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Quotes November 08, 2018

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara Tuchman,
historian
 
 
 
 
There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.
Marvin Williams
 
 
 
 
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley
 
 
 
 
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

Quotes November 06, 2018

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington,
educator, writer and orator
 
 
 
 
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann,
education reformer
 
 
 
 
I can prove anything by statistics — except the truth.
George Canning,
prime minister
 
 
 
 
You would not think any duty small if you yourself were great.
George MacDonald,
writer
 
 
 
 
Teacher: Suppose you have $10 and you asked your brother for $5. How much would you have then?

Student: $10.

Teacher: Why?

Student: My brother won’t give me any money.
 
 
 
 
“Before coffee, I’m a hot mess. After? I’m a wide awake hot mess. So there’s that.”
Nanea Hoffman
 
 
 
 
“I came. I saw. I made it awkward.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Why be moody when you can shake yo booty?”
Unknown

Images November 04, 2018

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Benjamin Voros: Fehér úti tó, Ágfalva, Hungary
 
 
 
 
Neven Krcmarek: The Cygnus Loop aka The veil

The Veil nebula, remnant of a dying star and still an astronomical mystery. This emission nebula of ionized gas is very large in size, both visually in our sky and physically in space. 6 full Moons wide and 90 light years in size, 5 to 10 thousand years old and 1500 lights years away. There is no neutron star at the center of this nebula, there is one neutron star at the base of the blowout region but of unknown distance. The intertwined rope-like filaments of oxygen, sulfur and hydrogen gas are all that remains visible of what was once a star in our Milky way galaxy.
 
 
 
 
Tom Gainor: Night In Motion
Wickenburg, United States

I wondered what would happen if I took a bunch of pictures in a rural area near a busy highway and how the star trails would layer in with the movement of the cars. I had a thought of what it would look like, this is not it, but I ended up liking it a lot. Hope you do as well.
 
 
 
 
James Wheeler: Toronto Cranes
2 Polson St, Toronto, Canada

When I visited Toronto a couple of weeks ago I was surprised how much construction there was downtown. It was like being in Shanghai. You can see two of the new buildings going up to the left of the CN tower.

Quotes November 04, 2018

Three reasons why most people aren’t where they want to be:
They are choosing
Facebook over Focus
Netflix over Next Level
and One day I Will over Today I Must!
Joel Brown
 
 
 
 
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
 
 
 
 
Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
Tony Robbins
 
 
 
 
If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return; you’re doing business, not kindness.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Life is too short to start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday, it will definitely destroy your wonderful today and ruin your great tomorrow.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard.
The sun rises.
The sun sets.
We just tend to complicate the process.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
And the salt in my wounds isn’t burning anymore than it used to. It’s not the I don’t feel the pain, it’s just I’m not afraid of hurting anymore.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.
Anonymous

Videos November 03, 2018

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes October 25, 2018

Dissatisfaction exists whether we want it to, but how we deal with it makes all the difference.
Zat Rana
 
 
 
 
I am not afraid. I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
 
 
 
 
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen,
journalist and humorist
 
 
 
 
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
 
 
 
 
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
Katherine Dunham
 
 
 
 
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
 
 
 
 
Everything good that’s ever happened to me came out of helping others.
Danny Trejo
 
 
 
 
Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
Joanna Krupa

Quotes October 10, 2018

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
Nicholas Sparks
 
 
 
 
“What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”
Margaret Mitchell
 
 
 
 
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”
Gabrielle Zevin, ‘Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac’
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
Jojo Moyes, ‘After You’
 
 
 
 
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
Faraaz Kazi
 
 
 
 
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
Robert Brault
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
“Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.”
Mandy Hale, ‘The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass’
 
 
 
 
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
Baltasar Gracian
 
 
 
 
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
Delmore Schwartz
 
 
 
 
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
Stephen R. Covey
 
 
 
 
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin
 
 
 
 
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“Change your 24 hours and you will change your life.”
Eric Thomas
 
 
 
 
“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“There are moments and days when I want to freeze time, and there are days I wish away.”
Sarah Williams
 
 
 
 
“Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.”
Robert M. Hensel
 
 
 
 
“Time is an equal opportunity employer, but how we treat time is not equal.”
John C. Maxwell
 
 
 
 
“Time is the one thing we all have in common, but it is also the one thing that we all use differently.” Catherine Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
Roald Dahl
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.”
Leo Christopher
 
 
 
 
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
Bram Stoker

Quotes October 09, 2018

“But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself”
Kate Chopin
 
 
 
 
“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
Rex Stout character Archie Goodwin
 
 
 
 
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Benjamin Rush,
physician and Founding Father
 
 
 
 
“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously”
Sophia Bush
 
 
 
 
“Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise”
Frank Ocean
 
 
 
 
“You have to be odd to be number one”
Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever”
Haruki Murakami
 
 
 
 
“What is done in love is done well”
Vincent Van Gogh
 
 
 
 
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent”
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
 
 
 
 
When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.
Joey W. Hill
 
 
 
 
Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity.
Truth Devour
 
 
 
 
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
 
 
 
 
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
Neil Gaiman
 
 
 
 
“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
Ann Landers
 
 
 
 
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
Hubert Humphrey

Images September 19, 2018

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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Quotes September 19, 2018

By Lydia Dishman: You’ve been misquoting these inspiring phrases your whole life Do all those inspirational quotes we see for #MotivationMonday or #WidsomWednesday really exist? And were they really said by the people we are so quick to believe said them? Yes and no.
 
 
 
 

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet
 
 
 
 
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
 
 
 
 
I read lying about in my apartment, on the train, while eating out alone—there are so many places perfect for slipping into another world.
Akwaeke Emezi
 
 
 
 
Throughout history, people have never before expected to be as comfortable as people do today.
Jens Risom,
furniture designer
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
Charles Richards
 
 
 
 
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
 
 
 
 

“Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer
 
 
 
 

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Unknown