Passages of Time.....

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I’m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.



History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.
--Annonymous


You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.

And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.

Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides.
--Garth Brooks – The River



How do I change?

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.



When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.


I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
-Henry David Thoreau

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GHANDI

You must be the change you wish to see in the world
--Ghandi

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
--Ghandi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
--Ghandi


You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
--Ghandi




Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
--Ghandi


I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers
--Ghandi

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
--Ghandi

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Time passes, the anguished years recede.
Who stood for what and when and why grows dim.
people are forgiven, issues are forgotten,
but friends remain friends.


But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
---Benjamin Franklin


A slip of the foot you may soon recover,
but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
--Benjamin Franklin


Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
--Edward R. Murrow

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Another favourite passion of mine is......sunsets!!!! So here are some beauties to enjoy while reading the quotes..........




We are the music makers – we are the dreamers of dreams.


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud.
--Emerson


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted.


The thing that goes farthest towards making life worthwhile,
that costs the least and does the most is just a pleasant smile.


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
--Emerson




My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good,
The place to be happy is here,
The time to be happy is now,
The way to be happy is to help make others so.
--Ingersoll


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue
but parent of all other virtues.
--Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things
--Cicero





If you do not understand my silence,
you will not understand my words.

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This day is for beauty – find something beautiful
This day is for joy – rejoice in it
This day is for love – show someone love
This day is for tomorrow – treasure its memory

Don’t walk before me – I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me – I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend
--Camus



To love, and to be loved – is the greatest happiness of existence.


I walked beside the evening sea
and dreamed a dream that could not be.
The waves that plunged along the shore
said only “…dreamer, dream no more…”


The most beautiful gift we can give each other is……the truth.



Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love
and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.



It’s chance that makes brothers but hearts that make friends.






Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
We must carry it with us or we will find it not.
--Emerson

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or nor measure words.
--Eliot

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A person cannot fully be at peace with others,
until he is at peace with himself.


Nature is painting for us day after day
pictures of infinite beauty – if only we had the eyes to see them.


Yesterday is gone -- forget it.
Tomorrow hasn’t come -- don’t worry about it.
Today is here -- so use it.


It is better to be wise and not seem so
than to seem wise and not be so.


A part of me is left in every place I have loved….
be it a simple tear,
a dream,
or the echo of my voice.






When you’re lonely – I wish you love
When you’re down – I wish you joy
When you’re troubled – I wish you peace
When things are complicated – I wish you simple beauty
When things are chaotic – I wish you inner peace
When things look empty – I wish you hope

I loved you once so tenderly that may God grant another hold you so dear.


Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp. But, which, if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

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