Friday 30 March 2012

Charity - Quotes


A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack London

A charitable man is like an apple tree – he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. - Austin O’Malley

As the furnace purifies the silver, so does charity rid wealth of its dross. - William Scott Downey

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity. - Chanakya 

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. - Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home. - Terence

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind. - William Penn

Charity need not be in the form of money. It could also be your time and energy to a worthwhile community project, or the loving-kindness you extend daily to others mentally. - Unknown

Charity sees the need not the cause. - German Proverb

Charity starts from the heart, and is expressed in actions. - Unknown

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles. - Henry Ward Beecher

Generosity is a sharing of pleasure. But real charity is always accompanied by a willing sacrifice. - Unknown

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none. - Lancelot Andrewes

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity. - Austin O’Malley

In charity there is no excess. - Francis Bacon

Nothing contributes more to make men polite and civilized, than true and genuine Charity. - Wellins Calcott

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not. - Dan Benett

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. - Norman MacDonald

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity. - Eliza Cook

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton

The living need charity more than the dead. - George Arnold

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head. - Ivan Panin

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. - Emanuel Swedenborg

We should be sure, when we rebuke a want of charity, to do it with charity. - Christian Nestell Bovee

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep. - Henry Ward Beecher

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves. - Benjamin Whichcote

Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed. - William Penn

Thursday 29 March 2012

Quote Worthy


Each of us has to work out his salvation in his own way. The most that another can do is to be able to give a helping hand. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. - Robert Collier 

Let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. - Shakespeare

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. - James Baldwin 

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. - Les Brown

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. - Lauren Bacall 

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. - Plutarch

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. - Rene Descartes

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Chastity - Quotes

 An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. - Michelde Montaigne

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. - Norman MacDonald

You can put a chastity belt around the body, but you cannot put it around the mind. - Evan Esar

Fat Facts


Myth: All types of fat are the same and equally bad for you.
Fact: Saturated fat and trans fat are bad for you because they raise your level of ‘bad’ cholesterol and increase our risk for heart disease.
But monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat are good for you, lowering your ‘bad’ cholesterol level and your risk of heart disease.

Myth: Lowering the amount of fat intake is what counts.
Fact: The mix of types of fat eaten, rather than the total amount in the diet, is what matters most. The key is to eat more good types of fat and less bad types of fat.

Myth: Fat-free equals being healthy.
Fact: Many types of fat-free food are high in sugar, refined carbohydrates and calories.

Myth: Eating a low-fat diet is the key to weight loss.
Fact: Cutting calories is the key to weight loss and since fat is filling, it can help curb overeating.

Myth: All body fat is the same.
Fact: Where you carry your fat matters. The health risks are greater if your weight tends to accumulate around your abdomen, as opposed to your hips and thighs.
A lot of belly fat is stored deep below the skin surrounding the abdominal organs and liver, and having too much of belly fat is closely linked to insulin resistance and diabetes.

Source: Helpguide, a non-profit website in collaboration with Harvard Health Publications, the consumer health publishing division of Harvard Medical School.

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Food For Thought


He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end. - Henri Frederic Amiel

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, and the great charm of all power is modesty. - Louisa May Alcott

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it. - Francois Guizot

Monday 26 March 2012

Drive Carefully


A video for everyone who has the keys to a vehicle. It is perhaps one of the most intense commercials that I've ever seen and very well made - very moving and very life like. It should have a very strong impact.

A five minute retrospective of the road safety campaigns produced by the TAC over the last 20 years has been compiled. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change they way we drive, all edited to the moving song Everybody Hurts by REM.

This campaign is a chance to revisit some of the images that have been engraved on our memories, remember the many thousands of people who have been affected by road trauma and remind us all that for everyone’s sake; please, drive safely.

Transport Accident Commission Victoria.



