Farida - in defence to her employee

"You have to kill me first before you can even touch them." ~Farida, a Maranao businesswoman who defended her Christian employees against the Maute Group in Marawi City (May 2017)

Joseph R. Cooke - GRACE

"Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection." ~Joseph R. Cooke

Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen

"Life is like a dance one must know when to move and when not to, and never to hesitate." ~Bloch-Jorgensen

Chris Hedges - a nation of destroyers

"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals and banks destroy the economy." ~Chris Hedges

BIO

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Princeton Professor, and Presbyterian minister. Wikipedia

THINGS WE LEARN: From Rant and Rave

"...the best training comes from the most honest and ruthless people on planet Earth. They won't pamper you and provide pillows to make you comfy. What they'll do is push you to the edge until you learn how to hold on and stand your ground. They'll force you to squeeze out every (goddamn) juice of intellect from your brain. In the process, you learn patience, perseverance, control, and discipline. In the middle, you learn how to navigate your way through people and do it with unwavering dignity. You earn respect." ~Rant and Rave

"The toughest marines are trained by the most unkind commanders." ~Rant and Rave

Ian Lowe - remember

"We should always remember, the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating." ~Ian Lowe, ACF President, 2004-2014

A THOUGHT TO PONDER: MORALITY

"To deny conventional morality completely is to be highly moral, because what we call social morality, the morality of respectability, is utterly immoral; we are competitive, greedy, envious, seeking our own way – you know how we behave. We call this social morality; religious people talk about a different kind of morality, but their life, their whole attitude, the hierarchical structure of religious organization and belief, is immoral. To deny that is not to react, because when you react, this is another form of dissenting through one’s own resistance. But when you deny it because you understand it, there is the highest form of morality." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

James Scotty Philip - Men

"Respect all men for their worth and not for their birth." ~James Scotty Philip

Jac Vanek - Inspiration

"Inspiration is everything. Go out and create something." ~Jac Vanek

Frances Mayers - skirting obstacles

“Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.” ~Frances Mayes, Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

James Weldon Johnson - tragedies of life

“In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.” ~James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Anthony Liccione Quotes

“Everyone needs to live in a house. But, having the love and support of your family? That is what makes your house a home.” ~Anthony Liccione

"Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility." ~Anthony Liccione

“The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.” ~Anthony Liccione

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Captain Kaneko - best of the sky

"The pilot and the Vice-pilot are responsible for each other's role, and they have the best of the sky, and they are safe in the sky." ~Captain Kaneko, Boeing 767, Japan Air Lines (JAL), FB, May 25, 2017

Ella Baker - light

"Give light and people will find the way." ~Ella Baker

Griffin Furlong Quotes

"Do not live a life without purpose…It’s amazing what you can do with your life when you have motivation, ambition, and, most importantly, a purpose.” Go out there, and find your purpose." ~Griffin Furlong, Valedictory Address

“Giving up is never an option…Everyone thinks I try to make good grades because I’m smart. Not true. I perform the way I do in the classroom because I have everything to lose.” ~Griffin Furlong, Valedictory Address

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Otto von Bismarck - dying soldier

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war..." ~Otto von Bismarck

Ben Ferencz - courage

"People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.” ~Ben Ferencz, a son of Romanian Jewish immigrants who found refuge in the United States

Ben Stein - Decide what you want

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." ~Ben Stein

‪Rosario Larion‬ - greed and power

‪"The intoxication of greed and power, loses the quality of being human. It drives their own self of reasonings to extinction." ~Rosario Larion‬

Brendon Urie Quotes

"I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today." ~Brendon Urie

"I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine." ~Brendon Urie

"I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn." ~Brendon Urie

"I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun." ~Brendon Urie

"It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way." ~Brendon Urie

"Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was." ~Brendon Urie

"We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys." ~Brendon Urie

"When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life." ~Brendon Urie

"You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life." ~Brendon Urie

"You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general." ~Brendon Urie

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C. T. Whitemell - light

"In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ who gives us light." ~Mrs. C. T. Whitemell

