Moi is over three quarters through the ‘Joy Jar’ exercise of finding something to be grateful for every day. What moi saw when she looked at a tape measure recently was not only measurements which relate to things, but it was a metaphor about measuring, a life. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is thinking about how a life measures in terms of quality.
“We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”
Henry David Thoreau
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Character is higher than intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Chinese Proverb
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
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