mark of a man is one who knows he can't control his circumstances - but he can control his responses."
-- Kelsey Grammer as Frasier, in Frasier,television show
"Happiness is not something you experience, it is something you remember."
-- Oscar Levant
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Gandhi
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty..."
-- Albert Einstein
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, author
"The first wealth is health."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Conduct of Life" 1860, 'Power'
"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster."
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), "As You Like It" 1596-1600, act I, sc. IV
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
-- Marlene vos Savant
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-- Saint Francis of Assisi
"Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not."
-- Frank Pittman III, MD, 62, psychiatrist, author of Grow Up!
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 1893
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-- Helen Keller
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds."
-- Jameson Frank
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth."
-- Ken Auletta, journalist and author
"Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course."
-- Edward J. Koch, former mayor of New York City
"The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them."
-- Rabbi Harold Kushner, Massachusetts
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