Friday, 30 November 2018
Cognitive Dissonance
Proverbs, Axioms, Maxims ...
Eat to live, not live to eat. - Socrates
Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced. - South African Proverb
When one sheep leads the way all the rest follow. - Chinese Proverb
The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood
All is fair in love and war. - Sun Tzu
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Unknown
Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson
Every picture tells a story. - Unknown
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. - Creole
Little by little does the trick. - Aesop
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. - George Herbert
Lightning strikes the tallest trees. - English Proverb
Every dog is a lion at home. - Italian Proverb
Ill weeds grow fast. - John Heywood
Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb
Roll with the punches. - Unknown
Keep a stiff upper lip. - Unknown
Swords and guns have no eyes. - Chinese Proverb
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
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Sunday, 25 November 2018
Love - Quotes
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. - Harold Lokes
Love is when someone breaks our heart into a million pieces, and the most amazing thing is that we still love them with all the broken pieces of our heart. - Unknown
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. - Leo Buscaglia
True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh
You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to the person to realize your worth. - Unknown
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. - Fernando Pessoa
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny. - Sergei Lukyanenko
The one who loves you will never leave you, because even if there are 100 reasons to give up, he will find one reason to hold on. - Unknown
Love is like a word written in Chinese; most of us don’t understand what it truly means. - Rodney M
Love is giving someone the power to destroy you… but trusting them not to. - Unknown
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Saturday, 24 November 2018
Life - Quotes
In the Game of Life, sometimes people kick us as if we are football; but they don’t know that they themselves are sending us near the Goal. - Unknown
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes, you can if you will. -Charles R. Swindoll
If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way! - Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. - Terry Pratchett
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. - C. Everett Koop
Life doesn’t allow for us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last. - Unknown
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. - C. Neil Strait
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. - Vince Lombardi
Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. - Anthony Robbins
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Publius Terence
Friday, 23 November 2018
Humour
Marry someone who can cook. Looks go away, but hunger don’t. - Unknown
Silence is golden. Unless you have kids – then it’s suspicious. - Unknown
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. - Doug Larson
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. - Laurence J. Peter
Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes. - Unknown
Duct tape can’t fix stupid. But it can muffle the sound. - Unknown
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C. K.
Never in the history of calming down has anyone ever calmed down by being told to calm down. - Unknown
If someone says, “You’re gonna regret that in the morning,” I sleep in ‘til noon. Problem solved. - Unknown
To me, ‘drink responsibly’ means don’t spill it. - Unknown
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Thursday, 22 November 2018
Quote Worthy
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions. - George Washington
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. - Thomas Carlyle
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. - Nikolai Lenin
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. - Lance Armstrong
Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship. - Vincent Rocchio
Certainly, every man can be courteous, for it costs nothing, and is within the ability of all. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. - Christian Nestell Bovee
You cannot clap with one hand alone. - John Taylor Wood
Dare to be wrong and to dream. - Friederich von Schiller
No one reaches a high position without daring. - Publilius Syrus
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Søren Kierkegaard More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Truth - Quotes
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R.R. Martin
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney
Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. - Aristotle
Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, the mind overlooks the plain truth of the moment. - Lao Tzu
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. - Dan Brown
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. - Joe Abercrombie
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. - Unknown
Questions are key to door of truth. - Charlie Chan
Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking. - Eliza Cook
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. - Henry David Thoreau
Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth can be hard. - Unknown
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen
Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. - Baltasar Gracian
Some people do not mind the lies told about them. It is the truth that bothers them. - Unknown
Some things are too terrible to be true. - Bob Dylan
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Zeal - Quotes
Blind zeal is a sword in a madman's hands. - Flaxel
Every creed has its zealots. - Zosimus
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. - Isaac Barrow
Too much zeal spoils all. - Diocletian
True zeal is a soft and gentle flame that will not scorch anyone's hand. - Cudworth
Zeal in good cause is just. - C. P. Villiers
Zeal is an edge-tool, which children in understanding should not meddle withal; and yet it most frequently possesseth the weakest minds. - John Tillotson
Zeal is an enchantment. - Zamoyski
Zeal is one of the dynamic forces for accomplishment. This is more than talk, more than declaration and perception; it is putting your entire being into what you are doing for maximum output. - Bilson Kings
Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone. - Anthony Mwami
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. - Pasquier Quesnel
Zeal should not outweigh discretion. - P. Jarrige
Zeal without judgment is like gunpowder in the hands of a child. - Eliza Cook
Monday, 19 November 2018
Love - Quotes
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Hoosier Farmer
Don’t give up on love because there is always someone who loves you EVEN it’s not the person you were hoping for. - Unknown
If you love someone, you’ll be willing to give up everything for them. But if they love you, they’ll never ask you to. - Unknown
Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today. - Michelle C. Ustaszeski
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time. - Honore de Balzac
Love is the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. - M. Scott Peck
Loving someone is a leap of faith. You are giving them your heart and trusting them not to break it. - Unknown
Love is timeless, it’s the memory of yesterday, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. - Unknown
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out - Rumi
True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. - Alexander the Great
Love is when you sit beside someone, doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy. - Unknown
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Sunday, 18 November 2018
Life - Quotes
Life's joys and sorrows meet us every day, but some are blinded by their tears of sorrow and see no joy. - S. Moore
Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? - Robert Brault
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. - Tibetan Proverb
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar
A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realized how blessed you are. - Unknown
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. - Abraham Hicks
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
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. - Chuck Palahniuk
All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives. - Tony Blauer
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Tony Robbins
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. - Shauna Niequist
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Life - Quotes
Nothing in life, including our circumstances or potential, is fixed. Reality is bendable to our will. - Brendon Burchard
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. - Jimmy Buffett
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll
So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for having felt regret today. - Fernando Pessoa
Sometimes, life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts. - Dave Wilson
Sometimes, life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes, you have to take a step back and realize what’s important in your life, what you can live with, but more importantly, what you can’t live without. - Unknown
The best philosophy in life is to keep the mind happy. We don’t know whether success gives happiness or not, but a happy mind can always lead to success. - Unknown
The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Unknown
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston S. Churchill
The greatest things in life – truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion – are already inside us, and they’re all free. - Yanni
Friday, 9 November 2018
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Love - Quotes
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
Never rush into falling in love, because love never runs out; Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides true love is worth waiting for. - Unknown
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. - Sai Baba
I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up. - Felicity Kendal
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. - Bruce Forsyth
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi
A relationship of true love is one where both people have an equal desire to make one another happy. - Unknown
Everybody loves you when you love everybody. No one love you if you do not love any one. - Unknown
Love is like a bed of roses, which means love brings about two things pain and happiness. - Unknown
Before you set out to love someone else, you must muster the courage to love yourself. - Shriyaa
Love has a unique property which none else has: It’s both a strength and a weakness! - Unknown
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