Jim McDonald quotes

“I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.”
-- Jim McDonald

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“The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.”
-- Jim McDonald

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“The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.”
-- Jim McDonald

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“The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.”
-- Jim McDonald

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“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books

“I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.”

“The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

“Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.”

“PeaceÂ… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.”

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

“I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.”

“To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...”