If you are distressed

If you are distressed
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
  

Jan, 20 2012     166 chars (2 sms)     892 views       Quotes

more Quotes SMS Messages

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.
We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.
The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.
Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.
In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.