64.Bellicose seekers will be met with opposition while the one who comes in
peace will be greeted with cooperation.
65.Public opinion is what society considers you to be. Reputation is what you
have done to enable associates , rivals and strangers to consider you to be.
Self-esteem is what you consider yourself to be .
66.Artists create
...what they think the public want .... for the joys of creating
...what they think that the public should see ... according to their whims
...exactly what the public want ... or things which will invite controversy
...for the sake of creating ... for the sake of their sanity.
67.It is much easier to yearn and possess than to cherish and preserve.
68.WHAT CAUSES CONFLICT ?
Differing points of view and no middle road for both to tread.
69.Actions are impulses and thoughts brought to the physical realm.
70.Curb fears that immobilise us. Value and harness those which mobilise us.
71.Sometimes the way to peace is to just accept the state of things.
72.The ability to adapt, learn , to be adept and improvise are methods used
for mastering situations .The ability to amass possibilities are methods of
altering or avoiding situations in which we were cast in.
73.We may not welcome old age yet we ought to welcome wisdom from
experience.
74.Among us are those who treasure their childhood and wish to be children
and innocent. There are those who treasure adulthood .There are those willing
to remain in the world of adolescent joys and pain.
75.Be calm if one is as wise as one ought to be.
Fear not if one is wiser too.
Fear when one is less than one ought to be.
76.Situations influence our mood. We cannot deny that our moods do exist.
We are all moody people.
77.Fear for yourself and for others if you have no control over destructive
impulses.
78.A perfectionist can be one who demands perfection from oneself and/or
from others. Demands for perfection may be constant or occasional , realistic
or otherwise while dealing with human or technological limitations .
79.Swearing to keep secrets is easy. To refrain ourselves from disclosing is
the challenge.
80.Sometimes it is the average person with common sense who puts things
right not experts weighed down by their theories and principles.
81.It is easy to disclose a secret. It is hard to live with the fact of having done
so.
82.Past brushes with fright make either the coward or the brave.
83.The make does not make a person.
84.There are times when changes appear to threaten our plans. They are
sometimes inevitable. At times it is our less than perfect ideals which are
threatened and to alter them will be to our advantage later.
85.Better to transform faces of the present and deal with the tide of
approaching time than undo an established past .
86.Truth can be blurred but its persistence ensures that its implications will
not be shrouded indefinitely. Truth outlives schemers .
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