N. Sri Ram Quotes

"Know for yourself the way along which you should go - do not depend on others." ~N. Sri Ram

"The dark night must descend before a new dawn." ~N. Sri Ram

"The joy and the pain, the reaching up and the falling back - all are gathered up finally into the experience of a realisation from which nothing thereafter can shake us." ~N. Sri Ram

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Mohan Dhall - child's world

"All parents must have a set of personal goals that stand in the world outside of their child's world." ~Mohan Dhall, extracted from The Dangers of overparenting published in Indian Link Magazine Sydney, April 2, 2018.

Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

"Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one." ~Glennon Melton

""I understand now that I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often... because I’m paying attention.'" --Glennon Doyle Melton

"It’s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day.... Pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU.” ~Glennon Melton from Butterflies and Pebbles

Art | Christian Schloe

"Sisterhood is the phenomenon that occurs when women quit seeing each other as mirrors, or reflections of themselves, and start seeing each other as one-of-a-kind works of art. Sisterhood happens when women view each other as deep wells of support and inspiration—as teammates—instead of competitors. Sisterhood happens between women who are secure enough to stop being afraid of each other; who do not feel that another woman's different life choices are a judgment of her own choices. Sisterhood happens when we become curious instead of defensive about our differences. Sisterhood does not require the same beliefs or thoughts or political parties or churches. Peace is not about becoming the same; it's about becoming okay with being different. There is so much untapped power in sisterhood." ~Glennon Doyle Melton

"What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others comfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable." ~Glennon Doyle Melton 

"Your body is not your masterpiece - your life is....
Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. ...
Your body is not your offering."
~Glennon Melton

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Gina Marinello-Sweeney - first step

"How can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?” ~Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword

Justin Sachs - leader

"To be an effective leader one must have influence. But to gain influence, one must first lead." ~Justin Sachs

FEATURED QUOTE: faithfulness

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." ~Mother Teresa

Robert Provine - mechanism

"Laughter is an instinctive and universal mechanism." ~Robert Provine

FEATURED QUOTE: on communication from RUMI

"Conversation flowing from the heart is a sign of true friendship." ~Rumi

Barbara Kunz Loots Quotes

"Kindle my soul with the quick spark of your will.

Let love be my fuel and your truth the flame."
~Barbara Kunz Loots, THE LIGHT OF GOD

"We need only crack the dark soul's lantern door
And the spark will leap to life at its very core."
~Barbara Kunz Loots, THE LIGHT OF GOD

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Quotes on COLOURS and RAINBOWS

"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see." ~Vincent Van Gogh

"At sunrise, the blue sky paints herself with gold colors and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze." ~Debasish Mridha

“Color does not matter. Life does.” ~A.D. Williams

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky

Photo credit to Mir Macatula 

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”  ~Leigh Hunt

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions." ~Pablo Picasso

"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart." ~Wolfgang Puck

"Each color lives by its mysterious life." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." ~Fulton Sheen

“Every time you see a rainbow, every time you watch the sunset, and every time you remember a dream – they’re all little glimpses into what’s beyond our world.” ~Kevin A. Kuhn

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Experience confirmed my belief that 'we are not born with the idea that colour matters.'" ~Brandi Brenner

"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors." ~Oscar de la Renta

“Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.”  ~ William C. Bryant

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." ~Martin Luther King on The Journey Home.

"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds." ~Robert Bridges

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." ~Vincent Van Gogh

"I see your true colours shining through, sweet soul. Your life is your art. Always be true to the colours of your soul." ~Butterflies and Pebbles

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." ~Joan Miro

"I will forever be the person who gets really excited when the sky is in pretty colours." ~Intelligence 

“If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.” ~Warren Wendel Wiersbe

“In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.” ~Hans Hofmann

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~Marc Chagall

"Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side." ~Heather Stillufsen

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"She does love lavender because it's the colour of transformation." ~Felicity Huffman

“Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.” ~Sara Paddison

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colours." ~Charles Bukowski

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash." ~Edvard Munch

"Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart.” ~Thomas Kinkade

“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape."  ~John Burroughs

"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas." ~Edvard Munch

"The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages." ~Gilbert Baker

"The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again." ~Ram Charan

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts." ~Trudy Vesotsky

"The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble." ~Wassily Kandinsky

"We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same." ~Trent Shelton

"We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility." ~Dorothy Height

"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up." ~Allen Klein

OTHERS

“Art is a Therapeutic process to help us heal our emotions. Art Therapy is all forms of colour, creativity and expressions to explore our self worth to look at the positive aspects of life.” ~Natural Therapy

“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” ~Aberjhani

“Friends are like rainbows, they're always there to cheer you up after a storm." ~Positive Energy

"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope."  ~Maya Angelou

“If you are ever going to see a rainbow, you have got to stand a little rain." ~Anon

“In a perfect world, human beings would co-exist harmoniously, like a rainbow. A multitude of colors, each layer vibrant and clear by itself, but in unison, boundless, breathtaking, celestial.” ~Mariah Carey

“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.” ~Amit Ray

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” ~Nora Roberts

"The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth."  ~Theodore Roosevelt

"The light and the dark; two contrasting colours that was in time of the creation. So is life which is without contrast or contradiction." ~Leah C. Dancel

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." ~Anon

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud." ~Maya Angelou

“When it rains look for rainbows. When it’s dark look for the stars.” ~Oscar Wilde

"When the earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them." ~Chief Seattle

“Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?” ~Pablo Neruda

"You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter.” ~C. Joybell C.

