Saturday 31 March 2018

Quote Worthy

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. - Erich Fromm

He that thinks he shows boldness or height of mind by a scurrilous reply to a scurrilous provocation measures himself by a false standard, and acts not the spirit of a man, but the spleen of a wasp. - Robert South

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. - Swami Sivananda

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. - C. S. Lewis

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind. - Emile Cioran

No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is coloured by imagination and dream. - Clarence Darrow

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world. - E.A. Bucchianeri

We are all in the same game, just different levels, dealing with the dame hell, just different devils. - Unknown

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise. Tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rise. - William Congreve

Every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back. - Charles Kinsley

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh

You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page. - Tori Amos

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Wednesday 28 March 2018

People - Quotes

Don’t treat people as bad as they are, treat them as good as you are. - UnknownNo two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think. - Penelope Fitzgerald

Good people are like street lights along the roads. They don’t make the distance short but they light up the path and make the walk easy and safe. - Unknown

People are not as beautiful as they look or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as they care, as they share. - Unknown

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. - Daniel Handler

People are more than just the way they look. - Madeleine L'Engle

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other. - Martin Luther King Jr.

People (sometimes) talk about creation as a remote fact of history, as if it were something that was attended to a long time ago, and finished at the time. But creation was not an act; it is a process; and it is going on today as much as it ever was. And Nature in not in a hurry… - John Muir

People with purpose, goals, and visions have no time for drama. They invest their energy in creativity and focus on living a positive life. - Unknown

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. - Cormac McCarthy

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. - Ernest Hemingway

The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves or encourage us to become a lesser version of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. The people around them help make them great. We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves. - Unknown

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. - Douglas Adams

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kind of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. - Tom Robbins

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Goethe

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. - Dale Carnegie

Monday 26 March 2018

Trivia

I cannot guarantee the accuracy of all the points.

The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin, as the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos. 

The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days. 

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark. 

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts. 

The bloodhound is the only animal in the world whose evidence is admissible in court. 

The body's strongest muscle is our tongue, and it is the only muscle attached at one end. Also, there are no two tongue prints that are alike. 

The colder the room you sleep in, the higher the chances are that you'll have a bad dream. 

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. 

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia. 

The first Jack O'Lanterns were actually made from turnips. 

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. 

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. 

The following sentence uses every letter of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."

The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. 

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg, and the smallest is the male sperm. 

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Sunday 25 March 2018

Success - Quotes

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to. - Gordon Parks

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority, that worldly success is a natural result. - Marianne Williamson

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. - Bob Proctor

When your ship comes in, if you are like most people, instead of being thankful, you will find fault with the captain for the delay. - Edgar Watson Howe

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. - Charles Caleb Colton

Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren’t. - Malcom X

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. - Mark Twain

Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up. - Dave Ramsey

Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. - Unknown

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. - Asechylus

Success produces success, just as money produces money. - Sebastien Chamfort

The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. - Unknown

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Saturday 24 March 2018

Quote Worthy

Sometimes we get more from the stormy days than we do the perfect ones. Sometimes those days teach us a valuable lesson, make us grow in some way, or force us to make a much needed change. - Unknown

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin

If you think positively, sound becomes music, movement becomes dance, smile becomes laughter, mind becomes meditation, and life becomes a celebration. - Unknown

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. - Mark Twain

The foolish man wonders at the unusual; the wise man at the usual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invest your energy into something that is going to contribute to your growth. - Unknown

Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lessons. - Unknown

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. - A.A. Milne

We are all undesirable elements from somebody’s point of view. - Edward Abbey

Look for Nature’s beauty all around and surely you will find it. - Unknown

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. - Steve Wozniak

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Wednesday 21 March 2018

Tea - Quotes

A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter. - Mary Lou Heiss

Drinking tea ... punctuates our day with precious and refreshing pauses, whether it is after a satisfying meal or when taking a much-needed break in our busy schedule. - Mutsuko Tokunaga

Ever since tea was first discovered, its cultivation and consumption have been encouraged because of its apparent ability to ward off disease, strengthen powers of concentration, cleanse the body, and aid digestion. Legends of its medicinal properties reached Europe and the New World from China, intriguing the Western consumer, and now, centuries later, modern research has begun to confirm many of those early beliefs. - Jane Pettigrew

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy. - James Boswell

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. - Japanese Proverb

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited it will calm you. - William Ewart

If you ask Zen people, they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

In an age when everyone is constantly busy and short of time, what could be more enjoyable than taking time to indulge in what was once part of everyday life, but has now become a luxury – afternoon tea. - Lesley Mackley

