One day
A wanderer found a piece of clay,
So redolent of perfume
Its odor scented all the room.
“What art thou ?” was the quick demand
“Art thou some gem of Samarcand?”
Or spikenard rare in rich disguise
Or other costly merchandise ?”
“Nay I am but a piece of clay .”
“Then whence this wondrous sweetness ,pray?”
“Friend ,if the secret I disclose
I Have been dwelling with a Rose.
A PERSIAN FABLE
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Sing a song of Glory, and you will be that Glory.
Nothing , are you , but a song ; And as you sing, You are.
You thought you were the teacher.
And you find you are the one who is taught.
You thought you were the seeker,
And you find you are the one who is sought.
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Maturity begins when we are content to feel we are right about something,
without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong Sydney Harris
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others. our own property.
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Life is a card game in which everyone is dealt a hand which he must accept.
His success will depend on his playing as well as it can be played.
A very large number of failures in life occur because men refuse to do this
and instead insist on playing the hand they think they should have been dealt.
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Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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If you can be deceived, you can be conquered.
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar to few.
Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing is more confusing than the fellow who gives good advice, but sets a bad example.
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Man is born to live , Not prepare for Life.
Boris Pasternak.
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All animals except Man, know that the principal business of Life is to enjoy it.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while ,he knows something.
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I believe in immortality of the soul because I have in me,
immortal longings. Helen Keller
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Happiness.
That peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable.
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Courage :
Fear that has said its prayers.
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Crisis is the process by which we go from the transient to the permanent
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The psychic task which a person can, and must set for himself, is not to feel secure ,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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You will find ,as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand outare the moments when you have done things for others.
Henry Drummond.
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My Grandfather always said that Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. Amy Lowell.
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If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
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Feeling let down today ? Try looking up.
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
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A little commonsense, a little tolerance, a little good humor ,and
you don’t know how comfortable you can make yourself on this planet.
Somerset Maugham
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The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied by cheerfulness.
We have sufficient proof on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.
Thomas Love Peacock
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You come into this world with nothing.
Anything you get after that is sheer profit
Tommy Steele
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We die daily. Happy are those who come to life daily, as well.
George McDonald
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Definition of successful people ??
They get up whenever they fall down. –
Paul Harvey
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Any idiot can face a crisis;
it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekov
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Angels Fly.
Because they take themselves lightly.
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If you have never been amazed by the fact that you exist,
you are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed.. I well know.
For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself
Clemenceau
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IT IS NO USE TRYING TO BE CLEVER – WE ARE ALL CLEVER HERE-
JUST TRY TO BE KIND .. A LITTLE KIND.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist.
It reduces him to his fighting weight.
John Billings
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Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing
how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
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Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained.
To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James Carse
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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
Somerset Maugham.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau
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There are two kinds of people on earth that I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
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There are two things to aim at in life
First to get what you want ; and after that ,to enjoy it .
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet,
Neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle
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If you would have a happy family life , remember two things :
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
In matters of taste ,swim with the current.
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Worry centers on self.
Prayer centers on God
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Gods’ Love is unconditional.
Gods’ promises are conditional.
Mans’ error is in transposing them
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Happiness has the habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful to his God,
comfortable with his conscience, in favor with his friends,
in love with his neighbors, and in balance with his bank
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I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine,
without herbs, without any witch’s magic;
And that is ,IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED,THEN LOVE.
Senecas’Letters from a stoic.
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Also constantly remember this rule:
The more you think for yourself, the more marked will your individuality be.
George Bernard Shaw
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All the good maxims have been written and spoken.
It only remains to put them into practice.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills.
Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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Don’t let someone else create your world for you;
For when they do ,they will always make it too small.
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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is ,
not to feel secure, but, to be able to tolerate insecurity
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Fame can come in a moment.
But Greatness takes time.
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Strength is tested by resistance to pressure.
TRUE OF MARRIAGE,FRIENDSHIPS AND CHARACTER.
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Never Go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the ones you did do … Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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Crisis does not make the man.
It only exposes him for what he already is.
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There must come the moment when all your mirrors turn into windows.
That is the moment of growing up. The adolescent looks inwards. The adult can look outwards
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Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change-
From lesser to greater.
From smaller to bigger.
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PRAYER:
Key of the morning.
Bolt of the evening.
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You are not responsible for the thoughts that pass your door.
You are responsible only for those that you admit and entertain.
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Praise is like chewing gum.
Meant to be enjoyed. Not swallowed.
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The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
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Money is money. Beans tonight and steak tomorrow.
So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth,
like a male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship.
I like a state of continued becoming , with a goal in front ,not behind.
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It seems that the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing
but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Man and eternity:
Many of our painful frustrations are caused by our driving desire to make
an end of some or the other unfinished business. We harass our dogs and our children today,
training them for tomorrow. We are in a kind of cold rage to bring about a desired end
in our own time and by our own means.Eternity must be laughing at our pretences.
To be driven by a passion to hurry the end, is to famish our lives of the living present
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Only Idiots believe everything they hear.
Smart people believe only half of what they hear.
The smartest among them, know which half to believe
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A Prayer must never be answered.
If it is, it ceases to be a prayer and becomes correspondence.
OSCAR WILDE
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Worry centers on self.
Prayer centers on God
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SUCCESS : IS Failure turned inside out.
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If you can be deceived, you can be conquered.
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GENTLEMAN-Someone who can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The greatest thing a father can do for his children,
Is to love their mother.
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Gods’ Love is unconditional.
Gods’ promises are conditional.
Mans’ error is in transposing them
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Never loose sight of the fact that Old age requires so little.
But needs that little , so much
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AGAINST STUPIDITY
EVEN GODS FIGHT IN VAIN.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
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If you would have a happy family life , remember two
things : In matters of of principle stand like a rock.
In matters of taste swim with the current.
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God will not look upon you over for medals ,degrees or diplomas,but for scars.
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Rudeness is a weak man’s imitation of strength.
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The Sun,with all those planets revolving around it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes,as if it had nothing
else in the world to do. GALELIO
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Childhood shows the man ,as morning shows the day.
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Man was born only with two fears :
Those of loud noise and of falling down.
EVERY OTHER FEAR MUST BE LEARNT
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Happiness has the habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful to his God,
comfortable with his conscience, in favor with his friends,
in love with his neighbors, and in balance with his bank
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Oscar Wilde…….In Conversation
Life imitates Art more than Art imitates Life.
This results not merely from life’s imitative instinct ,but from the fact that the self-conscious
aim of life is to find expression ,and that
Art offers certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy.
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Oscar Wilde …….In Conversation
The more we study Art, the less we care for nature .
What Art reveals to us is Nature’s lack of design ,her curious crudities,
her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Nature has good intentions ,of course, but as Aristotle once pointed out,
she cannot carry them out.
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FATE:
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet.
As something is being passed around ,it comes to you.
Stretch out your hand; take a portion of it politely. It passes on. Do not detain it.
Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you.
………Epictetus
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat;but is the evolution of real knowledge.
It marks the first step towards victory. This is one great reason for utmost tolerance of variety
of opinion. A clash of doctrines is an opportunity-not a disaster.
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At dinner the other night, we were discussing certain of
our affluent friends and I remarked to my husband :
“Relax, someday we will also get rich”.
He reached over ,took my hand , and replied :
“Honey, we are rich. Someday we will also have money”
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The other day, when I could not buy my son, a toy cart
I had promised, because the store was closed, we set
about to build a toycart ourselves.
When the cart was ready to be shown to the family, I asked:
“Which do you think is more fun ?making or having ?”
Bill sat back amid the sawdust and thought about it.
“Making ” he said.
Making must come from within, while having is an external
circumstance, which may or may not be worth its weight
in satisfaction. The happiest people on earth are those who
realize this difference early.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that ,
only one of them is doing all the thinking
Lyndon Johnson
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;
If he as an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
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I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine,
without herbs, without any witch’s magic;
And that is ,IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED,THEN LOVE.
