Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e