Food For Thought

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you. - Princess Diana

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

Jokes

Sick Leave

Boss: What’s the idea of calling in sick yesterday? 

Employee: I was sick. 

Boss: You didn’t look sick when I saw you at the racetrack. 

Employee: You should have seen me after the sixth race. 

Medical School

Parent: What is your son doing these days? 

Neighbour: He is at medical school. 

Parent: Oh, what is he studying? 

Neighbour: Nothing, they are studying him. 

A Letter To Himself

The psychiatrist ask his patient what he is writing. 

Patient: A letter. 

Psychiatrist: To whom? 

Patient: To me 

Psychiatrist: What are you writing to yourself? 

Patient: I don’t know, I haven’t received it yet. 

Bad News

Doctor: I have some bad news and some very bad news. 

Patient: Well, might as well give me the bad news first. 

Doctor: The lab called with your test results. They said you have twenty four hours to live. 

Patient: Twenty four hours! That’s terrible! What could be worse? What’s the very bad news? 

Doctor: I’ve been trying to reach you since yesterday.

Life

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often, “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived”. - M. Scott Peck

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

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. - Joseph Hall

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. - Terry Josephson

Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. - Marcus Aurelius

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose. - Plutarch

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. - John Irving 

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life. - Smauel Johnson

The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. - Wayne Dyer 

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. - Henry Miller

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. - Ben Irwin

Addiction - Quotes

Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. - Jean Kilbourne

Addiction doesn’t kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help! - Unknown

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. - C. C. DeVille

Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap. - Tess Callahan

Addictions ... started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were ... less intelligent than goldfish. - William Gibson

All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing – a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart. - Cornelius Platinga

At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain. -  Frank Tallis

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. - Carl Jung

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. - Edgar Allan Poe

Recovery from addiction requires hard work, a proper attitude and learning skills to stay sober, not drinking alcohol or using other drugs. Successful drug recovery or alcohol recovery involves changing attitudes, acquiring knowledge, and developing skills to meet the many challenges of sobriety. - Dennis Daley

The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction. - Debra L. Kaplan

The mentality and behaviour of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. - Russell Brand

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behaviour is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. - Moby

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. - Alice Miller

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. - Jean Church

Happiness

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Henry David Thoreau

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. - Hugo LaFayette Black

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus

The person who seeks all his applause from outside has his happiness in another’s keeping. - Dale Carnegie 

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so. - William Inge

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. - Sir Roger L'Estrange

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. - Norman Vincent Peale

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. - C. P. Snow

So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskilful that it brings only more sorrow. - Sogyal Rinpoche

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. - Francis Herbert Bradley

Admiration - Quotes

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. - Grenville Kleiser

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. - Andre Maurois

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. - Joseph Addison

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. - H. W. Shaw

Distance is a great promoter of admiration. - Denis Diderot

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. - Alexander Pope

No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. - Thomas Carlyle

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. - Eleanor Roosevelt

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. - Seneca

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge of admiration. - William Hazlitt

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. - Luise von Francois

You always admire what you really don’t understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Adventure - Quotes

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - Bertrand Russell

Adventure is just bad planning. - Roald Amundsen

Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. - David Grayson

Adventure is often the unintentional result of poor planning. - Michael C. Thomsett

Adventure is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. - Laura Miller

Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop. - Murray Leinster

Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. - Mercedes Lackey 

Adventures are for the adventurous. - Unknown

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt. - Holly Lisle 

An adventure is never an adventure while it’s happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity. - Tim Cahill

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton

An adventurous spirit sometimes leads a man into unnecessary difficulties. - Count von Moltke

Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. - Emily Wing Smith

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone. - Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. - Christian Nestell

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road. - Daniel Defoe

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard. - Tacitus 

The greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core. - Osho

The spirit of adventure, the lure of the unknown, the thrill of a gallant quest. How very grand indeed. - Norton Juster

The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” - Thornton Wilder 

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculatingly to meet and greet unknown fate. - O. Henry

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. - Jon Krakauer

We are all adventurers in the battle of life; but, alas! how many fall in the struggle. - Eupolis 

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. - Peter de Vries

When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you are having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. -Thornton Wilder

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay. - Alfred North Whitehead

Quote Worthy

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. - Carl Burns

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusion it may lead. - John Stuart Mill

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - Mother Teresa 

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny. - Henry Hancock

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. - Diane Ackerman

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. - Aristotle

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. - Samuel Butler

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. - Frank Crane

Spiritual

              We are so at the mercy of our minds that even when we find that the spiritual teachings strike a chord inside us, and move us more than anything we have ever experienced, still we hold back, because of some deep-seated and inexplicable suspicion. 

              Somewhere along the line, though we have to stop mistrusting. We have to let go of the suspicion and doubt, which are supposed to protect us but never work, and only end up hurting us even more than what they are supposed to defend us from. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality. - Hakuun Yasutani

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Food For Thought

I wonder if the human touch, which people have, is not one of the greatest assets that one can have. You meet some people, and immediately you feel their warmth of mind or heart. The nurse in the hospital, the man who delivers your mail, the clerk behind many a store counter, and the effective minister or public speaker. Without this human touch, hope has little on which to feed or thrive. - George Matthew Adams

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. The gardener and farmer alike each has to keep the weeding process alive. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful. - George Matthew Adams

The man who is slipshod and thoughtless in his daily speech, whose vocabulary is a collection of anemic commonplaces, whose repetitions of phrases and extravagance of interjections act but as feeble disguises to his lack of ideas, will never be brilliant on an occasion when he longs to outshine the stars. Living at one's best is constant preparation for instant use. - William Jordan

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Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. - Robert Heinlein

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. - George Eliot

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. - Delphine De Girardin

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wayne Dyer

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. - Erich Fromm

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. - David Seabury

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. - Jose Ortega Gasset

Many people talk about loving others. When you care about the other person’s desires, feelings and well being more than you care about your own, then you know you have love for that person. Until you have that, it’s just talk. - Unknown

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Unknown

Adversity - Quotes

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity. - Daniel Defoe

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience. - Bishop Horne

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward

Adversity does teach who your real friends are. - Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then, especially, being free from flatterers. - Samuel Johnson

Adversity has made many a man great who, had he remained prosperous, would only have been rich. - Maurice Switzer

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horatius

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue. - Charles R. Swindoll

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves. - Edmund Burke

Adversity is a soul sister to success. And on the journey to greatness, our willingness to befriend these twin sisters, and know them as one, will have much to do with our greatness. - Noah Benshea

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Thomas Fuller

Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot. -  Unknown

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden

Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain – cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth, the flower, and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate. - Sir Walter Scott

Adversity is never the end point; for those faced with a positive attitude, it's always the beginning. - J. Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings 

Adversity is not a curse, for it is often, if not always, necessary to our welfare and happiness. It is like medicine to the sick, which if it be unpalatable is still salutary. - T. J. Sawyer

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Bryon

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

Adversity is the true school of the mind. - Katharine Lee Bates

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. - Horace

Adversity makes men; good fortune makes monsters. - French Proverb

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. - William Shakespeare

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character. - George Ade

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. - Horatius

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends. - Publilius Syrus

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference. - Marvin J. Ashton 

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney

All have their miseries. He is not truly a man who has not experienced adversity. - Edward Counsel 

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity. - Bhartrhari

Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill 

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca

For some adversity comes into our life like an ever-changing kaleidoscope and changes the pattern we laid out for our life. Some others are born into adversity and must learn survival tactics. When adversity is conquered, the skills learned, in the doing, are the golden treasures of life's experience. - Barbara B. Bergstrom

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude in adversity is the most beautiful and precious crown of the soul. - Ludovicus Blosius 

Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes – a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected – adversity – is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie. - Richard T. Pascale

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. - Ben Johnson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. - Henry Fielding

If you can’t live through adversity, you’ll never be good at what you do. You have to live through the unfair things, and you have to develop the hide to not let it bother you and keep your eyes focused on what you have to do. - Maurice

In any adversity that happens to us in the world, we ought to consider that misery and affliction are not less natural than snow and hail, storm and tempest: And it were as reasonable to hope for a year without winter, as for a life without trouble. - Wellins Calcott

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape. - Norman MacDonald

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy. - Boethius

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. - Robert Collier

In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last, words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. - Lucretius 

It is your reaction to adversity and not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop. - Unknown

Keen adversity is the best crucible in which to try a man’s integrity. - William Scott Downey

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther ‘tis hammered, the firmer it holds. - Ivan Panin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat. - Ryszard Kapuscinski

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind. - Isaac Barrow

Nothing is more patent than that the discipline of adversity is by far the most gracious and elevating influence affecting human character. - Unknown

Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scatters them. - William Scott Downey

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us. - Bruce Lee

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon 

Prosperity often presages adversity. - Hosea Ballou 

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. - Zig Ziglar

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - William Shakespeare

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavour. - Richard G. Scott

The day of adversity is one from which none are absolutely secure. Some, indeed, bring adversity on themselves by their own folly; but the wise as well as the foolish are liable to it, and all should be prepared for it. - Unknown 

