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Monday, October 15, 2007

Nice Thoughts

  • Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
    -Lou Holtz


  • Never explain yourself. Your friends dont need it and your enemies wont believe it.
    -Belgicia Howell

  • Forgive your enemies, but never, never forget their names.
    -John F. Kennedy

  • You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.
    -Philippos

  • The true measure of a man is how hetreats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
    -Ann Landers

  • Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.
    -Philippos

  • Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
    -Will Smith

  • If your problem has a solution then...why worry about it? If your problem doesnt have solution then...why worry about it?
    -Chinese Proverb

  • Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Kiss slowly, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything and have no regrets. Life's too short to be anything but happy.

  • The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
    -Philippos

  • You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got, remember what you had, learn from your mistakes, but never regret, people change, things go wrong, but remember life goes on!

  • Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too. Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.
    -Philippos

  • Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer. -Philippos

  • I like to pretend that everything's alright. Because when everybody else thinks you're fine, sometimes you forget for a while that you're not. "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."
    -Thomas Paine

  • The things that made me stronger are the ones that didnt let me sleep at first.
    -Anonymous

Interesting quotes

Here are some interesting quotes:

  • Arguing with your Boss is like 'wrestling with a pig in mud'. After a while, you realize that while you are getting dirty, the pig is actually 'enjoying it'.

  • Help a man when he is in trouble andhe will remember youwhen he is in trouble again !!!!

  • Complex problems have simple,easy to understand wrong answers.

  • It is not exactly cheating,I prefer to consider it 'creative problem solving'.

  • Behind every 'successful woman',is a man who is surprised !!!!

  • Whoever said 'money can't buy happiness',didn't know where to shop.

  • Alcohol 'doesn't solve any problems',but then again, neither does milk.

  • Most people are only 'alive' becauseit is illegal to shoot them.

  • I'm not a complete idiot,there're still some parts missing !!!!

  • Forgive your enemies butremember their names.

  • The number of people watching youis directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

  • I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father ....- He said he wanted more proof.

  • Some pain is physical and some is mental,but one that's both is dental !!!!

  • Life is pleasant, death is peaceful.It's the transition that's troublesome.

  • LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY, COZ' U NEVER KNOW WHEN COMPANY STOPS LOVING YOU

Chanakya Quotes

CHANAKYA: Chanakya is considered the greatest political mind of all times (Year of Birth:350 BC Year of Death:275 BC).

Here are some of his quotes translated from his book Chanakyaniti,

* A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

* A person should not be too honest. Just as straight trees are chopped-down first, honest people are taken advantage of first.

* A rich man has many friends.

* A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man.

* An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy personcan be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

* As centesimal (hundred) droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.

* As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

* Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behindyour back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

* Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions— Why am I doing it? What the results might be? And Will Ibe successful?
Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to the questions, go ahead.

* Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

* Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

* Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

* God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

* He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision is impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

* If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don't hesitate.

* In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live like kings do. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars do.

* Jealousy is another name for failure.

* Never go on a long journey alone.

* Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

* Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.

* People who work sincerely are the happiest.

* One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

* The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

* The four greatest enemies of a man are — the father who has takena loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the stupid child.

* The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

* The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

* There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is nofriendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

* Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat themlike a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

* Whores don't live in company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.

* Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Thoughts

Thought 1:

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything
or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

- Alfred Korzybski



Thought 2:

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over
them, or build with them. "

- William Arthur Ward