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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
– George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
The most indifferent thing has its force and beauty when it is spoken by a kind father, and an insignificant trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful child.
– Sir Richard Steele, Irish writer, politician (1672-1729)
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
– William Hazlitt, British writer, philosopher (1778-1830)
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy – a vice which yields no return?
– Honore de Balzac, French novelist, playwright (1799-1850)
Most kids and too many parents judge each other harshly about faults and worst acts. The greater wisdom is to be generous and let our thoughts be filtered through their best attributes and our warmest memories.
– Michael Josephson

Great quotes from Michael Jospehson's email:

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
– Alexander Pope, British poet (1688-1744)
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost!
– Motto over a school in Germany
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.
– Dwight Whitney Morrow, businessman, diplomat (1873-1931)
We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, philosopher (1803-1882)
The importance of what you do goes well beyond what it gets you; it determines what you are. And what you are is infinitely more important than what you have.
– Michael Josephson

How to Change the World: The Art of Visual Thinking

How to Change the World: The Art of Visual Thinking: "I have a Dr. Seuss qoute on my wall: 'The writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.'"

Great quote.

Refdesk.com - Thought-of-the-Day Archive

Refdesk.com - Thought-of-the-Day Archive: "'Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.' - Andre Maurois"

Amen Amen.