“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You simply start by looking for God. Watch for Him. He is at work in your life. He will not abandon the one He redeemed at the cost of His own dear Son. He's not a deadbeat dad.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“a maddening knowledge that among fools in the land of Egypt I might claim high rank…”
Narrator Shan Greville in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
“To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“‘If a man will not work he shall not eat,’ wrote St. Paul to the Thessalonians.”
Margaret Thatcher to Church of Scotland, quoted in James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living