Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be!

ABSENCE

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Absence -- that common cure of love.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

CONFIDENCE

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return
I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

COMMON SENSE

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

FORGIVENESS

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Forgiveness is God's command.
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Never repeat old grievances.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

ANGER

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

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