I don't mind the rain at all. It is rather refreshing walking or jogging in the rain. But, when there are flashes of thunder, it is unnerving. An image of what tomorrow's headlines would be, came to mind.
Will I be able to make it home before the sky open up?
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The easiest way to understand people - if you want to try, is to first understand this person that is you. You are one of them. Once you can understand yourself, you will begin to understand people, for they are also made from the same DNA as you. They are not so different from you, after all.
People are not rational beings. As such, do not have expectations of them, or you will be disappointed. People are who they are and they can't help it.
Sometimes...
Sometimes, people with the worst pasts end up creating the best futures. - Unknown
Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you are down will be the ones to help you get back up. - Unknown
Sometimes, people are beautiful; Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are. - Unknown
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about. - Unknown
Sometimes, one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. - Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes, people don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them. - Unknown
Sometimes, people just have to work through their own stuff and you have to get out of their way. - Paul S. Boynton
Sometimes, the person who’s been there for everyone else needs someone to be there for them. - Unknown
Sometimes, the people whom we’ve known only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we’ve known forever. - Maya Angelou
Sometimes, people never get what they deserve because they are too busy holding on to things they’re supposed to let go. - Unknown
Sometimes, people try to expose what’s wrong with you, because they can’t handle what’s right about you. - Unknown
Sometimes, the nicest people you meet are covered in tattoos and sometimes, the most judgmental people you meet go to church on Sundays. - Unknown
Sometimes, quiet people really do have a lot to say, they’re just being careful about who they open up to. - Unknown
Sometimes, it is not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off. - Unknown
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You can start with this selection of aphorisms. Aphorisms are statements of truth, or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. There are profound lessons in the seemingly simple words. Study, and understand them. They are life lessons.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. - Buddha
Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labour into pleasant tasks. - James Baldwin
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devils reach as humility. - Jonathan Edwards
A great man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; a petty man reaches complete understanding of the minute details. - Unknown
Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first test of a truly great man is humility. - Unknown
The best managers and leaders are those who can carve out the excellence in the ordinary people they lead and manage. - Unknown
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Sincere humility attracts. Lack of humility subtracts. Artificial humility detracts. - Unknown
One measure of leadership is the calibre of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling
A characteristic of great men is that they demand more of themselves than of others. - Unknown
Look for Nature’s beauty all around and surely you will find it. - Unknown
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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The garden pansy flower is 5 to 8 centimetres in diameter. The petals are usually white or yellow, purplish, or blue.
English common names, such as "pansy", "viola" and "violet" may be used interchangeably. Modern horticulturalists tend to use the term "pansy" for those multi-coloured large-flowered hybrids that are grown for bedding purposes every year, while "viola" is usually reserved for smaller, more delicate annuals and perennials.
Pansies are perennial, and they grow well in sunny or partially sunny areas in well-draining soils. They should never be over-watered. Most garden pansies bloom the first year, some in as little as nine weeks after sowing.
These pansies were from the Flower Dome at the Gardens by the Bay.
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Cultivate, and develop your sense of humour because it is when things are not going well that we need our humour most.
Enjoy today's selection of quips. They are humorous, and at the same time, there is a lot of truth in them. I hope it brings on a smile at least.
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat. - Vernon K. McLellan
It’s useless to hold a person to anything they say when they are in love, drunk, or running for office. - Shirley MacLaine
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. - John Wilmot
Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but it’s always worth trying. - Pamela Anderson
What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? - Mark Twain
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor. - Arthur C. Clarke
People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the centre of attention. - Unknown
Old age is – a lot of crossed off names in an address book. - Ronald Blythe
You don’t see faith healers working in hospitals for the same reason you don’t see psychics winning the lottery. - Unknown
The most trying misfortune that can befall a man, is to be domesticated with a bad-tempered woman. - Charles William Day
Show me someone with a skull and crossbones etched on his flesh, and I'll show you someone who doesn't go on a lot of job interviews. - Amy Linden
You can say this for ready-mixes – the next generation isn’t going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. - Earl Wilson
Some McDonald’s restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine’s Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one. - Conan O’Brien
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married? - Barbra Streisand
Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves. - Zig Ziglar
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship. - Austin O’Malley
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Centratherum is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. They are easily grown in moist, fertile, well-drained soils in full sun. In tropical to semi-tropical climates, it will remain in the garden as a perennial.
The plants will self-seed in the garden, sometimes aggressively, making them a good spreading ground cover, highlighted by a long continuous June-September bloom of fluffy, button-shaped, lavender-blue flowers.
Their leaves are coarsely-toothed, oval to elliptic, olive green to pale green with depressed veins, and are pleasantly fragrant.
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Pepper your conversations with Maxims, and your friends will be impressed with your knowledge and wisdom. Here’s today selection to start you off.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. - Lao Tzu
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. - Publilius Syrus
Every tide has its ebb. - Unknown
Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Six feet of earth makes us all equal. - Italian Proverb
No matter how dirty your past is, your future is spotless. - Unknown
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. - Voltaire
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. - Anatole France
As sure as death. - Giovanni Boccaccio
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa
There are no hopeless situations, only hopeless men. - Claire Booth Luce
A man has no enemy worse than himself. - Cicero
Put on the glasses of optimism and you will see a world of potential. - Unknown
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley
A word to the wise is enough. - Titus Marcius Plautus
There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice. - James Allen
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Lord Chesterfield
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Here are some pictures taken on my walk.
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