Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold onto their anger or hurt, they bleed away their energy reserves, often ending up bitter and depressed .


"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."
Jonathan Westover

Bodie Thoene
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

George Soros
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Remember, the mind likes to assume it "know what it knows" but often its perceptions are just not accurate. Yet strong judgments are made all the time based on limited information...When we judge someone and then adopt an attitude toward them, that shuts down other possibilities and locks us away from the insight of our hearts.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. Unknown

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

[Wants2Fly]

Good thoughts. Thank you for rounding these up for us.

[Direction]

Challeges some of my thinking...

[lessthansign3]

Thanks for the quotes! They're awesome!

[drclay]

Thank you, fayerody, for these gems of wisdom. I love wise sayings; I have saved several hundred. Many are in my book but I find it difficult to find just the right saying for someone I'm trying to help.

I wish someone would organize the sayings we can collect by topics or content or subjects or problems. I know fayerody and others on this site have lots of sayings. I may have gathered over 1000 but it is hard to quickly find the right gem out of hundreds randomly arranged good sayings. So their value is lost. Once we got wise sayings organized by usable topics or contents, I'll bet drjohn could find a way to make them available to everyone on PsychCentral or I could them on Psychological Self-Help. Anyone interested in editing and organizing? A good place to start would be with a review of other book of quotes in the self-help or self-understanding area.

It would be a way to share self-help ideas and a way to make a name for yourself for years...or decades...or a lifetime. If the sources were cited for each quote, maybe we wouldn't have trouble with Copyright Laws--what do you think?

drclay

[Perna]

I was going to do an online quotation collection 5-10 years ago but wasn't up to it. So many possible ways to organize it, I got bogged down in trying to envision what I'd want and also didn't have the technical expertise to make it searchable in several useful ways.

Now I just use a little-known favorite of mine, Greenleaf Enterprises

http://www.greenleafenterprises.com/quotes.php

which is alphabetical by author (i.e., "E" has Thomas Edison, Einstein, Eisenhower, etc.) and while they're mostly about "work" they have a lot of "old fashioned" and nineteenth and early twentieth century authors who talk about "character" too.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher

"As a day well spent brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."