Senecas’Letters from a stoic.
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There are two things to aim at in life:
First to get what you want .The second ,to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of mankind achieves the second
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Right, left and center.
We can understand political behavior better if we distribute opinions ,not on a straight line ,but in a circle ,so that the extreme left and right meet -as they indeed do ;Since both believe in suppressing ideas, in throttling freedom, in using violence, in making no distinction between ideas and heresies, between treason and dissent.
The far left and the far right have much more in common with each other than either does with the middle.
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Our relationships with others are reflections of our relationship with God
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All the good maxims have been written and spoken.
It only remains to put them into practice.
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When I was young, I wanted everything and all at once, until our old Scottish Minister explained things to me like this:
One night he dreamed that he saw a new shop in the High street. He went in and saw an Angel behind the counter. Nervously he asked what the shop sold.
“Everything your heart desires “ the Angel said.
“Then I want peace on earth “ cried the Minister.” And an end to sorrow ,famine and disease”
“Just one moment “ smiled the Angel. ”You have’nt quite understood. We don’t sell fruits here. Only seeds”.
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Also constantly remember this rule:
The more you think for yourself, the more marked will your individuality be.
George Bernard Shaw
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Of a sane man there is only one definition.
He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. GK Chesterton.
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The wine which is poured out first is the purest wine in the bottle, the heaviest particles and any cloudiness settling to the bottom. It is just the same with human life. The best comes first. Are we going to let others drain it so as to keep the dregs for ourselves? Let that sentence stick in your mind, accepted as unquestioningly as if it had been uttered by an Oracle:
LIFE’S FINEST DAYS,FOR US POOR HUMAN BEINGS ,FLY FIRST.
Seneca in Letters from a stoic
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Anyone who wants to get to the top has to have the guts to be hated. That applies to politicians, writers, anybody who gets into a certain position. Because that’s how you get there. You don’t get there by everybody loving you. Everybody in the world wants to be liked by everybody else. That’s human nature. But you have to learn to take it.
Bette Davis in the Lonely Life.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills.
Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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As anyone setting out on a walk or bike ride knows, it’s hard to empty your mind of worry and planning, analyzing and hurting, and that deadly armada of “What-ifs”. Your agitation seems to travel with you, and soon you conduct small theaters of the mind, in which you play various roles and rehearse dreaded or hoped for conversations.
But if you can, give yourself a mental vacation. Hold a board meeting of the psyche and agree to leave at your home all worries, hurts and misgivings. Then you can set off to enjoy the sensations of being alive: the beauty of light, the rustle of leaves, the bird calls, the wind, the sun on your face. Freed from the commotion of your mind, you can allow yourself to be the photographic plate on which the world etches itself.
Diane Ackerman
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Don’t let someone else create your world for you;
For when they do ,they will always make it too small.
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The value of passion ,like fire, s judged by the amount of warmth and light it creates. Fanatics, like forest fires ,burn bright ,but destroy all in their path that is tender and green.
To be useful, fire must be confined. To live passionately, we must develop discipline. To love powerfully, we must forge bonds of commitment.
Passion is inseparable from compassion.
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NIGHT :
Conceals a World. Reveals a Universe.
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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is ,
not to feel secure, but, to be able to tolerate insecurity
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Riches of embarrassment.
It is surely discreditable ,under the age of 30,not to be shy. Self Assurance in the young betokens a lack of sensibility; the boy or girl who is not shy at 22,will at 42 , become a bore.
For shyness is the protective fluid within which our personalities are able to develop. Let the shy understand ,therefore ,that their disability is not merely an inconvenience but also a privilege; a gift rather than an affliction.
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Only he, who has seen better days, and lives to see good days
again ,knows their full value. Mark Twain.
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Acceptance:
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy ,but there is all
the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what
can and what cannot be helped;
Acceptance makes that distinction .Apathy paralyses the will
to action; Acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
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If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think You dare not be beaten, you are not.
If you would like to win but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain that you won’t.
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Titles. They distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior and are disgraced by the inferior.
GB Shaw.
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A gentleman never heard a story before.
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“Our men are not experts” said Henry Ford. ”We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert. The moment one gets into the expert state of mind a great number of things become impossible. Our new operations are always directed by men who have no previous knowledge of the subject and ,therefore have not had a chance to get on really familiar terms with the impossible.
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Imagination consoles people for what they cannot be.
Humor ,for what they actually are.
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Fame can come in a moment.
But Greatness takes time.
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Strength is tested by resistance to pressure.
TRUE OF MARRIAGE,FRIENDSHIPS AND CHARACTER.
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Men exist for each other.
Then either they improve them or put up with them
Marcus Aurelius
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FRIENDS:
Gods apology for our relations.
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It is not at all suitable for people of great quality to be very learned, but highly necessary for them to know the world and be able to deal with people, and they can’t learn that from books ,but only from experience.
Liselotte in “Letters”
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Too much time spent on studies ,is sloth.
Francis Bacon .
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Inequality of knowledge is the key to a sale.
Gustaffson
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Learning is often the enemy of initiative.
Lord Samuel
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
Albert Schweitzer
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If you wish in the world to advance
Your merits you’re bound to enhance
You must stir it and stump it
And blow your own trumpet
Or trust me, you haven’t a chance…..
WS Gilbert
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Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend’s friend has a friend.
Be discreet.
The Talmud
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Always do what you please ,and send everybody to Hell,
and take the consequences.
Damned Good rule of Life.
Norman Douglas
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I don’t ask you to be unafraid-Simply to act unafraid.
Gordon of Khartoum.
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Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar to few.
Benjamin Franklin
Never Go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
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If your nose is close to the grindstone
And you hold it there long enough
In time you’ll say there’s no such thing
As brooks that babble and birds that sing
These three will all your world compose :
Just you, the stone and your poor old nose.
From a 200 year old stone in a country cemetery.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own Company.
Seneca – Letters from a stoic
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But all these things, pastiche, good clothes, vitality, love of adventure ,lively interests, must fail ,unless one waves over them the magic wand of self control and a cheerful attitude towards life. Nothing ages a woman like a worry or a bad temper. I try always to be an optimist. I refrain from discussing my troubles. A cushion which accompanies me everywhere on my travels explains my philosophy :
“Never complain, Never explain”
Elsie de Wolf – In After All.
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This disaster -and believe me, it seemed at the time a disaster of the first magnitude-taught me a lesson I have never forgotten.
If you intend to break a rule or regulation, never ask first if you can do it. Break it. If you ask first you are practically committing two offences instead of one.
Lord Brabazon
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To be deprived of the person we love, is happiness, compared to living with the one we hate.
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You cannot go far in friendship if you are not willing to forgive each other, little failings.
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A great man is one who has not lost his child’s heart.
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Regard him that speaks ill of you, when you are innocent,
more worthy of forgiveness than him who carried the report to you.
Kai ka’us Ibn Iskander in A mirror for princes.
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NEVER BOW TO AUTHORITY.
But always remember to tip your hat.
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
Johnson in James
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
Life is short, nature is hostile and Man is ridiculous.
But oddly enough, most misfortunes have their compensations, and
with a certain sense of humour and a good deal of horse sense,
one can make a fairly good job of what is ,after all, a matter of
very small consequence.
Somerset Maugham
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Do you know how to spot a happily married man from the rest ?
He is the one whose personality does not change ,when accompanied by his wife , or otherwise.
A Psychologists advice.
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Though a seeker since my birth
Here is all I have learned on earth.
This is the gist of what I know:
Give advice and buy a foe.
Random truths are all I find
Stuck like burs about my mind.
Salve a blister. Burn a letter.
Do not wash a Cashmere sweater.
Tell a tale, but seldom twice.
Give a stone before advice.
Pressed for rules and verities,
All I recollect are these;
Feed a cold to starve a fever
Argue with no true believer.
Think-too-long is Never-act
Scratch a myth and find a fact.
Stitch in time saves twenty stitches.
Give the rich, to please them, riches.
Give to love your hearth and hall
But do not give advice at all.
