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If you were given a lemon, make a lemonade. :P
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

a very optimistic view to death :mrgreen:
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WALID wrote:“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

a very optimistic view to death :mrgreen:
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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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"Carry on, no matter what happens.
Hide your private sorrows under a smile and carry on."
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
=Ralph Waldo Emerson=

Stop quoting me!
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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it!
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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
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Don't ever quote me!
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Proverb:

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
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Proverb

Many friends, many problems
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Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems
I like this. Who told you that?
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Bambang wrote:
Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems
I like this. Who told you that?
I don't agree with that..
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Xkalibur wrote:
Bambang wrote:
Sunnypk wrote:Proverb

Many friends, many problems
I like this. Who told you that?
I don't agree with that..
Because you have only few friends. :P
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Taking things apart is the result of knowledge; wisdom is putting them back together again.
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ohad wrote:"The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits."

- Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (Vilna Gaon)
I like this Ohad. That includes the unclean thoughts right?
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"Ultra poss nemo obligatur"
"No one can be obliged beyond one's opportunities"
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in Spanish is "La vida sin música sería un error".

In English " Life without music would be a mistake"


8) I don't remember who said it,eventhough I love it. :wink:
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"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."


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Tennyson:

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have losed at all."
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.


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"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

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"Most of the good that is done in this world is the direct result of somebody's sensitivity."
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"I wish none of this had happened."
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."


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What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry
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Be Fair In Your All Dealings, People Will Be Okey With You Automatically
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"Be nice to people, then they'll be nice to you".
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"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

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"In politics,nothing happens by accident.If it happens,you can bet it was planned that way"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-32nd President of the USA.
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Raven wrote:"In politics,nothing happens by accident.If it happens,you can bet it was planned that way"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-32nd President of the USA.
Is this true, Raven? :?
I doubt this quotation Raven...
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"Good works are links that form a chain of love."

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John keats

"Speak less to people you love the most... Because if they can't understand your silence they can never understand your words"
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Nobody trips over mountains.
It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.
Pass all the pebbles in your path,
and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
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Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."


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"Follow your wishes and dreams today
so that tomorrow you don't have to say, "I wish I did that."
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"I think I'm more difficult than critical."

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"Good works are links that form a chain of love."

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"Five great enemies of peace inhibit us:
avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride."


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Hi chet bake ur speech is effective and right:
Unfortunately, how many people can live free? If you are an office clerk, you have to stay in office for more than 10 hours a day, you may have 1.5 days off if you are lunck. "Free" is too expensive for someone who don't have money to support themseleve and their family.
thank you cuz u remember me about freedom.
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Krisi wrote: "Here I am. Not there. Not where I used to be or where I will be someday or where I wish I were. But here. In this place. Amid this specific circumstances. Here I am. Not as I was yesterday, or as I will be tomorrow or as I wish I were. But as I am. In this condition, this shape. With this particular thoughts and feelings.
Here I am, GOD."


This was shared to me. And I love it. I'm sharing this to all.
This is really special! :)
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"Learning how others face their challenges
can give us the courage to deal with our own."
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When I opened my book this morning, the message below caught my eye.

"Being told you can't do something motivates you to prove them wrong."

Maybe you'll find this inspiring as well... :-)
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enkey wrote:True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Yes, it's true enkey... :-)
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Hello lovely friends, today (and forever will...) this inspires me... :-)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa-

Please reflect on this and let's all listen to our innerself. And maybe you'll come to understand why I find this inspiring.
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

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Krisi wrote:Hello lovely friends, today (and forever will...) this inspires me... :-)

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa-

Please reflect on this and let's all listen to our innerself. And maybe you'll come to understand why I find this inspiring.
Do u know that Mother Teresa is like me Albanian
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• Good..BeTTer..BesT..Never LeT iT resT..`TiL ur good is beTTer nd ur beTTer is BEST..!
I also like some others but I have them in my pc at home nd now I`m in work :oops: .
If you don`t like me remember it's mind over matter..I don't mind and you don't matter..
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