Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff

by Richard Carlson

Many people, consciously or unconsciously, believe that it’s somehow their job to show others how their positions, statements, and points of view are incorrect, and that in doing so, the person they are correcting is going to somehow appreciate it, or at least learn something. Wrong!

“People are no longer human beings. We should be called human doings.”

Praise and blame are all the same is a fancy way of reminding yourself of the old cliché that you’ll never be able to please all the people all the time.

This philosophy is not a prescription for becoming passive or apathetic, but for making peace with the way things are.

“the shortest distance between two points is an intention.”