life

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.

The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.

This present moment was once the unimaginable future.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930):

1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
4. When you desire power, examine yourself closely as to why you deserve it.
5. When you have power, use it to build up people, not to constrict them.
6. Do not attempt to live without vanity, since this is impossible, but choose the right audience from which to seek admiration.
7. Do not think of yourself as a wholly self-contained unit.
8. Be reliable.
9. Be just.
10. Be good-natured.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.