Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

He understands badly who listens badly.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges