Friday, July 18, 2014

June - 2014

You have not lived today unless you do something for someone who can never repay you. -- John Bunyan

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. -Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)

The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsberg, poet (1926-1997)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

Friday, February 28, 2014

Feb., 2014

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

I and the public know. 
What all schoolchildren learn. 
Those to whom evil is done. 
Do evil in return -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Jan., 2014

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. ~Donald H. Rumsfeld

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries -- Aldous Huxley

I am so stunned by my prosperity that my happiness has begun to make me anxious -- Urdu Couplet

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Aey naey saal bata tujh mein naya kya hai? Har taraf khalq ne kiyun shor macha rakha hai, Roshni din ki wahi, Taron bhari raat wohi, Aaj humko nazar aati hai har baat wohi, Aasman badla hai na badli hai afsurda zameen, Aik hinsey ka badalna koi jiddat to nahi, Pichley barson ki tarha honge qareeney teray, Be sabab detay hain kiyun log mubarak badein, Sub kya bhool gaye waqt ki karrwi yadein, Tu naya hai to dikha subha nai, sham nai, Werna in aankhon ne deikhay hain naey saal kai. (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Dec., 2013

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

All teaching is but a finger pointing to the moon; and if you keep looking at the finger you will never see the moon - Zen Koan

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius


Little things comfort us because little things distress us - Pascal, Pensées

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”Paulo Coelho

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Gandhiji

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." Nelson Mandela

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out - Churchill

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Nov., 2013

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ? Maya Angelou I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter - Paul Coelho Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible - Dalai Lama If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologise - Muhammad Ali "To shut your doors to errors shuts out truth". Ravindranath Tagore

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? -- John Maynard Keynes


"To shut your doors to errors shuts out truth". Ravindranath Tagore


"Nationalism is good in its place, but it is an unreliable friend and an unsafe historian." - Nehru


A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. — J.R.R. Tolkien


People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be - Lincoln



Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away. ~Tom Waits


A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live -

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Aug 2013


“if you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder - Rumi

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin

I can plod. That is my only genius. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
- William Carey of Serampore

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown

Great minds discuss ideas. 
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891) 


Harry Potter quote: "It is our choices that truly show what we are, far more than our abilities".

"Before you embark upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves." -Confucius.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910) 

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. -Charles Reznikoff, poet (1894-1976)

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -Spanish proverb"

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish teacher, philosopher, and writer, wrote: "El hombre es un animal esencial, fundamental, constitucional y radicalmente haragán" (Man is an essentially, basically, constitutionally and radically a loafer

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. ~Author Unknown

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ~Ivern Ball


A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. ~Robert Brault

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ~Ruth E. Renkel



Saturday, August 3, 2013

July 2013

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ~Doug Ivester

If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination. ~Author Unknown

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde

Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards - Vladimir Nabokov

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Try Try Again 
by T. H. Palmer

'Tis a lesson you should heed,
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again; 

Then your courage should appear,
For if you will persevere,
You will conquer, never fear
Try, try again;

Once or twice, though you should fail,
If you would at last prevail,
Try, try again; 

If we strive, 'tis no disgrace
Though we do not win the race;
What should you do in the case?
Try, try again

If you find your task is hard,
Time will bring you your reward,
Try, try again 

All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view:
Try, try again.

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‘Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant ' -- Robert Louis Stevenson.’

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ” Epictetus

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. -- MK Gandhi

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”  --- Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau wrote:

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ? Ansel Adams

Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy, this is physics. -- Albert Einstein

When men speak ill of you, live so that nobody may believe them - Plato

To whom much has been given, much is expected.

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." ~Buddha

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." -- Andy Warhol

"You can't calm the storm....so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass". - Timber Hawkeye

The harder I work, the luckier I get. ~Sam Goldwyn

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong - Groucho Marx

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -- Chinese Proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." -- Les Brown

"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find our why." -- Mark Twain

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." --  George Eliot

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." -- Vincent van Gogh

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."  -- Farrah Gray

"What is money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." -- Bob Dylan

"Dream big and dare to fail." -- Norman Vaughan

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." -- Steve Jobs

"If you don't love something don't do it" -- Ray Bradbury

"Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.” -- Steve Pavlina

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -- Aristotle

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." -- James Barrie (creator of Peter Pan)

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.” -- Steve Pavlina

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -- Marian Wright Edelman

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” -- John R. Wooden

"Dream big and dare to fail." -- Norman Vaughan

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom"

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us - Kafka