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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness.
Here are 50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness that will help you think on the bright side.
1. It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life: YOU.
2. Your life will improve only when you take small chances, and the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself.
3. Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are. It could be so much worse.
4. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you. Count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
5. Look for something positive about this moment. Even if you have to look a little harder than usual, it still exists.
6. When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life worth smiling about.
7. Remember, social comparison is the thief of happiness. You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything.
8. Happiness comes more easily when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval.
9. Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet them again on your way back down.
10. Set an example. Treat everyone with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are. (Read The Four Agreements.)
11. Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor forgiveness for acceptance. It’s about knowing resentment of any kind is not on the path to happiness.
12. Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be used. Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice.
13. Say what you need to say. Speak your truth. There is no greater sadness than holding on to the words you never had the courage to speak.
14. You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react and who you choose to be around.
15. Negative company will never give you a positive life. Examine what you tolerate in the long-term.
16. What you allow is what will continue. It’s always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions to derail you from your destiny.
17. When other people treat you poorly, walk away, smile and keep being YOU. Don’t ever let someone else’s bitterness change the person you are.
18. Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth. It’s their loss, not yours.
19. One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don’t have to like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to like us, and that’s OK.
20. When someone says, “You’ve changed,” it’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it just means you stopped living your life their way.
21. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that comes to you, and to follow a path that makes you happy.
22. The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks.
23. You can’t base your idea of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and expectations. (Read 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently.)
24. Happiness and success is all about spending your life in your own way. Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
25. It’s always better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than the top of the one you don’t.
26. Work to create a life that feels right to YOU, not one that looks right to everyone else.
27. No amount of money will make you happy if you aren’t happy with yourself.
28. Maybe the thing you’re scared of is exactly what you should do. Sometimes life is about risking it all for a dream no one can see but you.
29. You can’t always wait for the perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too short to regret and wonder what could have been.
30. The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. Participate in life instead of just watching it pass you by.
31. Nothing’s more fun than doing what people say you can’t do.
32. Almost anything is possible if you’ve got enough time and enough nerve.
33. Great challenges make life interesting; overcoming them makes life meaningful. It’s how you deal with failure that determines your happiness and success.
34. Let your mistakes be your motivation, not your excuses. Decide right now that negative experiences from your past won’t predict your future.
35. What is coming is better than what is gone. Don’t give up hope. Good things often happen when you least expect it.
36. If you take another step, and another, you will be surprised to know how far you can go from the point you thought was the end.
37. Nothing is more beautiful and powerful than a smile that has struggled through the tears.
38. Any fool can be happy when times are good. It takes a strong soul with real heart to develop smiles out of situations that make us weep.
39. No matter how long it takes, it will get better. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
40. As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes walking away is a step forward.
41. At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart, or what’s holding you together.
42. One of the most rewarding moments in life is when you finally find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
43. Whatever you do, don’t get stuck on the one thing that ruins your day. Smile and be grateful. Life is too short to waste on negativity.
44. The less you expect, the more pleasant life gets.
45. Patience can be bitter, but the seeds you plant now will bear sweet fruit. (Read Flourish.)
46. Live simply. Love generously. Speak truthfully. Breathe deeply. Do your best. Leave everything else to the powers above you.
47. Do not dwell so much on creating your perfect life that you forget to live.
48. The trick is to enjoy your life today. Don’t wish it away by waiting for better days ahead.
49. Pay attention to the little things, because when you really miss “the good old days,” you miss the little things the most, like just laughing with someone special.
50. Go for long walks. Indulge in great conversations. Pay attention to the moment. Count your blessings. Let go for a little while and just be and breathe
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
QUOTES About, Adversity, Crying, Faith, Jealousy, and Missing You
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~Jewish Saying
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine
I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine
When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown
I hate the day, because it lendeth light to see all things, but not my love to see. ~Edmund Spenser
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! ~Thomas Moore
Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown
If we must part forever, give me but one kind word to think upon, and please myself with, while my heart's breaking. ~Thomas Otway
Bad as I like you, it's worse without you. ~Irish Proverb
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck,
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. ~Samuel Johnson
Walking, working, barely breathing my thoughts, far away Heart aching, mind racing Sleep does not come easily, nor last long.... ~Peter Winstanley
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. ~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
It's not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. ~Neil Gaiman, the Sandman
Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes Lost every day, no map to follow Entire days, weeks, a blur Flickers of light, in the darkness, only to be enveloped in shadows once more... ~Peter Winstanley
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown
How beautiful the yesterday that stood over me likes a rainbow! I am alone, the past is past. I see the future stretch all dark and barren as a rainy sea. ~Alexander Smith
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling
I prithee send me back my heart, since I cannot have thine; for if from yours you will not part, why, then, shouldst thou have mine? ~John Suckling
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces,
Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie
As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Top Bloggers Quotes.
- “Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.”
- As a blogger, everything that you do flows from understanding your audience and seeking to help them as much as possible.
- “Blogging is a conversation, not a code.”
- “Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.”
- “A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others.”
- “Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology.”
- “Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.”
- For most of human history, all published writing had been carefully inspected, edited, and approved.