Phyllis McGinley in “A garland of precepts”
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the company.
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I have had the rarest ,the finest friends. I have loved my friends; the rarest wits of my generation were my boon companions; everything conspired to enable me to gratify my body and my brain; and do you think this would have been so if I had been a good man?
If you do, you are a fool; good intentions and bald greed go to the wall, but subtle selfishness with a dash of unscrupulousness pulls more plums out of life’s pie than the seven deadly virtues. If you are good man you want a bad one to convert;
If you are a bad man you want a bad one to go out on a spree with.
George Moore.-Conversations in Bury Street.
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Bookshops are centers of civilization. They are the last stand we are all putting up” declared Dame Rebecca West, opening a new bookshop, Branden Books, in chapel place, Tunbridge Wells. ”there is a permanent wealth tax being imposed on civilization called Television ” she said. ”there you see actors acting beautifully in worthless plays and you hear political arguments that are inferior to those who you would read in any recognized book. The private reader is the buttress against the total ruin of civilization. He buys books and reads them slowly ,often and well.”
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One of the reasons why I don’t see eye to eye with Women’s lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it.
They don’t have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling
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Talent is a long patience…..It is a matter of considering long and attentively what you want to express, so that you may discover an aspect of it that has never before been noticed or reported. There is a part of everything that remains unexplored ,for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire ,or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire, or tree, until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire. That is the way to become original.
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The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies ,you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn-pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics, why you, can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to beat your opponent at fencing. After that you can start again at Mathematics ,until it is time to learn to plough.
TH White in The Sword in the Stone.
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Finally a soft voice commands closer attention than does a loud voice. People will hang on your every word only if they have to in order to catch every word. This is something that Mafia Dons have long known.
Quentin Crisp in Doing it with style.
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When asked by a disciple if there were one single word which could serve as a principle of conduct for life, Confucius replied “Perhaps the word reciprocity will do”.
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Even the greatest of men sometimes lack the courage of their convictions. Einstein himself doctored up one of his formulas to conceal an apparent absurdity that later turned out to be true.
Sydney Harris.
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You spend an evening with some people.
With some, you invest it.
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We have not, the reverent feeling for the rainbow, that the savage has, because we know how it is made.
We have lost as much as we have gained, by prying into that matter.
MARK TWAIN
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The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies ,you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn-pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics, why you, can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to beat your opponent at fencing. After that you can start again at Mathematics ,until it is time to learn to plough.
TH White in The Sword in the Stone.
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Talent is a long patience…..It is a matter of considering long and attentively what you want to express, so that you may discover an aspect of it that has never before been noticed or reported. There is a part of everything that remains unexplored ,for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire ,or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire, or tree, until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire. That is the way to become original.
Finally a soft voice commands closer attention than does a loud voice. People will hang on your every word only if they have to in order to catch every word. This is something that Mafia Dons have long known.
Quentin Crisp in Doing it with style.
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Tolerance:
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith. But it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage.: The courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and the rights of their conscience.
Tolerance is the first principle of community. It is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
No loss by flood or lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile faces of nature has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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From Tvastri.
He took
The lightness of the leaf and the glance of the fawn
the gaiety of the sun rays and the tears of the mistthe inconstancy of the wind and the timidity of the hare the vanity of the peacock and
the softness of the down on the throat of the swallow.
He added
the harshness of the diamond
the sweet flavour of honey
the cruelty of the tiger
the warmth of the fire ,and the chill of the snow,
the chatter of the jay and the cooing of the turtle dove.
He melted all this and formed a woman.
Then He made a present of this to man.
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Who is a Master ?
A Master is someone who started before you did. He begins from the center and not the fringe. He teaches the essence. When the essence is perceived, he teaches what is necessary to expand the perception. Whatever he does, he does with the enthusiasm of doing it for the first time. This is the source of his unlimited energy…….
Opening lines of the book “The dancing Wu Li masters “by Gary Zukav
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Spirit of Liberty
What is the spirit of Liberty? I cannot define it ;I can only tell you my faith.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. It is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women. It is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.
The spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded. It is the spirit of Him who, nearly two thousand years ago , taught mankind a lesson it has never really learned, but has never quite forgotten: That there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.
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Self Pity
In Nature we do not discover despondency, the handmaiden of despair. We never find self pity which undermines virtue more subtly than arrant vice. Wild things do not resign or surrender. They will fight to death. Even a butterfly will defend itself.
All things love life ,and if we do not love it enough to make it seem worthwhile to ourselves and to others, a suspicion arises that there must be something the matter with us.
Take self pity out of life and you will be making great progress in the redemption of humanity. It is really a disease incident to civilization.
For as we go back towards nature, we see less and less of it and in nature’s home, none at all. Her children are valiant.
Whatever may be their adversities they do not complain.
THEY ARE SELF RELIANT.THEY NEVER LOSE HOPE.
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IT is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good out of these successive human experiments. I know not what to say in answer to this, except to ask the reader to look at the modern man, — in the looking-glass. Is it really true that you and I are two starry towers built up of all the most towering visions of the past? Have we really fulfilled all the great historic ideals one after the other, from our naked ancestor who was brave enough to kill a mammoth with a stone knife, through the Greek citizen and the Christian saint to our own grandfather or great-grandfather. Are we still strong enough to spear mammoths, but now tender enough to spare them? Does the cosmos contain any mammoth that we have either speared or spared? When we decline (in a marked manner) to fly the red flag and fire across a barricade like our grand-fathers, are we really declining in deference to sociologists — or to soldiers? Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint? I fear we only outstrip the warrior in the sense that we should probably run away from him. And if we have passed the saint, I fear we have passed him without bowing. ‘What’s Wrong with the World.’ G.K.Chesterton
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FAIRY-TALES do not give a child his first idea of evil. What fairy-tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of evil. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy-tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon; it accustoms him by a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors have a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies, that these infinite enemies of man have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear. When I was a child I have stared at the darkness until the whole black bulk of it turned into one giant taller than heaven. If there was one star in the sky it only made him a Cyclops. But fairy-tales restored my mental health. For next day I read an authentic account of how a giant with one eye, of quite equal dimensions, had been baffled by a little boy like myself (of similar inexperience and even lower social status) by means of a sword, some bad riddles, and a brave heart GK Chesterton in ‘Tremendous Trifles
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One of the reasons why I don’t see eye to eye with Women’s lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it.
They don’t have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling
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Even the greatest of men sometimes lack the courage of their convictions. Einstein himself doctored up one of his formulas to conceal an apparent absurdity that later turned out to be true.
Sydney Harris.
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Crisis does not make the man.
It only exposes him for what he already is.
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There must come the moment when all your mirrors turn into windows. That is the moment of growing up. The adolescent looks inwards. The adult can look outwards.
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
MARK TWAIN
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With health everything is a source of pleasure.
Without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable.
It follows that the greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness : For gain, advancement, learning, or fame …let alone fleeting sensual pleasures.
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The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when forced to make a detour.
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Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change-
From lesser to greater.
From smaller to bigger.
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CHANGE. The only constant in maturity.
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To be nobody but myself,-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight , and never stop fighting.
EE Cummings.
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It is not the incompetent who destroy an Organization. They simply never get into a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest on their achievements, who are forever clogging things up. To keep an Industry pure, you’ve got to keep it in perpetual ferment.
Henry Ford.
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Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there, except those that sang best.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two essential qualities of Art? It must be indescribable and it must be inimitable.
Renoir
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Get the right perspective.
When Goliath came against Israelites the soldiers thought “He is so big, we can never kill him.”
David looked at the same man and thought, ”He is so big, I can’t miss him”.
An adolescent in his round of joyless promiscuity is no more a revolutionary than a pickpocket is a socialist.
He is merely taking adult prerogatives without taking adult responsibility. Taking without earning.
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Angels Fly.
Because they take themselves lightly.
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PRAYER:
Key of the morning.
Bolt of the evening.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years,
How would men believe and adore !!
