With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XVI

-Self-absorption does not bring happiness.
-There is a great tendency in all of us to withdraw into ourselves, or into safe little cliques of like-minded people, to live sheltered, claustrophobic, risk-free, boring little lives.
-The supreme irony is that while self-absorption brings unhappiness, happiness results from self-risk, inconvenient involvement, self-sacrifice, and costly love.
-Manners are unnatural.
-We acknowledge each other's existence by calling one another by name.
-To the lowest circumstances in which a human being can find himself, no one can take away from you your fundamental civility and no one can take away from you that even higher virtue: the option, the right, to be kind.
-Three simple phrases: I am wrong; I'm sorry; Thank you.
-The happy people are those who assume nothing and who live each day aware of their good fortune, giving thanks for all they do enjoy, however little that may be. Happy are those who count their blessings.
-Even when you don't think people are looking, they often are.
-This boy had done the right thing over and over just because it was the right thing. He expected no reward and he was not aware that the whole time the manager was noticing everything he did.
-Honor and honesty are best.
-When you base your personal life or your career on honesty, you build on a rock that will anchor you through every storm.
-If you try to accomplish anything in life you will receive criticism.
-The people I have come to treasure most in my joy are those who love me enough to take me aside and say: 'That's not right' or 'That's not good enough' or 'I don't think you should say or do that'. I don't enjoy such criticism , and they don't enjoy giving it but I benefit from it.
-Could there be some truth in what they say?
-A moral person's duty is not just avoid sin, but also to avoid the occasions of sin.
-Don't blame others for not taking responsibility for your life. Take responsibility for your own life.
-People say if you like sixty percent of what you are doing in life you are lucky,.
-The goal of every life should be to grow in awareness.
-There are experiences in other fields that are not open to me because I live in too limited a world. We all do. For that reason we must be constantly, consciously seeking new experiences, risking changes in our routine.
-If you have high standards and values, you will at times have to be intolerant and judgmental in normal day to day life.
-If you have seen great works of art you will find it difficult to tolerate cheap, tawdry, and shallow art. If you have read the works of great authors, you will have a hard time tolerating junk. If you are men of integrity, you will have a hard time tolerating fellow workers who lie and cheat.
-Society needs your standards and values. Do not be intimidated into tolerating what is ugly, bad, and untrue. Eschew bad advice: Live life to the full, excessively, immoderately, with abandon. Take risks that will open you up to new experiences and thoughts; don't play it safe. And stand intolerantly for what is good and true and beautiful.