Food for Thought

Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mind-set tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. - Steve Maraboli

It isn’t the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. - F. M. Young

It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. - George Harrison

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. - C. S. Lewis

It is the power of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms – the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer

More Food for Thought Here

Humorous Quotes

I found a money back guarantee on a beauty cream. Rushed down to the store. They took one look at me and paid me in advance. - Phyllis Diller

So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I’m a great multitasker. - Holly Hood

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It’s the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. - Jennifer Weiner

The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24 hours a day 365 days a year from birth until you fall in love. - Unknown

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. - Tennessee Williams

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best. - Jarod Kintz

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. - Jim Butcher

Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves. - Zig Ziglar

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths. - Evan Esar

I don’t hate you.. I just don’t like that you exist. - Gena Showalter

A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job. - Ella Harris

For more Humorous quotes click Here

Talking to Yourself

Do you talk to yourself?
It turns out - people who talk to themselves aren't crazy, they're geniuses.

Click on the link to read the article by Grayson Berman

http://shareably.net/people-who-talk-to-themselves/

Death - Quotes

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life. - Rita Mae Brown

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. - Plato

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. - John Dryden

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James Byrnes

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. - Laurie Halse Anderson

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo da Vinci

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. - Francis Bacon

A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from tomorrow. - Abraham Miller

A man is not completely born until he is dead. - Benjamin Franklin

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. - Thomas Mann

All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity. - William Shakespeare

As soon as one is born, one starts dying. - Luigi Pirandello

More on Death Death

Quote Worthy

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization. - Wallace D. Wattles

The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible that which takes a little longer. - George Santayana

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. - Unknown

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington

If you don’t experience dark clouds, rain and storms, there is no way of measuring sunshine. - James Hardy

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. - Oscar Wilde

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. - Jane Austen

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. - Robert Burton

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. - John Wesle

All things truly wicked start from an innocence. - Ernest Hemingway

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath

More quotes Here

Funny English

The funny English language:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

The funny English language II:

● There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; either apple nor pine in pineapple.
● English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
● Quicksand can work slowly.
● Boxing rings are square.
● A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

Body Defense Mechanisms

9 Common Things Your Body Does That You May Not Have Realized Are Defence Mechanisms

http://www.wimp.com/9-common-things-your-body-does-that-you-may-not-have-realized-are-defense-mechanisms/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=video/

Click on the link to find out.

Food for Thought

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things. - Johann Caspar Lavater

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals. - I Ching

Our success at friendship, business, sports, love – indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt – is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness. - Alan Loy McGinnis

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour… If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? - Charlotte Brontë

More Food for Thought Here

Humorous Quotes

Men aren't really complicated ... They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious. - E. L James

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success. - Robert Orben

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

I don't believe the kindliest of men ever learned about the death of his doctor without a feeling of smugness. - Richard Gordon

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of the publicity. - Lauren Bacall

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. - Robert Lynd

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t. - Christopher Paolini

Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport! - Max Kauffmann

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. - Helen Rowland

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order. - Dolly Parton

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. - Woody Allen

A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real. - Harry Styles

For more Humorous quotes click Here

Success - Quotes

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful! - Charles Barkley

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life. - Harold Sherman

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. - Victor Cousins

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. - Nikos Kazantzakis

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. - Soichiro Honda

No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. - Ramana Maharshi

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins

Success breeds confidence. - Beryl Markham

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith

Success is buried on the other side of frustration. - Anthony Robbins

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. - Alex Noble

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation and inspiration. - Evan Esar

More on Success Here