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The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking is not even verbal. It creates a groping experimentation with idea ,governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious. The majority of well educated men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason.
David Ogilvy
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Marriage :
A union of two good forgivers.
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The art of contentment is the art of feeling life is good, at least for the day, or the hour.
The sources of this feeling are usually, the simplest.
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Where there is Charity and Wisdom,
There is neither fear nor ignorance.
Where there is patience and humility
There is neither anger nor vexation.
Where there is poverty and joy,
There is neither greed nor avarice.
Where there is peace or meditation
There is neither anxiety nor doubt.
St Francis of Assisi
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If you think Education is expensive,
Try Ignorance.
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You can’t control the length of your life, but can control its width and depth. You can’t control the weather ,but you can control the moral atmosphere that surrounds you. You can’t control the other fellows annoying faults, but you can see to it that you do not develop and harbor provoking propensities. You can’t control hard times but you can bank money now to boost you through.
Why worry about things you can’t control? Get busy controlling things that depend on you.
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Faith ,is what makes you feel the comfort of the hearth while you are chopping the wood.
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, He is at once universal and unique. His time has arrived.
Alan Watts
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Ability is a good thing.
But stability is better.
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Reading books in one’s youth is like looking out at the moon through a crevice. Reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one’s own courtyard. And reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. That is because the depths of the benefits of reading varies in proportion to the depths of one’s own experience.
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Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in your own corner.
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There are seasons in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when…………
TO DARE , IS THE WISDOM.
William E. Channing
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STRIVE TO BE HAPPY
(From an inscription in Old Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore via Field Notes)
Go placidly amid the noise and haste ,and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, listen to others, even the dull and ignorant-they too have their story.
Avoid Loud and aggressive persons ,they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble. It is a real possession in the changing fortunes of Time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you for what virtue there is. Many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be Yourself .Especially do not feign affection .Neither be cynical about Love-for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is perennial, as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of the youth. Nurture the strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the tress and the stars-you have a right to be here. And, whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore ,be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful .Strive to be happy.
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Formula for handling people:
1.Listen to the other person’s story.
2.Listen to the other person’s full story.
3.Listen to the other person’s full story, first.
George Marshall
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What causes a burnout? The immediate cause is a mismatch between effort and results. Burnout victims start out full of fire and good intentions, but their efforts are not repaid in kind.
The reality is that it is difficult to help people. Add to that low pay, impossible workloads, miles of red tape, inadequate training, low prestige, and ungrateful clients.
There is moreover, the fact that society does not really understand what the helping professions are all about.
Paul Chance.
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Nothing is more confusing than the fellow who gives good advice, but sets a bad example.
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If our sight were longer or shorter, what now appears beautiful would appear grotesque and what we now think misshapen ,we would regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through a microscope will appear horrible.
THINGS REGARDED IN THEMSELVES ARE NEITHER BEAUTIFUL OR UGLY.
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Praise is like chewing gum.
Meant to be enjoyed. Not swallowed.
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You are not responsible for the thoughts that pass your door.
You are responsible only for those that you admit and entertain.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great.
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
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It is so easy to pick out the best people.
They’ll help you do it. Always.
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If at first you don’t succeed, try,try again.
If you still don’t succeed, stop trying.
Sit down and think it over.
Persistence is a noble virtue. But it is no substitute for evaluation.
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The only gracious way to accept an insult is, to ignore it;
If you can’t ignore it, top it;
If you can’t top it, laugh at it;
If you can’t laugh at it, It is probably deserved.
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The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
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Money is money. Beans tonight and steak tomorrow.
So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
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A stormy weather is what man needs from time to time ,to remind him that he is not really in charge of anything.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruvere
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Real friends are those who, when you have made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
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Life demands from you only the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible-Not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Man is born to live , Not prepare for Life.
Boris Pasternak.
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While there is a chance in the world of you getting through your troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it.
If at the end ,your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. HG Wells.
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Whoever in middle age attempts to realize the hopes and wishes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own challenges. Goethe
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Sing a song of Glory, and you will be that Glory.
Nothing , are you , but a song ; And as you sing, You are.
You thought you were the teacher.
And you find you are the one who is taught.
You thought you were the seeker,
And you find you are the one who is sought.
Sing a song of Glory, and you will be that Glory.
Nothing , are you , but a song; And as you sing, You are.
A SUFI CHANT
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All animals except Man, know that the principal business of Life is to enjoy it.
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy.
Cannot build on it.
Good only for wallowing in.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Cousteau
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The chief lesson that I have learnt in a long career is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him :
and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to mistrust him and show him your mistrust.
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Every child born, comes along with the message that God is not yet discouraged of Man. Rabindranath Tagore
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon earth and be an atheist;
But I can’t conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. Abraham Lincoln
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The Hero is no braver than the ordinary man;
But he is brave five minutes longer…..Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wear your learning like a pocket watch – hidden.
Do not pull it out to count the hours , but ,
Give the time when you are asked.
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No man should escape our Universities without knowing how little he knows.
He must have some sense of the fact that ,not through his fault,
but inherently in the nature of things, he is going to be an ignorant man ,
and so is everybody else.
Mark Twain
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HE paints the lily of the field, Perfumes each lily bell
If HE so loves the little flower
I know HE loves me well.
Maria Straus
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Some Pursue happiness ;
Others create it.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or a sarcastic thing.
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The poor man is not he without a cent.
But he who is without a dream. Harry Kemp
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and some absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations ,to waste a moment on the yesterdays. R.W.Emerson
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while ,he knows something.
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I believe in immortality of the soul because I have in me,
immortal longings. Helen Keller
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The darker phase in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
Horace Greeley.
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Never lose sight of the fact that Old age requires so little,
But requires that little, so much.
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Diagnosis:
On his eightieth birthday ,John Quincy Adams responded to a query concerning his health by saying : “ John Quincy Adams is well. But the house in which his soul lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he himself is quite well, quite well.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are, than we had supposed.
William James
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Happiness.
That peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true ; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the Gods. Wise men have an inner sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man’s own breast. Trust thyself. Aristotle
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Some men work hard and save money so their sons won’t have the problems that made men of their fathers.
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It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a man in difficulty-the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse-the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Have the courage to be poor, and you disarm poverty ,of its sharpest sting. Anna Jameson
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If I had influence with good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial ,the alienation from the sources of our strength. RACHEL CARSON
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Some people have a belief that every tree ,when it burns, gives back the colours that went into its making-they see in the flaming logs the red of many sunsets, the purple of early dawn, the silver of moonrise and the sparkle of stars.
So it is with us: what we have accepted into our hearts and made a permanent part of ourselves, is given back in times of trials.
Fulton J Sheen
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Sign in a Football Club Dressing room:
For when the One great Scorer comes
To write against your name
He writes -not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. Grantland Rice
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Not to be greedy , is equivalent to wealth.
Not to buy compulsively , is equivalent to an income.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible.
But not simpler.. Einstein
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People fail in direct proportion to their willingness to accept socially acceptable excuses for failure.-
Steven Brown
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Courage :
Fear that has said its prayers.
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Before you Speak , Listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend , Earn.
Before you invest , investigate.
Before you criticize , Wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit , Try.
Before you retire , Save.
Before you Die , Give. William A Ward
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You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. People nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others bigger or smaller ones. Anthony Jay.
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The Noble Nature.
It is not growing like a tree ,
In bulk doth make Man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last ,dry, bald , and sere :
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night;
It was plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.
B.Johnson
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Consider the hammer :
It keeps its head
It does not fly off the handle.
It keeps pounding away.
It finds the point and drives it home.
It looks at the other side too, and thus often clinches the matter.
It makes mistakes, but when it does it starts all over .
It is the only knocker in the world that does any good.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is less harm in a well fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party, no nation, no class; In short, no reason for destroying anything it does not want to eat. George Bernard Shaw
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The money that men make ,lives after them.
Samuel Butler.
