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"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."
Jim Rohn
“Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand
can drag you, because you have chosen to sink.”
Elizabeth Elliot
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D.
(1905 - 1997) Holocaust survivor, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
“Adults are just obsolete children. The hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
Maya Angelou
“You are the cause of whatsoever is happening to you. You are the cause, and the world is just a mirror. But it is consolatory always to find the cause somewhere else. Then you never feel guilt, you never feel self-condemned. You can always point out that here is the cause, and unless this cause changes, "How can I change?" You can escape into it; this is a trick. So your mind always goes on projecting causes somewhere else.”
OSHO, from The Book of Secrets
“Your problem is you're too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
Ram Dass
“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.”
Thomas Morton
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."
Thomas Merton
“The majority consists of fools, utter fools. Beware of the majority. If so many people are following, that is enough a proof that something is wrong. Truth happens to individuals, not to crowds.”
OSHO
"You think you are free, but there probably isn't a gesture, a thought, an emotion,
an attitude, a belief in you that isn't coming from someone else.”
Isn't that horrible? And you don't know it. Talk about a mechanical life that was stamped into you.
You feel pretty strongly about certain things, and you think it is you who are feeling strongly about them, but are you really?
It's going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call "I" is simply a conglomeration of your past experiences, of your conditioning and programming. That's painful. In fact, when you're beginning to awaken, you experience a great deal of pain. It's painful to see your illusions being shattered. Everything that you thought you had built up crumbles and that's painful.”
Anthony de Mello, from 'Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality'
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather,
he whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
Alfred Polgar
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. “
Ronald Reagan
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
Cynthia Nelms
“A big problem in this world is that the idiots are convinced that they know everything
and the intelligent people are full of doubts”
Bertrand Russell
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
Stephen Vincent Bent
“Isolation in the self, inability to go out of oneself to others, would mean incapacity for any form of self-transcendence. To be thus the prisoner of one’s own selfhood is, in fact, to be in hell.”
Thomas Merton
“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
"What the hell happened?"
Larry, the cable guy
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