I SELF-DISCOVERY
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure of being Salvador Dali.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Blame is safer than praise.

Until you know that life is interesting - - and finds it so - - you haven't found your soul.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Knowing your darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, "It's no use - - I can't do it"

Don't be humble. You're not that great. When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I am happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility.

Development is learning to love actively and to bear rejection.

No man knows what he can do till he tries.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

CHILDREN
Children love to learn, but hate to be taught.

Never lend your vehicle to anyone to whom you have given birth.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots: the other, wings.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Life does not begin at conception, but when the kids leave home and the dog dies.

Children are a great comfort in your old age - - and they help you reach it faster, too.

LOVE
Love Puts The Fun In Together, The Sad In Apart, The Hope In Tomorrow, The Joy In a Heart.

My love is like a red red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking in the same direction together.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

It's easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

OBSTACLES AND PROBLEMS
I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it.

Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Castles in the air--they are so easy to take refuge in; and so easy to build as well.

Charity/Kindness
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

You can't take it with you.

You never see a U-Haul following a hearse.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are m.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization