As I walk away from you, I wish to wipe away all the memories from your mind n heart. With that I will prevent tears from flowing or lips from laughing. There is nothing I will take with me. There is nothing I will (wish to) leave behind for you.
Stand so firmly that even when the world collapses, you don't lose your ground.
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!
- Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Don't compare man, you will die, find your own niche.
No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.
ना रख अपने आप को, तू इस तरह संभाल कर, एक चादर को ओढ़, अपने कंधे पर डाल कर, समुंदरी शीत लहरों का प्रभाव, तुझसे कभी न रुकेगा, कुदरत की कहर के आगे, तू भी मिटटी में मिल जाएगा.
There is a Crack, a Crack in Everything / That's How the Light Gets In.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
... the problem can be very easily solved by everyone giving up N things. But very few people in the free world would be willing to do that. So we'll have to rely on most people giving up 1 or 2 things out of their own list of N things. For me, I didn't give up living in suburbs. But I
- wear a jacket at home in winter instead of turning on the heat
- use a fan in summer instead of AC
- line-dry my laundary in the backyard instead of using the gas dryer
- skip the plastic or paper bags when grocery-shopping
- gave up my SUV and got a Prius
- and literally dig through the household trash to find recyclable and compostable items that my wife and in-laws fail to separate out.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
ask whether we are working for tomorrow's history or for tomorrow's future?
The world is a stage and forget about the script, they didn't even let me rehearse once...
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato
Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
When I say "I talk to God", people accept it as a prayer- When I say God talked to me, suddenly I am a schizophrenic.
The more I try to forget you, the more I forget to forget you.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
May we better our gods and not use their failures as an excuse to repeat the same in ours. Amen.
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate,
to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. That's when I've really learned.
... no difference or division is worth destroying all that we have built and all that we love.
Life's too short and life's too long,
to be somewhere you don't belong.
All Companies want to hire best out-of-the-box thinkers to help them box their customers into their products.
Live for a dream, Fight for a dream, Die For a Dream... Arise!!!
Do not say: ''It is morning,'' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Rivers of Blood never find an Ocean. :-/
The concern for man and his destiny must be the chief interest of all
technical efforts. Never forget this among your equations and diagrams.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and the other one is right... It simply means that you value the relationship much more than your ego.
I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious Universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
HI - Sometimes it's a hard world for small things.
Ed McDonnough: You mean you busted out of jail.
Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.
There are challenges all around you. Just keep turning.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
May we discover through pain and torment, the strength to live with grace and humour.
May we discover through doubt and anguish, the strength to live with dignity and holiness.
May we discover through suffering and fear, the strength to move towards healing.
May it come to pass that we be restored to health and to vigour.
May Life grant us wellness of body, spirit, and mind.
And if this cannot be so, may we find in this transformation and passage
moments of meaning, opportunities for love
and the deep and gracious calm that comes
when we allow ourselves to move on.
There's a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but its not giving up.Its realizing that you don't need certain people and their crap.
Few people get education without going to college, Others get after getting out :)
Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.
"for a writer to desire spiritual security is as fatal as an aspiration to material pleasure. For a writer, every place of refuge is a pitfall; you fall once, and the clear sky of creativity is lost forever."
Whether you like it or not, life will keep giving you lessons till you die.
Apologize and move on.....Life is much simpler that ways. You travel with less hatred, less guilt and more peace.
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
I have reached the age in which
One forgives all.
I am ready to forgive friends
their loving,
forgive those who ruined friendships
and those who forgave
and stayed on to love.
But I shall give a lot to get
One of my foes today
For a quiet picnic
Somewhere.
Not having met for ages
we shall have so much to say.
You Know It's Love When All You Want Is That Person to be Happy, Even If You're Not Part of Their Happiness.
Only a broken cocoon headstarts caterpillar's journey towards a butterfly.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
You won't always be the strongest or fastest. You can be the toughest.
Draw what you see, not what you think is there.
Philanthropy is not measured in dollars and cents.
Never go out of your way to be on TV.
It isn't the mountains to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
I feared being alone until I learned to like myself.
I feared my destiny, until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared failure until I realized that I only fail when I don't try.
I feared success until I realized that I had to try in order to be happy with myself.
I feared people's opinions until I learned that people would have opinions about me anyway.
I feared rejection until I learned to have faith in myself.
I feared pain until I learned that it's necessary for growth.
I feared the truth until I saw the ugliness in lies.
I feared life until I experienced its beauty.
I feared my destiny, until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared change, until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly
had to undergo a metamorphosis before it could fly.
Death is the only panacea but then I am okay with partial cures.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the star.
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss we learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.
