“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”- James Oppenheim
Category: Word Power
Word Power categories are post of quotes/poems/short stories from different known personalities or great and wise men/women that I like.
A good Physician
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”- William Osler
Prove it
“Love demands a loving deed. When you see someone in need, don’t just say: you love him so, prove it by the things you do.”- Unknown
The fight within
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me.” He said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil: he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He … Continue reading The fight within
The two men
“Two men looked out from prison bars: one saw the mud, the other saw the stars.”- Dale Carnegie
Happy
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
Message
“There’s a message in the way a person treats you..Just Listen.
Attitude
“The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that - life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it..”- Charles Swindoll
Fable: The mountain ⛰ & the squirrel 🐿
The mountain and the squirrelHad a quarrel,And the former called the latter, "little prig":Bun replied,You are doubtless very big,But all sorts of things and weatherMust be taken in togetherTo make up a year,And a sphere.And I think it’s no disgraceTo occupy my place.If I'm not so large as you,You are not so small as I,And … Continue reading Fable: The mountain ⛰ & the squirrel 🐿
Master
If ye cut, if ye file,If ye polish and grind,Is that what is meant?The Master said, Now I can begin to talk of poetry to Tz’u. Tell him what is gone and he knows what shall come.The Master said, “Not to be known is no sorrow. My sorrow is not knowing men.”- Confucius (iBook) Excerpts … Continue reading Master
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