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Riches of embarrassment
It is surely discreditable, under the age of 30,not to be shy. Self assurance in the young betokens a lack of sensibility ; the boy o girl who is not shy at 22 , will at 42,become a bore. For shyness is the protective fluid within which our personalities are able to develop.
Let the shy understand , therefore, that their disability is not merely an inconvenience but also a privilege ; a gift rather than an affliction.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst.
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Definition of successful people:
They get up whenever they fall down. –
Paul Harvey
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As flowers carry dewdrops ,trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of the wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving. At the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed ,with the hearts gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher
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AS A MAN SOWETH
We must not hope to be mowers And to gather the ripe gold ears
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it
This mystical world of ours
Life’s field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of Flowers.
Goethe
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People would not get divorced for such trivial reason if they did not get married for such trivial reason, in the first place
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IN a very entertaining work, over which we have roared in childhood, it is stated that a point has no parts and no magnitude. Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are — of immeasurable stature.
GK Chesterton
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To really know a man, observe his behavior with a Lady, a flat tyre and
A child.
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Here is the secret of inspiration. Tell yourself that thousands and tens of
thousands of people ,not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than
the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle
you. William Feather
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Prayer :
Let it be the key of the morning and
the bolt of the evening.
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We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture – or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith we move mountains of opposition or we are stopped by molehills.
Harold Walker
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A COSMIC philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
G K Chesterton
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When children are young, give them roots. DEEP ROOTS.
When they grow older, give them wings. BROAD WINGS
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The more power you acquire, the less you Know; for a powerful man is totally insulated by his subordinates, who tell him what they think he wants to hear or what will support their previous decisions ,and not WHAT HE SHOULD BE TOLD. Sydney Harris.
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We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts .We have certain work to do for our bread and that is to be done strenuously, other work to do for our delight and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts ,but with a will , and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. John Ruskin.
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The difference between a well-bred and ill-bred man is this;
One immediately attracts your liking, and the other your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to hate him; you hate the other till you find reason to love him. Samuel Johnson
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Friends are like Melons.
Shall I tell you why ?
To find one good,
You must a hundred Try.
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If you have anything valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality-that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce Barton.
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Life is a great big Canvas.
Throw all the paint at it.
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Crisis is the process by which we go from the transient to the permanent
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Perfection seems to be nothing more than a complete adaptation to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing. So perfection can never be more than transitory.
Somerset Maugham
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The truth about Man is two fold :
He cannot learn Truths which are too complicated.
He forgets Truths which are too simple.
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SLEEP , RICHES , AND HEALTH , to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
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A stormy weather is what man needs, from time to time, to remind him that he is really not in charge of anything in this world.
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Ultimately ,it is the dream within the person that counts more than anything else. If a parent can give a child a vision, he has given him of the best gifts. If a teacher can create an idea of what Life might be, she has done her part.
Gerald Kennedy
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Human Nature
A simple experiment will distinguish two types of human nature. Gather a throng of people and put them on a ferry boat. By the time the ferry has swung into the river you will find that a certain proportion have climbed upstairs in order to be out in the deck and see what is to be seen as they cross over. The rest have settled indoors to lose themselves in apathy or tobacco smoke.
We may divide the passengers into two classes :
* Those who are interested in crossing the river. ** Those who are merely interested in getting across.
We can apply this discovery to every walk of our life.
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I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower ,its colors richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of innocence of spring ,nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. Lin Yutang
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Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. Anton Chekov
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SMILE :
A light in the window of the face which shows that the heart is at home.
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I remember one winter, my dad needed firewood and he found a dead tree and sawed it down. In the spring, to his dismay new shoots sprouted around the trunk. He said, ”I sure thought it was dead. The leaves had all dropped in wintertime. It was so cold that the twigs snapped as if there were no life left in the old tree. But now I see there was still life at the taproot”.
He looked at me and said “Bob, don’t forget this important lesson. Never cut a tree in wintertime. Never make a decision in low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in the worst mood. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Then it will be time for you take a decision.
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Man, despite his artistic pretensions ,and his sophistication and many accomplishments ,owes the fact of his existence to a 15 CM layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
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Why do Insurance Companies, when they want to describe an act of God, pinch on something which sounds an act of devil ?
One would think that God was exclusively concerned with making hurricanes, smallpox, thunderbolts and dry rot.
They seem to forget that HE also manufactures rainbows, apple-blossom and siamese kittens.
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The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open , natural ,interested;
the second rule is to take time for friendship.
Friendship ,after all ,is what life is finally about.
Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons.
Nels F.S.Ferre
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Heaven often seems distant and unknown.
But if He who made the road ,is our guide, is there a fear of our losing the way ?
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MAN
Born to be wild –
Has to Live, to outgrow it. Doug Horton
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You will find ,as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.
Henry Drummond.
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Growing old..
In other words ….
is not growing up.
Doug Horton.
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God never quits on you.
Don’t you quit on God.
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Every man is limited by three things:
The knowledge in his mind.
The strength of his character.
The principles upon which he is building his life.
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Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as a child when it is giving something. Any small thing it gives. A child gives the world to you. It opens the world to you as if it were a book you had never been able to read. But when a gift must be found it is always some absurd little thing, pasted on crooked…. An angel looking like a clown.
A child has so little that it can give, because it never knows it has given you everything. Maragret Lee Runbeck
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You are only young once… but you can be immature your whole life
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A Creed
There is a destiny that makes us brothers ;
None goes his way alone :
All that we send into the lives of others
Come back into our own.
One thing holds firm and fast—-
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.
Edwin Markham
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Always calculate your chances as 50: 50
Either something will happen, or it wont’.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be :
Since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas A Kempis.
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CRITICS
What one approves , another scorns
And thus his nature each discloses :
You find the rosebush full of thorns ,
I find the thorn bush full of roses.
Arthur Guiterman
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My Grandfather always said that Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
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Wisdom about Life
The differences in human life depend ,for the most part,not on what men do but upon the meaning and purpose of their acts.All are born,all die,all lose their loved ones,nearly all marry and nearly all work:but the significance of these acts vary enormously.
The same physical act may be in one situation vulgar and in another holy.The same work may be elevating or degrading.The major question is not “what act do I perform?”but “in what frame do I put it?’
Wisdom about Life consists in taking the inevitable ventures which are the very stuff of common existence , and glorifying them Elton Trueblood.
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The night has a thousand eyes
And the day but one ;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying Sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one ;
Yet the light of a whole Life dies
When Love is done.
Francis W.Bourdillon
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Because the way was steep and long ,
and through a strange and lonely land
God placed upon my lips a song ,
And put a lantern in my hand
Joyce Kilmer
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Dreams can come true,
If you don’t sleep too long.
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Marvel
We marvel at the silence that divides
the living and the dead
Yet more apart
Are they who all life long live side by side
yet never heart by heart.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts ,nor even found a school ,but so to love wisdom as to the dozen. Down to the last detail we are all different. Everyone has his own fingerprints. Recognize and rejoice in that endless variety. The white light of the divine purpose streams down from Heaven to be broken up by these human prisms into all the colors of the Rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
Charles Brown
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Tell Him about the heartache
And tell Him the longings too ;
Tell him the baffled purpose
When we scarce know what to do.
Then leaving all our weakness
With the One divinely strong
Forget that we bore a burden
And carry away a song.
Phillips Brooks
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HOPE – FAITH – LOVE
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime ;
therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do ,however virtuous ,can be accomplished alone ; therefore we are saved by love .
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. Reinhold Niebuhr
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EVOLUTION
Out of the dusk a shadow ,
Then a spark ;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then a lark.
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then a pain ;
Out of the dead , cold ashes
Life again. John Bannister Tabb
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Let us be of good cheer,remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. Amy Lowell.
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If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
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So much unhappiness,it seems to me,is due to nerves ;and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do,or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently.Of all the unhappy people in the world ,the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.True happiness comes to him who does his work well ,followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest.True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.
Lin Yutang
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Democracy ,is a small hard core of common agreement ,surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. James Conant
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Your Children.
