BREAKING NEWS:- JOHN PAINTSIL ARRESTED FOR STABBING HIS WIFE.

Barely a week ago, Oscar Pistorious was reported as taking his fiancee for a burglar and shooting her severally. Early this afternoon, he was granted bail pending trial.

Oscar may be heaving a sigh of relief at this moment but one person who has just thrown himself into that muddy water is Black Star's Deputy skipper John Paintsil who is still in Ghana recuperating from the injury he sustained playing for Ghana against Burkina Faso during the AFCON in South Africa.

Eventhough information is scanty at this point, it was confirmed by the P.R.O. of the Greater Accra Regional Police Command Mr. Freeman that Paintsil was arrested for stabbing his wife and for slapping a good Samaritan who tried to prevent him from beating his wife.

According to the P.R.O., Paintsil's wife Richlove Paintsil scaled their wall into an adjoining house to avoid being stabbed further by her husband. Paintsil not being satisfied with his act, followed the lady to the next house. Fortunately, he met a man in the adjoining house who prevented him from beating his wife further but Paintsil slapped the man too for shielding his wife from him.

 It is not clear at this point what might have pushed the ever-joyful Black Star defender to act that way.

The lady is reported to be responding to treatment.

However, the P.R.O. of the  Greater Accra Regional Police Regional command has confirmed that Paintsil would be processed for court.

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF POWER SUPPLY IN THE COUNTRY.

 Dear Sir,

I would like to congratulate you, Your Excellency JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA for winning the 2012 Presidential election. I am tempted to believe that those who voted for you and your party did so because they thought your government would improve their livelihood as was amplified by the title of your manifesto, “Better Ghana” and was further reechoed by your  “Edey bee Keke” mantra  during the campaigns.

Even though power was not one of the issues that took center stage during the campaigns, it is now clear that it should have been one of the issues that should have taken a center stage.  Over the last four years that your predecessor Prof. John E.A. Mills of blessed memory was in office, we were made to believe by various members of the communication team of your party that the country was experiencing economic growth which veracity was corroborated by the World Bank. What beats my imagination is why we went to sleep thinking our energy sector was vibrant enough to sustain the well-publicized economic growth that the country was enjoying.  

Mr. President, I would like to point out to you that the current intermittent breach in power supply is not a thing that a country that is trying to build on the successes chalked in terms of economic growth should take lightly. We are made to believe that you and the members of your energy team are working very hard to get the problem solved.

Mr. President, with all due respect, for how long do we have to hear this? Ever since the current power rationing started, we have not be informed of what government was doing to get the problem solved. The impression was created as if our power sector is now solely owned by the private sector. For instance, we were told by Electricity Company of Ghana that the level of electricity supplied by GRIDCO for distribution is inadequate and GRIDCO also said that the electricity generated by VRA for transmission is inadequate. It is only those who are good at cracking puzzle that can be able to work out whichever of them is telling the truth.

Mr. President, the current power situation does not provide an enabling environment for investment. I was very disheartened when I heard some businessmen in a news item carried on Joy News on February 19, 2013, that they are left with no option than to lay-off some of their workers. One issue that dominated the media in days leading to the election was the issue of graduate unemployment. How can we curb the unemployment menace with this perpetual darkness we are experiencing? All the talks of creating employment will remain a fantasy if nothing meaningful is done to improve the energy sector. 

Even as I am writing this letter, my light is off; I have to type and fan myself at this same time. It's hell here!  Our appliances are getting spoilt day in day out. As those who have generator in their homes make do with what they have with all the unbearable noise at the expense of those of us who do not have, they were once again dealt with a big blow when the subsidy on petrol was scrapped off.  Mr. President, this is not what I thought was the better Ghana that you promised us but if it is, then I think we are rather in for a “bitter Ghana”.

Some of us believe that the problem we are having is as a result of the visionless leaders we have had since Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. In order for leaders to appease their people, they gave the Energy Ministry to people who were no technocrat. We would not have been in this position if the Ministry was handled by technocrats. Mr. President, this is not the time to use the Energy Ministry as a tool to appease the boys. We need a technocrat to handle the Energy Ministry.