Sunday 25 March 2012

Cheerfulness - Quotes


A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. - George Matthew Adams

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. - John Ruskin

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, there wouldnt be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and morality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts. - Unknown

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. - Charlotte Bronte

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green. . . the flowers are more fragrant. . . and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us. - Orison Swett Marden

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer up somebody else. - Mark Twain

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. - Ella Wilcox 

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance. The cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, and will preserve it longer. - Thomas Carlyle

Life


Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multi-dimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience – to appreciate the fact that life is complex. - M. Scott Peck 

Like a morning dream, life becomes brighter the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. - Jean Paul Richter

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. - Ida Scott Taylor

Saturday 24 March 2012

Chess - Quotes

Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. - Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand Und Der Lasa

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. - Pascal

Chess is too troublesome a game for some men's brains; it is too full of anxiety, all but as bad as study; besides it is a testy, choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. - Robert Burton

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind. - Bobby Fischer

In the game of chess we see illustrated the game of life and its vicissitudes – success and failure. - Opoix

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. - Kazoo Ishiguro

The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily. - Benjamin Franklin

Friday 23 March 2012

Children - Quotes

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often. - Unknown

A child building a sandcastle is not "working hard". It doesn’t seem to him to be a task. It simply fills his imagination at the time it’s going on, and anything else is an irritant. - Jonathan Miller

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. - Lyman Abbott

A child is an uncut diamond. - Austin O’Malley

A child is going to remember who was there, not what you spent on them. Kids outgrow toys and outfits, but they never outgrow time and love. - Unknown

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. - Francois Rabelais

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes –  and it will come – may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. - Jane Smiley

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passer-by leaves a mark. - Chinese Saying

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. - Unknown

Before children can learn how to resolve conflict, they must empty their cup with respect to believing that aggression should always be met with aggression. - Terrence Webster-Doyle

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. - Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Children are a comfort to men because the youngsters cannot contradict them. - Abraham Miller

Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. - Grenville Kleiser

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.’s if possible. - R. D. Laing

Children are poor mens riches. - English Proverb

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. - Aldous Huxley

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys. - Charles de Lint

Children are the great gamble. From the moment they are born, our helplessness increases. Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best knowledge and endeavour, they are themselves. - Josephine Hart

Children aren’t colouring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favourite colours. - Khaled Hosseini

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. - Unknown

Children have never been any good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin 

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. - W. E. B DuBois

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. - Margaret Mead

Children naturally live in the moment and they allow that moment to be what it is; magical and beautiful in every way. - Unknown

Children need models more than they need critics. - Joseph Joubert

Children reinvent your world for you. - Susan Sarandon

Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. - Eudora Welty

Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all. - John Saul

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. - Montaigne

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert Heinlein

Dont limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinical Saying

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles R. Swindoll

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him. - Kevin Leman

Every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. - Michael Levinve

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson 

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. - Walt Disney

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will. - Walt Disney

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. - Rachael Carson

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. - P. D. James

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl Gustav Jung

If we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves; and teach our children to be, not what we are, but what they should be. - William Penn

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. - L. R. Knost

It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways. - James Redfield

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. - Ann Landers

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. - Louisa May Alcott

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. - Walt Mueller

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. - Jim Henson

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear. - Judy Blume

Look at the world through a child’s eyes and see if that would not bring a little zest for living back into your life. - Unknown

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. - Margaret Drabble

Love not your children unequally; or if you do, show it not, lest you make the one proud, and the other envious, and both fools. - Wellins Calcott

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. - William Penn

Most children feel immortal – they have no sense that they're ever going to die. For a child, even growing up is something that's barely comprehensible. - John Saul 

No child is born a criminal: no child is born an angel: he’s just born. - Sir Sydney Smith

No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. - Robin Sharma

Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. - Douglas Adams

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. - Mignon McLaughlin

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. - Barbara Walters

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. - Ben Stein

Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. - Russian Proverb

Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off. - F. Paul Wilson

Spend time with children. Learn more about laughter, spontaneity, curiosity, acceptance, resilience, trust, determination, and your imagination. They are here to teach us. - Unknown

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. - M. Grundler

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system. - Quentin

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. - Socrates

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. - Jean Paul Richter

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. - Christopher Paolini

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refuelling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. - Marianne E. Neifert

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. - Isadora Duncan 

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. - Philip Wylie

The greatest gifts you can give your children are … the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. - Billy Graham

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. - John Lubbock

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. - Fred G. Gosman

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education. - John Locke

The older I get, the more I marvel at the wisdom of children. - David Morgan

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoevsky


The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy O'Mara

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. - Anne Lamott

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. - Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. - John Locke

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent. - Alexader McCall Smith

Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centred, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with. - Alicia F. Lieberman

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin

Train your child as if you were preparing a prince for his future reign, for he will grow up to be one of the forces that shapes the future of mankind. - Unknown

We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child. - William G. Defoore

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. - Brigham Young

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save. - Henry Ford

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that the is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

What children say, they have heard at home. - West African Proverb

What we instil in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future. - Steve Maraboli

Whatever you teach a child, whether it is through your words or through your actions, lives on forever in his or her heart. - Unknown

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. - Horace Mann

When people talk about wanting to "have children someday," what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff. - Paul Reiser

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

You can do anything with children if only you play with them. - German Proverb

You cannot fail to parent your children at home, then expect teachers to work miracles with them in the classroom. - Unknown

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

Thursday 22 March 2012

Quote Worthy


What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. - William Wordsworth

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. - Quentin James Reynolds

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. - Michel De Montaigne

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. - Bob Edwards

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. - Tom Landry

It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. - Gerard Patrick Roeling

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. - Andre Gide

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - Theophile Gautier

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wednesday 21 March 2012

The King And The Sage


              A king asked a sage to explain the Truth. In response the sage asked the king how he would convey the taste of a mango to someone who had never eaten anything sweet. No matter how hard the king tried, he could not adequately describe the flavour of the fruit, and, in frustration, he demanded of the sage, "Tell me then, how would you describe it?" 
              The sage picked up a mango and handed it to the king saying "This is very sweet. Try eating it!"

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Food For Thought


The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. - Og Mandino

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for – and dying for, if need be – is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful. - Booker T. Washington

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. - Robert Fulghum

Childhood - Quotes

Childhood is like being drunk; everyone remembers what you did, except you. - Unknown

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. - Grenville Kleiser

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. - Katherine Anne Porter

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. - Dave Pelzer

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard

It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed. - Stephen King

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood. - George Eliot

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. - Ursula K. le Guin

The young remember most deeply … When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. - Dan Simmons

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. - Graham Greene

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfils the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected. - Ben Okri

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. - Patrick Rothfuss

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. - Sam Ewing

You can go through life and make new friends every year – every month practically – but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel. - Alexander McCall Smith

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family – children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses – you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course, any psychiatrist knows that. - Louis Auchincloss

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks. - Martin Amis

Monday 19 March 2012

Jokes


Examination Grades

            Student: Sir, I have a complaint. I do not believe I deserve a zero on this exam.
            Professor: Neither do I, but it is the lowest grade I can give.

Be Pragmatic

            Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Job Applicant

            Manager: Sorry, but I can’t give you a job. I don’t need much help.
            Job Applicant: That’s all right. In fact, I’m just the right person in this case. You see, I won’t be of much help anyway!

Crime In The City

            Crime was getting so bad in a city. A burglar told the police that he only robs stores in the daytime “….because I’m afraid to be out on the streets at night with so much money.”

Sunday 18 March 2012

Life


Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. - Dr. Paul Tournier

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until, nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. - Robert Luis Stevenson

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. - Pope Paul Vi

Friday 16 March 2012

Circumstances - Quotes

A man cannot directly chose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You can not travel within and stand still without. - James Allen

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. Man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of environment. - James Allen

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. - Unknown

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. - Unknown

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. - Thomas Carlyle

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it. - James Allen

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice. - Dalai Lama 

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. - Earl Nightingale

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way. - Abraham Lincoln