You may give them your Love,but not your thoughts For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit ,not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them ,but seek not to make them like you For Life goes not backward ,nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Kahlil Gibran
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Lying is a handle that fits all the devil’s tools
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We are not hen’s eggs,or bananas ,or clothes pins,to be counted off by the dozen.Down to the last detail we are all different.Everyone has his own fingerprints.Recognize and rejoice in that endless variety.The white light of the divine purpose streams down from Heaven to be broken up by these human prisms into all the colors of the Rainbow.Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
Charles Brown
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Four Things.
Four things in any land must dwell,
If it endures and prospers well :
One is manhood true and good ;
One is noble womanhood ;
One is child life , clean and bright ;
And one an altar kept alight.
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Religion should be our steering wheel ; Not our spare Tyre.
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Go often to the house of thy friend.
For weeds choke an unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit ,as obedience to a law,as inner struggle between opposite laws.As for me,I declare that when I do good I obey no one,I fight no battle and win no victory.The cultivated man has only to follow the delicious incline of his inner impulses.Be Beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do.That is the whole of Morality.
Ernest Renan
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WRINKLES SHOULD MERELY INDICATE WHERE THE SMILES
HAVE BEEN
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LOVE
Love does not consist in gazing at each other.
But in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Mankind might be divided between the multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture ,or to carve a statue ,and so to make a few objects beautiful ;
But it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look.To affect the quality of the day -that is the highest of the arts. Thoreau
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A man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty .They are both looking for alms. The rich for the alms of my envy. The poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Here’s to your love, health, and wealth — and time to enjoy each.
(Spanish proverb)
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God could not be everywhere.Therefore he made Mothers.
Jewish Proverb
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A Prayer
God ,give me sympathy and sense
And help me keep my courage high.
God,give me calm and confidence
And please——— a twinkle in my eye.
Margaret Bailey
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Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun
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Life’s greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss Him
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Happiness
Something that comes into our lives through a door we don’t remember leaving open.
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Life is no brief candle for me .It is a sort of a splendid torch which I have got
hold of for the moment.And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations G.Bernard Shaw
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This is the greatest paradox:
The emotions cannot be trusted ,yet it is they that tell us the greatest truths.
Don Herold
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
FATE:
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around ,it comes to you. Stretch out your hand; take a portion of it politely. It passes on. Do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you.
………Epictetus
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The far left and the far right have much more in common with each other than either does with the middle.
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Every scene ,even the commonest ,is wonderful ….
if only one can detach oneself casting off all memory of, use and custom, and behold it as it were for the first time ; in its right , authentic colors ; without making comparisons.
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Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that
will never be done if you don’t do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There
is a place that you alone can fill.”
~ Jacob M. Braude
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“Never complain, Never explain”
Elsie de Wolf – In After All.
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Jim Rohn
“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.”
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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To be nobody but myself,-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight , and never stop fighting.
EE Cummings.
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We sow a thought and reap an act.
We sow an act and reap a habit.
We sow a habit and reap a character.
We sow a character and reap a destiny.
William Thackeray
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, He is at once universal and unique. His time has arrived.
Alan Watts
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Whoever in middle age attempts to realize the hopes and wishes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own challenges. Goethe
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are, than we had supposed.
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No man should escape our Universities without knowing how little he knows. He must have some sense of the fact that ,not through his fault, but inherently in the nature of things, he is going to be an ignorant man , and so is everybody else.
Mark Twain
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and some absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations ,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
R.W.Emerson
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true ; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the Gods. Wise men have an inner sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man’s own breast. Trust thyself. Aristotle
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I remember one winter, my dad needed firewood and he found a dead tree and sawed it down. In the spring, to his dismay new shoots sprouted around the trunk. He said, ”I sure thought it was dead. The leaves had all dropped in wintertime. It was so cold that the twigs snapped as if there were no life left in the old tree. But now I see there was still life at the taproot”.
He looked at me and said “Bob, don’t forget this important lesson. Never cut a tree in wintertime. Never make a decision in low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in the worst mood. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Then it will be time for you take a decision.
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MAN’ s Life
The life of man seems to me like the flight of a sparrow through the hall wherein you are sitting at supper in the wintertime, a warm fire lighted on the hearth while storms rage without.
The sparrow flies in at one door ,tarries for a moment in the light and heat ,and then flying forth through another a door vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it had come.
So tarries man for a brief space ,but of what went before or what is to follow we know not.
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Teacher of Hope………………….Robert E.Lee
My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor indisposed me to serve them;
Not , in spite Of failures that I lament,
Of errors which I now see and acknowledge ,or
Of the present aspect of affairs
Do I despair of the future.
The truth is this:
The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient,
The work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble,
The life of humanity is so long ,that of the individual so brief,
That we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged .
It is history that teaches us to Hope.
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INVISIBLE HOST
An American Soldier wounded on a battlefield in the Far East owes his life to the Japanese scientist Kitasato who isolated the bacillus of tetanus.
A Russian soldier saved by a blood transfusion is indebted to Landsteiner, an Austrian.
A German is shielded from typhoid fever with the help of the research of a Russian, Metcnikoff.
A Dutch Marine in the East Indies is protected from Malaria because of the experiments of an Italian, Grassi.
While a British Aviator in North Africa escapes death from surgical infection because a Frenchman, Pasteur and a German .Koch, elaborated a new technique.
In Peace, as in War, we are beneficiaries of knowledge contributed by every nation in the world. Our children are guarded from diphtheria by what a Japanese and a German did; from Small pox by the work of an Englishman; from rabies because of a Frenchman; and are cured of pellagra through the researches of an Austrian.
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
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The chief lesson that I have learnt in a long career is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him :
And the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to mistrust him and show him your mistrust.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is less harm in a well fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party, no nation, no class; In short, no reason for destroying anything it does not want to eat. George Bernard Shaw
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Some men work hard and save money so their sons won’t have the problems that made men of their fathers.
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While there is a chance in the world of you getting through your troubles, I hold that a reasonable man
has to behave as though he were sure of it.
If at the end ,your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
HG Wells.
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There are several good protections against temptation.
But the surest one is cowardice.
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TO DARE , IS THE WISDOM.
William E. Channing
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the
creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.
When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
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WHAT IS A HOME ?
A roof to keep out the rain. Four walls to keep out the wind. Floors to keep out the cold.
Yes ,but home is more than that. It is the laugh of a baby ,the song of a mother ,the strength of a father. Warmth of loving hearts ,light from happy eyes ,kindness ,loyalty ,comradeship .
Home is first school and first church for young ones ,where they learn what is right ,what is good ,and what is kind .Where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick. Where joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where fathers and mothers are respected and loved. Where children are wanted. Where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is earned. Where money is not so important as loving-kindness. Where even the teakettle sings from happiness.
That is home.
God Bless it. Ernestine Schuman-Heink.
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ELOQUENCE
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. I have met people so empty of joy that when I clasped their frosty fingertips it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast Storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only a the clinging touch of a child’s hand ,but there is as much potential
Sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others.
Helen Keller
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At dinner the other night, we were discussing certain of
our affluent friends and I remarked to my husband :
“Relax, someday we will also get rich”.
He reached over ,took my hand , and replied :
“Honey, we are rich. Someday we will also have money”
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Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling, hand-to-hand, foot-to-foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of experience. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till evening.
Florence Nightingale.
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Man and eternity: *
Many of our painful frustrations are caused by our driving desire to make an end of some or the other unfinished business. We harass our dogs and our children today, training them for tomorrow. We are in a kind of cold rage to bring about a desired end in our own time and by our own means.
Eternity must be laughing at our pretences. To be driven by a passion to hurry the end, is to famish our lives of the living present
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The other day, when I could not buy my son, a toy cart I had promised, because the store was closed, we set about to build a toy cart ourselves.
When the cart was ready to be shown to the family, I asked:
“Which do you think is more fun ? making or having ?”
Bill sat back amid the sawdust and thought about it.
“Making ” he said.
