Powerful Thoughts

There are two good rules which ought to be written upon every heart. Never believe anything bad about anybody, unless you positively know that it is true. Never tell even that, unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
Henry Van Dyke

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

Whatever our station in life may be, those of us who mean to fulfill our duty ought, first, to live on as little as we can; and, secondly, to do all the wholesome work for it we can, and to spend all we can spare in doing all the sure good we can.
John Ruskin

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen S. Wise

A large industrial concern discovered that nine out of ten cases of workers' inefficiency were caused by worry. A life insurance company found that four out of five nervous breakdown began not in actual events but in worry. A medical clinic's analysis of its patients showed that thirty-five percent of all illnesses on its records started with worry.
Charles M. Crowe

Confession of error is like a broom that sweeps away dirt and leaves the surface cleaner than before. It is a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue ourselves.