Coffee: Drink to Your Health

Good news for coffee drinkers. 

For many years, coffee was considered a vice, linked with sleepless nights and cigarettes. But scientists have discovered that coffee contains potent antioxidants that can fight numerous ailments, including heart disease and diabetes. According to the American Coffee Association, 54 percent of Americans drink coffee on a daily basis, and they drink, on average, over three cups each. 

The diseases coffee can benefit include: 

• Dementia. 

Drinking moderate amounts of coffee during middle age — classified as three to five cups daily — can decrease the risk of dementia by 65 percent, according to a 2009 study by Swedish and Finnish researchers. 

• Liver disease. 

In those who drink too much alcohol, those who drank the most coffee — more than four cups every day — reduced their risk of developing alcoholic cirrhosis by 80 percent. 

• Heart disease. 

Research associated with The Nurses' Health Study found that women who drank two to three cups of coffee daily had a 25 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease. Along the same line, a Spanish study found that men who drank more than five cups of coffee each day lowered their risk of dying from heart disease by 44 percent, and that women who drank four to five cups each day reduced their risk by 34 percent. 

• Prostate cancer. 

A recent study from Harvard Medical School found that men who drank the most coffee slashed their risk of developing the fastest growing and most difficult to treat prostate cancers by more than half when compared to men who drank no coffee. 

• Gout. 

Drinking four or more cups of coffee each day dramatically reduces the incidence of gout, say U.S. and Canadian researchers. Men who drank four to five cups daily lowered their risk by 40 percent, and those who drank six or more cups daily reduced their risk of developing gout by 59 percent when compared to men who didn't drink coffee. 

• Breast cancer. 

Coffee can either reduce the risk of developing breast cancer or delay its onset, according to Swedish studies. They found that coffee alters a woman's metabolism and produces a safer balance of estrogens. Women who drank two to three cups of coffee a day reduced their cancer risk by as much as two-thirds, depending on the specific type of breast cancer. 

• Diabetes. 

Enjoying six or more cups of coffee daily can cut chances of Type 2 diabetes by 54 percent in men and 30 percent in women over those who don't drink coffee.. 

• Parkinson's disease. 

Several studies show that drinking coffee lowers a man's risk of developing Parkinson's up to 80 percent — and the more the better. 

• Colon cancer 

• A Japanese report found that women who drank three or more cups of coffee every day slashed their risk of developing colon cancer in half. 

What's responsible for coffee's healthy benefits? Most researchers believe it's the antioxidants (polyphenols or flavonoids) in coffee, but there are hundreds of compounds in coffee that may be partially responsible.

- By Sylvia Booth Hubbard, Newsmax 

Happiness

Happiness will always be found in forgiveness and in loving yourself and others. - Unknown

Decide to be happy and the rest is a matter of “experiences or circumstances.” - Unknown

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. - Taisen Deshimaru

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Countess Of Blessington

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. - Albert Camus

Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. - Kathleen Pedersen

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. - The Budda

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank

Very little is needed to make a happy life. - Marcus Aurelius

No man is happy unless he believes he is. - Publilius Syrus

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. - Unknown

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.- Unknown

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.- Unknown

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.- Unknown

The unhappiest of all men is he who believes himself to be so. - Unknown

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change. - Unknown

Make one person happy each day, even if it’s yourself. - Unknown

Take a little time to do whatever makes a happy you. - Unknown

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness. - Unknown

One way to be happy is to count your blessings.- Unknown

Change - Quotes

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. - Katharine Butler Hathaway 

After a while, you’ve got to stop banging your head against the same wall. If you really want change to occur, focus on what you can do and do it, not on what they should do but haven’t and likely won’t. - Doe Zantamata  

All appears to change when we change. - Henri Frederic Amiel

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Unknown

All change is opportunity. - Unknown

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! - Anatole France

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement. - Ovid

Any change is better than none and most change is for the better. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. It elevates us from mediocrity and saves us from false security. Certainly it is worth the risk! We must also keep in mind that it is only through change that we can continue to experiment with ourselves and our lives. - Leo Buscaglia

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony D'Angelo

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry S. Commager

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.