Making must come from within, while having is an external circumstance, which may or may not be worth its weight in satisfaction. The happiest people on earth are those who realize this difference early.
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If you can keep your head while others are losing theirs, Perhaps you do not understand the situation.
Nelson Boswell-.
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
~ John Burroughs
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;
If he as an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat; but is the evolution of real knowledge. It marks the first step towards victory. This is one great reason for utmost tolerance of variety of opinion. A clash of doctrines is an opportunity-not a disaster.
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The injury we do and the ones we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop –“Fables”
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The identification of old age with growing old must be avoided. Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age. I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30. E.M.Forester
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Manners are like the Zero in arithmetic.
When Considered alone , of no great apparent value.
But when considered in association with others ,they add significantly.
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A man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty .
They are both looking for alms.
The rich for the alms of my envy.
The poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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Friendship ,after all ,is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons.
Nels F.S.Ferre
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If you are good man you want a bad one to convert;
If you are a bad man you want a bad one to go out on a spree with.
George Moore.-Conversations in Bury Street.
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*A Season of Growth*
In New England, you don’t need a calendar to know it’s the first week of October. The trees tell the story quite well as their leaves change from shades of green to the bright vibrant shades of orange, red and yellow. At the peak of the fall foliage season, it’s truly a magnificent sight that draws people from all around to behold the beauty. The season progresses and the leaves fall to the ground one by one where they become nourishment for the grass, flowers and gardens in the spring.
As I spent Sunday collecting some of the fallen leaves with my 7 year old daughter, I wondered what would happen if a tree stubbornly held onto to its leaves – refusing to let them fall to ground and nourish the new season that awaits only a few months from now. How would that tree be affected? How would the rest of life be affected?
The tree would become burdened by the accumulation of dead leaves it collected each year. Its branches would begin to sag under the weight of those useless dead leaves. Future growth of the tree would be impossible as it ran out of room for new leaves to bloom in the spring. It would soon lose its beauty as the lifeless brown leaves cluttered its many branches.
Eventually the tree wouldn’t look like a tree at all but only a pitiful brown clump waiting to die and fall to the ground from which it once sprang with such vitality and zest for life.
And what about the grass, flowers and gardens that use the fallen leaves as nourishment and further growth in the spring? Certainly there are other sources of sustenance but none as natural and readily available as is provided by the fallen leaves. Instead, they would have to rely heavily on human intervention for their growth and survival – the tree no longer offering its own natural gift of nourishment. The entire circle of life would be burdened by the refusal of the tree give up that which no longer serves it.
Sometimes we are like that tree. We refuse to give up beliefs and memories that no longer serve us. We hang onto them, preventing our further growth and the growth of others. We become burdened by the accumulation of useless dead
thoughts that should have fallen away long ago to be used as intellectual and spiritual nourishment. If we’re not careful, we can become – like the tree -a miserable creature who’s lost our vitality and zest for life, eventually living in quiet desperation, refusing to be a natural source of nourishment for the rest of the circle of life.
Spend a few minutes each day this week to think about what beliefs you’re holding onto that may be burdening you – thoughts that should have fallen away long ago to nourish yourself and others. Some of them may be very old, dating back to childhood. For me, one of those useless beliefs came from the memory of an assault by the town bully when I was 5 years old. Once I finally let go of that belief, it became a source of further growth for myself and others.
Try this exercise. Watch a movie of your life. The movie starts with your earliest memory and progresses chronologically through your life up until now. What memories stand out as painful and what beliefs did you create from those memories? Maybe you remember your own bully or perhaps a time when a parent or guardian was particularly angry toward you.
Maybe you tried to accomplish something and failed in your attempt. Perhaps you still carry the guilt of a wrong you committed against another. Whatever you come up with, write your thoughts in a journal. Write everything that happened in the experience and the useless belief you developed from it.
Then ask yourself how you can use the experience to nourish yourself and others. What can you learn that empowers you and others to experience further growth and learning?
Shed those old limiting beliefs just like the trees shed their leaves in the fall and make ready for the new season of growth that awaits. Send someone you love ,an email and tell me what belief you’re going to let fall away this week. Have a great week!
Its your life. Create it the way you desire!
– By Michael Pollock
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.
They are conflicts between two rights.
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow .
It follows him and sometimes precedes him ; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than the actual size.
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If a child lives
With criticism he learns to condemn.
With hostility, he learns to fight.
With fear ,he learns to be apprehensive.
With Jealousy, he learns to feel guilty.
With Tolerance , he learns to be patient.
With encouragement, he learns to be confident.
With praise, he learns to be appreciative.
With acceptance, he learns to love.
With approval ,he learns to like himself.
With recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
With honesty ,he learns what truth is.
With fairness, he learns justice.
With security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
With friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live.
Sinai Sentry.
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Happiness has a habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful to his God, comfortable with his
conscience, in favor with his friends, in love with his labors and in balance with his bank.
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Never loose sight of the fact that Old age requires so little.
But needs that little , so much.
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We are such little men , when the stars come out. Hermann Hagedorn
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Thoreau:
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CITY LIFE :
Millions of people being lonesome together.. Thoreau
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
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Usually parents who are lucky in the kind of children they have ,have children who are lucky in the kind of parents they have.
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GENTLEMAN-Someone who can disagree without being disagreeable.
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The greatest thing a father can do for his children,
Is to love their mother.
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AGAINST STUPIDITY EVEN GODS FIGHT IN VAIN.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
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God will not look upon you over for medals ,degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Rudeness is a weak man’s imitation of strength.
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Childhood shows the man ,as morning shows the day.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that ,only one of them is doing all the thinking
Lyndon Johnson
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CHANGE. The only constant in maturity.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruvere
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Every child born, comes along with the message that God is not yet discouraged of Man. Rabindranath Tagore
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or a sarcastic thing.
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The darker phase in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
Horace Greeley
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The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst.
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SMILE :
A light in the window of the face which shows that the heart is at home.
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Mankind might be divided between the multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
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You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
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Diplomat
A Person who remembers a lady’s birthday ,but forgets her age.
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A man is that large irrational creature who is always looking for home atmosphere in a hotel, and hotel service around the house
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. Rousseau
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you , but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Humor is an affirmation of dignity. A declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
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If men had no faith in one another, all of us
would have to live within our own income.
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Let early education be a sort of amusement :
You will then be better able to find out the natural bent …….Plato
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My son is my son
till i have got him a wife.
But my daughter is my daughter
all the days of her life Thomas Fuller
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Opportunities are never lost.
The other fellow takes those you miss
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While money can’t buy happiness,
it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
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The fate of civilization is like needlework. You can take it up at and worry about it at odd moments.
Frank Sullivan.
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Never give your boy, all the allowance you can afford.
Keep back some to bail him out.
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God could not be everywhere.
Therefore he made mothers.
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In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order.
I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The truly free man ??
He is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner ,without giving an excuse.
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Youth Looks ahead ;
Old age looks back .
Middle age Looks tired……..
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over ;
But it may be set to advantage and shown in good light.
George Santayana
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Time goes , You say ? Ah No !!
Alas , Time stays , we go . Austin Dobson : The paradox of Time
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If you can give your son only one gift,
Let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton
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The greatest compensation of old age is its freedom of spirit….
It liberates you from envy , hatred and malice. Somerset Maugham
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Children sweeten labors ;
But they make misfortunes more bitter . Francis Bacon
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The Modern day Man
At twenty he thinks he can save the world ;
At thirty he begins to wish he could save part of his own salary.
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Of a sane man there is only one definition.
He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. GK Chesterton.
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The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes, as if it had nothing
else in the world to do. GALELIO
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Real friends are those who, when you have made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy.
Cannot build on it.
Good only for wallowing in.
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Wear your learning like a pocket watch – hidden.
Do not pull it out to count the hours , but , Give the time when you are asked.
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Some Pursue happiness ;
Others create it.
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The poor man is not he without a cent.
But he who is without a dream. Harry Kemp
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be :
Since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas A Kempis.
