Ingersoll on "Immortality"- Immortality is a word that Hope through all the ages has been whispering to Love. The miracle of thought we can not understand. The mystery of life and death we can not comprehend. This chaos called world has never been explained. The golden bridge of life from gloom emerges, and on shadow rests. Beyond this we do not know. Fate is speechless, destiny is dumb, and the secret of the future has never yet been told. We love; we wait; we hope. The more we love, the more we fear. Upon the tenderest heart the deepest shadows fall. All paths, whether filled with thorns or flowers, end here. Here success and failure are the same. The rag of wretchedness and the purple robe of power all differences and distinction lose in this democracy of death. Character survives; goodness lives; Love is immortal. (Wow...so beautiful!)
"God brings no man into the conflicts of life to desert him. Every man has a Friend in Heaven whose resources are unlimited; and on Him he may call at any hour and find sympathy and assistance." -Robert Hugh Morris
"Do your best, not because your work is worth it, but because you are." (Oh yeah!)
I believe in the sun even when it's not shining. I believe in love, even when I'm alone. I believe in God, even when He is silent.
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. (R. Braunstein) (Chi' ly'!)
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter." -Robert Forman Horton
"Friendship, in its truest sense, is next to love the most abused of words. One may call many 'friend' and be still ignorant of that sentiment, cooler than passion, warmer than respect, more just and generous than either, which recognizes a kindred spirit in another, and, claiming its right, keeps it sacred by the wise reserve that is to friendship what the purple bloom is to the grape, a charm which once destroyed can never be restored." -J. Alcott
The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich (Di' Ha`! :) )
"Courage does not consist in feeling no fear, but in conquering fear. He is the hero who seeing the lions on either side goes straight on, because there his duty lies." -Saturday Magazine (Uh huh!)
"What is sympathy? It is thinking more of others than yourself, counting hearts of fellow mortals of more worth than paltry self, Acting for your comrade's pleasure, giving without stint or art; It is blessing every creature with your hand and voice and heart." Jesus wept. -John 11:35
"Faith laughs at impossibilities, and says "it shall be done." Every promise claimed is a promise possessed. Those who are afraid of the deep will not catch many fish. Have the courage to "launch out." -S. S. Times
"A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us." -Henry David Thoreau
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. -Proverbs 18:24 (Yeah...true...but hard to find such a friend)
A man of understanding takes a straight course. -Proverbs 15:21
In order to propagate virtue to the world, one must first rule one's country. In order to rule one's country, one must first rule one's family. In order to rule one's family, one must first regulate one's body by moral training. In order to regulate the mind, one must first be sincere in one's intentions. In order to be sincere in one's intentions, one must first increase one's knowledge. -Confucius. (Geezzzeee! What a thought!)
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton Yeah!
Look to this day, for it is life, For yesterday is already a dream And tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday A dream of happiness, And every tomorrow a vision of hope. A Sanskrit Proverb
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet ~
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. ~ William C. Bryant ~
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ~James Buckham ~
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~ Jerry Chin ~ (Well, yes! :) )
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ~ Kitty O'neill Collins ~
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that his blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug. ~ Francisco D'Anconia ~ (O^' o^` (*_-) )
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ~ Danny Devito ~
A wounded deer leaps the highest. ~ Emily Dickinson ~ (O+` ho+!)
"What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." Helen Hayes (!!!)
"Where there is love, there is life." Mahatma Gandhi
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Frankline P. Jones
"Only love let us see normal things in an extraordinary way."
Alejandro de Solminihac (Yep. Is that beautiful?)
"Two things only a man cannot hide:
that he is drunk, and that he is in love."
Antiphanes (:)) DDung' ho^ng ma^y' ng` kia? )
"It is not love, but the lack of love, that is blind."
Glenway Wescott (Chesse!)
"Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned..."
William Butler Yeats (nod nod!)
"A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior;
love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship."
George Sand (Oopss! This one goes straight into my heart!)