The dictionary says that adversity is a condition marked by misfortune, a calamity, or an unfortunate event or circumstance. I say that adversity comes in all shapes and sizes, from life-threatening illnesses, to losing a sale, to failing in business, to rocky relationships. Adversity can be many things according to just when it hits you and under what conditions. Whatever it may be for you, if you have suffered setbacks, hardships, or failures, know that you are not alone. Very few things are true all of the time in all situations, but this is a universal truth: Plans do not become achievements, dreams do not become realities, and ideas do not come to fruition without setbacks, hardships, and failures. - Barry J. Farber

The fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours. - Unknown

The shade of faith and the cloak of true godliness is the best equipage for the storm of adversity. - William Scott Downey 

The trials and pressures of life –  and how we face them –often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better. - John C. Maxwell

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On! - Erik Weihenmayer

The worse our state of wretchedness, the more we are open to receive the blessings of happiness. Adversity is the only tutor of contentment. No man, unless his mouth has been embittered with gall, can taste the true savour of honey. - Anthony Lisle

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Washington Irving

There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Washington Irving

There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli

There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Those who choose to make adversity their friend doesn’t enjoy hardship any more than the next person. But there is a world of difference between those who befriend adversity by overcoming it and learning from the experience, and those who give up at the first sign of an obstacle … Adversity is going to happen, and usually in ways you could’ve never foreseen. Knowing this, make a choice right now to look at adversity in a new light the next time it comes your way. Though it may not look so friendly on the surface, realize that adversity is an ally and that it’s here to teach you something of crucial importance. Of course, it’s an unwelcome visitor. But when it presents itself, treat the experience as a unique learning opportunity. Here is your chance to impact positively your human capital development in ways that no seminar, class, or training session can even closely approximate. - J. Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings 

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. - Frank Herbert

We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us. - Theodore Tuttle

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine. - Bruce Lee

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. - Henry Fielding

Quote Worthy

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. - Confucius

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. - Charles Caleb Colton 

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther. - J. P. Morgan

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

In larger things we are convivial; What causes trouble is the trivial. - Richard Armour

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. - Robert Schuller 

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. - Tryon Edwards

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. - Brad Darrach

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. - Michel De Montaigne

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. - Jane Fonda

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. - Jose Narosky

There are no original ideas. There are only original people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John William Gardner

Light and Darkness

Good and evil are typified by light and darkness; therefore, if we bring light into a dark room, the darkness disappears, and inasmuch as a soul is filled with good, evil disappears. - Aurelia Mace

Just as the rising sun dissolves the dark shadows so are all forms of evil put to flight by the rays of positive and constructive thoughts which shine forth from a heart fortified by confidence in oneself. - K. Sri Dhammananda 

In the gloom and darkness of the night, when there is a sudden flash of light, a person will recognize objects; in the same way, the one with a flash of insight sees according to reality. - Anguttara Nikaya

Food For Thought

I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. - Joseph Addison

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, but their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns. - Kahlil Gibran

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Card Trick

Incredible card trick. I wonder how he did it.

http://www.wimp.com/pennpuzzled/

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Life

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. - Viktor E. Frankl

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one proposes to do. - Pablo Casals

There is still today, and tomorrow fresh with dreams: Life never grows old. - Rita Duskin

The art of living rightly is like all arts: It must be learned and practiced with incessant care. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I shall grow old but never lose life’s zest, Because the road’s last turn will be the best. - Henry van Dyke 

The mere sense of living is joy enough. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T S. Eliott

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve ever learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. - Victor Hugo

Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. - Immanuel Kant

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hanse

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin

Friends

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. - Kahlil Gibran

To meet an old friend in a distant land is like refreshing rain after a drought. - Chinese Proverb

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have lost friends, some by death — others through the sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf 

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. - William Hazlitt

There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson

Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.- Marechal Villars 

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr 

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. - Anne Sophie Swetchine

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. - Thomas Fuller

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. - Euripides

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elisabeth Foley

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. - Francesco Guicciardini

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Advertise / Advertisers / Advertising - Quotes

Advertisers like to tell parents that they can always turn off the TV to protect their kids from any of the negative impact of advertising. This is like telling us that we can protect our children from air pollution by making sure they never breathe. Advertising is our environment. We swim in it as fish swim in water. We cannot escape it. Unless, of course, we keep our children home from school and blindfold them whenever they are outside of the house. And never let them play with other children. Even then, advertising's messages are inside our intimate relationships, our homes, our hearts, our heads. - Jean Kilbourne

