My Yellow Roses

 

I already told you that roses are my favorite flowers. 

They lighten up my mood. I love how they look like and I love their scents.

Look at my yellow roses bloom so beautifully. 

“It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quick Hello!

I just drop by to say hello.

How are you guys doing? I hope everything is fine.

See yah around soon. 💜

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. 
It's your life, not theirs. 
Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. 
Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. 
If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. 
There is more to life than pleasing people. 
There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. 
There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. 
You need to decide who you are for yourself. 
Become a whole being. Adventure.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

 

 

 

 

Those with a grateful mindset 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 Maroboli -

December 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.
~Claire Booth Luce ~

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
~Jacqueline Novogratz ~

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
~Alan Alda ~

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
~Minnie Aumonier ~

Love all, serve all, feed all.
~Neem Karoli Baba ~

Intelligence and capability are not enough.There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
~Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (Dr. V) ~

Love ... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
~Kahlil Gibran ~

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

A poem should not mean. But be.
~Archibald MacLeish ~

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
~ Emma Goldman ~

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life.
~ Norman Cousins ~

We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
~Aldo Leopold ~

In order to learn the art of dying , one must know completely -- the art of living.
~ S. N. Goenka ~

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
~Shel Silverstein ~

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~Jawaharlal Nehru ~

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.
~ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ~

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
~Barry Lopez ~

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~Buddha ~

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
~Bobby McFerrin ~

Give like a small sun: touch the world with shafts of your light, bring smiles into bloom like flowers.
~ DailyGood Editors ~

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
~Oscar Wilde ~

Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits.
~Kirpal Singh ~

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi ~

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
~Mortimer Adler ~

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
~Paul Hawken ~

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
~Anne McCaffrey ~

Each resolve to live more kindly loosens restrictive knots of self-interest. Life then flows more freely on its true course. The way an unfettered river runs swift to the ocean.
~Daily Good Editors ~

November 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
~Norman Borlaug ~

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
~ Chuang Tzu ~

Success is ultimately about connection, not perfection.
~ Whitney Johnson ~

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.
~Bob Kerrey ~

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
~ William James ~

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius ~

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
~Alan Alda ~

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~Arthur Golden ~

I wouldn't give a nickel for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
~Albert Einstein ~

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
~Seth Godin ~

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
~ Robert Frost ~

Shine one corner of the world -- just one corner.
~ Shunryu Suzuki ~

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~Ruth Smeltzer ~

Life where you're always doing something you love is art.
~ Leo Babauta ~

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
~ Maya Angelou ~

True change isn't willful. It's so fluent and intuitive that we don't even realize it happened.
~ Garrett Kramer ~

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
~Vincent Van Gogh ~

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
~ Marge Piercy ~

Gross National Product measures everything, except that which makes life worthwhile.
~Robert Kennedy ~

Art consists in limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~ G. K. Chesterton ~

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

As the rain falls on the just and unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgements and let your kindness rain down on all.
- Buddha -

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will be worthwhile.
~Deepak Chopra ~

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.
~Armand Dimele ~

Being 'spiritual' simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art everywhere.
~Quang Ho ~

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
~William Arthur Ward ~

If you want to be a rebel, be kind.
~Pancho Ramos Stierle~

When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am depressed, I notice that people's eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as boring and unattractive.
~Steve Chandler ~

Quick hello and a collection of inspirational quotes for the month of September!

Hey friends! It’s been more than a month since I last visited this blog of mine as well as your blogs. Work keeps me very busy.

Friends, I miss you all. I’ll make some kwento nalang for some happenings next time. For the meantime, I’ll want to share with you my collection of inspirational quotes for the month of September. ( super late na to!)