Eric McNeish Quotes

"No woman, no person, no posession, no dream, no vacation, and no adventure will bring everlasting happiness." ~Eric McNeish

"The only thing that can bring happiness is waking up from the dream like reality we all live in to the ever lasting bliss of full enlightenment." ~Eric McNeish

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Mae Lorraine Rafols Lorenzo Quotes

"There will come a time when we’ll be faced with a life-changing situation that allows us to choose how it can alter the course of our lives.  We can choose to be indifferent, ... or we can choose to be involved and change someone else’s fate." ~Mae Lorraine Rafols Lorenzo

"When you open the gates of kindness, good-hearted people come through." ~Mae Lorraine Rafols Lorenzo,

Source: Manila Bulletin, April 30, 2017

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Nada Ali Quotes

"Appreciate the people in your life and make space to do the things you’re best at." ~Nada Ali

"Enjoying life is often thought to be a mindset, the result of reflection, action and gratitude." ~Nada Ali

"Most of us lack sufficient free time to escape to some mountain top temple to follow our bliss." ~Nada Ali

"Listening to music feels empowering. Put on your favourite album or that one you keep meaning to dive into, turn up the volume, and cut out all other distractions so that you can really experience the music." ~Nada Ali

"Listening to music taps into your brain’s imagination and sense of self-identity, boosts your self-esteem, and lessens feelings of isolation." ~Nada Ali

"Owning a pet provides love, companionship, and hours of entertainment." ~Nada Ali

"Pet ownership has health benefits too, such as reducing your blood pressure and the risk of heart disease, increasing your feelings of well-being and connectedness, and teaching you lessons in empathy and nurturing." ~Nada Ali

"Small changes to your life soon add up to greater enjoyment in life." ~Nada Ali

"The best way to find happiness is to make practical, everyday changes." ~Nada Ali

Source: OMAN DAILY OBSERVER

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Ging Navarro Descallar Quotes

"... life is a matter of accountability. I believe that everyone has a purpose for living, yet the saddest part is when you neglect that assignment and become busy with something else. Then you realize that life is just at the nick of time and you can not undo things anymore. " ~Ging Navarro Descallar

"... the best frame of mind is when you know you are dying and you don't regret things that you have done." ~Ging Navarro Descallar

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Jess Catcher - families

"There are no stronger bonds on earth than the ones connecting loving families." ~Jess Catcher

Laini Eckardt - feeling of serenity

"I have tried to capture the feeling of serenity that washes over you when you first dive into the cool waters of crystal-clear creek or river, silently gliding over the stones…calm, and in a world of your own." ~Laini Eckardt, Artist (Avant Card)

A THOUGHT TO PONDER: Civilised Society

"A civilized society is a place for cultivating consciousness, prosperity and peace. Instead today, we are living in a world where nuclear plants are legal and real plants are not." ~from The Mind Unleashed

Sir Steve Redgrave - People

"I admire people that can push themselves and drive themselves to get to the highest level they can possibly be." ~Sir Steve Redgrave 

Michael Calcagno - on Aging

"Centenarians — people 100 years or older — are a rarity. Their lives are often scrutinized as holding the key to aging." ~Michael Calcagno(via the "FACES of CENTURY" photo production of Jan Langer

Ben Squires - Alzheimer's

"When someone you love is struggling with Alzheimer’s it can be difficult to find the strength to keep going. Often, it’s the little moments of love that give you strength." ~Ben Squires, wrote about an "88-year-old Alzheimer’s sufferer’s lovely duet with son" via Over Sixty dot com dot au

"Mom is 88 now. She's in assisted living and has Alzheimer's but she can still play and sing better than anyone in my eyes. I realized while I was singing with her tonight, I had never videoed us singing together, so I captured a couple of songs for posterity....... Most days I miss her, but she always comes back to me when we sing.” ~Kelly Ridings of Dalton, Georgia

