World's Longest Bridge

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The new glass – bottomed bridge crosses two peaks in the mountains of Zhangjiajie – the same ranges that inspired the American Blockbuster Avatar.

While 8,000 people are allow to cross the bridge each day, many tourists queued up overnight to be the first to visit the attraction. The site become incredibly busy in a short amount of time.

Those who crossed the bridge earlier in the day were treated to views of the spectacular 984 feet sheer drop underfoot.

Tourist can walk across the bridge, designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, and the more adventurous will be able to bungee jump or ride a zip line.

Aerial view photo shows the glass-bottom bridge at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon.

Humorous Quotes

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything. - Jarod Kintz

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

Living with kids is like living in a frat house ... everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's a lot of throwing up. - Ray Romano

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out. - Markus Zusak

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. - P. G. Wodehouse

Don’t bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out. - Carroll Bryant

A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist. - Franklin P. Jones

Change is not a four letter word…but often your reaction to it is! - Jeffrey Gitomer

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labour. - John Ciardi

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry. - Jenifer Rosen

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Friends and Friendship - Quotes

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A best friend isn’t someone who’s just always there for you. It’s someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself. - Unknown

A caring friend is thousand times better than a careless lover! - Unknown

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. - Winnie the Pooh

A friend in need is a friend indeed. - James Ray

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. - Unknown

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend who lies for you may also lie against you. - Unknown

A friend's eye is a good mirror. - Gaelic Proverb

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer

A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back. - Unknown

Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship! - Mother Teresa

Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.- Malagasy Proverb

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Quote Worthy

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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. - Muhammad Ali

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. - B. F. Skinner

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honour. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision. - Unknown

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done. - Criss Jami

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it. - Virgil

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. - Alfred Tennyson

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough. - Robert Heller

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo

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Death - Quotes

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Death is a law, not a punishment. - Jean Dubos

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Plato

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be. - Robert M. Drake

Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death keeps no calendar. - English Proverb

Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go. - Jean de la Fontaine

Expect an early death – it will keep you busier. - Martin H. Fischer

For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead. Therefore, over the inevitable, thou shouldst not grieve. - Bhagavad Gita

For death is no more than a turning of us over from Time to eternity. - William Penn

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Proverb

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. - Corazon Aquino

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. - Jimi Hendrix

Six feet of earth makes us all equal. - Italian Proverb

The dead do not know the value of white sheets. Haitian Proverb

The first breath is the beginning of death. - Thomas Fuller

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Some Jokes

I took a cab the other day and the driver said to me, “I love my job, I own this car. I’ve got my own business, I’m my own boss, and NO ONE tells me what to do ...”

I said, “Turn left here.” 

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At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?”

The other replied, “Yes, I am, I married the wrong man.”

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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food for thought

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Spurgeon

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Dr. Wayne W Dyer

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

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Humorous Quotes

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He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people’s opinions and feelings concerning himself. - George Eliot

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. - Jack Handey

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. - Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. - Oscar Wilde

Don't be conceited: even postage stamps become useless when they get stuck on themselves. - Evan Esar

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. - Diogenes the Cynic

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So does not having health insurance. - Joe Hickman

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life! - Unknown

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. - Candace Bushnell

I always read my wife’s horoscope to see what kind of day I am going to have. - Unknown

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. - Unknown

Careful is a naked man climbing a barbwire fence. - Ken Alstad

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Life - Quotes

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Omar Khayyam

He who lives in the present lives in eternity. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything! - Sasha Azevedo 

It is possible to cross an ocean without wetting legs, but it is impossible to cross Life without wetting your eyes. - Unknown

Life ... does not need pleasure to be added to it as an appendage, but contains pleasure in itself. - Aristotle

Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it. - Alysha Speer 

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. - George Eliot

Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. - Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned. That doesn’t mean you have to give up, it means you have to push harder for what you want. - Unknown

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.- Montaigne

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. - Les Brown

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Quote Worthy

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Some promises are always unspoken, some memoires are always unwritten. Feel the magic of true relation and you will realize that true feelings are always unspoken. - Unknown

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

People think I’m weak. The fact is, they just don’t know now how strong I am struggling every single day to stay alive. - Unknown

Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are. - H. Dean Rutherford

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. - Fulton Oursler

If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.  - Unknown

We all make mistakes, everybody should be given a second-chance. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Talent isn’t genius and no amount of energy can make it so. - Louisa May Alcott

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle. - Bill Clinton

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. - Abraham Lincoln

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B.C. Forbes

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