These quotes can be found in Agel and Glanze's Pearls of Wisdom and Morehei Ueshiba's The Art of Peace, gifts from Janet and Cassandra, respectively.
Don't be angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,
because you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
-- Thomas a Kempis (15th century)
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften
and purify the heart.
-- Washington Irving
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it
out.
-- Frank A. Clark
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
To a large degree reality is whatever the people who are around at the
time agree to.
-- Milton H. Miller
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to
be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter
if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense.
-- Buddha (6th century B.C.)
Facing it -- always facing it -- that's the way to get through. Face
it!
-- Joseph Conrad
In the Art of Peace we never attack. An attack is proof that one is out
of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try
to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally. Let attackers come any
way they like and then blend with them. Never chase after opponents.
Redirect each attack and get firmly behind it.
-- Morehei Ueshiba