You Have To Be Ready If You Want To Be Loved

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
- Barbara de Angelis
Love, it is widely believed among those who do not place money before everything, is the most important achievement, state and emotion we can have in life. Yet as much as we [...]

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The Road To Wisdom Goes Through Love

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell, Scottish author (1740-1795)
It has often been said that wisdom is gained by making mistakes, that the wisest among us have made the most mistakes.
Recovering from mistakes and learning from them are critical to building wisdom. People who don’t [...]

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God’s “Favorites” Are Dangerous People

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.
- Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
The conclusion does not necessarily follow, logically, from the single premise, but it happens as a function of human nature.
When such a person happens (no coincidence) to be the leader of a military, that usually results in war. [...]

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We Were So Defrauded

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)
History is indeed a strange bird, as evidenced by this quote. Remember, Wilde lived more than a century ago.
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was quite correct about the existence of the Americas being known long [...]

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Pity The Miserable Suckers

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
- Sidney J. Harris
Few life lessons warrant as much attention as this. People who are miserable with others are [...]

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I Am A Rock

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
- Confucius (551 BCE – 479 BCE)
Not so popular during his lifetime, Confucius’s saying were collected after his death and became the basis for Confucianism. They emphasize love for humanity, with special attention given to learning, devotion to family (including [...]

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Writing Messages Brings Hidden Risks

If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
- Earl Wilson, columnist (1907-1987)
Wilson was saying that by writing and signing something it would be “cast in stone” to be available for scrutiny by anyone at any time. It could be used, if necessary, as evidence in court.
His advice, therefore, could be taken to [...]

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Science Proves We Like Helping Others

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
By rights, Helen Keller cannot be considered an expert on happiness any more than you or I. However, as the blind and deaf woman who went from total lack of [...]

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It’s All Dale Carnegie’s Fault

 There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
- Dale Carnegie, author and educator (1888-1955)
Dale Carnegie, best known for his extremely popular book How To [...]

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Don’t Let The Bastards Get To You

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
- Isaac Friedmann
It seems strange to put the words forgiveness and revenge into the same sentence, especially to relate them to each other.
The kind of quiet forgiveness that most of us would think of would not apply in this situation, I believe. That is, carrying around a grudge instead of letting [...]

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