"A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year."
Edgar Guest



"Wishing Everyone a Happy and Eventful New Year"

Rock Your World - Arun

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."
Koran

"Laughter is an instant vacation."
Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."
Bonnie Friedman, in The New York Times

Two years and counting...

Was not able to update the blog for quite some time, due to a whole lot of unreasonable reasons, like no net at home for months, blogger blocked at office, too lazy to go to a cyber cafe to update the blog...etc.. ;)

Will soon be back... Thanks for your patience... :)

Enjoy!!!

"During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy."
Joann C. Jones

"Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing."
Herman Broch

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
Leo Tolstoy

A native American grandfather was explaining his grandson about how he felt.He said, 'I feel I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is vengeful violent one,the other wolf is compassionate one.’
The grandson asked him.'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?'
The grandfather answered, "The one I feed"
- Blackhawk

"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find."
Quoted in Time

"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
Edward Stanley

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."
Lillian Smith

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci

"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."
Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters

"Football is the opera of the people."
Stafford Heginbotham, 1985

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein

"I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to."
Author Unknown

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." "
Shirley Chisholm

"A clear conscience is a good pillow."
American Proverb

"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003

"Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us."
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

"Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Author Unknown

"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
George Orwell (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
Woody Allen

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
J. G. Holland

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into."
Ansel Adams

"A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone."
Milton Wright

"If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life"
Susanna Miller

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
Woodrow Wilson

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."
J. K. Rowling

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Clifton Fadiman

"Colors are the smiles of nature."
Leigh Hunt (English Writer, 1784-1859)

"Life is a fractal in Hilbert space"
Rudy Rucker

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959

"All our souls are written in our eyes."
Anonymous

"I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends."
James Boswell

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Voltaire (Fran'ois Marie Arouet)

"When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.""
Alistair Cooke

"If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy."
Hawkeye, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda