"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Francois Rabelais (1494 - 1553)

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
Rita Mae Brown

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
Kathleen Norris

"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind."
Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005), (on refusing to give up her seat on the bus)

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time."
Willem de Kooning (1904 - )

"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Caligula

"All appears to change when we change."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
The Buddha

"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears."
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied."
Irish Proverb

"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."
Chinese Proverb

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank."
Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"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