Change in all things is sweet. - Aristotle

Change is difficult but often essential to survival. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. - Les Brown

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. - Unknown

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful. - Buddha 

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. - Richard Hooker

Change is often preceded by crisis. The bigger the crisis the greater the opportunity to re-think your future. - Unknown

Change is the law of life. What we need is a flexible plan for an ever changing world. - Unknown

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. - Unknown

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. - Saul Alinsky

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. - Unknown

Change starts when someone sees the next step. - William Drayton

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation. - Unknown

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama

Change. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring beacuse the challenge exists to make us stronger. - Unknown

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others. - Jacob Braude

Don’t change just to impress and please someone. Change because it makes you a better person and it leads you to a better future. When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you. - Unknown

Don’t change yourself because you’re afraid of what people think. Change yourself because you want to be better. - Unknown  

Don’t fear change, embrace it. - Anthony D'Angelo

Everybody wants change, but no one wants to change. - Unknown

Everything changes, nothing remains without change. - The Buddha

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on. - Alan H Cohen

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. - Bill Blackman

Hardy folks don’t run from change; they exult in its challenges. - Unknown

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

If the world changes, it is because people living in it have done things that cause it to change. - Unknown

If there were no change, there would be no butterflies. - Unknown

If we do not change, we do not grow. If we do not grow, we are not really living. - Gail Sheehy

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. - Unknown

If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. - Maya Angelou

If you realize that all things change. There is nothing you will try to hold on to. - Lao Tzu

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. - Anne Sophie Swetchine

It is not that some people have willpower and some do not. It is that some people are ready to change and others are not. - James Gordon, M.D.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. -Charles Darwin

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. - George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. - Marcus Aurelius

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin 

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. - Marcus Aurelius

Open your arms to change, but don’t give up your values. - Unknown

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. - Sydney J. Harris

Our only security in life is our ability to change. - Unknown

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed! - Peter M. Senge

People most amenable to change are those who value learning, change and growth. - Unknown

People underestimate their capacity for change. - John Porter

Progress often brings about change of habits, change of life styles, change of environmental interactions, and a combination of insight and foresight. When such changes are made, the gap between ourselves and our problem is transcended or bridged. The being of the knower is merged with that of the known, and a new relationship grows out of the experience itself. - Henry N. Gerguson

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. - Unknown

Sometimes the things we can’t change end up changing us. - Unknown

Take Change in both arms and embrace it, – otherwise it will overcome you. - Roger Anderson 

The best way to adapt to change and lead a successful life is to view crises as opportunities, and stumbling  blocks in your path as stepping-stones to the stars. - Denis Waitley

The key to change is to let go of fear. - Unknown

The only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance - Alan Watts

The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. - Charles Kettering 

There is only one reality in life - change. - Unknown

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all. - Carlos Castaneda

To stay fresh and alive in spirit, there must be change. Find new tactics, methods, and modes of operation that are right for today’s situation; otherwise you will be left behind. - Unknown

Today we can’t afford not to take chances – I’m always puzzled by people who talk as though advocates of change are just inventing ways to disturb the peace in what would otherwise be a tranquil community. We are not seeking change for the pure fun of it. We must change to meet the challenge of altered circumstances. Change will occur whether we like it or not. It will either be change in a good and healthy direction or change in a bad and regrettable direction. - John Gardner

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. - Arthur Christopher Benson

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. - C. JoyBell C.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Unknown

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon – to anticipate it and plan for it. - Unknown

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. - Abraham Maslow

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realized that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. - Unknown

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. - Lucius Cary

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor E. Frankl

When we find that life is a bore, that existence is a chore, that the wonder and magic of being alive is vanishing, it is possible that it is because we are resisting change. If we have become trapped in a dull, lifeless rhythm, we must resolve to give up our resistance and dance to a new step. When we do, we will surely rediscover that change is our greatest source of happiness, stimulation and continued growth. - Leo Buscaglia

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer

When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better. - Unknown

When you're finished changing, you're finished. - Benjamin Franklin

While changes are inevitable, we can all adjust our sails to meet the winds of transformation so we can still reach our destination safely. - Unknown

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save from change? - Unknown

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. - Frank Herbert

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. - Jim Rohn

You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you. - Unknown

You do not notice changes in what is always before you. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You have the power to change. - Les Brown

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. - Robert Schuller

Choices - Quotes

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behavior and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! - Greg Anderson

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. - Pythagoras

Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. - Lord Samuel

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit? - Gary Ryan Blair

Every choice you make gives you a chance to pave your own road. - Oprah Winfrey

Every choice you make has an end result. - Zig Ziglar

I choose … To live by choice, not by chance; To make change, not excuses; To be motivated, not manipulated; To be useful, not used; To excel, not compete. I chose self-esteem, not self-pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinion of others. - Unknown