Some people are proposing privatizing the energy sector in order to ensure efficiency but I would not encourage that because of what economists call market failure.

I strongly believe that what is needed is, having qualified persons occupying the Energy Ministry. Mr. President, I also believe that government should increase its investment in the energy sector. Now that the prices of fuel have gone up, the only way to woo investors into the country is to improve our electricity production and distribution. I do not think any businessman would like to operate in a country where electricity distribution is woefully poor. I also believe that information dissemination on the part of the service providers in the energy sector should also improve. Light goes off arbitrarily thereby causing damage to electrical gadgets of unsuspecting Ghanaians.

Mr. President, you may not sense my frustration in the letter but that is because of the enormous respect I have for you. From what I have gathered so far in the media, I can say with all certainty that you can kiss your desire for a second term goodbye if the situation does not improve as quickly as possible.

In a nutshell, I will implore you to improve the Energy sector now or leave it as it is for it to cause your disapproval.

Thanks.

WRITER: Mr. Brooks

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA'S NEW GRADING SYSTEM: A SILENCE FUTURE KILLER

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow.

Change is eminent but that change must be seen to have a positive impact on the society.

 Somewhere in February 2011, the Registrar of the nation's premier university Mr. Joseph Marfo granted an interview to Citi Fm where he said that starting from the following academic year, the university will only award grade A to students who score 80% and above.

This is unlike previously when one needed to make a minimum mark of 70% and above to get A+ and 65-69 to get an A-. In the new grading system, one needs to get 75-79 to get B+ and 70-74 to get a B. One also needs to get 65-69 to get C+ which mark would have fetched one A- in the old grading system.

Level 100 used to be non-scoring but it has also been wiped out. As if that was not enough, the classification of degrees is also reviewed upwards. Previously, one needs to get a Final Grade Point of 3.6 to make a 1st class but it is also raised to 3.75.

Instead of the university authorities finding solutions to enormous problems that students face on campus, this is what they think students are in a dying need of. Those on the Distance Education Programme have to wait half way into the semester to get their books: sometimes almost at the tail end of the semester. What do you expect students like these to do with almost 300 pages (six units; thirty six sections) book within two months?

I must also say that, this grading system to a large extent defeats some aspects of University Education vis-a-vis socialization and other extra curriculum activities.

Most of us concur with Mr. Daniel Kumi-Gyan the Registrar of KNUST when he said in an interview with focus News that changing the grading system is not necessarily the best way to make students more productive.

One would see the difference when one compares the transcript of those in L300-400 and those who have already completed with those who are currently in L200 and 300.

If this inhumane policy is not checked immediately, it would become a major contributor to unemployment. The labour market is very competitive and one wonders what the university authorities wish to achieve by placing two groups with the same certificate base on different grading systems in one market.

 I would like to plead with the Vice Chancellor and the Academic Board to take a second look at these changes. I would also like to plead with the Ministry of Education to also as a matter of urgency take a look at this changes which sought to make students "anti-sos" in order to secure the future of the students and the nation.

The writer is a student

LIFE AND ITS BEAUTIFUL TWISTS AND TURNS

Just brightening your day with wonderful quotes!

It sucks always being the footnote in someone else’s love story.


1. Worshiping God is not about you; it’s about Him. It sounds like common sense, but so many of us have it all wrong. We find it easier to praise Him when things seem to be going extremely right, and we find it easier to cry out to Him when things seem to be going extremely wrong. When right and wrong aren’t at the extreme end of the spectrum, we tend to put God on a shelf until the next time we remember Him. I put God on a shelf this semester. My mind set going into it wasn’t about what I could give to Him, but what He was going to give to me.



2. Too bad people don’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the same reasons, and it’s too bad that those emotions don’t move simultaneously. But each bit of madness moved at its own pace, one not dependent on the pace of anyone else. It wasn’t like tandem skydiving, where you were connected as you fell, where you were forced to fall at the same rate and use the same parachute. Falling in love is a solo act. I knew that, I just learned the hard way. You just jump and hope that your parachute will open. Sometimes, you look up and realize that you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping and watching you descend into that scary place alone.



