Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest

[Naina]

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. --Steven Wright

[peanut]

Naina, I had to borrow this;

To the people that drown themselves in negative elements you will go down alone...you know who you are and what you are. Worry about your own life, then you will know what it is like to live, rather than merely exist."

[Naina]

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.

[peanut]

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

[Naina]

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

[Naina]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" Robert Hanlon

[dancerboy]

A MAN IS LIKE A TEA BAG, YOU NEVER KNOW HIS STRENGTH, UNTIL HE GETS INTO HOT WATER. DANCERBOY

[Naina]

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

[Naina]

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

[Somebody007]

A MAN IS LIKE A TEA BAG, YOU NEVER KNOW HIS STRENGTH, UNTIL HE GETS INTO HOT WATER. DANCERBOY



hehehehe.....ah like this one.... :D :D :D :D

[Naina]

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman

[Peechingpang]

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

-- Washington Irving

[Naina]

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Aldous Huxley

[Naina]

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas

[Naina]

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996

[Naina]

Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities.–Eleanor Roosevelt

[Naina]

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian

[aka_lol]

.. humans are, by nature, a forward-looking species always seeking greater levels of happiness and satisfaction. Unfortunately, the corollary is that humans are all too often willing to grasp at unrealistic promises of a better life or to believe that a better life can only be attained by clinging to intolerance and ignorance, by lessening the lives of others. And sometimes, by focusing on a life to come, we miss what we have in this life. It is a different source of hope, but it is hope nonetheless: hope that human intelligence, combined with compassion, can solve our myriad problems and enhance the quality of each life; hope that historical progress continues on its march toward greater freedom and acceptance for all humans; and hope that reason and science as well as love and empathy can help us understand our universe, our world, and ourselves.

Michael Shermer
Why People Believe Weird Things

[Naina]

“The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.”

[aka_lol]

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Mahatma Ghandhi

[Naina]

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

[dancerboy]

The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his own way. JOSH BILLINGS.

It is the little things in life that fret and worry us; it is much easier to dodge an elephant than a fly. Paraphased from JOSH BILLINGS.

Success makes a fool seem wise. HENRY GEORGE BOHN.


DANCERBOY

[giggler]

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)

[Naina]

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow

[Naina]

one day our generation is gonna rule the population
so we keep on waiting .....waiting on the world to change

[Mivo]

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." — English author D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

[aka_lol]

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg~

[Naina]

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mivo]

To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man."

— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)

[Naina]

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~

[Naina]

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it'd be worth it."

[dancerboy]

Detours are not placed on the road (of life) to prevent you from reaching your destination( in life), but only to warn you of the impending dangers (in life) ahead , and how to circumvent them.

DANCERBOY

[Aloha]

Indeed! Enyoy each day for the day's glad blessings! because no one knoweth the day or the
hour the saviour will come! so we need to be prepared, and come before his presence with signing and praise, in order to be saved. :lol: :o :lol:

[dancerboy]

When you find yourself between a rock and a hard place, always remember JESUS is the rock.

DANCERBOY

[Naina]

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon

[Huma]

:shock: Nice.

[Naina]

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason

[Mivo]

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

[sapodila]

"Produce what you eat. Eat what you produce."........anonymous.

[Mivo]

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

[Naina]

Because of judgmental attitudes, the one who gossips will avoid and alienate the subject of the gossip, believing lies. Usually, how much they gossip is proportional to how much they avoid them.

[dancerboy]

This is the story of WILLIAM JAY,
who died maintaining his right of way.
He was right, dead right as he sped along,
but he is just as dead, as if he were wrong.

DANCERBOY

[Naina]

[The media] tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts....How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"...you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
—Peter McWilliams

[Mivo]

Life is short. Live it up

[dancerboy]

When the road ahead is blocked, and the one behind cutt off, then a new path must be created. MAYA ANGELOU



DANCERBOY

[Naina]

Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.

As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out. "Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"

"Brother," the second monk replied, "I set her down on the other side, while you are still carrying her."

[Mivo]

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." — Mark Twain (1835-1910)

[Mivo]

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

[Mivo]

Think much, speak little, and write less."

— Italian proverb

[Naina]

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~Samuel Johnson

[Peechingpang]

There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly.
- Anonymous

[Naina]

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour

[Mivo]

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

[Naina]

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

[Mivo]

There are two kinds of people in one's life — people whom one keeps waiting — and the people for whom one waits."

[Naina]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

[aka_lol]

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. Bertrand Russell

[aka_lol]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan

[Naina]

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

[Amelia]

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

[Naina]

"Vote out the Incumbents !!"

Me ....

[Naina]

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

Martin Luther King, Jr

[Naina]

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson

[letric]

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value
-Albert Einstein

[Naina]

“Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.”

[letric]

Having recently returned from vacation anxiously looked forward reading TTOL. Surprisingly enough, was astonished to peruse so many quotations. There were occasions when I quoted certain individuals, questions were asked if I had no original thought. Insomuch, I had to reveal
the facility for quotations cover the absence of original thought. Of course, it is always unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom, it is healthy to remember that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

[letric]

Think on Black Congressional leaders calling hearings on the American police states, educating, training, and treating those who want and need it at a substantially lower cost to the taxpapers.

[letric]

The family has much to teach us about ourselves and the world. In your mind's eye, visualise a tall tree whose branches reach up into the clouds. Looking up at the tree you see the members of your family sitting on the branches. You begin to climb the tree, stopping to converse with your relatives along the way. Ask them what lesson they have to teach you.

[letric]

Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be kept understanding.

[letric]

Lord, may we love all your creation,
all the Earth and every grain of sand in it. May we love
every leaf, every ray of your light. For we acknowledge to
you that all is like a ocean, all is flowing and blending,
and that to withhold any measure of love from anything in
your universe is to withhold that same from you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81)

[letric]

The Buddha said that on life's journey some gather wisdom, some gather stories and some gather nothing. Some gather wisdom you must follow your own path. If you rely solely on wise teachers, their wisdom might weigh you down, like stones in your pocket , might impede your way

[letric]

One moment spent in Paradise
Is not too dearly paid for with one's life.


Don Carlos (1787) act 1, sc. 5

[letric]

The man of wisdom delights in water, the man
of humanity delights in mountains. The man of
wisdom is active; the man of humanity is
tranquil. The man of wisdom enjoys happiness;
the man of humanity enjoys long life.

Analects ch. 6. v.21

[letric]

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do good
action by stealth, and to have it found out by
accident.



The Athenaeum (1834)

[letric]

For it is not enough to have a good mind; the
main thing is to use it well




Descartes
Les Discours de la methode (1637) pt.1

[letric]

Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left
alone in the room, turns over your papers.


Aphorisms on Man(.1788) no. 596