When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. - Shunryu Suzuki (1870-1966)
To know others you do not have to go and knock on four billion separate doors. Once you have seen your real Self, you have seen the Self in all. - Eknath Easwaran
I observe myself and I come to know others. - Lao-tzu (604-531 B.C.)
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man. - John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. - Byron J. Langenfeld
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart. - Chinese proverb
Men's hatreds generally spring from fear or envy. - Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. - Author Unknown