3. It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not who they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don’t like, I’ll tell them.



4. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before finding the right one, so that when we finally find the right one, we will know how to be grateful.



5. You can’t design your life like a building. It doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it and it will design itself. Listen to what the world is telling you what to do and take the leap.



6. Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.



7. There’s a God that walks over the earth searching for a heart that will love Him.



8. I count all things as lost, compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ.



9. People say that it’s the bad memories that cause the most pain, but actually, it’s the good ones that drive you insane.

10. If you want me in your life, put me there. I shouldn’t have to fight for a spot.



11. There is a difference between love and like, and wrong and right. Never run if you’re not ready to step. And never forgive if you’re not ready to forget.



12. Honestly, I don’t need someone that sees what’s good about me. I need someone that sees the bad, and still wants me.



13. He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there is always one guy that is perfect for you.



14. We long for love and relationship and healing and hope. We long for holiness, for a closer walk with Jesus, for God’s truth to speak louder than the noise of the world. When we long for the right things, we find a different sort of love. The kind of love that will never let go of us, never let us down. Never walk away or disown us. A love that know us and our flaws, but stays anyways. For us to long for God is to long for a perfect love. God’s word promises if we start longing for that perfect love, everything…absolutely everything will follow that longing. God created our ability to long for love. But He wants us to long for His perfect love.



15. We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural fixtures were the luxury of another day, one in which ‘now’ was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents’ have insufficient ‘now’ to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile…we only have risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.



16. It’s not about the labels or becoming official. It’s about getting to know someone well enough to develop genuine feelings for them. It’s about being understanding and forgiving when situations are at their worst. It’s about loving someone, not for what they have to offer, but for who they are. It’s never about blaming your significant other for not treating you like how you want to be treated, it’s about how hard they try to keep you around.



17. We all want to believe that love is this magical thing that fixes our problems and makes things perfect. We look for the love that we see in movies and fall for all of Hollywood’s lies. But the truth is, love will never be like that. Love is something you have to work at and fight for. It’s not always pretty and it’s definitely not magic, because not even love can keep two people together if they don’t try.



18. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by beauty of the world, to seek the truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.



19. Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.



20. There are dreamers and there are realists in the world. You think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but often than not, the opposite is true. See, the dreamers need to realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.



21. I wish it could be simple, like a retro pop song. I want you to want me. BOOM. End of story, we all live happily ever after..but it’s really never like that, is it?

22. God gave me five fingers for a reason. My pinky is for my best friends, and our promises that will never be broken. My ring finger is for that special someone, and proof that we will be together forever. My middle finger is for that boy who has pushed me too far, and to show him how I feel. My pointer finger is to silence them all. And my thumb is for everyone- to let them know that I’m gonna be okay! No matter what.



23. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of the person they’re in love with. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.

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24. Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides; it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there. It never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it’s real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy.



25. Because, it’s only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it’s only when you’re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has.



26. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

THINGS MEN SHOULD CONSIDER IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS

