Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Life Quotes 1

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― John Lennon

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― AndrĂ© Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but
I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to
live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“To laugh often and love much; to win the
respect of intelligent persons and the affection of
children; to earn the approbation of honest
citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to
give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to have played and
laughed with enthusiasm and sung with
exultation; to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived—this is to have
succeeded.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs
Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the
American People And by them contributed as a
Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book
HEART THROBS
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“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa
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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be
there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and
the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There
is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso
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“This life is what you make it. Not matter what,
you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a
universal truth. But the good part is you get to
decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will
be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just
remember, some come, somg go. The ones that
stay with you through everything - they're your
true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also
remember, sisters make the best friends in the
world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go
too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them -
actually pretty much all of them are going to
break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if
you give up, you'll never find your soul mate.
You'll never find that half who makes you whole
and that goes for everything. Just because you
fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at
everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always,
always, always believe in yourself, because if you
don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head
high, keep your chin up, and most importantly,
keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and
there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have
done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as
soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You
shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to
be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and
Hobbes
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“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
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“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance,
you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
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“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it
can. And just when you think it can't get any
better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
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“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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“If you don't know where you are going, any
road will get you there.”
― Lewis Carroll
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A
man who lives fully is prepared to die at any
time.”
― Mark Twain
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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about
creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get
boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“The one you love and the one who loves you
are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether
he is the garbage man or the president of the
university.”
― Albert Einstein
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would
be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would
be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn
between a desire to improve the world and a
desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to
plan the day.”
― E.B. White
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Khalil Gibran Quotes Love

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran

Life without liberty is like a body without
spirit. Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Khalil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. Khalil Gibran

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us
from truth. Khalil Gibran

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. Khalil Gibran

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by
which the physician within you heals your sick self. Khalil Gibran

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. Khalil Gibran

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss
and complete knowledge, for Eternal
Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Khalil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Khalil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a
bleak, arid desert. Khalil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Khalil Gibran

Safeguarding the rights of others is the
most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Khalil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but
rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Khalil Gibran

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. Khalil Gibran

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then
becomes a host, and then a master. Khalil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. Khalil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. Khalil Gibran

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Khalil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Khalil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and
that joy is their reward. Khalil Gibran

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see the through the mesh of a sieve. Khalil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. Khalil Gibran

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Khalil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a
person, look not at what he has already
achieved, but at what he aspires to. Khalil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and
share with the people the same happiness. Khalil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Khalil Gibran

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? Khalil Gibran

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with
contempt? Khalil Gibran

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Khalil Gibran

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look
again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Khalil Gibran

When you work you are a flute through
whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Khalil Gibran

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon
neighboring lands, killing thousands and
pillaging the very hills? Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Khalil Gibran

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Khalil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Khalil Gibran

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Khalil Gibran

You have your ideology and I have mine. Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with
you your all. Khalil Gibran

Monday, August 13, 2012

Love Quotes

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller


A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose
company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Friedrich Nietzsche

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac

Absence - that common cure of love. Lord Byron

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness
there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews

All man kind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Idiom 3

Can't Cut The Mustard :
Someone who isn't adequate enough to compete or participate.

Cast Iron Stomach:
Someone who has no problems,
complications or ill effects with eating
anything or drinking anything.

Charley Horse:
Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp.

Chew someone out:
Verbally scold someone.

Chip on his Shoulder:
Angry today about something that occured in the past.

Chow Down:
To eat.

Close but no Cigar:
To be very near and almost accomplish a goal, but fall short.

Cock and Bull Story:
An unbelievable tale.

Come Hell Or High Water:
Any difficult situation or obstacle.

Crack Someone Up:
To make someone laugh.

Cross Your Fingers:
To hope that something happens the way you want it to.

Cry Over Spilt Milk:
When you complain about a loss from the past.

Cry Wolf:
Intentionally raise a false alarm.

Cup Of Joe:
A cup of coffee.

Curiosity Killed The Cat:
Being Inquisitive can lead you into a
dangerous situation.

Cut to the Chase:
Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point.

Dark Horse:
One who was previously unknown and is now prominent.

Dead Ringer:
100% identical. A duplicate.

Devil's Advocate:
Someone who takes a position for the sake of argument without believing in that particular side of the arguement. It can also mean one who presents a counter argument for a position they do believe in, to another debater.

Dog Days of Summer:
The hottest days of the summer season.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch:
Don't rely on it until your sure of it.

Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth: When someone gives you a gift, don't be ungrateful.

Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket: Do not put all your resources in one
possibility.

Doozy:
Something outstanding.

Down To The Wire:
Something that ends at the last minute or last few seconds.

Drastic Times Call For Drastic Measures:
When you are extremely desperate you need to take extremely desperate actions.

Drink like a fish:
To drink very heavily.

Drive someone up the wall:
To irritate and/or annoy very much.

Dropping Like Flies:
A large number of people either falling ill or dying.

Dry Run:
Rehearsal.

Eighty Six:
A certain item is no longer available. Or this idiom can also mean, to throw away.

Elvis has left the building:
The show has come to an end. It's all over.

Ethnic Cleansing:
Killing of a certain ethnic or religious group on a massive scale.

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining:
Be optomistic, even difficult times will lead to better days.

Everything But The Kitchen Sink: Almost everything and anything has been included.

Excuse my French:
Please forgive me for cussing.

Cock and Bull Story:
An unbelievable tale.

Inspirational Quotes 1

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr

Joy descends gently upon us like the
evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. Henry Norris Russell

Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bern Williams

Mankind is made great or little by its own will. Friedrich Schiller

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! Audrey Hepburn

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. Pope Paul VI

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. William Bartram

Our ideals are our better selves. Amos Bronson Alcott

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Fulton J. Sheen

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Education Quotes 1

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. Walter Annenberg

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein

It is a thousand times better to have
common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green

Ingersoll It is always in season for old men to learn. Aeschylus

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it. Aristotle

Learn to think continentally. Alexander Hamilton

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail Adams Learning, n.

The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one has yet realized the wealth of
sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. Brad Henry

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. Judy Chicago

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. Robert Anthony

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

Monday, August 6, 2012

Words Of Wisdom

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. Plutarch

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. William James

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening,
the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. William Penn

The middle course is the best. Cleobulus

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas
Huxley

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. Latin Proverb

Silence does not always mark wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca

Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. John Tillotson

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore
line of wonder.
Ralph W.
Sockman

The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. Alexander Chase

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction
flows.
Edward Young

The man of wisdom is never of two
minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius