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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2cb37ab | became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| dd74be0 | When Prince Napoleon, the cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte III, visited Washington in early August, Mary organized an elaborate dinner party. She found the task of entertaining much simpler than it had been in Springfield days. "We only have to give our orders for the dinner, and dress in proper season," she wrote her friend Hannah Shearer. Having learned French when she was young, she conversed easily with the prince. It was a "beautiful dinne.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b65e602 | When asked years later why Lincoln had won, he said: "The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 900e807 | The history of governments," John Hay later observed, "affords few instances of an official connection hallowed by a friendship so absolute and sincere as that which existed between these two magnanimous spirits. Lincoln had snatched away from Seward at Chicago the prize of a laborious life-time, when it seemed within his grasp. Yet Seward was the first man named in his Cabinet and the first who acknowledged his personal preeminence. . . . .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5597b2f | If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a more sympathetic understanding of the nation's alienated citizens in the South. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2694f4f | No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| c39416b | What had become of the singular ascending ambition that had driven young Roosevelt from his earliest days? What explains his willingness, against the counsel of his most trusted friends, to accept seemingly low-level jobs that traced neither a clear-cut nor a reliably ascending career path? The answer lies in probing what Roosevelt gleaned from his crucible experience. His expectation of and belief in a smooth, upward trajectory, either in .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 70088f3 | Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life--a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0dd96f0 | The art of communication, Lincoln advised newcomers to the bar, "is the lawyer's avenue to the public." Yet, Lincoln warned, the lawyer must not rely on rhetorical glibness or persuasiveness alone. What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law." Without that labor, without that drudgery, the most eloquent words lack gravity and power. Even "extemporaneous .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e81294a | It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The powerful competitors who had originally disdained Lincoln became colleagues who helped him steer the country through its darkest days. Seward | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5c45aab | Admiral Dahlgren's twenty-one-year-old son, Ulric, had lost a leg at Gettysburg. When he appeared at a Washington party, he was surrounded by pretty girls. They stayed by his side all night, refusing to dance, in tribute to the handsome colonel who had been known as an expert waltzer. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4c08f00 | Lincoln's liberal use of his pardoning power created the greatest tension between the two men (Lincoln and Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War). Stanton felt compelled to protect military discipline by exacting proper punishment for desertions or derelictions of duty, while Lincoln looked for any "good excuse for saving a man's life." When he found one, he said, "I go to bed happy as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and h.. | duty edwin-stanton lincoln mercy | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| c705b0a | I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. | civil-war history | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 7d3f931 | More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination, displaying a fierce ambition, an exceptional political acumen, and a wide range of emotional strengths, forged in the crucible of personal hardship, that took his unsuspecting rivals by surprise. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b4c933a | Shortly before she left for New York, she received an unwelcome present from South Carolina--a painting depicting Lincoln "with a rope around his neck, his feet chained and his body adorned with tar and feathers." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2fbccf0 | Dying begins with the first act of life. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| b869d19 | The lesson is never learned--there will always be those who persist in seeking the Fountain of Youth, or at least delaying what is irrevocably ordained. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| abf1fad | Human beings are capable of the kind of love and loyalty that transcends not only the physical debasement but even the spiritual weariness of the years of sorrow. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| b32912e | But the question is, how can my head be filled with such sad memories and yet I am still able to make people laugh? It's not always easy, but the secret is to compartmentalize the various sections of your brain. I can put aside the sad memories when I have to, but they're always lurking around somewhere, and sometimes they pop up when I least expect it. The more you practice, the easier it becomes. But to allow the joy to come front and cen.. | Ruth Westheimer | ||
| 270708e | You can't be a risk taker and expect to win each and every time. If you could control the future, then you wouldn't be taking any risks. And while failure leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, the sweetness of winning more than makes up for it, and you'll never win at anything unless you take a risk in the first place. | Ruth Westheimer | ||
| f5fb36b | For example, when a loved one dies, you validly think, "I lost him (or her), and I will miss the companionship and love we shared." The feelings such a thought creates are tender, realistic, and desirable. Your emotions will enhance your humanity and add depth to the meaning of life. In this way you gain from your loss." | David D. Burns | ||
| 97cfb16 | The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing. | David D. Burns | ||
| 1221c15 | Trees for which there is no commercial value are referred to as "weeds" that interfere with commercial harvesting. That's what alders were called until a method to make high-grade paper from them was developed, but you'd never know that alders play an important ecological role. They are the first trees to grow after an opening is cleared in a forest, and they fix nitrogen from the air to fertilize the soil for the later-growing, longer-live.. | David Suzuki | ||
| ddeaa60 | Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| a3ed0ea | Sometimes I think the greatest achievement of modern culture its its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modern society seems to me a celebration of all the things that lead away from the truth, make truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 5eb126c | Whatever you do, don't shut off your pain. Accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, don't shut off your pain because it is in fact trying to hand you a precious gift -- the chance of discovery through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow. And don't we know and only far too well, that protection from pain doesn't work. And when we try and defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don't learn.. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| cda2f60 | Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives straight. | reading | Stephen R. Covey | |
| f2086fc | When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 90cec51 | The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1d74ebe | People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 54a06f0 | Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny, | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 86f7bca | My friend, love is a verb. Love--the feeling--is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| df05fb0 | There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 5472826 | It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| ecce9f2 | To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| f44563e | Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 3fe5f30 | Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9e39aa0 | The Three Lives We all lead three lives: our public life, our private life, and our deep inner life. Our public life takes place in a community setting, where we interact with others. Our private life is away from the public--we may be alone, with a friend, or with family members. But our deep inner life is our most significant life. It is where our heart is. It's where we have the capacity to explore our own motives, to examine our own tho.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 601e681 | Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 3a6ce84 | Iak vidznachila Eleonora Ruzvel't: "Bez vashoyi zgodi nikhto ne mozhe vas obraziti". A za slovami G'andi, "u nas ne mozhut' vidibrati samopovagu, iakshcho mi sami yiyi ne viddamo". Nash dobrovil'nii dozvil, nasha zgoda na te, shcho z nami vidbuvaiet'sia, zavdaie nam nabagato bil'shogo boliu, nizh vlasne podiyi." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 5bdc817 | It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside." -- | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 351ac9f | if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 3bfc3a1 | The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1bf62de | It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place. | Stephen R. Covey |