Mary Parker Follett on Conflict

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.


Mary Parker Follett

Source: wisdomquotes.com

Pema Chodron on Messages

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.

Pema Chodron

Source: wisdomquotes.com

Marshal Rosenberg on Anger

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist

Source:  wisdomquotes.com

Thomas Haliburton on Anger

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas C. Haliburton
Writer, lived 1796 - 1865


Source: wisdomquotes.com

Helen Keller on Remembrance

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Remembering Sam and all pets past and present.

Beryl Markham on Leaving

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham, West With the Night
 
Source: goodreads.com

David Locke on Enthusiasm

I'm not well and I care too much.

David Locke
Voice of the NBA Utah Jazz
On ESPN's Mike and Mike
Regarding his incoherent (but hilarious) play-by-play during the Jazz/Memphis Grizzlies game on April 14, 2012.

Francis Bacon on Doing

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.

Francis Bacon

Source: tinybuddha.com

Nathaniel Branden on Assertion

The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts.

Nathaniel Branden

Source: selfesteemawareness.com

Maya Angelou on Impressions

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Source: thinkexist.com

Napoleon Hill on Action

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

Source: thinkexist.com

Thomas Jefferson on Economics

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Tao of Abundance
by Laurence G. Boldt
©1999 Laurence G. Boldt, p. 162
Penguin Compass

Flavia Weedn on Perseverence

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn
Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

Source: quotegarden.com

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil on Growing Up

Shades of Gray

When the world and I were young just yesterday.
Life was such a simple game a child could play.
It was easy then to tell
Right from wrong
Easy then to tell
Weak from strong,
When a man should stand and fight
Or just go along.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

I remember when the answers seemed so clear,
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.

It was easy then to tell
Truth from lies
Selling out
From compromise
Who to love and who to hate
The foolish from the wise.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

It was easy then to know
What was fair
When to keep
And when to share
How much to protect your heart
And how much to care.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray.

Farewell and thank you, Davy Jones.

From Monkees Headquarters
Words and Music by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Copyright 1966 by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
6920 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
All Rights Reserved
Lyrics from reprint of 1966 sheet music

Source: monkees.net

Chuang Tzu on Destiny

Obey your own destiny; it is often very difficult, but it is the only means of attaining serenity.

Chuang Tzu


Source:  The Tao of Abundance
by Laurence G. Boldt
©1999 Laurence G. Boldt, p. 143
Penguin Compass