Happiness - Quotes

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Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Unknown

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. - W. H. Sheldon 

If you’re not happy with where you are and what you’ve got, you won’t be happy with where you go or what you get. Happiness is a choice for today. - Fawn Weaver 

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. - Unknown

I’d far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. - Unknown

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours! - Jennifer O'Neill 

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. - Ivan Panin

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. - Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you. - Ernie J. Zelinski

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A clay pot containing milk will be ranked higher than a golden pot containing poison. Not our outer glamour, but our inner virtues make us valuable. - Unknown

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. - Dan Gable

Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. - Patanjal

Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves. - Matt Kahn

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. - Arthur Lynch

He that first cries out “stop thief” is often he that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow

‘What will they think of me?’ must be put aside for bliss. - Joseph Campbell

Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

Caution is the path to mediocrity. - Frank Herbert

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Meditation

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Training your Monkey Mind

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/07/26/tibetan-buddhist-master-monk-explains-how-meditation-is-not-what-most-people-think-it-is/

The Scientific Power of Meditation

http://thespiritscience.net/2016/07/09/why-your-mind-shouldnt-be-going-blank-during-meditation/

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Food for Thought

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second. - Leo Tolstoy

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. - Marcus Tullius Ciero

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National Day

Ninth of August is Singapore's National Day. Happy Birthday Singapore! (51st.)

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Stunning Old Photos of Singapore You May Not have Seen Before

http://www.senicaphotos.com/updates/stunning-old-photos-of-singapore/

Singapore (1972)

http://ai.stanford.edu/~latombe/mountain/photo/singapore/singapore-1972.htm

Tanjong Pagar Station

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/22/abandoned-train-station-signals-community-revival-in-singapore

Old, Common Names of Places in Singapore, and their Origins 

https://remembersingapore.org/2011/04/04/old-names-of-places/ 

Humorous Quotes

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According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we’ll never get there. - Jay Leno

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. - Lemony Snicket

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. - Judith Martin

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. - Branch Rickey

As my old pappy always said, marriage is the only game of chance he knows of where both sides can lose. - Bret Maverick

A banker is a man who will lend you the short sleeve shirt off his back and demand a long sleeve one in return. -  Jarod Kintz

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings. - Evan Esar

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing. - Werhner von Braun

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. - Dennis Wolfberg

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it. - Evan Esar

I've stopped drinking, but only when I'm asleep. - George Best

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Love - Quotes

Loving yourself isn’t conceit, it’s love. Love means acceptance, kindness, encouragement, and care. Conceit is none of those things. Conceit is thinking a person is better than others and in thoughts and words, determined to prove it. With love, doubt disappears, fears fade, and there’s a comfort that develops which makes even being alone a place of solace. You’ll help to heal and inspire others just by being yourself. You’ll help them to discover that it’s possible for theme to do, too. It’s a beautiful gift. - Unknown

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved. - C. JoyBell C.

Love is more black and white than we like to tell ourselves. Don’t allow anyone to keep you trapped in the ‘promise’ of the grey area. The bottom line is: if they love you, truly love you, they’ll do whatever it takes to be with you. There won’t be excuses or doubts or fears or hesitation. Love is action. Everything else is just words. - Mandy Hale

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it. - Marian Keyes

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. - Igor Stravinsky

In times of success remember many have succeeded even better than thou: in times of failure, remember many have failed even worse than thou. - Ivan Panin

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel. - Mark McCormack

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy, mind your own business and do what you need to do to make you happy. - Unknown

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. - Abraham Lincoln

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. - William Blake

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question. - Orrin Woodward

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. - Solomon Ortiz

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. - Robert Musil

Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. - Mia Hamm

Dead-last finish is better than did not finish, which greatly trumps did not start. - Unknown

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West

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Introverts or Extroverts ?

Are you an introvert or extrovert? Read the following article and try to decode some of the hidden images. I got most of them, so I must be almost an introvert. :-)

http://www.davidwolfe.com/introverts-decode-hidden-images/

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Humorous Quotes

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There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them. - P.J. O'Rourke

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. - Kobe Bryant

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. - Larry McMurtry

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. - Edgar Watson Howe

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. - Muhammad Ali

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come in second are your wife and your dog. - Damon Hill

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. - Humphrey Bogart

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married? - Barbra Streisand

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job. - Slappy White

Until thirty we live through curiosity, after that out of sheer spite and bravado. - Abraham Miller

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. - W. Somerset Maugham

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it. - Evan Esar

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