In English society while there is tea there is hope. - Arthur Wing Pinero

In my own hands I hold a bowl of tea; I see all of nature represented in its green colour. Closing my eyes, I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently sitting alone and drinking tea, I feel these become a part of me. - Sen Soshitsu

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. - Charles Dickens

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. - John Milton

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tea ... is one of those rare treasures, enjoyed throughout the world, that actually benefits health. - Kit Chow

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation. - Dorothea Johnson

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. - Kakuzo Okakura

Tea is hot and getting hotter. From iced to spiced, from austere black tea to sweetened and milky chai, from a flowery pick-me-up to a healing herbal. No other beverage has such a place in the heart of every civilization. No wonder it is the most popular beverage in the world, next to water. - Sara Perry

Tea is like a perfect gentleman whose nature has no evil. - Brother Anthony of Taize

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking, it is a religion of the art of life. - Kakuzo Okakura

Tea is so important to the Russians that prisoners receive a regular ration as a basic requirement. - Emily Kearns

Tea is wealth itself, because there is nothing that cannot be lost, no problem that will not disappear, no burden that will not float away, between the first sip and the last. - The Minister of Leaves, The Republic of Tea

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. - Lu Yu

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. - Colley Cibber

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Teapots should be used for tea only. Tea is like a blotter and will pick up off flavours. - Mary Louise Starkey

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. - Samuel Johnson

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. - George Gissing

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. - Kakuzo Okakura

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. - Arnold Bennett

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement. - Arthur Gray

The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself - warm and comforting-inspires a feeling of relaxation and trust that fosters shared confidences. - Emilie Barnes

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. - Henry James

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. - Jasper Fforde

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. - Lin YuTang

To the Chinese people, tea is like a free spirit. When tea enters the body, one is immediately filled with the nutrition of sunshine, the bright moon, the richness of the land, and the wonderment of the entire universe. - Ling Wang

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? - D. T. Suzuki

Monday 19 March 2018

Humorous Quotes

As to dancing, my dear, I never dance, unless I am allowed to do it in my own peculiar way. There is no use trying to describe it: it has to be seen to be believed … Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight. - Lewis Carroll

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you. - Ray Romano

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to rem ind each other that we're related for better or for worse and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. - Rick Riordan

Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert – brownies, for instance, or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel. - Jerome P. Crabb

The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what those words mean, the only way the average man can find out what is going on is to become a lawyer, or at least to study law, himself. All of which makes it very nice – and very secure – for the lawyers. Fred Rodell

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Sunday 18 March 2018

Life - Quotes

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing. - Dan Simmons

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live. - Jean De La Bruyere

Like water spilt upon the ground – alas, our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! - Henry Van Dyke

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Ward Beecher

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can. - Sarah Kane

Nothing was certain; there were many strange twists and devious turns as one hopped down the overgrown bunnytrail of life. - Stephen King

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. - Carlos Ruizzafon

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. - Stephen Leacock

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. - George Eliot

Most important thing in life ... is learning how to fall. - Jeannette Walls

Life is the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference. - Virginia Satir

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Saturday 17 March 2018

Quote Worthy

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. - Criss Jami

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. - Zig Ziglar

There's a river crashing by us. But we can only go down to drink one place and it's called "now." - Samuel R. Delany

A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other. - Unknown

Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success. - Mary Lydon Simonsen

Simplicity, patience, compassion … these three are your greatest treasure. - Lao Tzu

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. - George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery. - Bertrand Russell

Experience alone can decide on truth. - Albert Einstein

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Wednesday 14 March 2018

Loneliness - Quotes

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. - May Sarton

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. - Bram Stoker

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. - Lillian Hellman

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. - Paul Tournier

One trouble with most of us is that we don't use the resources within ourselves. We are all neglectful of powers that we share as our human birth-right, capacities for distraction from ourselves, for intelligent enjoyment, for receiving and giving. Through lack of mental and moral and spiritual exercises our souls shrink and shrivel and break out into maladies that almost inevitably include the feeling of misery and isolation usually described as loneliness. If we were properly related to ourselves and to the world and to the universe we should never lack for company and we should never be lonely. - John Daniel Barry

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. - Robert M. Pirsig

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want. - Justin Timberlake

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. - Deb Caletti

The main consequence of saying no to negative peer pressure is not just withstanding "the heat of the moment," as most adults think. Rather, it is coping with a sense of exclusion as others engage in the behavior and leave the adolescent increasingly alone. It is the loss of the shared experience. Further, the sense of exclusion remains whenever the group later recounts what happened. This feeling of loneliness then becomes pervasive but carries an easy solution – go along with the crowd. - Michael Riera

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness. - Austin O’Malley

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. - Douglas Coupland

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. - Thomas Wolfe

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. - Hunter S. Thompson

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. - Orson Welles

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. - Ellen Burstyn

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot

What makes loneliness an anguish Iis not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. - Dag Hammarskjold