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. - Unknown

If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice! - Neil Peart

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live your life. - Unknown

Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey. - Charles Millhuff

Not caring what other people think is one of the best choices you'll ever make in life. - Unknown

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. - Wayne Dyer

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice. - Abbe D'Allainval

The world revolves around choices made by people. Choice is the cause; and the results we obtain are the effects of those choices made earlier. - Unknown

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. - Oprah Winfrey

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. - Unknown

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. - Epictetus

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. - Thornton Wilder 

We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. - Charles R. Swindoll

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfil the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder. - W. J. Slim

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices. - Russell M. Nelson

You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. - Barbara Hall

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. - Greg Anderson

You may not be able to choose your lot in life, but you can choose how to handle your lot. - Unknown

Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred Montapert

Your choices should feel comfortable or they aren’t your choices at all. - David Baird 

Love

Life in abundance comes only through great love. - Elbert Hubbard

If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. - Rudyard Kipling

Afflicted by love’s madness all are blind. - Sextus Propertius 

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato 

Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi 

The best proof of love is trust. - Joyce Brothers 

Even the richest man in the world is poor if he is without love in his heart. - Unknown

If loving too much is ever a sin, then I would have sinned all my life. - Unknown

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else. - Unknown

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. - Unknown

True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction. - Unknown

Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live. - Unknown

Easy to say we love… difficult to demonstrate it every day. - Unknown

There is nothing in the world that love cannot conquer. - Unknown

To love something is to give it room enough to grow. - Unknown

Without loving acts, loving words are meaningless. - Unknown

To be loved is to live forever in someone’s heart. - Unknown

Friends

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other’s gold. 

My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

I walk one morning with a friend and wished the day would never end. 

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. 

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead. 

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Give to your friends regardless of how much they give to you.

Friends shows us that the greyest day is brighter than it seems.

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. 

Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends. 

Everything is good when new, but friends when old. 

Life without a friend is like death without a witness. 

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. 

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us. 

None is so rich as to throw away a friend. 

The road to a friend’s house is never long. 

Philosophy Of LIfe

Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. . . . It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It’s like the perfume of the flower – unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. - George Matthew Adams

Your philosophy of life is your general outlook on life and its problems, especially when that outlook gives character and direction to your thoughts, and becomes the chief impetus of your actions. - Unknown 

Dream Rangers

This is a must watch. It is an advertisement, supposedly, based on a true story. I almost cried when I watched it. I hope I will have the courage, and the guts like the men in the video when I reached the final stage of my journey on Earth. So much to be said for/of the video. Watch it, and you will understand. Although the video is in Mandarin, there are English sub-titles, so you shouldn’t have a problem understanding it.

Dreams / Dreamers - Quotes

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. - Unknown

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Denis Waitley

A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinowitz

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. - T. E. Lawrence 

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. - Orison Swett Marden

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. - Lao Tzu

Do not let this day pass without doing something to make your dreams come true. - Unknown

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. - James Dean

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - Sir James Matthew Barrie

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. - James Allen

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life. - Unknown

Dreams are like nuggets of gold hardly recognizable in the rubble and earth. But once they are treated scientifically, the gold emerges. Each dream is a little miniature of our life as it is right now. It is up-to-date commentary on the dreamer’s life and its secret attitudes. It reveals which way our unconscious desires are facing. It gives a first class preview of where we are making for. - Unknown

Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. - Travis White

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner

Dreams come true for those who work while they dream. - Unknown

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. - Denis Waitley

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? - Morpheus in The Matrix - Source: The Matrix film

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. - Les Brown

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - James Langston Hughes

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. - Flavia Weedn

If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be? - Les Brown

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J. M. Power

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Unknown

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. - Earl Nightingale

Never laugh at someone’s dreams. People who do not have dreams do not have much. - Unknown

Never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are our realities in waiting. In dreams, we plant the seeds of our future. - Unknown

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. - Karen Ravn

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. - Jack Keroouac

Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know with a doubt that you were made for amazing things. - Josh Hinds

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. - Unknown

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living. - David Abrahansen

The dream begins most of the time with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes even poking you with a sharp stick called truth. - Unknown

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. - James Allen

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. - James Allen

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. - Thomas Dolby

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. - Unknown

There is nothing wrong to dream of things you may not achieve as long as you enjoy dreaming about them – and continue to pursue other things in life that realistically can be accomplished. - Unknown

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity. - Edgar Allan Poe

Those who discourage you from your dreams have most likely already abandoned their own. - Unknown

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Anais Nin

To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. - Unknown

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. - Jesse Owens

When you cease to dream you cease to live. - Malcolm S Forbes

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. - Unknown

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. - Robert Schuller

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. - Michael Phelps

You got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make your dream come true? - Oscar Hammerstein

Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath, and try again - Unknown

Friendship

Friendship ...

