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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
Mark Twain
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
Kabbalah
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
Lord Melbourne
It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.
Henrietta Mears
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Sir Philip Sidney
The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
The Talmud
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Jack Herbert
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
Edward Dahlberg
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
Edward Dyson
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
Sean O'Casey
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson
Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.
Charlie Munger
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru
It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
Source Unknown
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?Gildor says this in response to Frodo saying Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of th
