Famous people quotes-Action steps

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
– Confucius

Thought for the day-Piece of string

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.

Deep thoughts-Walk in the rain

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller

Love quotes-One word

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

Political quotes-Nicer people

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy.

The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.
-Dave Barry

Motivational thoughts-Too short

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Thoughts-Reciprocated

AKBAR'S GOLD COINS

The wisdom of Birbal was unparalleled during the reign of Emperor Akbar.

But Akbar's brother in law was extremely jealous of him. He asked the Emperor to dispense with Birbal's services and appoint him in his place. He gave ample assurance that he would prove to be more efficient and capable than Birbal.

Before Akbar could take a decision on this matter, this news reached Birbal.

Birbal resigned and left.

Akbar's brother in law was made the minister in place of Birbal.

Akbar decided to test the new minister. He gave three hundred gold coins to him and said, Spend these gold coins such that, I get a hundred gold coins here in this life; a hundred gold coins in the other world and another hundred gold coins neither here nor there.

The minister found the entire situation to be a maze of confusion and hopelessness. He spent sleepless nights worrying over how he would get himself out of this mess. Thinking in circles was making him go crazy.

Eventually, on the advice of his wife he sought Birbal's help.

Birbal said, Just give me the gold coins, I shall handle the rest.

Birbal walked the streets of the city holding the bag of gold coins in his hand. He noticed a rich merchant celebrating his son's wedding. Birbal gave a hundred gold coins to him and bowed courteously saying, “Emperor Akbar sends you his good wishes and blessings for the wedding of your son. Please accept the gift he has sent."

The merchant felt honoured that the king had sent a special messenger with such a precious gift. He honoured Birbal and gave him a large number of expensive gifts and a bag of gold coins as a return gift for the king.

Next, Birbal went to the area of the city where the poor people lived. There he bought food and clothing in exchange for a hundred gold coins and distributed them in the name of the Emperor.

When he came back to town he organized a concert of music and dance. He spent a hundred gold coins on it.

The next day Birbal entered Akbar's darbar and announced that he had done all that the king had asked his brother-in-law to do.

The Emperor wanted to know how he had done it.

Birbal repeated the sequence of all the events and then said, The money I gave to the merchant for the wedding of his son – you have got back while on this earth. The money I spent on buying food and clothing for the poor "you will get it in the other world". The money I spent on the musical concert "you will get neither here nor there."

This is true even today.

The money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form or the other.

Philosophical quotes-Observing a stone

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
- Bertrand Russell

Short quotes-Candle in the wind

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
- Carl Sandburg

Famous people quotes-Kindness, Beauty, and Truth

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein

Friendship quotes-Dearer

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away".
-Barbara Kingsolver

Love quotes-Safer place

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
- Ice T, The Ice Opinion

Proverbs-Receiving a guest

Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.
- Chinese proverb

Famous people quotes-Do not want

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

Thought for the day-Faith in abilities

When GOD solves your problems, You have faith in his abilities….
When he doesn't solve your problems, He has faith in your abilities....

Sarcastic quotes-Politics

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]
- Larry Hardiman

Love quotes-Gift

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)

Good quotes-Flash

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

Friendship quotes-Loyal

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad".
-Arnold H. Glasgow

Famous people quotes-Benjamin Franklin's social wit

Dr Benjamin Franklin was not really a doctor; his title Doctor was one of those first honorariums given a man of great achievement and reflects the impact he had on his age.

Here are seven ways Benjamin Franklin would suggest you consider to be seen as one with a brain and a social wit.

1. Elevate, not desecrate. Never use cutting humour, dissect theirs.

2. Keep your humour light, fun, open to participation.

3. Reflect your humour to show you row your own boat.

4. You row merrily, and you attract others to you.

5. As you deflect bitterness, fear, answers appear.

6. Your summary encapsulates the situation and hints that the best way out may be to back up to where we went wrong, once we all clearly agree what that was.

7. Elevate, even exaggerate, achievement. Mock an obvious folly but with a twist. If attacked, return their volley as a mirror.

Philosophical quotes-Seen it all

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
- Marcus Aurelius

Love quotes-Protect

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Jeanne Moreau

Famous people quotes-Wait to do

If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.
– Win Borden

Thought for the day-Beautiful and perfect

If your baby is 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,' you're the grandma.
- Teresa Bloomingdale

Sad quotes-Walls around us

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

Humor quotes-Words and paragraphs

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
-Sigmund Freud

Proverbs-Molehills

Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.
- Chinese proverb

Political quotes-Into angels

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900

Sexual quotes-Wonderful

"Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful."
- John Wayne.

Thought for the day-Less time

It takes less time to do something right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Famous people quotes-God helps those

“God helps those who help themselves.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Friendship quotes-New world

"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

Thoughts-Buzzard, Bat and Bumblebee

The Buzzard

If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet but that is entirely open at the top,
the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, Will be an absolute prisoner.
The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet.
Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly,
But will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.