Watch them on YOU TUBE/Storyful/BrianRidings

Sergei Prokofiev - on abhorrence

"I abhor imitation and I abhor the familiar." ~Sergei Prokofiev

Quotes on ENLIGHTENMENT

"Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand." ~Alan Cohen

"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Gustav Jung

"Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm." ~Idries Shah

"I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder." ~Chuck Palahniuk

"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." ~M. Scott Peck

"Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment." ~Nikola Tesla

"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.” ~Dave Mustaine

"The only thing that can bring happiness is waking up from the dream like reality we all live in to the ever lasting bliss of full enlightenment." ~Eric McNeish

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines." ~Anne Lamott

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Jan Langer Quotes

"One should live every single moment according to their best knowledge and conscience because one day we will see clearly what has a real value." ~Jan Langer , Czech photographer, "Faces of Century"

“The characteristics of personality change throughout life but it seems as if individual nature remains rooted in the abyss of time." ~Jan Langer, Czech photographer, "Faces of Century"

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Thelma Davis - presence

"When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words." ~Thelma Davis

Veronica Perrurle Dobson

"Language and culture are our identities. Keeping our languages strong helps to keep us strong." ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson (Australian Geographic)

“We are people of the land and our language expresses this. Our knowledge is held in our languages and our languages express our cultures.” ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson, Alice Springs-based educator, author and Arrernte senior (Australian Geographic)

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Joy Browne - perfect

"If we give up the notion that everybody's life but ours is perfect, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect." ~Joy Browne

Sofan Chan - compassionate

"Only when I learnt to be compassionate to myself could I be compassionate to others." ~Sofan Chan, Artist

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Quotes

“A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"An author departs, he does not die." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding." ~Dinah M Craik

"How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman

“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman

"Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." ~Dinah M. Craik

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.” ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why." ~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

VERSE

“Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
But we forget not, never can forget.”
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Source: Goodreads

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Raymond Reddington - Wisdom

"Wisdom is learning the boundaries of one's designated lane." ~Raymond Reddington

Emeka Ossai Quotes

"Having the right mindset, the right mental attitude, is the determining factor on whether you will make it or not." ~Emeka Ossai

"When you have good mentors to guide you, you shorten your learning curve by learning from their mistakes so you don't make them." ~Emeka Ossai

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Lewis Mumford - sound of beauty

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life." ~Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

Quotes on IMAGE

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." ~George Bancroft

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image." ~Johann Wolgang von Goethe

"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figi.]" ~Goldoni

"My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image." ~Robin Lee Hatcher

"The Lord can chisel His image on our flawed lives and make us beautiful and useful." ~Dennis De Haan

“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.” ~~Graham Swift, Waterland from Everyone's Library

"You are every image, and yet I am homesick for you." ~Rumi

"Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person." ~Derek Jeter

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‪John Vier ‬Quotes

‪"Only few people have that heart to mold the next generation." ~John Vier ‬

‪"What you built today will be a monument in the future." ~John Vier ‬

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT : Beware of THIRD PARTY

"Many people are forgetting how to communicate to their partners in their relationships. Instead of discussing and solving their problems with their partners, they share them with toxic friends, work associates and others post them on the internet. If your partner is doing something that bothers you, talk to him or her and stop letting facebook inboxes, likes, retweets ruin what you are trying to build... Beware of third Party!" ~Emotional Filmtricks

Lu Yu - on drinking TEA

"Tea tempers the spirit and harmonises the minds; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness." ~Lu Yu

Walter Rauschbusch - PLAY

"Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty." ~Walter Rauschbusch

Thomas Malory - MAY

"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit." ~Thomas Malory

Joanna Macy - heart

"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe." ~Joanna Macy

‪Jeri Grigg‬ - Wisdom

"Wisdom abides in simple truths." ~‪Jeri Grigg‬

A THOUGHT TO PONDER: WORDS

"Words are living things, they have the power to inspire, uplift, and to destroy. Think about that before you open your mouth today!" ~Michael Baisden

Jadav Payeng - last breath

“I will continue to plant until my last breath.” ~Jadav Payeng

BIO

Padma Shri Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a Mishing tribe environmental activist and forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the course of several decades, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. Wikipedia

LAUREN BACALL Quotes

"Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy." ~Lauren Bacall

 "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." ~Lauren Bacall

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life." ~Lauren Bacall

"You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going." ~Lauren Bacall

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