Thought for the day III

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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:40 am

"The young are always full of energy, and rebel against traditional thinking. I also had the same feelings, but young people often react emotionally and cause themselves problems."
Jiu Wan Sifu
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:12 am

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Postby Yatish Parmar » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:59 am

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:59 am

"When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity."
Maria Irene Fornes
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:59 am

"Experience teaches only the teachable."
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:41 am

"Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within."
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:41 am

"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:44 am

"Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down
lift your heart toward heaven
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled,
and it will be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you from lifting
your heart toward heaven — only you.
It is in the middle of misery that
so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good came of this,
is not yet listening."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Personal prayer
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:38 am

"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil." 
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:24 am

"Stay calm and aggressive." 
Gabrielle Reece
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:45 am

"Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow."
Czech Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:25 am

"He who doesn't look ahead remains behind."
Mexican Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:15 am

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."
Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:48 am

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
Winston Churchill
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:53 am

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield
but to my own strength.

Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.

Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;

But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure."

Bengali poet - Rabindranath Tagore - 1916
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:38 am

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
Margaret Fairless Barber
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:23 am

"Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment."
Alban Goodier
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:50 am

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
Krishnamurti
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:13 am

"What you will do matters. All you need is to do it."
Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:12 am

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
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