1. If a woman wants you, nothing can keep her away. If she doesn't want you, nothing can make her stay.
2. Stop making excuses for a woman's behavior.
3. If you have ANY doubt in your mind about a woman's character, let her go.
4. Allow your intuition to save you from heartache.
5. Stop trying to change her or yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be.
6. Don't force an attraction.
7. Don't let a woman push you into a relationship you don’t want to be in.
8. A woman wants to be with a man she can be proud of at all times. Don’t be a fool.
9. It takes a second to lose her trust, and a lifetime to gain it back.
10. If you feel like she is stringing you along, then she probably is.
11. Don't stay because you think "it will get better." You'll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better.
12. The only person you can control in a relationship is you.
13. Avoid women who have a bunch of children by a bunch of different men.
14. Maintain boundaries in how a woman treats you. If something bothers you, speak up.
15. Don’t be with a mean-spirited person. Being “mad at the time” is not a good excuse.
16. Be with a woman you admire and trust.
17. Don't fall for the "I'm confused role". Remove yourself from the situation to let her figure things out (but don't wait for her, move on).
18. There's more than physical abuse, there's emotional and mental abuse. If she causes any of them...flee.
19. You cannot change a woman's behavior. Change comes from within.
20. Don't let her place rules on you that she is not willing to follow herself -- double-standard.
21. Don’t worry about what your friends say, think about how you feel.
22. Be with someone who shows kindness... to everyone.
23. Don't EVER make her feel she is more important than you are...even if she has more education or in a better job.
24. Do not make her into a goddess. She is a woman, nothing more, nothing less.
25. Don’t be superficial, remember 25 years from now its not going to matter “who’s cuter”.
26. Actions speak louder than words. Don't play games.
27. If she cheated with you, she'll cheat on you.
28. Just because she says she loves you, doesn't mean that you are meant to be.
29. Love is a verb.
30. Learn to give up your lifelong task of trying to make someone unavailable-available, someone ungiving-giving, and someone unloving-loving.
31. All women are NOT bitches.
32. You should not be the one doing all the bending...compromise is a two way street.
33. If you don't love yourself...you can't love anyone else.
34. You cannot mend someone else's broken heart.
35. You need time to heal between relationships...there is nothing attractive about baggage...deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship.
36. You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals...look for someone complimentary...not supplementary.
37. Never become your woman's "therapist".
38. When actions and words conflict, believe the actions.
39. Be with a woman who respects herself.
40. Give her space...let her go out with the girls, don't pressure her to spend time with you, You can't force         a woman to hang out with you.
41. Never let a woman know everything. She will use it against you later.
 42. Never co-sign for a woman or let her mess-up your BANK ACCOUNT.
43. Sex is a small part of a real relationship. Find someone you can talk to.
44. When it's time to let go; let go.
45. Good women should be treated like good women.
45. Good women do want good men.
46. You can't make a wh**e into a housewife.
47. Never date a girl who looks fake or acts fake.
48. If you want out, get out. Don’t be complacent or lazy.
49. Compatibility in terms of educational attainment, values, beliefs, personal and career goals, and socioeconomic status, are important.
50. There is someone out there worthy to be in your life. Let out the trash, so she can come in.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

              MOTIVATIONAL MORNING WORDS

A man lost whole business in fire.
Next day placed signboard :
"Everything burnt but luckily Faith & Confidence undamaged.
Business starts tomorrow"


Neither can you hug yourself......
Nor can you cry on your own shoulders.
LIFE is all about Living for one another,
So Live with Those who Love you the Most !


The Best Relationship in world is when
You hold the hand of The person..
and the Person walks with u without asking
"where" and "why"..!!


People will never change when u tell them a better option,
People will change only when they find there is no other option!


Life is very similar to a boxing ring,
Defeat is not final when you fall down,
It is final when you refuse to get up

I will not let conditions / times to rule me.
I will rule the conditions / times and
the things will happen the way I want.


I don't believe in taking right decisions.
I take decisions & then make them right.
So always believe in your ability and efforts.


Desire is the only cause of all sufferings in life ,
the denial of desire will be end of all misery / sufferings in life.


"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone,
But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone

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MAKE EVERYDAY YOUR BEST DAY!!!

"The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves
and take responsibility for what's there : all of it."


"When the soul is full of peace and joy,
outward surroundings and circumstances are of comparatively little account."

Tears Express Real Feelings More Than Words,
Touch Shows More Care Than Words,
But..
Words... When Used Properly Can Hold Tears 'n Touch The Heart.. !



Some People Accidently
Walk on your Feet and Apologize...
While some People
Walk all Over your Heart and
You don't even Realize.


"The Heart is the only machine that works
without any repairing for years."
Always keep it HAPPY.....
whether it is 'yours' or 'others'.


Each successful person has a painful story
Each painful story has a Successful ending
Accept the pain
Achieve the gain
That's Real life.


The hardest part of
missing friends is not their absence,
it’s when u think
of all those gud times
and ask yourself, 'Will those moments ever happen again?’!!!


A Broken Trust Can Be Described As
A Melted Chocolate
No Matter How Hard you Try To Freeze It,
It Will Never Returns To
Its True Shape .

We Judge Ourselves By what We Feel we're Capable of Doing,
While Others Judge us By what We have Already Done!