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business. - Frank Farrington

Advertising is a valuable factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. - Sinclair Lewis

Advertising is an impersonal projection of the personal salesman. - H. S. Snyder

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion - and persuasion happens to be, not a science, but an art. - William Bernbach

Advertising is legalized lying. - H. G. Wells

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. - Kenneth Roman, Jane Maas & Martin Nisenholtz 

Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow. - Bruce Barton

Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate. - Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is salesmanship-in-print. - Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise. - George French

Advertising is the “wonder” in Wonder Bread. - Jef I. Richards

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. - Will Rogers

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. - Edgar A. Shoaff

Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away. - Frank Farrington

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas – those insults to human nature – is carried on by the most expert psychological methods – for instance, by always repeating a lie. - George Santayana 

Advertising is usually loyal and low key. It does not complain or ask for pay raises. It does the job of letting people know that you exist and solicits a response in a very low key and unassuming way. - Ali Pervez

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.' - Leo Burnett

Advertising, in fact, is the effort of business men to take charge of consumption as well as production. They are not content to supply a demand, as the text-books say; they educate the demand as well. In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it would like. A bewildered child in a toy shop is nothing to the ultimate consumer in the world market of today. To say, then, that advertising is merely a way of calling attention to useful goods is a gorgeous piece of idealization. Advertising is in fact the weed that has grown up because the art of consumption is uncultivated. - Walter Lippmann

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. - Fred Allen 

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. - Leo Burnett

Good, careful advertising of the steady, never-let-up sort will positively win. It isn't the fisherman who goes thrashing along and fishes the whole length of a stream in an afternoon that gets the fish. It's the quiet chap who finds a likely looking hole and camps out right by it until he gets his fish and then tries another in the same careful way. More than that, this careful fisherman does not get discouraged because Mr. Fish fails to snap up the hook at the first cast. He tries the bait and he tries the flies, and he changes his lure and his point of view until he hits it right. If the business doesn't respond to the advertising, change the advertising. Don't lay it up to the public that your bait doesn't tempt them. - Frank Farrington

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. - Will Rogers

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. - James Randolph Adams

In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using. - Guy W. D. Cook

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. - Bruce Barton

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. - David Foster Wallace

It is this emphasis on value which for many people excludes ads from admission into the canons of art. The value of art, moreover, especially in literature, is often associated with opposition to our detachment from the dominant values of society. In comparison with literature, ads accept and glorify the dominant ideology while literature often rejects and undermines it. The simple fact that ads answer the brief of their clients’ accounts for the common perception that while art is a vehicle of honesty, advertising is more likely to be a vehicle of deceit. - Guy W. D. Cook

Judicious advertising is the corner stone of success. - Bryon W. Orr

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising, and they wouldn't have to advertise it. - Will Rogers

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. - Mark Twain 

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.- James Randolph Adams

No method of advertising is too expensive if it brings proper results. - S. Roland Hall 

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. - Leo Burnett

The base of advertising is the mob movement ... to make a mass of people move in a certain direction. - Thomas E. Dockrell 

The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is that which is not recognized as propaganda. Because we think advertising is silly and trivial, we are less on guard, less critical, than we might otherwise be. It's all in fun, it's ridiculous. While we're laughing, sometimes sneering, the commercial does its work. - Jean Kilbourne

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. - Leo Burnett

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that. - Noam Chomsky

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy. - Tom Robbins 

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. - William Bernbach

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. - Leo Burnett

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them. - Theodor W. Adorno 

The weakest link in any advertising program is its credibility. An advertising message has little believability with the average person. Advertising is taken for what it is – a biased message paid for by a company with a selfish interest in what the consumer consumes. - Al Ries & Laura Ries

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. - Carl Sagan

Too little advertising is like sowing too little seed. A farmer in planting corn puts a number of grains into each hill and is satisfied if one good healthy stalk comes from each planting. It’s the constant advertiser that is bound to attract attention. It’s the succession of bright, catchy advertisements that refuse to be ignored. That time must be allowed for the fruit to grow, ripen and be gathered is as true as that wheat cannot be reaped the day after it is sown. - Bryon W. Orr

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' - Leo Burnett

When advertising is great advertising, it fastens on the myths, signs, and symbols of our common experience and becomes, quite literally, a benefit of the product.... As a result of great advertising, food tastes better, clothes feel snugger, cars ride smoother. The stuff of semiotics becomes the magic of advertising. - Curt Suplee