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. - Ronald Anthony

When you’re surrounded by people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone. - Fiona Apple

Monday 12 March 2018

Humorous Quotes

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means. - Henny Youngman

We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now. - Bruce Coslet

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. - Cleveland Amory

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. - Anton Chekhov

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a co-defendant. - Ambrose Briece

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - G. K. Chesterton

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. - Cass Canfield

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. - Nora Roberts

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most. - Ozzy Osbourne

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices. - Evan Esar

Every survival kit should include a sense of humour. - Unknown

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Sunday 11 March 2018

Happiness - quotes

We all seek happiness so eagerly, that in the pursuit we often lose that joyous sense of existence, and those quiet daily pleasures, the value of which our pride alone prevents us from acknowledging. - Arthur Helps

Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now. - Unknown

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Maxim Gorky

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. - George Benard Shaw

Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. - Eckhart Tolle

But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! - William Shakespeare

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prévert

If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain. - Unknown

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances. - John Lubbock

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown

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Saturday 10 March 2018

Quote Worthy

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else. - Albert Einstein

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. - Tony Robbins

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. - Morihei Ueshiba

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. - Brandon Sanderson

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand. - Cormac McCarthy

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. - Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. - Richard Sharp

Truth is beauty, beauty is truth. That’s all we know, it’s all we need to know. - Nate Bates

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility. - Gary Hamel

Sometimes, not seeing things can be a blessing. - August Strindberg

Distrust and caution are the parents of security. - Benjamin Franklin

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Wednesday 7 March 2018

Death - Quotes

It is no exaggeration when a human speaks the words ‘I’m dying’. Because it’s the honest, hurtful truth. Every human lives to die. In the end, everyone lies at rest. By the minute we are all slowly getting closer to dying. Therefore, live the minutes and hours of your days as if they’re your last. - Alessia Ng

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. - Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. - Steve Jobs

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

For death is but a passing phase of Life; a change of dress, a disrobing; a birth into the unborn again; a commencing where we ended; a starting where we stopped to rest; a crossroad of Eternity; a giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real. - Edwin Leibfreed

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heart-breaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. - Sogyal Rinpoche

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. - Tecumseh

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence. - Johnny Depp

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choke the tender flower of life. - Samuel Richardson

There are always potential rogues who, seeing an opportunity, will flirt with death and then, at the very last moment, will be surprised to have met with it so easily. - Pierre Magnan

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. - Christian Nestell Bovee

You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can swear and curse the fates. But when it comes to the end, you have to let go. - Benjamin Button

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. - David Gerrold

Monday 5 March 2018

Humour

Q: What kind of shorts do clouds wear?
A: Thunderwear!

Q: What's easy to get into but hard to get out of?
A: Trouble!

Q: Where do boats go to when they get sick?
A: The dock!

Q: Who cleans the bottom of the ocean?
A: A Mer-Maid!

Q: Why can't a leopard hide?
A: Because he's always spotted!

Q: Why can't your nose be 12 inches long?
A: Because then it would be a foot!

Q: Why did the barber win the race?
A: Because he took a short cut!

Q: Why did the boy tiptoe past the medicine cabinet?
A: He didn't want to wake the sleeping pills!

Q: Why did the tomato turn red?
A: It saw the salad dressing!

Q: Why did the tree go to the dentist?
A: To get a root canal!

Q: Why don't you see giraffes in elementary school?
A: Because they're all in High School!

Q: Why was the maths book sad?
A: Because it had too many problems!

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Sunday 4 March 2018

Love - Quotes

When you truly care for someone, their mistakes don’t change how you feel because it is the mind that gets angry, not the heart. The heart’s love is unconditional. - Unknown

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment. It is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation. - Rabindranath Tagore

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows. - Ivan Panin

Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. - La Rocefoucauld

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. - Nicholas Sparks

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks

In love, we are best pleased when we please others. - Norman Macdonald

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Mark Twain

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. - Swedish Proverb

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget. - Alysha Speer

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather

More on Love Here, and the book The Light of Love

Saturday 3 March 2018

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A selection of humorous quotes. Enjoy!

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. - Henry St. John

Sometimes it’s better to keep silent than to tell others what you feel because it will only hurt you when you know they can hear you but they can’t understand. - Unknown

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. - Benjamin Franklin

While you yourself are stuck on the ladder of life, the least you can do is help others move up. - Shriyaa

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. - Vaclav Havel

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. - Larry Bird

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

Sometimes, you got to pretend everything is okay. - Unknown

Whoever wins the war gets to write the history. - Unknown

For when the wine is in, the wit is out. - Thomas Becon

More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy