It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. --Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing Will Work
“Nothing will work unless you do.” --Maya Angelou
Other People's Faults
“It’s silly to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” — Marcus Aurelius
Wait for Others to Change
“If you wait for others to change, you’ll wait forever.” —Dr. Stephen Marmer; December 9, 2022; The Dennis Prager Show
Songs to a Heavy Heart
Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on a wound, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. —Proverbs 25:20
Up and Down
“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.” —Frederick Douglass
Discipline and Wisdom
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die. Punish them with the rod and save them from death.
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed; my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
—Proverbs 23:12-16
If I Am
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?” —Rabbi Hillel
Not a Problem
“It’s not a problem within myself to need to ask for help sometimes when I get stuck.” — H., 15 years old