Quote for the day

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."  ~Benjamin Franklin

Belated New Year's wishes for all on the expat-blog! Have a great 2011 ya'll!!!

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
~Henry Ward Beecher



"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."  ~Seneca

Dont over do it- Do it over, Stanley Cook
lol

Since today is the first expat meet of 2011 I thought this would be appropriate for the occasion!

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.  ~James Beard

hi iaustin,
"May you live all the days of your life" Jonathan Swift

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."  ~From the movie Annie

"As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily.  The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world." ~Terri Guillemets

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."  ~W.T. Purkiser

hi,i came across this one:
never try to hide yr secrets frm a person who can read yr eyes,....bcoz the who  one can read yr eyes can always read yr heart.

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese proverb

Hi Every1

A lengthy one...Enjoy!

A GUIDE FOR LIVING IN 2011

Health:

1.     Drink plenty of water.
2.     Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3.     Eat more foods that grow ON trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured IN plants..
4.     Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5.     Make time to pray.
6.     Play more games & Read more books than you did in 2010 .
7.     Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
8.     Sleep at least 7 hours.
9. Take a 10-30 minute walk daily.  And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts on things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do.  Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously.  No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time.  You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past.  Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes in the past, that will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.  Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.  Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument.  Agree to disagree...

Society:

25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70, and under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.  Your friends will.  Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful, or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
37. The best is yet to come...
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

You can put lipstick  on a pig, it's still a pig.

"Absence -- that common cure of love." - Miguel Cervantes

"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."

Johann Van Goethe

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." ~Michael Jordan

The only good thing that comes from the east is the sun.
Traditional Portuguese Saying

"Every man dies.  Not every man really lives."  ~Braveheart

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  ~Victor Hugo

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

Wow ! some amazing quotes! Really makes your day!
Nonetheless, keep up the great work guys..!

Here are some of those I admire.. enjoy it!

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We must become the change we want to see..

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress..

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will

Hate the sin, love the sinner

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it

-    Gandhi

"Friendship is Love without his wings" Lord Byron

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm..

The price of greatness is responsibility..

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all..

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber..


-    Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said 'no'.
Woody Allen

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
   
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

(From the 'Tao Te Ching'. I find the above useful in my line of work)

Some of my favourites....

"A country, a civilization can be judged by how it treats its animals" - Mahatma Gandhi

"It is the frame which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."- Marshall McLuhan (1955)
...
"The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.” - Marshall McLuhan

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep - Albert Einstein

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
Blaise Pascal

nice ones

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.

terence wrote:

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.

It fits current events perfectly!

Death is not the greatest loss in life.  The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.  ~Norman Cousins

Hi Armand,

This a very good and inspirational thread, it deserves to be a part of the stickys.

There should be one more thread for Jokes, it is a good stress buster.

Arif

Hi Arif

Well if you contribute everyday we won't need to stick the thread

Armand

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown

I believe everything happens for a reason!
People change so you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you can appreciate them
when they're right,you believe lies so that you
will eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes,good things fall apart so better things can
fall together.
-Marilyn Monro

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones

"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?" B.D

The road is long my friend...

Because I have two wonderful sisters, I thought I'd share these quotes on sisters!

This will be a long post...

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of.  You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.  ~Amy Li

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.  ~Linda Sunshine

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.  ~Pam Brown

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.  ~Margaret Mead

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.  ~Author Unknown

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.  ~Author unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren


In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.  ~Author Unknown

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?  ~Pam Brown


The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.  ~Clara Ortega

When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will.  ~Author Unknown

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.  ~Isadora James

To the outside world we all grow old.  But not to brothers and sisters.  We know each other as we always were.  We know each other's hearts.  We share private family jokes.  We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.  We live outside the touch of time.  ~Clara Ortega

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights.  And sorrows too.  ~Pam Brown

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.  ~Maya Angelou

Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends.  ~Author Unknown

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship.  They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.  ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize.  Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks.  Borrow.  Break.  Monopolize the bathroom.  Are always underfoot.  But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there.  Defending you against all comers.  ~Pam Brown

Sisters don't need words.  They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief.  Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.  ~Pam Brown

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar.  We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.  ~Rose Macaulay

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.  ~Evelyn Loeb

You keep your past by having sisters.  As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.  ~Deborah Moggach

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time.  How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.  ~Pam Brown

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities.  She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway.  She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark.  She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink.  Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.  ~Barbara Alpert

Ah sisters...the world wouldn't quite be the same with out them!!

A few lines to inspire everyone in their lives...

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

Passion + production = performance.

Treat people well on your way up and they’ll treat you well on your way down.

Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.

by R.S