Friday, 15 August 2014
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Quote Worthy
The question for
each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and
educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. -
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea.
It’s the person
who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a
difference. - Nolan
Bushnell
Some people want to see everything
go wrong for you because nothing is going right for them. - Unknown
Learn how to be happy with what
you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn
The walls we build around us to
keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. - Jim Rohn
People who bite
the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. - Eric
Hoffer
Some of us think holding on makes
us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. - Unknown
Be someone else’s sunshine. Be the
reason someone smiles today. - Unknown
We never reflect how pleasant it
is to ask for nothing. - Charlotte Whitton
Affliction, like the iron-smith,
shapes as it smites. - Christian Nestell Bovee
It is double the pleasure to
deceive the deceiver. - Jean De
La Fontaine
Not everyone you lose is a loss. -
Unknown
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Quote Worthy
Give me the discipline to get rid
of the stuff that’s not important, the freedom to savour the stuff that gives
me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that’s messy but not
hurting anybody. - Sue Fitzmaurice
The resources we need to
turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we
decide to wake up and claim our birthright. - Tony Robbins
Strive for detachment, concentrate
in silence, conform to the nature of things, be without ego. Then mankind will
be at peace. - Chuang Tzu
Standing alone, doesn’t mean that
I’m alone, it means I’m strong enough to handle things all by myself. - Unknown
It is better to debate a question
without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. - Joseph Joubert
Fair play with others is primarily
not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. - Eric Hoffer
Don’t change so people will like
you. Be yourself and the right people will love you. - Unknown
Even in the darkest times, there
is always a way. Don’t give up. - Unknown
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one
more year. - David Viscott
Learn from your mistakes and build
on your successes. - John
Calhoun
The fragrance
always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar
The earth has music for those who
listen. - Unknown
Monday, 11 August 2014
Humorous Quotes
Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as
simply, or profoundly true.
I am not aware that any community
has a right to force another to be civilized. - John Stuart Mill
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive
than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. - Edith Sitwell
I am not sure if life is passing
me by or trying to run me over. - Unknown
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who
are proud of it.
- Edith
Sitwell
I am ready to
meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting
me is another matter. - Winston Churchill
I am strongly in favour of common
sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for
public office. - H. L. Mencken
I am sick and tired of being sick
and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer
I am
still an atheist, thank God. - Luis Bunnel
I am perfectly imperfect. - Unknown
I am taking care of my
procrastination issues; just you wait and see. - Unknown
I am too much of a sceptic to deny
the possibility of anything. - Thomas Henry Huxley
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they
are or how superior I am to them. - Steve
Martin
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If
there weren’t any rules, how could you break them? - Leo Durocher
I came to the conclusion many
years ago that almost all crimes are due to the repressed desire for aesthetic
expression. - Evelyn Waugh
I can explain it to you, but I can’t
understand it for you. - Unknown
I can live for two
months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Life - Quotes
The very best thing that you can
do sometimes is just to keep going. Life may not be different today or tomorrow
but one day in the future, you’ll look back and you’ll see that everything has
changed for the better. - Unknown
Mindfulness helps you come home to
the present. Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk
in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. - Thich Nhat Hanh
As you get older, you will start
to understand more and more that in life, it’s not about what you look like or
what you own; it’s all about the person you’ve become. - Unknown
If you don’t make the time to work
on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a
lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want. - Unknown
Be as simple as you can; you will
be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda
Bliss is achieved when you make a
commitment to live the life which represents the true spirit that is you. - Sherri Bishop
No matter what
happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better
tomorrow. - Maya Angelou
Life is going by. Don’t waste a
minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy. - Unknown
Just when you’re about to give up
on life, wait another day. Do this every time until life gets better. - Unknown
Sometimes in life, your situation
will keep repeating itself until you learn your lesson.
- Unknown
Life sometimes
gives you a second chance. - Maya Angelou
Saturday, 9 August 2014
Quote Worthy
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What
stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from
life’s page, and be alone on earth. - Lord Bryon
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than
the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good
cause. - Albert Einstein
The trouble with most of us is
that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale
Some people see more in a walk
around the block than others see in a trip around the world. - Unknown
The person who is waiting for
something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. - Garth Henrichs
Many a man’s reputation would not know his
character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard
It's the man who waits for his
ship to come in who's always missing the boat. - Unknown
The perpetual
obstacle to human advancement is custom. - John Stuart Mill
There is a crack in everything,
that’s how the light gets in. - Leonard
Cohen
There is a
tendency for things to right themselves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
War will be endless because peace
isn’t profitable. - Unknown
The
more you know, the more there is to know. - Unknown
Friday, 8 August 2014
How Cooking Can Change Your Life
Did you know there’s a way to have
your cake and eat it too without feeling guilty over calories, sugars, and
fats? Food writer Michael Pollan explains why home-cooking is the way to go
even if you’re craving burgers and fries with cake for dessert.
Video courtesy of www.wimp.com
Thursday, 7 August 2014
Quote Worthy
The entrepreneur is essentially a
visualiser and an actualiser. He can visualise something, and when he
visualises it he sees exactly how to make it happen. - Robert L. Schwartz
The best cure for worry,
depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift
with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. - Arnold Bennett
We live in a moment of history
where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is
already disappearing. - R. D. Laing
The person you took for granted
today, may turn out to be the person you need tomorrow. Be careful how you
treat people. - Unknown
The people who are meant to be in
your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they
wander. - Unknown
I am not
discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas
Edison
When I accept myself, I am freed
from the burden of needing you to accept me. - Dr. Steve Maraboli
Only when we are no longer afraid
do we begin to live. - Dorothy
Thompson
Concern should drive us into
action, not into a depression. - Karen
Horney
Force may make hypocrites, but it
can never make converts. - William
Penn
Only if you dive for pearls shall
you find one. - Unknown
A child who reads will be an adult
who thinks. - Unknown
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Quote Worthy
All truly wise
thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly
ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our
personal experience. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you stand for
something, you will always find some people for you and some people against
you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for
you. - William Bernbach
You don’t have to defend or
explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies. - Mandy Hale.
Sometimes, the person who’s been
there for everyone else needs someone to be there for them. - Unknown
Run when you can, walk if you have
to, crawl if you must, just never give up. - Dean Kamazes
You never know how strong you are
until being strong is the only choice you have. - Bob Marley
Sometimes it’s okay to take a step
back and admit you’re being ridiculous. - Unknown
Thought is the
wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. - Augustus Hare
Grades don’t measure intelligence
and age doesn’t define maturity. - Unknown
The easiest
person to deceive is one's own self. - Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton
To keep a lamp burning we have to
keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa
Throw me to the wolves and I will
return leading the pack. - Unknown
Monday, 4 August 2014
Humorous Quotes
Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as
simply, or profoundly true.
How long a minute is
depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on. - Unknown
How many
husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I always admired atheists. I think
it takes a lot of faith. - Diane Frolov
And Andrew Schneider
I always advise people never to
give advice. - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can’t remember what the third thing is. - Fred Allen
I always read
the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it
turned out. - Nora Ephron
I always thought a yard was three
feet, then I started mowing the lawn. - C.
E. Cowman
I always wanted to be somebody,
but now I realize I should have been more specific. - Lily Tomlin
I am a friend of the working man,
and I would rather be his friend, than be one. - Clarence Darrow
I am an
agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. - Clarence Darrow
I am an
idealist. I do not know where I am going, but I am on my way. - Unknown
I am ashamed of
confessing that I have nothing to confess. - Fanny Burney
I am devilishly
afraid, that's certain; but . . . I'll sing, that I may seem valiant. - John
Dryden
I am free of all
prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W.
C. Fields
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