If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.


LAUGH like You have Never Cried,
PLAY like You have Never Lost,
LOVE like You have Never Hurt And
LIVE like There is No Tomorrow!


Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: -
The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing &
Way You Behave when You Have Everything!


Don't concentrate on what Someone Else can Do that you Cannot Concentrate on What You can Do That Others Cannot.

Never Be too Proud of who You are & What Position you Hold Because After a Game of Chess The King &
The Puns are tossed Into T.

When you dance, your purpose is not to
get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.


A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving


Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.


The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.


The resources we need to turn
our dreams into reality are within us,
merely waiting for the day when
we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.


Live a Life of Bold and Courageous Action
Inspired by Powerful Dreams.

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          GREAT MORNING TRUTHS!

Why there is so much stress in life ?
It is because we focus too much on good living standards
Rather than "living with good standards"


Best Policy of Honesty
We must make the world honest before
We can honestly say to our Children
that honesty is the best policy than anything else


The God is always with you,
through the activities of mind, senses, breathing
and is constantly doing all the work
using you as a mere instrument.


It Is Always Good To Compromise Only
When The Other Side Understands Your Feelings,
But Its Not Good To Bend So Much
That You Lose Your Existence..


Diamonds are just rocks that get under
extremely intense pressure that turn them into a gem.
Welcome it, control it and create diamonds of success.

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FROM THE HEART

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
-Alexandra Penney

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
-Pope John Paul II

There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart....
-Ben Crenshaw

Do all things with love.
-Og Mandino

Love is a great beautifier.
-Louisa May Alcott

Friendship is Love without his wings.
-Lord Byron

Love . . . the essence of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a fruit always in season and within reach of every hand.
-Mother Teresa

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-Helen Hayes

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
-Og Mandino

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is indestructible : Its holy flame for ever burneth; From Heaven it came, to Heaven it returneth.
-Robert Southey

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
-Sir Walter Scott

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is wisdom to believe the heart.
-George Santayana

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
-Mary Lou Retton

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REGARDING LIFE 

Each day is a little life.
-Schopenhauer

He is happiest who finds peace in his home.
-Goethe

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
-Martha Grimes

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-Doris Mortman

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
-Sophocles

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
-James Barrie

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
-Unknown

The natural state of a human being is dignity.
- Robert F. Kennedy

You may live longer than I do, but I will live more.
-James McConnell

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Unknown

My life is my message.
-Ghandi

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
-Indian Proverb

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures
and go on to the next challenge. It's OK. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
-H. Stanley Judd

 We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
-Cardinal Newman

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
-Syndey J. Harris

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau

Life is meant to be lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-Lady Bird Johnson

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
-Franklin Delanor Roosevelt

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
-Sheldon Kopp

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
-Goldsmith

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
-Samuel Johnson

Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away.
-Kenneth Harmon

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
-M. H. McKee

Believe the best of everybody.
-Rudyard Kipling

As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Bart Forbes

Commitment is a line you must cross....it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
-Bernie Fuchs

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
-Bill Copeland

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius

These are the times that try men's souls.
-Thomas Paine

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work: the last half.
-Cyrus Curtis

Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.
-Apollo 13 engineers

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one's own sunshine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alter your life by altering your attitudes.
-William James

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-Alfred North Whitehead

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-Shakespeare

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb

No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed.
-Anonymous

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

Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony.

3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

Never take away hope from any human being.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.
-Emily Dickinson

In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it.
-Henry David Thoreau

Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley

And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
-Henry David Thoreau

Go - not knowing where. Bring - not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown.
-Russian Fairy Tale

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day is a good day.
-Yun-Men

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
-Goethe

A child educated only at school is an undereducated child.
-George Santayana

The reason for idleness and crime is the deferring of our hopes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
-Tom Stoppard

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-William Feather

Alas for those who never sing, but die with their music still in them.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
-Robert Kennedy

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
-Tommy Lasorda

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
-Shunryu Suzuki

Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right.
-Henry Ford

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of subversions.
- William O. Douglas

Fear always springs from ignorance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you get into a tight place, and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

The Lighter Side

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
-Andrew Mason

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-Satchel Paige

If you feel happy, tell your face.
-Steve Potter

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
-Joe E. Lewis

When you have a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
-William James

Hitch your wagon to a star.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours?
-Bob Moawad

Happiness is a perfume you can't pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
-Calvin Coolidge

Never explain yourself: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
-Unknown

Oh, the places you'll go, oh, the things you'll see.
-Dr. Seuss

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be used until they are seasoned.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana

The human mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
-Walter Gropius

To ask the hard question is simple.
-W.H. Auden

There must be more to life than having everything.
-Maurice Sendak

Genius is but one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
-Will Rogers

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
-Clarence Darrow

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
-Boris Yeltsin

Humor makes all things tolerable.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind!
-Lord Byron

The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it.
-Henry David Thoreau

A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
-Shakespeare

In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
-Yun-Men

The best thing one can do when it's raining is let it rain.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope is a thing with feathers, that perches on the soul.
-Emily Dickinson

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
-Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
-Henry David Thoreau

What is required is sight and insight - then you might add one more: excite.
-Robert Frost

A friend my well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
-Mother's Advice to Katharine Hepburn

I'm not young enough to know everything.
-J.M. Barrie

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
-Gertrude Stein

Nothing is as hard to do gracefully as getting down off your high horse.
-Frank Jones

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
-Japanese proverb

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
-Mark Twain

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
-Thomas Paine

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
-George Santayana

Nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
-Calvin Coolidge

If you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
-Katharine Hepburn

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
-New England Saying

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
-Marshall Field

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.
-Marcus Aurelius

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
-Kierkegaard

It's not that life is one darn thing after another. It's one darn thing over and over.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
-Henry David Thoreau

Don't lose your head. It's the best part of your body.
-Jimmy Snyder

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-Elbert Hubbard

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
-Ring Lardner

I realize that a sense of humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
-Anne Wilson Schaef

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
-Andrew A. Rooney

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met!
-Dwight L. Moody

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
-Barry M. Goldwater

ALWAYS RECALL

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone and it takes an hour to like someone and a day to love some one but it takes lifetime to forget some one.

You meet some people in your life who change you for the better, REMEMBER them kindly. And as for FRIENDS just be LOYAL -nothing more nothing less.

Its true that we don't know what we've got until we loose it but it is also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one, which opens to us.

 There are things you love to hear but you would NEVER hear it from the person from whom you would like to hear it but don't be DEAF to hear it from the person who says it with HIS HEART


Never say GOODBYE when you still want to TRY, Never give up when u still fell you can take it, never say you don't LOVE that person anymore when you can't let go

YOU ARE SPECIAL

Think what a remarkable, unduplicatable, and miraculous thing it is to be you! Of all the people who have come and gone on the earth, since the beginning of time, not ONE of them is like YOU!

No one who has ever lived or is to come has had your combination of abilities, talents, appearance, friends, acquaintances, burdens, sorrows and opportunities.

No one’s hair grows exactly the way yours does. No one’s finger prints are like yours. No one has the same combination of secret inside jokes and family expressions that you know.

The few people who laugh at all the same things you do, don’t sneeze the way you do. No one prays about exactly the same concerns as you do. No one is loved by the same combination of people that love you – NO ONE!

No one before, no one to come. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE!

Enjoy that uniqueness. You do not have to pretend in order to seem more like someone else. You weren’t meant to be like someone else. You do not have to lie to conceal the parts of you that are not like what you see in anyone else.

You were meant to be different. Nowhere ever in all of history will the same things be going on in anyone’s mind, soul and spirit as are going on in yours right now.

If you did not exist, there would be a hole in creation, a gap in history, something missing from the plan for humankind.

Treasure your uniqueness. It is a gift given only to you. Enjoy it and share it!

No one can reach out to others in the same way that you can. No one can speak your words. No one can convey your meanings. No one can comfort with your kind of comfort. No one can bring your kind of understanding to another person.

No one can be cheerful and lighthearted and joyous in your way. No one can smile your smile. No one else can bring the whole unique impact of you to another human being.

