Death, War, Problems, Marriage Quotes

DEATH
Andrew Aitken Rooney
Death is just a distant rumor to the young.

WAR
Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

PROBLEMS
Jerry Weinberg
No matter what the problem is, it’s a people problem.

MARRIAGE
Helen Rowland
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Metaphysics, Academia, Problems, Conversation

METAPHYSICS
Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

ACADEMIA
John C. Maxwell
The problem with most educational institutions is that they try to teach people what to think, not how to think.

PROBLEMS
Phillip C. McGraw
… while the pain of dealing with your problems is an acute, easy-to-identify pain, the pain of avoiding them is also profound, even if more subtle.

CONVERSATION
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Ideas, Tribal, Problems, Manners

IDEAS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware when the great God lets loose a great thinker on the planet.

TRIBAL

Maori Proverb
The God of evil and the God of fear are good friends.

PROBLEMS

Raymond E. Feist
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

MANNERS

Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.