Life's Passages

Friend is a Blessing

2010-07-15T07:42:00.001+08:00

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

Be Free Minded

2010-07-14T20:30:00.002+08:00

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Knowledge

2010-07-13T11:15:00.001+08:00

Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. Rather, it is a construction of ideas negotiated by the learner in a social setting.

Patience and Perseverance

2010-07-12T21:17:00.001+08:00

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Image of Reality

2010-07-11T22:06:00.001+08:00

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

This is Me

2010-07-10T23:05:00.001+08:00

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am."

Young Heart

2010-07-09T20:03:00.001+08:00

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.

All You Have is YOU

2010-07-08T08:09:00.001+08:00

When you have no one around you, believe that you got yourself and everything is gonna work perfectly.

Precise Moment of Friendship

2010-07-07T13:54:00.001+08:00

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Guard Your Thoughts

2010-07-06T08:54:00.001+08:00

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Education

2010-07-05T03:09:00.001+08:00

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

Great Things Are Not Easy

2010-07-04T20:42:00.001+08:00

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Life is like a Violin

2010-07-03T00:40:00.001+08:00

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Come What May

2010-07-02T22:37:00.001+08:00

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Advice for Stupid

2010-07-01T19:56:00.001+08:00

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

Forgive, Forget

2010-06-30T07:28:00.001+08:00

It takes a lot of courage to forgive someone…but it takes an even bigger courage to ask for forgiveness!

Sweet Friendships

2010-06-29T19:23:00.001+08:00

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Happiness is Excellence

2010-06-28T09:45:00.002+08:00

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Punishment

2010-06-27T14:25:00.000+08:00

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."

Begin Again

2010-06-26T17:16:00.001+08:00

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Live Forward

2010-06-25T15:33:00.002+08:00

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Otherwise

2010-06-24T17:11:00.001+08:00

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Wish we didn't

2010-06-23T10:10:00.000+08:00

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Live Life, Enjoy

2010-06-22T17:08:00.000+08:00

life isn’t an adventure that should be taken fast.
take it slow live your life, enjoy the days you have because you never know when your days will be numbered.

A Loyal Friend

2010-06-21T17:05:00.001+08:00

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Happiness is Good

2010-06-20T16:52:00.001+08:00

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Don't let it get the best of you

2010-06-19T19:09:00.001+08:00

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Dream, Believe

2010-06-18T16:48:00.000+08:00

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Humans

2010-06-17T21:19:00.002+08:00

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Do What You Want

2010-06-16T10:23:00.001+08:00

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Succeed through Failures

2010-06-15T11:13:00.001+08:00

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

2010-06-14T14:08:00.001+08:00

Forget yesterday, live for today, tomorrow will take care of its self.

Friend is Health

2010-06-13T16:06:00.001+08:00

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost

Miserable

2010-06-12T00:45:00.001+08:00

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Too Bad

2010-06-11T11:07:00.000+08:00

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

A Part of You

2010-06-10T23:06:00.001+08:00

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

A Better You

2010-06-09T18:25:00.001+08:00

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Judgement

2010-06-08T18:07:00.001+08:00

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Happiness

2010-06-07T05:44:00.002+08:00

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Failure

2010-06-06T17:27:00.001+08:00

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

Friends

2010-06-05T09:16:00.001+08:00

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Just Do It

2010-06-04T07:19:00.001+08:00

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Merry-Go-Round

2010-06-03T17:09:00.001+08:00

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

You Are Unique

2010-06-02T00:34:00.001+08:00

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Experience and Mistakes

2010-06-01T16:36:00.000+08:00

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Life is Good

2010-05-31T23:09:00.001+08:00

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Enjoy Life

2010-05-30T21:28:00.001+08:00

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Friendship Never End

2010-05-29T11:35:00.001+08:00

The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end.

Search Within

2010-05-28T09:52:00.001+08:00

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Generations

2010-05-27T22:19:00.001+08:00

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Just Be You

2010-05-26T16:17:00.001+08:00

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Experience, Wisdom

2010-05-25T10:12:00.003+08:00

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Cheerfulness

2010-05-24T06:27:00.001+08:00

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Be Happy!

2010-05-23T10:13:00.001+08:00

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.

Never the Same

2010-05-22T09:18:00.001+08:00

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Do What You Should

2010-05-21T15:32:00.001+08:00

Part of the reason [motherly advice] bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Forgiving Parents

2010-05-20T23:13:00.001+08:00

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior

Love Yourself

2010-05-19T10:57:00.002+08:00

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.

Beginning All Over Again

2010-05-18T14:12:00.002+08:00

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Purpose in Life

2010-05-17T12:09:00.001+08:00

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Uniqueness

2010-05-16T23:46:00.001+08:00

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.

Education and Experience

2010-05-15T08:45:00.001+08:00

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

To Do, Love and Hope for

2010-05-14T18:59:00.000+08:00

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Glass Half Full

2010-05-13T10:09:00.000+08:00

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Walk Beside Me

2010-05-12T21:01:00.001+08:00

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Keeping In Love

2010-05-11T13:44:00.001+08:00

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Skip Generation

2010-05-10T11:00:00.001+08:00

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

Be Better than Yourself

2010-05-09T23:35:00.001+08:00

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Woman's Life

2010-05-08T14:35:00.001+08:00

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Nobody But You

2010-05-07T02:33:00.000+08:00

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Millionaires

2010-05-06T14:16:00.001+08:00

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

True Happiness

2010-05-05T22:10:00.001+08:00

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.

Be Strong

2010-05-04T11:05:00.001+08:00

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A Treasure

2010-05-03T14:04:00.000+08:00

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Valuable Mistakes

2010-05-02T14:02:00.003+08:00

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Generation of Men

2010-05-01T17:05:00.001+08:00

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

You Are You

2010-04-30T20:58:00.000+08:00

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Learn From Experience

2010-04-29T10:37:00.001+08:00

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Help Someone Else

2010-04-28T06:48:00.000+08:00

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Nothing is Predestined

2010-04-27T21:33:00.000+08:00

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Greatest Gift

2010-04-26T11:59:00.001+08:00

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Feel Deeply

2010-04-25T15:57:00.001+08:00

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Distant Generations

2010-04-24T19:16:00.001+08:00

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Be Yourself

2010-04-23T13:43:00.000+08:00

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Experience, experience

2010-04-22T18:13:00.000+08:00

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Dream Dreams

2010-04-21T10:12:00.000+08:00

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Friend and Enemy

2010-04-20T23:02:00.002+08:00

He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.

Be Very Careful

2010-04-19T16:11:00.000+08:00

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

Young and Old

2010-04-18T13:00:00.000+08:00

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Missing Drop

2010-04-17T00:58:00.001+08:00

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.

Again and Again

2010-04-16T15:24:00.001+08:00

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Don't Worry!

2010-04-15T13:23:00.000+08:00

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Deadness

2010-04-14T13:01:00.000+08:00

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

Time is Eternity

2010-04-13T22:01:00.001+08:00

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Have a Soul

2010-04-12T09:04:00.001+08:00

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Fear of Unknown

2010-04-11T20:33:00.001+08:00

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Friendships

2010-04-10T16:31:00.001+08:00

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

The Silence

2010-04-09T12:30:00.000+08:00

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Stay and Leave

2010-04-08T23:40:00.002+08:00

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, can forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Our Time Machines

2010-04-07T07:21:00.001+08:00

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.