Quotes By, For and About Nines

People who are receptive to their environment and play down their own presence. When healthy they often are loving, modest and trusting. When unhealthy they can be stubborn, lazy and soul-dead.

"Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing." - Homer

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart." - Jerome K. Jerome

"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master." - Kahlil Gibran

"To forget someone means to think of him." - Jean De La Bruyere

"Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting the water." - African proverb

"A useless life is only an earlier death." - J.W. von Goethe

"My policy is to have no policy." - Abraham Lincoln

"A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom." - Alfred de Vigny

"Good temper is an estate for life." - William Hazlitt

"To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is ... to be full of that love which comes from a sense of at-one-ness with whatever." - John Cage

"The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make." - Chester I. Barnard

"Do not push forward a wagon; you will only raise the dust about yourself. Do not think of all your anxieties; you will only make yourself ill." - Shih King

"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip." - Lao-Tse

"Capacities clamor to be used, and cease to clamor only when they are well used." - Maslow

"The Tao does nothing yet nothing is left undone." - Lao-tzu