by libraryleader | Feb 27, 2019 | Improve, Self, Self-discipline
We have quite enough to do weeding our own garden.
by libraryleader | Dec 3, 2016 | Busy, Hurry, People, Self
For so many are in such a hurry to pry into other people’s business that they never turn aside to examine themselves.
by libraryleader | Aug 18, 2016 | Blame, Blaming, Self
…I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.
by libraryleader | Aug 16, 2016 | Critical, Criticize, Self
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
by libraryleader | Jul 11, 2016 | Bad, Blame, People, Self, You
“The times are bad! The times are troublesome!” This is what man says. But we are our times. Let us live well and our times will be good. Such as we are, such are our times.
by libraryleader | Apr 23, 2016 | Busy, Happiness, Happy, Self, Selfish, Selfless
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.