"Love is the discover of ourselves in others,
and the delight in recognition."
Alexander Smith (Ga^t. dda^u` lia lia. :) )
"Love is like a violin.
The music may stop now and then,
but the strings remain forever."
June Masters Bacher (Yep...just like the song "My heart will go on" )
"Love is not a matter of counting the years...
but making the years count."
Michelle St. Amand
"A bell is no bell til you ring it. A song is no song til you sing it.
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay,
love isn't love til you give it away."
Oscar Hammerstein
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a
loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be as the angles give."
George MacDonald
"You will only find one true love in your life,
if your lucky you'll get to spend the rest of life with her."
Donna Eileen (??? Are we that lucky???)
"Love looks through a telescope, envy through a microscope."
Josh Rillings
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
Jean Kerr :))
"You don't love a woman because she's beautiful,
she is beautiful because you love her." (***)
Unknown (Hmm)
"For all the sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest of these: 'It might have been.'"
Whittier, Maud Miller (Ooppsss! Sorry!)
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
Lily Tomlin
"The course of true love never did run smooth." (****)
Shakespeare (Well, true! :( Nothing comes easily!)
"You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." (****1/2)
Frank Crane (So.. which way will you choose??)
"It is not a lack of love,
but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (***)
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing makes one so lovable as believing that one is loved."
Pierre Marivaux (Cu+o+i` mim? chi :) )
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." (****1/2)
Francis Bacon (Ha`ha`...co' ddung' kho^ng?)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart" (****)
Helen Keller (Geezzee! Love this!)
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they
are after." Henry David Thoreau
"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I see things that never
were and say 'Why not?' Robert Kennedy
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does
anything." Teddy Rosevelt
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away" - Henry David Thoreau :)
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to
teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" Henry
Thoreau (Whew!!!!!!)
"Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something
else."-Anonymous
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at
once." -Anonymous
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only
sooner." -Tallulah Bankhead (chi' li')
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Einst ein
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there." -Charles F. Keetering (ummm..in a way :))
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
-Herman Melville (o^' a` u+a` ...ddung' :))
"A silent man, is a dangerous man." -Filipino saying
"He who believes in tales has no mind of his own."-Filipino saying (o+`
ho+ :))
"He who does not look back to where he comes from will not get to where
he is going." -Filipino saying (Like it the most!)
"Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves."-Italian proverb
"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of
study." -Chinese proverb
"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."-French proverb (so
true) :)
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." -Maori
proverb (cool) :)
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a
nightmare." -Japanese proverb (like it :)
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." -French
proverb (u+` hu+') :)
"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a
lion." -Arab proverb (a` haaaaa') :)))
"Sucess is measured not by what you can get but by what you can give"
Mitzi Perdue
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched, they must be felt with te heart"
Helen Keller
"In the end we will all be judged by only one thing-the extend of our
love for each other"
Mary Jo Copeland
"We were put to this world to love and to be loved"
R.B. Pamplin.Jr
"It is high time the ideal of success should be
replaced with the ideal of survice"
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin."
Mother Teresa
To the Man in the Arena
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who
errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiams, the
great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best,
knows the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails,
at least fail while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid soul who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
April 23rd, 1910
Do not undermine your worth
by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different
****** that each of us is special.
Do not set your goals ******
by what other people deem important.
Only you know
what is best for you.
*******
Do not take for granted
the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life,
for without them,
****** life is meaningless.
Do not let your life *******
slip through your fingers
by living in the past
nor for the future.
****** By living your life one day at a time,
you live all the days of your life.
Do not give up *******
when you still have something to give.
Nothing is really over
until the moment you stop trying.
****** It is a fragile thread
that binds us to each other.
Do not be afraid to encounter risks.*******
It is by taking chances
that we learn how to be brave.
****** Do not shut love out of your life
by saying it is impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love *******
is to give love;
The fastest way to lose love
is too hold it too tightly;
****** In addition,
the best way to keep love *******
is to give it wings.
