James Richardson Quotes

The new gets old much faster than the old gets older.

It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.

First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need.

The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.

He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don’t understand.

It’s amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?

Water deepens where it has to wait.

Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.

To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself.

It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it.

To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.

To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.