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Action Quotes.

      "Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -Mother Teresa. Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin. Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory. -Mahatma Gandhi. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers. If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. -Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. We call it infectious im...

Japanese Quotes & Proverbs.

Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away. Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands. Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there. One kind word can warm three winter months. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Fix the problem, not the blame. When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead. Fall seven times, stand up eight. One kindness is the price of another. Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black. The ...

Greed Quotes.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. -Frank Buchman. Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. -Ivan F. Boesky. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. -Malcolm X. A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. -Swiss Proverb. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -Buddha. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -Janwillem van de Wetering. What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, an...

Fools !!! (22)

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. -Plato. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." -The Bible. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool.  The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.-Buddha (563 - 483 BC). " When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. " -Nelson Mandela. A fool and his money are easily parted. -Proverb. Idleness is a fool's desire. -Proverb. " Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. " -Andre Maurois. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -Alexandre Dumas. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. -Irish Proverb. ...

Vegetarian Quotes

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney. There is a great deal of truth to the idea that you will eventually become what you eat. -Mohandas K. Gandhi To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless the creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mohandas K. Gandhi Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo da Vinci "...by increasing plant-based food and lessening animal products such as dairy, eggs, meat, cheese and butter, you will benefit in the long run." -Natalie Ledesma, MS, RD It is good neither to eat fl...

Love Quotes.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. Love means never having to say you are sorry. A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. It is terrible to be alone, and it is terrible to be in love, but one is cheaper than the other. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit. Where there is great love, there are always wishes. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Love waits for one thing, the right mom...

Excellence Quotes.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.  -George Bernard Shaw . Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca. No crime is so great as daring to excel. -Winston Churchill. Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best. -Anon . Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -Henry Ward Beecher. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. -Fernando Flores. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. -Mark H. McCormack. ...

May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives !

Happy Diwali! The word "Diwali"is derived from the Sanskrit word "Deepavali", which is composed of two words - Deepa meaning Light and Avali meaning a Row. It means a row of lights and indeed illumination forms its main attraction. Diwali leads us into Truth and Light and is celebrated on Amavasya. Happy Diwali! Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of India and of Hindus. Diwali celebrations one of the most eagerly awaited festivals in the Indian subcontinent. It is colloquially known as the "festival of lights", for the common practice is to light small diyas (oil lamps) and place them around the home, in courtyards, verandahs, and gardens, as well as on roof-tops and outer walls. In urban areas, especially, candles are substituted for diyas; and among the nouveau riche, neon lights are made to substitute for candles. The celebration of the festival is invariably accompanied by the exchange of sweets and the explosion of fireworks. As with other I...