truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 5 January 2007 11:18 am

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:02 pm

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:03 pm

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:04 pm

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:05 pm

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:07 pm

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Mon 8 January 2007 12:08 pm

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt