Friday, 17 October 2014

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Quote Worthy


You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand. - Maurice Switzer

I do not think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie

Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life. - Unknown

Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living. - Unknown

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C Link

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles

When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself. - Paulo Coehlo

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. - Unknown

We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. -Beau Taplin

First law on holes - when you’re in one, stop digging! - Denis Healey

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao-tze

Man belongs to the earth, Earth does not belong to man. - Unknown

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Quote Worthy


You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato


All achievers are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing... not moving toward excellence. - Denis Waitley

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official. - Theodore Roosevelt

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. - Lao Tzu

Self-discipline cures our body, deep concentration cures our mind and wisdom cures our behaviour. - Unknown

Pay attention to the ones who care instead of trying to get the attention of those who don’t. - Unknown

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent, it’s gone forever. Zig Ziglar

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving. - Neal Maxwell


The coward threatens when he is safe. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. - Matthew Trump


Sometimes it ends up different and it is better that way. - Unknown

It takes a big man to say, "I was wrong." - Unknown

Monday, 13 October 2014

Humorous Quotes


Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are also profoundly true.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. - Scott Adams

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. - Cary Grant 

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. - William Safire

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? - Mae West

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. - Dan Cook

It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is; it’s always room-temperature. - Steven Wright

It is just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. - Frederick Marryat

It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence. - Unknown

It happens as with cages: the bird without are desperate to get in, and those within despair of getting out. - Michel do Montaigne of marriage

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe; but surely it is much greater and nobler applause, that they appear to think. - Henry Fielding

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. - Charles Dickens

It is absurd to argue with men, as well as to torture them into believing. - Cardinal John Henry Newman

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Life - Quotes


Experience life in all possible ways – good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. - Osho

Life won’t be better, and never will be, until you stop wishing for this better life and realize that life is already incredible. This life, right now, is already perfect. Enjoy it. - Leo Babauta

Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. - Marsha Sinetar

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Reagon

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

Life is like a multiple choice question, sometimes the choices confuse you – not the question itself. - Unknown

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. - Vivian Komori

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles M. Schulz

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t go through life, grow through life. - Eric Butterworth

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. - David Guy Powers

Life is the greatest journey you will ever be on. - Unknown

Live is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

Saturday, 11 October 2014

Quote Worthy


Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. THAT IS relativity. - Albert Einstein

Familiarity may not breed contempt, but your worthy thoughts and actions are assured a greater recognition by those of a less close association. - Validivar

Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than  you’ve ever been, to stand up taller then you ever were. - Unknown

We are strangers to our hidden potential until we confront problems that reveal our capabilities. - Apoorve Dubey

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. - Richard G Scott

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don’t say about themselves. - Brian G. Jett

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. - Unknown

Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care. - Unknown

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Ed Howe

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. - Marcus Aurelius

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A wish is a desire without an attempt. - Unknown

Friday, 10 October 2014

Plants


These 25 plants prove that there’s always a reason to keep going.


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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Quote Worthy


Darkness is not a force – it is merely the absence of light. Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place, the darkness disappears. Sadness is similar – when joy is brought to suffering, the sadness disappears. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don’t try to overhaul your life overnight. Instead, focus on making one small change at a time. Over time, those small changes will add up to big transformation. Don’t give up! - Unknown

Ask yourself what is really important, and then have the wisdom and courage to build your life around  your answer. - Unknown

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. - Unknown

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different. - C.S Lewis

How you see your future is much more important than what has happened in the past. - Zig Ziglar

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. - Lao Tzu

Never cry for that person who doesn’t know the value of your tears. - Unknown

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. - Helen Keller

Be happy. It is one way of being wise. - Unknown

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Quote Worthy


An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes it’s great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start. - John Steinbeck

Learn to accept the reality of yourself as someone with strengths and weaknesses who will have some good days and some bad days. - Unknown

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. - Alan Bennett

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis Waitley

Anything we have ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared us to death. - Unknown

To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid. - Unknown

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. - Benjamin Franklin


Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves. - Don Miguel Ruiz


Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. - J. Ogden Armour

Examine the contents, not the bottle. - Unknown

Monday, 6 October 2014

Humorous Quotes


Quotes which are funny, ironical, some of which are profoundly true.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. - Mario Andretti

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. - John Young

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host. - Unknown

If you win, you need not have to explain… if you lose, you should not be there to explain! - Adolf Hitler

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gil Atkinson

If you’re going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. - Bill Earle

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? - Aldous Huxley

I'm astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. - Woody Allen 

Imagination is a guilty secret, usually, a passion best kept inside the privacy of one's own skull. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air. - Jonathan Raban

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. - Lord Chesterfield

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. - Helen Rowland

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Rita