The Bat

The ordinary bat that flies around at night,
A remarkably nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place.
If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully,
Until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air.
Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.


The Bumblebee

A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies,
Unless it is taken out.
It never sees the means of escape at the top,but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom...
It will seek a way where none exists,
Until it completely destroys itself.

The PEOPLE:

In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee.
We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations,
Never realizing that all we have to do is look up!

That's the answer,
The escape route
&
The solution to any problem!
Just look up!

Philosophical quotes-Tickle

If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
- Audrey Foris, C'est l'esprit du coq rouge (Red Rooster Musings, trans.)

Hilarious quotes-Dental floss

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Famous people quotes-Don’t stop playing

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational quotes-Must do

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes-Discipline

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
-Ogden Nash

Deep thoughts-A single rose

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world".
-Leo Buscaglia

Philosophical quotes-Eternal seeking

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
-Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Positive thoughts-Gift

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
- Regina Brett

Love quotes-Dirty trick

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Short quotes-Love to do

What we love to do we find time to do.
- John L. Spalding

Famous people quotes-Learned

Learned we may be with another man’s learning, we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Euripides

Philosophical quotes-Confines

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
- Terry Josephson

Thoughts-Judgement

Judgement means a stale state of mind. And mind always wants judgement,because to be in a process is always hazardous and uncomfortable.

This story happened in the days of Lao Tzu in China, and Lao Tzu loved it very much:

There was an old man in a village, very poor, but even kings were jealous of him because he had a beautiful white horse. Kings offered fabulous prizes for the horse, but the man would say, "This horse is not a horse to me, he is a person. And how can you sell a person, a friend?" The man was poor, but he never sold the horse.

One morning he found that the horse was not in the stable. The whole village gathered and said, "You foolish old man! We knew that someday the horse would be stolen. It would have been better to sell it. What a misfortune!"

The old man said, "Don't go so far as to say that. Simply say that the horse is not in the stable. This is the fact; everything else is judgement. Whether it is a misfortune or a blessing I don't know, because this is just a fragment. Who knows what is going to follow it?"

People laughed at the old man. They had always known he was a little crazy. But after fifteen days, suddenly one night the horse returned. He had not been stolen, he had escaped into the wild. And not only that he had brought a dozen wild horses with him.

Again the people gathered and they said, "Old man, you were right. This was not a misfortune, it has indeed proved to be a blessing."

The old man said, "Again you are going too far. Just say that the horse is back...who knows whether it is a blessing or not?" It is only a fragment. You read a single word in a sentence - how can you judge the whole book?"

This time the people could not say much, but inside they knew that he was wrong. Twelve beautiful horses had come.

The old man had an only son who started to train the horses. Just a week later he fell from a horse and his legs were broken. The people gathered again and again they judged. They said, "Again you proved right! It was a misfortune. your only son has lost the use of his legs, and in your old age he was your only support. Now you are poorer than ever."

The old man said, "You are obsessed with judgement. Don't go that far. Say only that my son had broken his legs. Life comes in fragments and more is never given to you."

It happened that after a few weeks the country went to war, and all the young men of the town were forcibly taken for the military. Only the old man's son was left because he was crippled. The whole town was crying and weeping, because it was a losing fight and they knew that most of the young people would never come back. They came to the old man and they said, "You were right, old man - this has proved a blessing. maybe your son is crippled, but he is still with you. Our sons are gone forever."

The old man said again, "You go on and on judging. Nobody knows! Only say this, that your sons have been forced to enter the army and my son has not been forced. But only God, the total, knows whether it is a blessing or a misfortune."

Judge not, otherwise you will never become one with the total. With fragments you will be obsessed, with small things you will jump to conclusions. Once you judge you have stopped growing. Judgement means a stale state of mind. And mind always wants judgement, because to be in a process is always hazardous and uncomfortable.

In fact the journey never ends. One path ends, another begins: one door closes, another opens. You reach a peak; a higher peak is always there. God is an endless journey. Only those who are so courageous that they don't bother about the goal but are content with the journey, content to just live in the moment and grow into it, only those are able to walk in the total.

Thought or the day-Appreciate

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

Friendship quotes-Wish well

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake".
-Aristotle

Famous people quotes-Inspiration

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
– Thomas A. Edison

Political quotes-Diagnose

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
-Vance Packard

Thought for the day-Compensation

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
- Mary H. Waldrip

Inspirational quotes-Family and friends

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Philosophical quotes-Touched

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?
- Laurel Hoodwrit

Proverbs-Light a candle

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
-Chinese proverb

Famous people quotes-Audit

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
- Regina Brett

Love quotes-Booming

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
- Margaret Cho

Thoughts-Ethics

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friendship quotes-Song in my heart

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails".
-Donna Roberts