It is not the road ahead that wears you out -- it is the grain of sand in your
shoe.
~Arabian proverb ~

We never know which of us will start the
chain reaction. But one of us will.
~ Colin Beavan ~

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
~Saint Augustine~

If we just shook and rattled the old chains, nothing would move. One must add one's own link to the chain. The more original the link, the greater the step forward.
~Frederic Chopin ~

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people,
and the mysteries of the universe.
~ Gay Hendricks ~

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~ Ingrid Bergman ~

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~Helen Keller ~

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in
words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
~ Gloria Naylor ~

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us
what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt ~

If you judge people you
have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa ~

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
~Dawna Markova ~

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
~Leo Tolstoy~

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood
hunger.
~Buzz Aldrin ~

In a painting you create beauty with the addition of each brush stroke. In a company you create it with the addition of each talented, engaged person and with each thoughtful act.
~Bill Witherspoon ~

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the
noise of the whirlwind.
~Gwendolyn Brooks ~

We build too many walls
and not enough bridges.
~ Isaac Newton ~

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
~ Denis Waitley ~

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~Anais Nin ~

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside.
Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples
in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
~ Peace Pilgrim ~

The integrity of beauty is that inner straining towards goodness and
completion.
~ John O'Donohue ~

Abundance doesn't follow giving until
giving becomes its own reward.
~ Jan Denise ~

Be kind whenever
possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama ~

The only competition
worthy of a wise man is with himself.
~Washington Allston ~

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
~ Theo Jansen ~

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support.
Strength needs it far more.
~Anne Sophie Swetchine ~

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

There are two ways
of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton~

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
~Henry David Thoreau ~

There comes a time when humanity is called to
shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time
when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
~Wangari Maathai ~

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me
and the moral law within me.
~Immanuel Kant ~

HAVE AN INSPIRING THURSDAY EVERYONE!

August 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
~Ken Blanchard ~

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
~Dalai Lama ~

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects
~Heman Melville ~

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children -- these are the only investments that never fail.
~Henry David Thoreau ~

Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest.
~Leonardo Da Vinci ~

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

Are you here to produce agents of human change among your children? Are you here to change the mental set of people? So even if you do it with a small number it spreads. After all, Mahatma Gandhi was only one man.
~Sister Cyril Mooney ~

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.
~Lynne Twist ~

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
~ Pema Chodron ~

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~Andre Gide ~

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
~Andrew Carnegie ~

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
~Marcus Aurelius ~

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
~C. S. Lewis ~

A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.
~ Pat Parelli ~

It is in giving that we receive.
~ St. Francis of Assisi ~

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale ~

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
~Mary Engelbreit ~

The most important thing is insight, that is to be -- curious -- to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
~William Faulkner ~

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus ~

[Learning how to think] means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to, and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
~ David Foster Wallace ~

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
~ Victor Papanek ~

I would define "good" as the daily pursuit of making the world ever so slightly better than you found it.
~Chris Baker ~

Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.
~ John O'Donohue ~

We must not cease from exploration; the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
~ T. S. Eliot ~

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain -- the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903 ~

People with high levels of personal mastery cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.
~ Peter Senge ~

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
~Noam Chomsky ~

Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
~William Arthur Ward ~

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche ~

July 2011: inspirational quotes!

Forgive us our trespasses, little creatures everywhere.
~ James Stephens ~

Being your own story means you can always choose the tone.
It also means that you can invent the language to say who you are and what you mean.
~ Toni Morrison ~

Wisdom is a love affair with questions.
Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
~ Julio Olalla ~

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
~ Ansel Adams ~

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
~Jonathan Swift ~

A person becomes wise when they can see what needs to be done and do it successfully without being told what to do.
~Inuit Elder ~

Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~

Service doesn't start when you have something to give -- it blossoms naturally when you have nothing left to take.
~Nipun Mehta ~

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
~Brother David Steindl-Rast ~

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
~ Seneca ~

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
~Theodore Roethke ~

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
~Henry David Thoreau ~

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
~Adlai E. Stevenson ~

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
~ Ben Okri ~

The more you give, the more you live, and it's never too early to start.
~ Blake Mycoskie ~

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein ~

The most important lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced. Experience is the greatest teacher.
~ Benny Lewis ~

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
~David Starr Jordan ~

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
~ Buddha ~

Gandhi used the spinning wheel as both physical embodiment and symbol for radical change. Today, the foundation for social justice is healthy food -- our "spinning wheel" for the 21st century.
~ Francisco Ramos Stierle ~

What we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight.
~Unknown ~

Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.
~ Frederick Terral ~

We have the power to challenge and redefine beauty every day through our words and actions.
~Ben Barry ~

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.
~Daniel Goleman ~

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine ~

Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.
~Alan Lakein ~

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice.
~ Mary Oliver ~

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
~Jimmy Buffett ~

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
~ Oprah Winfrey ~

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~ Desiderius Erasmus ~

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~ Amy Lowell ~

June 2011: inspirational quotes!