Share your uniqueness. Let it be free to flow out among your family and friends and people you meet in the rush and clutter of living wherever you are. That gift of yourself was given you to enjoy and share. Give yourself away!

See it! Receive it! Let it tickle you! Let it inform you and nudge you and inspire you! YOU ARE UNIQUE

ACADEMIC JOKES

Physics Teacher: Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn’t that wonderful?

Student: Yes sir, if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, he wouldn’t have discovered anything.



Two factory workers are talking.

Woman: I can make the boss give me the day off.
Man: And how would you do that?
Woman: “Just wait and see.” She then hangs upside-down from the ceiling.

Boss comes in: What are you doing?
Woman: I’m a light bulb.
Boss: You’ve been working so much that you’ve gone crazy. I think you need to take the day off.

The man starts to follow her and the boss says: Where are you going?
The man says: I’m going home, too. I can’t work in the dark.



A man is talking to God.

The man: God, how long is a million years?
God: To me, it’s about a minute.
The man: God, how much is a million dollars?
God: To me it’s a penny.
The man: God, may I have a penny?
God: Wait a minute.



A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, “Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn’t do.”

The mother exclaimed, “But that’s terrible! I’m going to have a talk with your teacher about this … by the way, what was it that you didn’t do?”

The little girl replied, “My homework.”



The students were lined up in the cafeteria for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: “Take only ONE. God is watching.”

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, “Take all you want. God is watching the apples.”



Teacher: Why are you late, Joseph?
Joseph: Because of a sign down the road.
Teacher: What does a sign have to do with your being late?
Joseph: The sign said, “School Ahead, Go Slow!”



The teacher of the earth science class was lecturing on map reading.

After explaining about latitude, longitude, degrees and minutes the teacher asked, “Suppose I asked you to meet me for lunch at 23 degrees, 4 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees, 15 minutes east longitude…?”

After a confused silence, a voice volunteered, “I guess you’d be eating alone.”



“Isn’t the principal a dummy!” said a boy to a girl.
“Well, do you know who I am?” asked the girl.
“No.” replied the boy.
“I’m the principal’s daughter.” said the girl.
“And do you know who I am?” asked the boy.
“No,” she replied.
“Thank goodness!” said the boy with a sign of relief.



Teacher asked George: how can you prove the earth is round?
George replied: I can’t. Besides, I never said it was.



Teacher: Here is a math problem. If your dad earned $300 dollars a week and he gave your mother half, what should he have?
Student: A heart attack.



Teacher: This essay on your dog is, word for word, the same as your brother’s.
Student: Yes, sir, it is the same dog.

THE WONDERFUL THINGS IN LIFE

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”

“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car.

The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

WISDOM QUOTES

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey





Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools because they have to say something.
-Plato




Wisdom is not a product of schooling
but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-Albert Einstein





Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
-Lao Tzu




Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
-Sidonie Gabrielle


By three methods we may learn wisdom:
first, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
-Confucius


In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
-Oscar Wilde


A wise man makes his own decisions,
an ignorant man follows public opinion.
-Chinese Proverbs


God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Reinhold Niebuhr



A wise old owl sat on an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
-nursery rhyme



The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
-John A. Simone, Sr.



The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
-The Talmud





Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
skill is knowing how to do it,
and virtue is doing it.
-David Starr Jordan


A man only becomes wise
when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
-Gian Carlo Menotti



Wisdom ceases to be wisdom
when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh,
and too selfish to seek other than itself.
-Kahlil Gibran



The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson



When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.
-unknown



The well bred contradict other people.
The wise contradict themselves.
-Oscar Wilde



I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Abraham Lincoln





The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.
-C.S. Lewis



Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy,
much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
-Epicurus



We seem to gain wisdom more readily
through our failures than through our successes.
We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't.
Success often lies just the other side of failure.
-Leo F. Buscaglia



When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
-Confucius



Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
-Baltasar Gracian



The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-Cicero



The truest greatness lies in being kind,
the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Almost every wise saying has an opposite one,
no less wise, to balance it.
-George Santayana


Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
-Immanuel Kant



The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting;
by doubting we come to the question,
and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
-Pierre Abelard



Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-Oprah Winfrey