… is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measured words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - Unknown

… is no one-sided affair, but an exchange of soul qualities. There can be no friendship without reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing or give all and receive nothing, and expect to experience the joy of fullness of companionship. - Unknown

… is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is not something you learn in school. But if you have not learned the meaning of friendship, you really have not learned anything. - Muhammad Ali

… multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. ’Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul. - Baltasar Gracian

… cheers like sunbeam; charms like a good story inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision. - Newell D. Hiller

… requires great communication between friends. Otherwise, it can neither be born nor exist. - Saint Francis De Sales

… makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. - Cicero

… with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

… based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. - Carmen Sylva

… is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

… will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Lynd

… is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. - Mortimer Jerome Adler

… isn't about who you have known the longest. ...but about who came and never left your side. - Unknown

… is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold – it can only be cherished. - Unknown

… is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

… is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

… is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius 

… is the most priceless gift that can be given. - Unknown

Food For Thought

To be honest, to be kind – To earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation – above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself – here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. - Robert Luis Stevenson

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. - Eric Hoffer

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. - Alexander Hamilton

Proverbs

All colors will agree in the dark. - Francis Bacon

One should eat to live, not live to eat. - Moliere

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone. - John Ray

There is always room at the top. - Daniel Webster

Out of the frying pan into the fire. - Tertullian

Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin

In a calm sea every man is a pilot. - John Ray

Judge not, that ye be not judged. - Matthew

Penny wise, pound foolish. - Robert Burton

No gains without pains. - Benjamin Franklin

Silence gives consent. - Oliver Goldsmith

As you sow so will you reap. - Cicero

Better late than never. - Matthew Henry

Familiarity breeds contempt. - Aesop

Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop

Blood is thicker than water. - John Ray

Moderation in all things. - Terence

Money begets money. - John Ray

Charity begins at home. - Terence

Plodding wins the race. - Aesop

Well begun is half done. - Aristotle 

The Purpose of life

What are you here for? What is the purpose of your life? Apparently very few children ever think of asking themselves this question. Indeed many people will go through their whole lives from birth to death and it will never occur to them to consider the matter at all. The result is that there is no development at all. They have allowed everything to happen to them instead of they, themselves, making things happen for themselves. Only very few have realized that the purpose of life is growth, progress from ignorance to enlightenment and from unhappiness to happiness. - K. Sri Dhammananda 

To comprehend the purpose and meaning of life, one must above all love life and become totally submerged in the turmoil of living... he who understands the sheer experience of living, will, by the same token, understand the theory of life. - Kostya Ryabtsev

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to accomplish your dreams and goal – make the most of what you have and have made a difference while you are here. - Unknown

Bar Acrobatic

I love these Acrobatic acts. The artistes made it all seem effortless. But we know it is anything but that. The hours, not to mention years of training… the pain, the injuries suffered during training… the blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes…. I have the utmost respect for these artistes. 

Success - Quotes

Those are a success who have lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who have gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of children, who have filled their niche and accomplished their task, who leave the world better than they found it, whether by a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of the earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best they had. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider – and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation – persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. - Alexander Graham Bell

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W. Clement Stone 

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier – certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans. - David Joseph Schwartz 

There is no such thing as a born hard-worker, a born salesman or a born genius. We are all born ignorant, with innate underdeveloped abilities. One cannot afford to merely let things happen. If one seeks success, he will have to make things happen. -Mark Brinkerhoff

Success does not necessarily mean that we must earn a great deal of money and live in the biggest town. It means only that we are daily engaged in striving toward a goal that we independently chosen and feel is worthy of us as persons. - Unknown

Many men and women succeed in a big way, yet do not possess extraordinary intelligence or ability. If we take a closer look at their success, we can usually see that they are startlingly different from others, even those far more gifted than themselves, in that they have the utmost confidence in their ability to accomplish whatever they set out to do. - Unknown