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Helen McDonald - beauty rich and rare

Katoomba Waterfalls

November 19, 2022

"I love the diversity of the Australian bush landscape: The blue ocean lapping at sandy shores, foaming waterfalls slipping off sheer rock faces, barren empty deserts, trees wavering disorderedly in violent winds, rivers either serenely becalmed or turbulently agitated, native animals in their natural habitats and native fauna growing magnificently despite excessive droughts – and I wanted to capture it!" ~Helen McDonald, Artist of the Outback Creative

Dag Walker - world-historic figure

"I don't know as yet much about the Philippines, but I do know that from my earliest awareness of President Duterte that I saw in him a world-historic figure on par with Napoleon. I don't mean to say he is a world conquering war-monger, but that he is a man to transform how people around the world relate to a national leader. I believe Duterte is the best political figure on the planet since... I can't think of anyone else! He is the ultimate good-guy, in my opinion. It is my intention to go to the Philippines after I do my due diligence in researching the history and culture of the nation and its people, to write books about the man and his vision so others in the world can emulate him and his works. DU30 is a grand model for all, whether we are Filipinos or not. You all just got lucky having him first. We all want him or someone like him, too. Lucky you! My best." ~‪Dag Walker‬ (2018, FB)

ALAN PETER CAYETANO Quotes

“Don’t believe me. Come to the Philippines. Talk to people whether there is a freedom of the press or not...” ~Alan Peter Cayetano, DFA Secretary

“Informed empowered citizens and Filipino communities strengthen our country.” ~Alan Peter Cayetano, DFA Secretary

“There are 10 million of us abroad. If every single one of us tell one person and that person believes in us — we could have 10 million more tourists. And for every two tourists it creates one job.” ~Alan Peter Cayetano, DFA Secretary


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Filipino Community Assembly with DFA Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano
18 March 2018
Sydney, Australia

Quote from LAKE TYREL ART - OLD PEOPLE

"Our old people left us the key, it is all around us. From the earth to the stars, their knowledge is kept, still waiting for us to find it. If we listen they will guide us. This is my now. Our past is Our key to Our future." ~Lake Tyrel Art

Jordin Sparks - climate change

"One minute it's love and suddenly, it's like a battlefield." ~Jordin Sparks

Yung Pueblo - habits

"My most important project is building the habits that my happiness and freedom require." ~Yung Pueblo

‪Jashua Marin ‬ - finding my way

"‪There is a beauty to being lost, broken, or alone. It humbles you, molds you, turns you into who you are suppose to be for the best or the worst. Knowing this is my path and this too shall pass will help me find my way." ~Jashua Marin ‬

‪Philip Kean Flores‬ - Autumn

Photo Credit to Jigsaw Puzzle Online

"Leaves may come and go through times,
letting Autumn change the leaves
for an opportune."
~‪Philip Kean Flores‬

Aveen Acuna-Gulo Quotes

“A real journalist is one who looks out the window to check whether it was raining or not” ~Aveen Acuna-Gulo

"Only the strong can show his weakness. This makes him THE leader. The rest are just politicians." ~Aveen Acuna-Gulo on PRRD

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William Wallace - on living

"Every man dies, but not every man really lives." ~William Wallace

‪Susan Esplago Maalindog‬ - spirit

‪"It is in the realm of words that the human spirit cannot be imprisoned or clobbered." ~Susan Esplago Maalindog‬, FB

Wolfgang Puck - Cooking

Photo credit to the owner 

"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart." ~Wolfgang Puck

Adam Garrie Quotes

"A cycle of drug abuse, buying, selling and trafficking is the bedrock of degeneracy in large cities throughout the world." ~Adam Garrie

“As for people not understanding the necessity of or the nature of the reforms, this is not the fault of ordinary citizens but the fault of those doing the explaining. This is where Duterte can step in as a true man of the people.” ~Adam Garrie (2019)

"Duterte has indeed proved that he is strong when it comes to fighting crime, authoring and executing a new multi-polar non-aligned foreign policy, making new international partnerships, turning the South China Sea dispute into a win-win compromise, reforming tax and labour laws, building new infrastructure and tackling both private and public sector corruption." ~Adam Garrie, May 3, 2018