Do not dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams
****** is to be without hope;
To be without hope
is to be without purpose.*******
Do not run through life
****** so fast that you forget
not only where you have been,
but also where you are going.
Life is not a race,
but a journey
****** to be savored *******
each step of the way.
"Only love let us see normal things in an extraordinary way." Alejandro de Solminihac (Yep. Is that beautiful?)
"Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love." Antiphanes (:)) DDung' ho^ng ma^y' ng` kia? )
"It is not love, but the lack of love, that is blind." Glenway Wescott (Chesse!)
"Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned..." William Butler Yeats (nod nod!)
"A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior; love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship." George Sand (Oopss! This one goes straight into my heart!)
"Love is the discover of ourselves in others, and the delight in recognition." Alexander Smith (Ga^t. dda^u` lia lia. :) )
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." June Masters Bacher (Yep...just like the song "My heart will go on" )
"Love is not a matter of counting the years... but making the years count." Michelle St. Amand
"A bell is no bell til you ring it. A song is no song til you sing it. And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, love isn't love til you give it away." Oscar Hammerstein
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be as the angles give." George MacDonald
"You will only find one true love in your life, if your lucky you'll get to spend the rest of life with her." Donna Eileen (??? Are we that lucky???)
"Love looks through a telescope, envy through a microscope." Josh Rillings
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." Jean Kerr :))
"You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her." (***) Unknown (Hmm)
"For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: 'It might have been.'" Whittier, Maud Miller (Ooppsss! Sorry!)
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" Lily Tomlin
"The course of true love never did run smooth." (****) Shakespeare (Well, true! :( Nothing comes easily!)
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." (****1/2) Frank Crane (So.. which way will you choose??)
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (***) Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing makes one so lovable as believing that one is loved." Pierre Marivaux (Cu+o+i` mim? chi :) )
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." (****1/2) Francis Bacon (Ha`ha`...co' ddung' kho^ng?)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart" (****) Helen Keller (Geezzee! Love this!)
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I see things that never were and say 'Why not?' Robert Kennedy
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Teddy Rosevelt
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away" - Henry David Thoreau :)
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" Henry Thoreau (Whew!!!!!!)
"Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else."-Anonymous
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once." -Anonymous
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." -Tallulah Bankhead (chi' li')
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Einst ein
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -Charles F. Keetering (ummm..in a way :))
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -Herman Melville (o^' a` u+a` ...ddung' :))
"A silent man, is a dangerous man." -Filipino saying
"He who believes in tales has no mind of his own."-Filipino saying (o+` ho+ :))
"He who does not look back to where he comes from will not get to where he is going." -Filipino saying (Like it the most!)
"Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves."-Italian proverb
"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." -Chinese proverb
"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."-French proverb (so true) :)
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." -Maori proverb (cool) :)
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." -Japanese proverb (like it :)
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." -French proverb (u+` hu+') :)
"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion." -Arab proverb (a` haaaaa') :)))
"Sucess is measured not by what you can get but by what you can give" Mitzi Perdue
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with te heart" Helen Keller
"In the end we will all be judged by only one thing-the extend of our love for each other" Mary Jo Copeland
"We were put to this world to love and to be loved" R.B. Pamplin.Jr
"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of survice" Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." Mother Teresa
To the Man in the Arena
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiams, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fail while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid soul who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt April 23rd, 1910
Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different ****** that each of us is special. Do not set your goals ****** by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. ******* Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, ****** life is meaningless. Do not let your life ******* slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future. ****** By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Do not give up ******* when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. ****** It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other. Do not be afraid to encounter risks.******* It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. ****** Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love ******* is to give love; The fastest way to lose love is too hold it too tightly; ****** In addition, the best way to keep love ******* is to give it wings. Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams ****** is to be without hope; To be without hope is to be without purpose.******* Do not run through life ****** so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey ****** to be savored ******* each step of the way.