The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~Charles DuBois ~

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
~ J. Krishnamurti ~

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
~David Orr ~

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
~Albert Einstein ~

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch ~

Take moments to enjoy the beauty around you. And always stop and lend a helping hand. It's more important to arrive in good spirits than to arrive on time.
~Guri Mehta ~

Life has beauty and a joy that transcends all the darkness that surrounds us, that something ineffable lives beyond the ordinary affairs of the day, and that without this mystery our lives would not be worth living.
~Kent Nerbern ~

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
~Maya Angelou ~

Labels are for cans, not people.
~Anthony Rapp ~

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
~Isaac Newton ~

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
~Anais Nin ~

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
~Marianne Williamson ~

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
~Jeff Bezos ~

When you enter the moment with heightened awareness, what you need to do becomes obvious. You discover that you already have the answers.
~Patricia Ryan Madson ~

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa ~

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.
~Shunryu Suzuki ~

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
~Les Brown ~

Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
~Hazel Rochman ~

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
~H. E. Luccock ~

It's not good enough for us to complain about what other people aren't doing for us. It's important that we all band together, think of an idea and pursue it.
~Derreck Kayongo ~

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
~ Lao Tzu ~

A universal characteristic of genius is humility.
~David Hawkins ~

All models are false but some are useful.
~George E. P. Box ~

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
~ Robert Valett ~

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
~Pearl Buck ~

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Rumi ~

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
~ Marshall McLuhan~

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Where there is no gift, there is no art.
~Lewis Hyde ~

May 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another.
~Salman Rushdie ~

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love.
~ Saint Basil ~

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~ Juvenal ~

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne ~

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone,
the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
~Rachel Naomi Remen ~

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always, and never, the same.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
~William James ~

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~ Peter Drucker ~

Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.
~John O'Donohue ~

Every word has three definitions and three interpretations.
~Costa Rican Proverb ~

Everyone is the age of their heart.
~ Guatemalan Proverb ~

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.
It is precisely that simple and also that difficult.
~Warren Bennis ~

Money is not my master. I'm out here for a purpose: to help someone.
~Curtis Jackson, Homeless in Chicago ~

Faith is a withholding of conclusion, so that you allow what is to arise.
~Adyashanti ~

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck ~

There's an analog for this in life, where disparate events, spread across years, come together to reveal the path forward. It goes by a nicer name, though: serendipity.
~Robert Lang ~

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
~Miguel de Cervantes ~

Much of what we do is like planting trees under which we may never sit, but plant we must.
~ Brother James Kimpton ~

Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
~Confucius ~

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson ~

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~Rumi ~

If someone gives you negative energy, you give back positive, affirmative energy -- such as forgiveness. [...] This is the giving within for-give-ness.
~Michael Bernard Beckwith ~

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
~Seneca ~

If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.
~Joseph Campbell ~

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
~Author Unknown ~

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
~Albert Einstein ~

Slow travel isn't only about the mode of transportation -- it's also about the way you travel. You settle in. You have to go to the grocery store. You get to know the people who run the cafe. It makes for a completely different trip.
~Pauline Kennedy ~

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
~George Washington Carver ~

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain ~

April 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~Walt Whitman~

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.
~Rumi~

Space is to place as eternity is to time.
~Joseph Joubert~

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
~Camille Pissarro ~

I'm a vegan -- you're not. But if your chicken's burning, I'll flip it on the grill.
~ Chris Bornstein ~