- In the last decade, blogging has turned the publishing world on its head. A blog allows you to write and publish anything, from anywhere, and have it be immediately available to billions of people all around the world.
- “Blogging is a communications mechanism handed to us by the long tail of the Internet.”
- “Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘Blog’ is a fool’s errand.”
- “The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.”
- “Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.”
- “The casual conversational tone of a blog is what makes it particularly dangerous”
- “Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.”
- When you write remarkable content, you stay engaged and excited with your blog. Your readers follow suit.
- “I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.”
- “Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.”
- “I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.”
- “There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high-quality content.”
- “Your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines.”
- “Blogging is hard because of the grind required to stay interesting and relevant.”
- “If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.”
- “You can work quite hard, in particular online, and do quite well independently, but if you really want to grow you need points of leverage and most of them come from knowing people.”
- “If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.”
- “Selling to people through social media is like going to a party, meeting somebody for the first time, and then saying, ‘Hey, do you want to buy this Tupperware?’”
- “Social media is not a fad because it’s human.”
- When blogging first became popular, many thought that it was just a passing trend. But it has stuck around – and more than that, only strengthened over time.
- Social media is around for the long haul because we value our relationships with one another above just about everything else. A blog entry isn’t just a block of text, but a slice of humanity and an opportunity to begin a real conversation.
- “Social media is not about one time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time.”
- First-time bloggers often chase the big spikes in traffic that come with a viral post or a big media mention. Then lightning finally strikes… and they come to realize that those surges in traffic are made up mostly of people who aren’t very engaged and who don’t stick around for very long.
- “There’s a lot of information out there for free, so you’ve got to figure out what makes your information different.”
- “What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.”
- “The term ‘Professional Blogger’ is no longer an oxymoron.”
- “Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic.”
- “I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.”
- “The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.”
- Most people think that the ‘currency’ of blogging is actual currency (money). They think, “I’ll give my readers authentic, valuable blog posts and they’ll give me money in return.”
- “Blogging is not a business by itself. It is only a promotional platform.”
- According to Risley, the key to a six-figure income as a blogger is “a blog with a business backend.”
- “It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog –you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.”
- Never try to trick somebody into giving you their money. Even if it works, it’s a short-term way to make money online.
- “Successful people don’t spam.”
- “Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.”
- Increasingly, employers are interested in hiring people who’ve cultivated an influential online presence. So sometimes the best resume is a blog.
- A well-maintained blog establishes your authority in a niche by showcasing your knowledge and dedication to the topic.
- “The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.”
- Blogger Liz Strauss explained in an interview why it’s so important to be conscientious about everything that you publish online: “Your children, your grandchildren, your future spouse, your future boss, and your future enemy will see what you write eventually. Speak the truth with your head connected to your heart.”
- Write with integrity and you never have to worry about your words coming back to haunt you.
- “There are no lines in the sand in the blogosphere except for those who draw those lines in an effort to get attention.”
- “If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.”
- “In truth, the real opportunities for building authority and buzz through social media have only just begun. You simply have to look and see where things are going instead of where they’ve been.”
- The opposite is actually true: the Internet is still relatively new and it’s expanding in popularity and scope each year. Looking back in twenty years, we will be able to see that the opportunities to benefit from social media (blogging included) “have only just begun
Friday, January 3, 2014
Thanksgiving quote.
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron
He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~George Herbert
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher
Some hae meat and canna eat, -And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. ~Robert Burns
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke
Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton
On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ~Joseph Auslander
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan
It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron
Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart. ~Robert Herrick
Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser
Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home. ~Wilbur D. Nesbit
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! ~Margaret Junkin Preston
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly
Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca
All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make. ~Odell Shepard
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If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~William Shakespeare
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown
The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! ~Grandpa Jones
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. ~Robert Brault
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821
But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God therefor. ~Author Unknown
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more! ~Will Carleton
For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke
Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Selected Quotes of Gichin Funakoshi,
Selected Quotes of Gichin Funakoshi, who introduced Karate to Japan from Okinawa:
It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.
Karate-Do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.
When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.
To search for the old is to understand the new. The old, the new, this is a matter of time. In all things man must have a clear mind. The Way: Who will pass it on straight and well?
Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.
Just as it is the clear mirror that reflects without distortion, or the quiet valley that echoes a sound, so must one who would study Karate-Do purge himself of selfish and evil thoughts, for only with a clear mind and conscience can he understand that which he receives.
He who would study Karate-Do must always strive to be inwardly humble and outwardly gentle. However, once he has decided to stand up for the cause of justice, then he must have the courage expressed in the saying, "Even if it must be ten million foes, I go!" Thus, he is like the green bamboo stalk: hollow (kara) inside, straight, and with knots, that is, unselfish, gentle, and moderate.
There are many kinds of martial arts, ...at a fundamental level these arts rest on the same basis. It is no exaggeration to say that the original sense of Karate-Do is at one with the basis of all martial arts. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form itself. The kara of Karate-Do means this.
The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands Karate-do is never easily drawn into a fight.
Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy with out fighting is the highest skill.
The ultimate aim of the art of karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the characters of its participants.
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