“Duterte's unwavering commitment to ending corruption is one of his most endearing qualities. A man of such sincerity does not often appear in a position of leadership. He should be cherished far and wide.” ~Adam Garrie

"Duterte’s war is a holy war. It is a battle between the honest and the dishonest, between the righteous and the self-righteous, between those who heal and those who harm. Duterte is on the side of justice and the corrupt clergy on the side of the devious." ~Adam Garrie, 14 June 2018

"Guns don't kill people, trade wars kill people." ~Adam Garrie

"If President Duterte (who has zero tolerance policies relating to drugs) had like-minded comrades in cities across the world, crime would dramatically plummet and the people who are suffering today at the hands of violent thugs would rejoice, just as they did in Davao and now are doing throughout The Philippines under President Duterte." ~Adam Garrie

"If the people who spend their lives trying to undermine Duterte spent their time working with Duterte to build a better nation then they wouldn't have time to complain. A bunch of idiots with no clue about reailty. Duterte is the real deal." ~Adam Garrie, May 2, 2018

"If you're a yellow propagandist you might think Duterte supporters are 'anti-democratic', but in REALITY, Duterte supporters are the most real, down to earth, people in the world. It's about wanting a better, cleaner, happier, safer and more stable life, all while living in a dignified way under the flag of a proud nation. THIS is what Duterte represents to millions. It is a message for the people, because all people have access to it. it excludes no one and welcomes anyone with a positive attitude. THIS it the REAL Duterte revolution!" ~Adam Garrie, February 24, 2018

"It is time for people in every city in the world to decide, do you want to fight crime or do you want live with drugs? There is no in-between." ~Adam Garrie, Eurasia Future (Twitter), International Political Analyst

“No one who is a serious person can say that Duterte isn’t democratic. The definition of democratic is when you serve the people, when you do the will of the people. Duterte remains so much popular in the Philippines than leaders in so many other countries. He is more popular than Trump in America, than Merkel in Germany. The list goes on and on. And he is popular for a reason. His “Build, Build, Build” program for example is putting much needed injections of cash and vitality into the very infrastructure of the Philippines.” ~Adam Garrie

"Rodrigo Roa Duterte is humble in his lifestyle, courageous in his service to his country and answerable not to anyone but his electorate. It is for these reasons why millions of Filipinos and non-Filipinos alike find Duterte to be an inspirational figure who leadership is not only respected but admired." ~Eurasia Future

"The entire world should honour Duterte's mission to liberate his people from the terrorism of narcotics." ~Adam Garrie

"The only thing saving me from falling into a bottomless pit of despair is the fact that during the first years of the Second World War, was that conventional wisdom was that we would lose and yet we won. Right now it feels as though we will lose but perhaps we shall in fact win." ~Adam Garrie, Twitter, June 12, 2020

"The peacemakers are those who are willing to defend their people against horrific evils with determination and sincerity." ~Adam Garrie

"The problem with crime is a problem directly, implicitly and holistically related to drugs, there is no other way to describe it." ~Adam Garrie

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Dr Paloma Mari-Beffa - talking to oneself

“Talking out loud actually improves control over a task, above and beyond what is achieved by inner speech. Much of this benefit appears to come from simply hearing oneself, as auditory commands seem to be better controllers of behaviour than written ones." ~Dr Paloma Mari-Beffa (A senior lecturer of psychology at Bangor University based her research on people who talk to themselves while planning and organising their actions may have higher cognitive function than those who don’t.)

Harold V Melchert - time

"One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time." ~Harold V Melchert

Xi Jinping - mankind

"The history of mankind tells us that problems are not to be feared. What should concern us is refusing to face up to the problems and not knowing what to do about them." ~Xi Jinping, president of the People's Republic of China

LESSONS TAUGHT BY XI JINPING's FATHER:

"My child. You must remember what your eyes see may not be true. If you intend on taking advantage of people, you will end up losing!”

"My child, you must not always rely on experiences because sometimes, life can cheat you or play tricks on you. But you must not be too annoyed or sad, just treat this as learning a lesson. You cannot Learn this from textbooks."

”My child, you must remember! When you think for the good of others, good things will always naturally happen to you!"

FEATURED QUOTE: Leah C. Dancel - Loving Friendship

"I believe a special relationship should really spring from close and loving friendship with the presence of patience, endurance, affection and respect aided with loyalty and mantled with faith and trust." ~Leah C. Dancel

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti Quotes

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately." ~Lawrence Monsanti Ferlinghetti

"I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone." ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace." ~Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti

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Angela Davis - change

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ~Angela Davis

Leigh Hunt - be a man

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”  ~ Leigh Hunt

"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man." ~Leigh Hunt

BIO

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the 'Hunt circle'. Wikipedia