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~

In a world where everybody is out for himself, the winning strategy is to be forgiving.
~ Martin Nowak ~

Those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
~ Tony Robbins ~

Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.
~Anna Hazare ~

Pain is never permanent.
~Teresa of Avila ~

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
~Author Unknown ~

Great art picks up where nature ends.
~Marc Chagall ~

Refuse, refuse, refuse.
Then reduce, reuse, and recycle (and only in that order).
~ Bea Johnson ~

Social networks are not new.
The difference is we have the ability to bridge to each other in ways we never did before.
~Trabian Shorters ~

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth:
the only way to help yourself is to help others.
~Elbert Hubbard ~

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
~The Buddha ~

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
~W. C. Fields ~

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators.
They must learn to think and act for themselves -- and be free.
~Cesar Chavez ~

Where there is no gift, there is no art.
~ Lewis Hyde ~

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
~Schultz ~

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~ Jean Houston ~

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
~Buddha ~

Just like the many colours of roses, we may be of different nationalities, ethnicities, religions or race. But no matter what colour a rose may be, it is still a rose, and likewise we are all human beings first.
~ Sushil Koirala ~

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~Robert Anderson ~

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
~ Swedish Proverb ~

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~Erica Jong ~

That's why I'm helping you, because we're brothers.
~David Ross ~

I have the view... that the human being was not made for pleasure, was not made to gratify the ego, was not made to make money, was not made to have babies: it was made to serve something bigger than oneself. We are built to serve.
~ Jacob Needleman ~

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
~Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

What I would really like to do is to be able to change the lives of a group of people, with the same materials they deal with everyday.
~ Vik Muniz ~

March 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

The great men of science are supreme artists.
~Martin H. Fischer ~

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
~Sally Koch ~

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands
but seeing with new eyes.
~Marcel Proust ~

For a community to be whole and healthy,
it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
~Millard Fuller ~

Happiness is that state of consciousness
which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Ayn Rand~

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
~Chinese Proverb~

When you don't know what to do, get still.
The answer will come.
~Oprah Winfrey ~

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening
out from an original center.
~Seamus Heaney~

Limitations live only in our minds.
But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
~Jamie Paolinetti~

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
And never hope more than you work.
~Rita Mae Brown~

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.
As long as you're learning you're not old.
~Rosalyn S. Yalow~

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~Vincent Van Gogh~

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
~Pearl Buck~

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson~

There's a hero in everybody.
~Dark Guardian~

We always talk about working together...
perhaps crisis can give birth to new evolution.
~Yuka Saionji ~

Never before in history has innovation offered promise
of so much to so many in so short a time.
~Bill Gates ~

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~James Levin~

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser~

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
~Helen Keller~

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
~E. Joseph Cossman~

Goods are called good because they can be used for good.
~Clement of Alexandria~

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.
~Krista Tippett~

When tillage begins, other arts follow.
The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
~Daniel Webster~

I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
~Mother Teresa ~

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.
~Clark Moustakas ~

Live simply that others might simply live.
~Elizabeth Ann Seton~

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
~Tenneva Jordan ~

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, ...
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
~Robert F. Kennedy~

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference.
He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
In every moment, we can find and live our purpose.
~Tiffany Mackey~

February 2011: inspirational quotes!

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
~George Kneller~

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) ~

Looking closer can make something beautiful.
~Cynthia Lord ~

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.
~Gregory J. P. Godek ~

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
~Herbert Spencer~

The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do.
~Walter Bagehot ~

What I call the depth of generosity is when people are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
~Oscar Wilde ~

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
~William Shakespeare~

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~Henry Miller ~

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one.
It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life.
The first is that we are all one.
~Joesph Campell ~

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
~Peter McWilliams~

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~Thomas Merton ~

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~Don Herrold ~

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
~Gandhi ~

To build toilets is easy, but to shift people's mind and hearts is the real work.
Software is more important than hardware.
~Ishwar Patel ~

