Understanding is a Two-Way Street

 

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize anyone,
walk a mile in their shoes.
- Anonymous [gender-neutral update]

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Further reading: The Art of Listening

Opportunity for Kindness

Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one

Open Your Mind
      

Wisdom via Humor

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

Further reading: Taking Ourselves Less Seriously

Sense of Humor

The Problem with Advice

Too Serious?

Cute Wisdom
    

Look Through Each Other's Eyes

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize anyone,
walk a mile in their shoes.
- Anonymous [gender-neutral update]

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Further reading: The Art of Listening

Opportunity for Kindness

Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one

Open Your Mind
      

Empathy & Compassion

 

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Further reading: The Art of Listening

Opportunity for Kindness

Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one

Open Your Mind
      

True Empathy

 

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Further reading: The Art of Listening

Opportunity for Kindness

Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one

Open Your Mind
      

Do Not Rebuke the Sufferer

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Further reading: The Art of Listening

Opportunity for Kindness

Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one

Open Your Mind
      

Lead a Clean Life and Avoid Keeping Secrets

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
If you don't want others to know about it, don't do it.
If you always do what you know you should,
you will never have to worry about keeping secrets.
Be a person with no secrets to keep.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine

Further reading: Set an Impeccable Example

7 Secrets for a Happy Life

Why be Good?

Honor Your Commitments
      

Celebrate Differences, Celebrate Others

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Condemn none:
if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so.
If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers,
and let them go their own way.
- Swami Vivekananda

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious,
and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day,
only in a different way.
- Will Rogers

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
- Mercedes Ruehl

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
- Hugh Prather

Further reading: Respect Others

Each To Their Own

A Different Drummer
       

Thoughts on the Catastrophe in Christchurch New Zealand

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers

Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")

When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: Other People's Opinions

Categorizing People

Different and yet the Same
       

All Different, All One

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
- Mercedes Ruehl

Condemn none:
if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so.
If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers,
and let them go their own way.
- Swami Vivekananda

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
- Hugh Prather

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious,
and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day,
only in a different way.
- Will Rogers

Further reading: See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

A Different Drummer

Each To Their Own

Respect Others
       

Be a Person with No Secrets to Keep

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
If you don't want others to know about it, don't do it.
If you always do what you know you should,
you will never have to worry about keeping secrets.
Be a person with no secrets to keep.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: 7 Secrets for a Happy Life

Honor Your Commitments

Set an Impeccable Example

Why be Good?
      

Our Secrets

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This aphorism is partly about being open and forthcoming, but it is more about never doing anything that you would be ashamed to have people know about. If you always do what you know you should, you will never have to worry about keeping secrets.

Further reading: To Thine Own Self Be True

Approve of Yourself

Stand Tall and Proud

My Own Person
   

Humorous Wisdom

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

Further reading: Taking Ourselves Less Seriously

Sense of Humor

The Problem with Advice

Too Serious?

Cute Wisdom

Keeping Secrets

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence
you have not already tested.
- Elizabeth I

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
If you don't want others to know about it, don't do it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Pass the Word

Integrity

How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret

Secrets of Happy Couples

Condemn None

Condemn none:
if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so.
If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers,
and let them go their own way.
- Swami Vivekananda

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
- Mercedes Ruehl

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious,
and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day,
only in a different way.
- Will Rogers

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
- Hugh Prather

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

Respect Others

Each To Their Own

A Different Drummer

Condemnation

Differences

More Than Money

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

There is nothing wrong with money. Having money, spending money, earning money, and even wanting more money are all well and good up to a point. It is obsession with money, fear of lack of money, and an unlimited desire for more money that are at the root of much modern misery.

Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money
 
Quotes about Wealth and Power

Tips for Saving Money while Living Well

The simple gifts of life

The Things Divine

Simple Living

Appreciation

Enjoying Life

Simplicity

Serenity

Money

Folk Wisdom

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton 

 I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. - Buddy Hackett 

 If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. - Abraham Lincoln 

 Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Further reading: What I Know - What I Don't Know 

  Planting Seeds Pleasing Everyone

Money

Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Marsha Sinetar

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

What is money? Is money the root of all evil? Is money a measure of success in life? Is money something we "need?" Is money something to be avoided? The answer to all those questions is No. Strip away the emotional baggage that most people carry regarding the subject of money, and you find that money is simply a medium of exchange, an advancement on the barter system. Today, take a few minutes to write what "money" means to you. Then examine what you wrote to see if you can remove the emotional aspects of your thinking about money.

Further reading: How to Save Money while Living Well

Funny Quotes to Live By

Often wise advice is easier to accept when it is presented with humor. Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde were masters of telling a cute story that embodied great wisdom about life. 

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain 

 Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert Heinlein

 The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde 

 A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. - Will Rogers 

 Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. - the movie Forrest Gump 

 The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when you don't understand yourself. - Anonymous 

 Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life 

  How to Get Un-Stuck 

  How to Choose Your Life Purpose