Food for Thought

Don’t become preoccupied with your child’s academic ability but instead teach them to sit with those sitting alone. Teach them to be kind. Teach them to offer their help. Teach them to be a friend to the lonely. Teach them to encourage others. Teach them to think of others. Teach them to share. Teach them how to look for the good. This is how they will change the world. - Unknown

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started. - Jane Addams

In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity. - Frederic Clemson Howe

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Humorous Quotes

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. - Jonathan Carroll

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. - Homer

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us. - George Horace Lorimer

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is the fact that it has never tried to contact us. - Unknown

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like Brussel sprouts and high-heeled shoes. - Laurel K. Hamilton

You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again. - Cassandra Clare

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you’re the one getting slapped with the stick. - Carroll Bryant

It’s all fun and games, until someone calls the cops. Then it’s a new game; hide and seek. - Unknown

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde

The reason men lie is because women ask so many questions. - Unknown

I play golf religiously. If I make a shot ... it's a miracle! - Tom Wilson

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Life - Quotes

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there. - Natalie Goldberg

Life isn’t always fair. Some people are born into better environments, some people have better genetics. Some are in the right place at the right time. If you’re trying to change your life, all of this is irrelevant. All that matters is that you accept where are, figure out where you want to be, and then do what you can, today and every day, to hold your head high and keep moving forward. - Lori Deschene

Someday, we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters in not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh forgive, believe and love all over again. - Unknown

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Quote Worthy

Please don’t judge people. You don’t know what it took someone to get out of bed, look and feel as presentable as possible, and face the day. You never truly know the struggles of others. - Karen Salmansohn

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome. - Unknown

Sometimes, we need to be hurt in order to grow, fail, in order to know, lose in order to gain. Some lessons are learned best through pain. - Unknown

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

If we change our thoughts from ‘it’s too late’ to, ‘there’s still hope’, we might see some change in the world. - Kellie Elmore

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. - Dr. Suess

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder

Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now. - Unknown

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. - Tony Robbins

Sometimes, you have to just let go and see what happens. - Unknown

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William J. Bennett

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A Couple of Jokes

An inspirational speaker said, “The best days of my life were the days I spent with another man’s wife.”
Audience were in shock and silence. He added, “and she is my mother.”
A big round of applause and laughter followed.
One man who listened to the speech decided to crack this at home. After dinner, he said to his wife, “the best days of my life were the days I spent with another man’s wife …”
After a moment he tried to recall the second line …
By the time he regained his senses, he was in hospital bed, recovering from burns of hot water poured by his wife …
Moral of the lesson: Don’t copy if you cannot paste.

A cop pulled me over and said, “Your eyes are red, have you been drinking?”
I replied, “Your eyes look glazed, have you been eating donuts?”
We laughed and we laughed. I need bail money.

Pictures of Singapore in the Early Days

I came across a link which showcases pictures of Singapore in the early days. A rare fine indeed.

Singapore in the early days

Food for Thought

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells anything but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons. - Adam Smith

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world, you can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create. - Chuck Palahniuk

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Humorous Quotes

Humour is associated with intelligence and honesty. This is why we are more attracted to people who can make us laugh. - Unknown

Some men are like a church-organ – you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box – they have four or five thin jingles. - Austin O’Malley

You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. - Christopher Paolini

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven today, and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. - Erma Bombeck

The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter. - Dave Barry

It's the perfect marriage. There's nothing to fight about if you never talk about anything. - Dr. Eric Foreman

Where there is a will to conquer a man, there is a way to conquer a man. - Delilah Marvelle

If sex were shoes, I’d wear you out. But I wouldn’t wear you out in public. - Jarod Kintz

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice. - Cormac McCarthy

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out. - Mae West

The only people who like change are wet babies. - Unknown

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Happiness

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You never know which footstep will bring a good twist in life. So keep on walking. Happiness comes when it is most unexpected. That’s life! - Unknown

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent. - Stephanie Dowrick

Thousands of happiness can’t remove one pain in heart. But one pain can remove thousands of happiness in heart. That’s life. - Unknown

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. - Ramana Maharshi

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. - Mandy Hale

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. - Robert Brault

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day. - Unknown

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. - Jodi Picoult

When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. - Oscar Wilde

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Be happy, and a reason will come along. - Robert Brault

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. - Buddha

Being happy never goes out of style. - Lilly Pulitzer

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Quote Worthy

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force. - Carl Jung

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it is creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us. - Edgar Mitchell

Truth is so obscured nowadays and lies so well established that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it. - Blaise Pascal

The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff – it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel. - Abrahams Hicks

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. - Dorothea Dix

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. - Robert E. Lee

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - William Faulkner

Sometimes, what you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are. - John Green

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. - Marcus Aurelius

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples. - Philip Zimbardo

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. - David Ehrenfeld

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