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quotationpage: Cats are happy...: “One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. ”   ―   Gwendolyn Brooks ,   In...

Cats are happy...

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.” 

― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

Gwendolyn Brooks

Born

in Topeka, Kansas, The United States 

June 07, 1917

Died

December 03, 2000

About this author

Although she was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas--the first child of David and Keziah Brooks--Gwendolyn Brooks is "a Chicagoan." The family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth, and despite her extensive travels and periods in some of the major universities of the country, she has remained associated with the city's South Side. What her strong family unit lacked in material wealth was made bearable by the wealth of human capital that resulted from warm interpersonal relationships. When she writes about families that--despite their daily adversities--are not dysfunctional, Gwendolyn Brooks writes from an intimate knowledge reinforced by her own life.

quotationpage: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...

quotationpage: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ... It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more p...

Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...

Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.



 It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.



 It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.

 
Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
 

Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

quotationpage: HAPPINESS

quotationpage: HAPPINESS: She said it ... and it is right ... HAPPINESS “People are often unreasonable and self-centred. Forgive them a...

HAPPINESS

She said it ... and it is right ...

HAPPINESS

“People are often unreasonable and self-centred. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind 

anyway. 

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your 

best anyway. 

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them anyway.” 

― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

born

in Skopje, Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of 

August 26, 1910

died

September 05, 1997

Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

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quotationpage: Newspaper..Mark Twain: MARK TWAIN “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”   ...

Newspaper..Mark Twain

MARK TWAIN

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” 

― Mark Twain

About this author

 Mark Twain

Born in Florida, Missouri, The United States 

November 30, 1835

Died

April 21, 191

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling.

He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility.

Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature"

Quotations on quotations

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. 

Hazrat Ali

he only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. 

Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.~George Orwell, review of Cricket Country 

 Edmund Blunden, in Manchester Evening News

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? 

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873

                                 Life itself is a quotation. 

                                      Jorge Luis Borge

Knowledge

A quote can give a flash to you... Varma

Knowledge

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein  

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius 

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Khalil Gibran 

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus 

ANGER

A quote can clarify your doubts 

Anger

For every MINUTE that you are angry ,you lose SIXTY seconds of your happiness

Ralph Waldo Emerson..American poet ,essayist

Anyone can become angry ...that is easy . But to be angry with the right person, to the right  degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way..that is not easy.

Aristotle..Greek philosopher

You will not be punished for your anger...you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha ..Founder of Buddhism

Holding to anger is like grasping hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned

Buddha

Anger is brief madness

Horace..Latin lyric poet

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep

Thomas de Quincey.. British intellectual

ATTITUDE

                A QUOTE can set your thoughts Flying

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. 

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? 

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome 

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. 

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. 

A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience. 

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. 

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Quotationpage

A "saying" (old or new ) will give you a new perspective

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"The best things in life are free."

We don't have to pay for the things that are really valuable, like love, friendship and good health

"Still waters run deep."

Some rivers have rough surfaces with waves. That's usually because the water is shallow and there are rocks near the surface. But deep rivers have no rocks near the surface and the water is smooth and still. "Still waters run deep" means that people who are calm and tranquil on the outside, often have a strong, "deep" personality.

"He teaches ill, who teaches all."

The unusual structure of this proverb may make it difficult to understand. It becomes easier if we change the structure to "He who teaches all teaches ill." The word "ill" here means "badly". So it means that the teacher who teaches students everything, does not teach well. A good teacher lets students discover some things for themselves

"You can't take it with you when you die."

When we die we leave everything on earth. We don't take anything with us. Even the richest people cannot take their money with them after death. This proverb reminds us that some material things are not really so valuable as we think.

"Better untaught than ill taught."

This proverb drops the verb "to be". But we understand: "It is better not to be taught at all than to be taught badly." It's better not to learn something than to learn it badly. This idea is echoed in Pope's famous line: "A little learning is a dang'rous thing;".

"Don't cross your bridges before you come to them."

Don't worry about problems before they arrive.

"Soon learnt, soon forgotten."

Something that is easy to learn is easy to forget.

"Even a worm will turn."

Everybody will revolt if driven too far. Even the lowest of people, or animals, will revolt and hit back at some stage. Even a worm, the simplest of animals, will defend itself.

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PASSION

A quote can illuminate your thoughts and change you

PASSION

Passion is universal humanity. Without it ,religion, history ,romance and art would be useless

Balzac.. French Novelist

Do what you love. Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still

Henry David Thoreau ..American philosopher and great lover of Nature

Passion is the trigger of success

Anonymous

Passion is the mob of man, that commits a riot upon his reason

William Penn ..British religious leader

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others she loves is love

Lord Byron.. The British Poet

There is only one passion , passion for happiness

Denis Diderot..French Philosopher

ARISTOTLE

A quote can change your thought and life

Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle 

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle  

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle 

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle