     RECOMMENDED BY SISTERS | Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 03:20 am
Meaning of Life
Life is a sum total of gained and missed opportunities.
WRITTEN BY: Rohit Vale
Just because some of us can read, write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.
WRITTEN BY: Kurt Vonnegut
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
True peace is not in the absence of tension, but in the presence of Justice.
WRITTEN BY: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder, "What just happened?"
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
To live is to suffer, and to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna.
Life is lived one day at a time as with problems. The future is directly proportional to how you live the present and the present proportional to the past.
WRITTEN BY: Micah Brinkley
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.
WRITTEN BY: Hodding Carter, Jr.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
You can't have a rainbow, with out some rain.
RECOMMENDED BY: sahra
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
WRITTEN BY: Carl Sandburg
RECOMMENDED BY: sahra
Virtue
Courage is mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
WRITTEN BY: Mark Twain
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
It is a pity that more people cannot travel the straight and narrow path without becoming straight-laced and narrow-minded.
RECOMMENDED BY: sahra
Virtue is voluntary; vice, involuntary.
WRITTEN BY: Plato
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
Right Way to Work
Sometimes we need to look back to the things we did in the past to get a perspective on the future.
WRITTEN BY: Micah Brinkley
The easy way out isn't usually the right way. The right path is carved out with hard work and perseverance."
WRITTEN BY: Micah Brinkley
Love & Matrimony
Love is like a wild flower garden, that grows and thrives in our hearts.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
Marriage means not only another mouth to feed, but often a great big one to listen to.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
If you love something let it go, if it comes back its yours forever. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with.
RECOMMENDED BY: sagal
In the arithmetic of the stomach, half a loaf may be better than none; but in the calculus of the heart, half a love is incomparably worse than none.
WRITTEN BY: Sydney J. Harris
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
Art & Literature
The task of art is not to transform perception into feeling, but rather feeling into perception.
WRITTEN BY: Robert M. Windsor
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
Acquire Knowledge
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
WRITTEN BY: William A Orton
RECOMMENDED BY: dj
It is not hard to learn more; it is hard to unlearn what is wrong.
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
The only flower that will not decay is knowledge.
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
You can always wake a man who is asleep, but not one who is awake.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
Knowledge is very like money; if you do not let slip how little you have, people will treat you as though you had a lot.
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
Make Friends
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
WRITTEN BY: Randolph B. Bourne
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
Improve Health
There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
WRITTEN BY: Josh Billings
RECOMMENDED BY:muna
Miscellaneous
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging: it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
RECOMMENDED BY: Hana
Talent is originality clothed in resourcefulness.
RECOMMENDED BY: C.
All men are born equal; the important thing is to outgrow it.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
The mature person has the wonderment and excitement of a child combined with the wisdom and experience of an adult.
RECOMMENDED BY: sagal
One is not mature until one learns to respect the dignity and worth of another man's personality.
RECOMMENDED BY: muna
Maturity is that time when you recognize how smart you are and still be smart.
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