They Make Us See

Our opinion of people depends less on what we see in them than upon what they make us see in ourselves.

Sara Grand

Love and Hate

Love must be learned, and learned again, and again; there is no end to it.

Hate needs no instruction, but want's only to be provoked.

Katherine Anne Porter

The Other Person's Shoes

Thomas Aquinas, who knew more about education and persuasion than almost anybody who ever lived, once said that when you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him. You don't stand across the room and shout at him; you don't call him a dummy; you don't call him over to where you are. You starts where he is, and work from that position. That's the only way to get him to budge.

Sydney J. Harris,

the columnist.

Anyway

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered

Love them anyway

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives

Do good anyway

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies

Succeed anyway

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable

Be honest and frank anyway

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow

Do good anyway

The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds

Think big anyway

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs

Fight for some underdogs anyway

What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight

Build anyway

Give the world the best you have and you get kicked in the teeth

Give the world the best you've got anyway

Reader’s Digest, Dec 1982