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This is the greatest paradox:
The emotions cannot be trusted ,yet it is they that tell us the greatest truths.
Don Herold
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Stay humble. Always answer the phone — no matter who else is with you. — Jack Lemmon
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To Handle yourself , use your head.
To handle others ,use your heart.
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If only we wish to be happy this could be easily accomplished ; but we wish to be happier than other people and this is always difficult ,for we believe others to be happier than they are.
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Taste …… the sign of an educated mind.
Imagination …… the sign of a productive man.
Emotional balance……..the token of a mature man.
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Class .. Nobody is a gentleman when big money is involved ……John Leonard.
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What difference does it make how much you have ?
What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca 62 AD
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Make money .. and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw
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You , who have read the history of nations from Moses down to our last election …..
Where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another ?
EL Stanton
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Small worries are like gnats … Movement and activity disperse them
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Always do right.
This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
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Do not laugh at a youth at his affectations.
He is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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NEW YORK.
A great city. A great solitude.
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Persons with any weight of character ,like planets ,their atmosphere along with them in their orbits.
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Understanding the atom is like child’s play compared with understanding child’s play.
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The test of a vocation is the love of drudgery it involves.
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Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if you bear in mind that it has its limits and if you add nothing to it in imagination.
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Religion is a thing of our own invention. What kind of truth is it that is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other ?
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When should a parent turn over authority to a child ?
When the child stops reaching for authority and reaches for responsibility , and not before .
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Whenever I hear a man express hatred for any race , I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate so much. You can be always sure of this : You cannot express hatred for anything unless you make use of the supply of hatred within yourself .The only hatred you can express is your own personal possession. To hate is to be enslaved by evil.
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Cooperate !!!
Remember the banana. Every time it leaves the bunch, it gets skinned.
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Delegating Works .Provided the one who delegates, works too.
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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
The Road Not taken …. By Robert Frost
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Life is a card game in which everyone is dealt a hand which he must accept. His success will depend on his playing as well as it can be played. A very large number of failures in life occur because men refuse to do this and instead insist on playing the hand they think they should have been dealt.
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Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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If you can be deceived, you can be conquered.
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Man is born to live , Not prepare for Life.
Boris Pasternak.
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All animals except Man, know that the principal business of Life is to enjoy it.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while ,he knows something.
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I believe in immortality of the soul because I have in me,
immortal longings. Helen Keller
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Happiness.
That peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable.
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Courage :
Fear that has said its prayers.
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My Grandfather always said that Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
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Feeling let down today ? Try looking up.
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A little commonsense, a little tolerance, a little good humor ,and you don’t know how comfortable you can make yourself on this planet.
Somerset Maugham
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The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied by cheerfulness. We have sufficient proof on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.
Thomas Love Peacock
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You come into this world with nothing.
Anything you get after that is sheer profit
Tommy Steele
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We die daily. Happy are those who come to life daily, as well.
George McDonald
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Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekov
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If you have never been amazed by the fact that you exist,
you are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed.. I well know.
For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself
Clemenceau
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IT IS NO USE TRYING TO BE CLEVER – WE ARE ALL CLEVER HERE-
JUST TRY TO BE KIND .. A LITTLE KIND.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist.
It reduces him to his fighting weight.
John Billings
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Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing
how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James Carse
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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
Somerset Maugham.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau
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There are two kinds of people on earth that I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
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There are two things to aim at in life
First to get what you want ; and after that ,to enjoy it .
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet,
Neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle
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If you would have a happy family life , remember two things :
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
In matters of taste ,swim with the current.
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Worry centers on self.
Prayer centers on God
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Gods’ Love is unconditional.
Gods’ promises are conditional.
Mans’ error is in transposing them
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Happiness has the habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful to his God, comfortable with his conscience, in favor with his friends, in love with his neighbors, and in balance with his bank
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I will reveal to you a love potion, without medicine,
without herbs, without any witch’s magic;
And that is ,IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED,THEN LOVE. Senecas’Letters from a stoic.
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Also constantly remember this rule:
The more you think for yourself, the more marked will your individuality be.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fame can come in a moment.
But Greatness takes time.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do … Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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You are not responsible for the thoughts that pass your door.
You are responsible only for those that you admit and entertain.
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The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
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Money is money. Beans tonight and steak tomorrow.
So long as you can look yourself in the eye.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like a male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continued becoming , with a goal in front ,not behind.
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It seems that the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Only Idiots believe everything they hear.
Smart people believe only half of what they hear.
The smartest among them, know which half to believe
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A Prayer must never be answered. If it is, it ceases to be a prayer and becomes correspondence.
OSCAR WILDE
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SUCCESS : IS Failure turned inside out.
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GENTLEMAN-Someone who can disagree without being disagreeable.
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Oscar Wilde…….In Conversation
Life imitates Art more than Art imitates Life.This results not merely from life’s imitative instinct ,but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of life is to find expression ,and that Art offers certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy.
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Oscar Wilde …….In Conversation
The more we study Art, the less we care for nature .What Art reveals to us is Nature’s lack of design ,her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good intentions ,of course, but as Aristotle once pointed out, she cannot carry them out.
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Of a sane man there is only one definition.
He is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. GK Chesterton.
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Too much time spent on studies ,is sloth.
Francis Bacon .
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Greatness consists in trying to be great.
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
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It is so easy to pick out the best people.
They’ll help you do it. Always.
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If at first you don’t succeed, try,try again. If you still don’t succeed, stop trying. Sit down and think it over.
Persistence is a noble virtue. But it is no substitute for evaluation.
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Real friends are those who, when you have made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
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Life demands from you only the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible-Not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Cousteau
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The Hero is no braver than the ordinary man;
But he is brave five minutes longer…..Ralph Waldo Emerson
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SMILE :
A light in the window of the face which shows that the heart is at home.
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Happiness
Something that comes into our lives through a door we don’t remember leaving open.
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World aflame !!!
Friendships, family ties, the companionship of little children, an autumn forest flung in prodigality against a deeply blue sky, the intricate design and haunting fragrance of a flower, the counterpoint of a Bach fugue or the melodic line of a Beethoven sonata, the fluted note of bird song, the glowing glory of a sunset
The world is aflame with the things of the eternal moment !!
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Every man is limited by three things:
The knowledge in his mind.
The strength of his character.
The principles upon which he is building his life.
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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of continent .A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a manor of thy friend is washed away by the sea.
Any mans death diminishes me ,because I am involved with mankind.
Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
IT TOLLS FOR THEE.
John Donne
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Happiness
Something that comes into our lives through a door we don’t remember leaving open.
*APPROACHING 60 & 65s* A friend of mine crossed 60 and is heading to 65.
I asked him what’s changing? He sent me following lines:
Yes, I am changing.
*After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I just realised that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I now stopped bargaining with vegetables & fruits vendors. After all, a few more is not going to burn a hole in my pocket but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I pay the taxi driver without waiting for the change. The extra money might bring a smile on his face. After all he is toiling much harder for a living than me*
Yes, I am changing.
*I stopped telling the elderly that they’ve already narrated that story many times. After all, the story makes them walk down the memory lane & relive the past.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I’ve learnt not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. After all, the onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I give compliments freely & generously. After all it’s a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me*.
Yes, I am changing.
*I’ve learnt not to bother about a crease or a spot on my shirt. After all, personality speaks louder than appearances*.
Yes, I am changing.
*I walk away from people who don’t value me. After all, they might not know my worth, but I do*.
Yes, I am changing.
*I remain cool when someone plays dirty politics to outrun me in the rat race. After all, I am not a rat & neither am I in any race*.
Yes, I am changing.
*I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. After all, it’s my emotions that make me human.*
Yes, I am changing.
*I have learnt that its better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. After all, my ego will keep me aloof whereas with relationships I will never be alone*.
Yes, I am changing.
*I’ve learnt to live each day as if it’s the last. After all, it might be the last* .
Yes, I am changing.
*I am doing what makes me happy. After all, I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to me.*
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rasAyana 