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
~Mark Twain ~

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
~William Ames ~

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it.
~Mark Twain ~

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~John E. Southard ~

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

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
~Gail Devers~

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~Robert Collier~

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
~Scott Caan~

To touch can be to give life.
~Michelangelo~

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~Phyllis Theroux~

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet~

Silence is a fence around wisdom.
~German Proverb~

quick note & a collection of inspirational quotes for January 2011

Hey friends, I know I was absent here again for so long. I haven’t visited your blog as well and I felt sorry about that. Things here just got even busier every day. The new assignments that we got made us all busy as a bee plus the fact that the number of staff in our new department was now reduced into only 5 staff including the driver. It’s a little bit tiring but I know there is always good thing waiting ahead for all of us. And of course, I am also hopeful for a more travel this year. I’d love to explore more the Cordillera Region and the Visayas Region where we were assigned. So, goodluck to that!

Anyway, it’s a little bit late but I want to share to you once again my collection of inspirational quotes for the month of January:

Never think twice about doing something nice for someone.
~One Lucky Lady, from A Circle of Kindness Started by a 10 Year Old Girl~

Good friends are good for your health.
~Irwin Sarason~

Every kid needs a mentor.
Everybody needs a mentor.
~Donovan Bailey~

Good things happen when you meet strangers.
~Yo-Yo Ma~

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
~Robert Fulgham~

Leap, and the net will appear.
~Julie Cameron~

To call someone a hero means - I'd decide what to do by asking what they'd do in the same situation. That's a stricter standard than admiration.
~Paul Graham~

What we observe is not nature itself, but
nature exposed to our method of questioning
~Werner Heisenberg~

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes
of the soul.
~Ovid~

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it
does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boese~

Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes
everything.
~George Lois~

Any man that walks the mead in bud, or blade, or bloom, may find a meaning suited to his mind.
~Alfred Tennyson~

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe.
But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes –
goodwill among men and peace on earth.
~Albert Einstein~

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ~Marc Chagall~

You don't owe me nothing. Nothing at all. And if you think you
do, I'd give you the same advice. Pass it down the line.
~Bernard Hare~

You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
~Tenzin Gyatso~

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
~Martha Graham~

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
~Carl Jung~

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~Francesco Guicciardini~

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
~Albert Einstein~

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~Alex Noble~

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, place to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~John Muir~

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
~Lin Yutang~

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
~Lucy Larcom~

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
~Anna Fellows Johnston~

A society is defined not only by what
it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
~John Sawhill~

I don't believe that children are born with empathy. It is something they learn by
seeing it modeled by others.
~Jacqui Rivait~

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~Mother Teresa~

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
~Alan Watts~

I miss you all guys! Have a happy weekend! *mwuah*

December 2010: inspirational quotes!

Meditation is the art of being aware and conscious in our day to day living.
Any action done with awareness is meditation.
A meditative person is fully conscious in one action.
~Anonymous ~

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
~Henry Ford~

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
~Coco Chanel ~

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
~Henri Frederic Amiel~

We are not to throw away those things that can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.
~Clement of Alexandria~

They who give have all things;
they who withhold have nothing.
~Hindu Proverb~

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

When we lose one blessing, another is
often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
~C.S. Lewis~

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
~Dalai Lama~

...it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
~Malcolm Gladwell~

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.
~Paul Zak~

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
~Henry David Thoreau~

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the
love in your heart... You're gonna find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
~Carole King~

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~Dalai Lama~

A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.
~Henry Ford~

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
~Max Lerner~

There are no strangers here;
Only friends you haven't yet met.
~William Butler Yeats~

If you have much, give of your wealth;
If you have little, give of your heart.
~Kahlil Gibran~

What we think determines what happens to us, so if
we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
~Wayne Dyer~

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
~Buckminster Fuller~

Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein~

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be
beautiful.
~William Morris ~

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
~Robert A. Heinlein~

I find out what the world needs.
Then, I go ahead and invent it.
~Thomas A. Edison~

It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
~Leo Buscaglia~

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
~Martin Buber~

We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce ~

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HAPPY MONDAY TO ALL!

November 2010: inspirational quotes

The hard must become habit.
The habit must become easy.
The easy must become beautiful.
~Doug Henning~

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small
planet.
~John F. Kennedy~

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
~Stephen Hawking~

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
~Flora Edwards~

Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain~

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life.
~Christopher Reeve~

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
~Leonard Nimoy~

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~W. Clement Stone ~

Do not allow yourself or others to be defined by your limitations,
but rather, abilities.
~Eric Duquette ~

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.
~Ancient Proverb~

My religion is kindness.
~Dalai Lama~

We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.
~Kenneth Patton~

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.
~Rig Veda~

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~Native American Proverb~

Action expresses priorities.
~Gandhi~

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and
methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
~Plato~

He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the
souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily,
time-worn yoke of their opinions.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through
devotion, to something beyond himself.
~Henry Miller~

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller~

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~Jimmy Dean~

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa~

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
~Harvey S. Firestone~

My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give
away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way
energy work.
~Ken Blanchard~

Just as we cannot blame others for destroying the environment, so we cannot look to others to protect the environment. Responsibility for both begins at home.
~Paul Griss~

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~James Bryant Conant~

My favorite quote for the day!

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Oh, it’s Monday once again.

And one quote which became my favorite for today is:

“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”
~Tennessee Williams~
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Happy Monday everyone. May this week gives luck to all of us!

October 2010: Inspirational Quotes!

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with
nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
~Alfred Austin~

Let the beauty we love become the good we do.
~Rumi ~

Food is medicine, medicine is food
~Ayurveda~

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
~Albert Camus~

To do two things at once is to do neither.
~Publilius Syrus~

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
~Seneca~

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
~Harold S. Geneen~

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.
~Joseph Campbell~

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of
the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha~

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams~

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
~Bill Vaughn~

It is only through courage, persistence, hope and love that we can start saving lives together.
~The Flood Sisters~

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.
~The Talmud~

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
~Frank Pittman III~

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
~Author Unknown~

If you are what you eat, and you don't know what you're eating, do you
know who you are?
~Unknown~

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~Douglas Adams~

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter
or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
~William Penn~

A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has
lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power.
~Anonymous~

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith
and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.
Remember all things are possible for those who believe
~Gail Devers~

We can create a more sustainable, cleaner and safer world by making
wiser energy choices.
~Robert Alan~

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
~Jack Brown~

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
~Henry David Thoreau~

There can be little doubt that a certain amount of corporate philanthropy is simply good business and works for the long-term benefit of the investors.
~John Mackey~

The time is always right to do what is right.
~Martin Luther King Jr.~

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~Pierre Corneille~

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary
situations.
~Jean Paul Richter~

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
~Chogyam Trungpa~

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but
it's a force that can light a room.
~Ray Charles~

We rely upon artists to articulate what most of us can only feel in joy and sorrow. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
~Helen Hayes~

September 2010: inspirational quotes!

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the
small ones.
~Phillips Brooks ~

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great
opportunity is where you are.
~John Burroughs ~

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu~

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
~Wayne Dyer~

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
~Mother Teresa~

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul
remains unawakened.
~Anatole France~

More bliss can be got from
serving others than from merely serving oneself.
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba~

Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete
rest.
~Ashleigh Brilliant ~

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
~Colleen Wilcox~

There are no failures- just experiences
and your reactions to them.
~Tom Krause~

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
~Buddha~

Love begins by taking care of
the closest ones - the ones at home.
~Mother Teresa~

What a lovely
surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~Ellen Burstyn~

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I
succeed.
~Michael Jordan~

If you want others to be happy, practice
compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~Dalai Lama~

When the idea came up, [Newman's Own] I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my
face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea
of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest
length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds
back to the community?
~Paul Newman~

The ones who are hardest to
love are usually the ones who need it the most.
~Dan Millman~

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
~Ryunosuke Satoro~

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~Chinese Proverb~

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your
stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
~Robert Brault~

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done
for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike~

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it... Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's
thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

Any form of exercise, if
pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance.
~Mao Tse-Tung~

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You
know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
~Dennis Leary~