Jokes

              A father decide to teach his eight-year-old the art of goal kicking. So he got down on his knees. Placed the football carefully, and then told his son what to do. “When I nod my head, kick it.”

              The son did as he was told. That was how the father lost his two front teeth.

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              “Tell me, Mr. Wright,” said the personnel manage, “why did you leave your last job?”

              “It was because of illness, sir,” answered Wright. “The boss got sick of me!”

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              A local merchant ran an ad in the paper for part-time help. One of the job applicants was too young for the job, so he immediately turned him away. That’s why the merchant was surprised to see the same young applicant come into his store the very next week, again trying for the job. “I’ve already told you I needed someone older,” he said.

              “I know, that’s why I’m back again,” answered the boy. “I’m older now.”

Contentment - Quotes

A contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. - Frank Herbert

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. - Fred Estabrook

As long as you are content with yourself, what anyone else has to say about you means nothing. - Unknown

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. - Aesop

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller

Contentment is a feeling that envelops you when you are truly thankful for what you have and are no longer seeking to acquire more; It is not the fulfilment of what you want – it is the realization of how much you already have! - Unknown

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. - John Balguy

Content is the Philosopher's Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold. - Benjamin Franklin

Contentment is better than riches. - Unknown

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree. - Dave Ramsey

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. - Socrates

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. - Warren W. Wiersbe

Contentment is not resignation. A contented person is not a defeated person. True contentment never asks, "Why bother? What is the point?" Neither does true contentment equal an excuse for inaction.... Contentment doesn't wring its hands; it wrings every bit of good out of every situation. - Marcia Ford 

Contentment is one of the greatest gifts or blessings that can be bestowed upon us, if you are contented, there are no likes or dislikes. There is nothing to get or gain and there is nothing to lose. With contentment, we experience supreme joy; we no longer have to look outside ourselves for happiness. Contentment is greater than happiness as there is no opposite waiting around the corner. Contentment makes our life simple. Contentment is accepting what is. - Sumuki Finney

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness. - Aesop 

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. - Ann Brashares

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - Unknown

He has the most who is most content with the least. - Diogenes

He who is content is rich. - Lao Tzu

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates

If you're an average person trying to get ahead in the world, contentment is probably the last thing you're striving for, yet there's a good chance that you long for it. Why? Because at its core, contentment is peace of mind. Contentment is happiness. The person who is content has little or no stress. Yet we forge ahead like a soldier going into battle. We dive headlong into society's raging river and get caught up in a cycle of overspending, overcommitting, and overworking. And all for what? - Unknown

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. it is us. - Vivian Greene 

It pays to be content with your lot. - Aesop 

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. - Marcus Aurelius

Most of us won't be contented with our lot until it's a lot more. - Unknown 

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. Contentment is better than riches. - Unknown

The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lies not in great things but in little things. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great, like the humble, may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things. - Edgar A. Collard

The contented person can never be ruined. - Chinese Proverb

The discontented man finds no easy chair. - Benjamin Franklin

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato 

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. - Lin Yutang

The utmost we can hope for in this world is Contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. - Wellins Calcott

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. - Jose Saramago

There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is. - William Jorda

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. - Akhnaton

True contentment is not passive satisfaction: it is understanding why there is nothing further to be desired. - Ellis Heywood 

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Friends

No matter how good a friend is, they are going to hurt you every once in a while, and you must forgive them for that. Do not let hurt turn to grudge. This is one sure way to destroy a friendship. Forgive your friend and move on. - Unknown

If you have friends, do not be afraid to express your friendship, do not be afraid to tell them that you admire or love them. If you love anybody why not say so? It costs you nothing but it may mean everything to your friend and to your friendship. - Unknown

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. - Unknown

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time. - Unknown

Control - Quotes

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. - Roopleen

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. - Arthur Schopenhauer

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. - Oprah Winfrey

No man is free who cannot control himself. - Pythagoras

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it. - Chris Pine

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. - Anthony de Mello

When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is. - Unknown

You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts. - Charles Popplestown

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. - Wayne Dyer

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. - Brian Tracy

Quote Worthy

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. - Edward Abbey

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. - Charles Kingsley

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and they’ll soon forget my number. - Edith Armstrong

It is only in the repetition of the craft that he or she masters the art. Only when the craft becomes second nature can one begin to create from his or her inner being the forms, images, and conceptions to create within the art. - Samuel Avital 

Nothing is impossible: there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will, we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Universal Law

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. - Marcus Aurelius

Universal law always follows a pattern. Everything that moves or grows has a cycle and trend. It is nature’s law that every natural or man-made growing organism grows to maturity, levels off, and dies – unless there is rebirth through new life, new blood, new ideas, or new activity. - Unknown

The mysterious powers of the human mind – and man’s amazing psychic powers – operate under universal laws. These laws operate regardless of anyone’s lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. - Unknown

Food For Thought

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! - Degriff

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it. - Jean de La Bruyere

Let There Be Light

How Plastic Bottles Can Lighten Up The Darkness

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Conversation / Conversationalists - Quotes

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. - Truman Capote

A good conversation is like a good meal. You should leave it just before you have had enough. - Unknown

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. - John Mason Brown

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insulating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. - Seneca

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. - Theodore Zeldin

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion. - Dwight Macdonald

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. - William Shakespeare

If people said what they thought, most conversations would be very brief. - Unknown

If you would be a popular conversationalist, have a care to the punctuation in your talk. And especially use question marks, which invite the other person to start talking. - Unknown

In conversation, humour is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert

It was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. - Harper Lee

It’s all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. - Richard Armour

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. - Margaret Millar

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. - Stanley Horowitz

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness. - Harriet Lerner

One factor that makes it rare for us to find so few people who can carry on an agreeable and rational conversation is that there are practically no people who do not think first of all about what they want to say, rather than responding precisely to what others are saying to them. The politest people are content merely to show an attentive mien, while all the time we see that their eyes and their minds are wandering, and that they are in a rush to return to what they want to say. They should consider that this insistent search for self-satisfaction is a poor way of giving pleasure, and that it is a greater accomplishment to listen well and reply justly than to speak well and often without responding to what others are saying to us. - Magdeleine Sable

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. - Jonathan Swift

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. - Frank Sheed

The best conversationalists are those who are excellent listeners. - Unknown

The best of conversations occur when there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. - Samuel Johnson

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. - Jean De La Bruyere

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. - Benjamin Franklin

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. - Samuel Johnson

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others. - Deborah Tannen

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Neville

The reason so few men can carry on a sensible and agreeable conversation is that there is hardly one but thinks more of what he himself intends to say than of what is being said to him by others. Sometimes even the cleverest and politest man only feigns attention, while we can see by his eyes that his mind has gone back to polish up his own remarks. He does not consider that the worst way to win over others is to talk for his own pleasure, and that the best conversationalist is he who listens with care and answers to the point. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself. - Jean de La Bruyere

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. - Michel de Montaigne

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. - James Nathan Miller

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. - Rebecca West 

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. - Agatha Christie

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it. - Unknown

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests. - Henry Miller

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. - Thomas Moore

Life

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Never make a mental list of the things you lack. Count your blessings instead. Make a note of everything you own or enjoy down to the last detail, and you will see that, all in all, life has been very good to you.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. 

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. 

If you do not take control of your life, you may wake up one day to find it has taken on a life of its own, and driven you where you do not want to be.

Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way.