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

PREMIER LEAGUE - FA LOOK INTO VILLAS-BOAS COMMENT

The Football Association are looking into comments made by Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas about referee Chris Foy's performance in Sunday's 1-0 defeat against QPR.

The Chelsea boss launched a verbal attack on Foy after seeing his side end the match at Loftus Road with nine men following the dismissals of Jose Bosingwa and Didier Drogba.

The 34-year-old manager admitted he was "very aggressive" with Foy after accosting him following the west London derby defeat and claimed that the official failed to treat both sides equally, adding: "he (Foy) lost it.. he was card happy towards the (Chelsea) team."

Villas-Boas was unhappy with the sending-off of Bosingwa, who was deemed to be the last man when pulling down Shaun Wright-Phillips despite John Terry claiming he had the Portuguese full-back covered.

It is understood that the FA are aware of the former Porto manager's comments and will decide whether or not to charge him with improper conduct by Wednesday afternoon. Should he be charged and found guilty, Villas-Boas could be fined or even suspended.

Villas-Boas, who took over from Carlo Ancelotti as Chelsea manager this summer, has complained about the performance of officials in the club's games against Stoke and Manchester United, and said on Sunday that he felt his team were not being treated fairly by referees.

CHAMPIONSHIP - ERIKSSON LEAVES LEICESTER POST

SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON

 

Several newspapers and TV stations claimed that the Foxes' big-spending Thai owners dispensed with the former England manager after a crisis meeting, and the club later confirmed the news in a statement, using the phrase "mutual agreement" as opposed to referring to it as a sacking.

Saturday’s loss left the club 13th in the standings but only two points behind the play-off places and five behind second-placed Middlesbrough.

A win would have put them fourth, although they have only won two of their last seven matches.

First team coach Derek Fazackerley has also left the club meaning that academy director Jon Rudkin and coach Mike Stowell will jointly assume the role of acting manager of the first team.

Rumours have linked former boss Martin O’Neill with a return to the club he left for Celtic in 2000.

The Irishman has been without work since leaving Aston Villa at the start of last season.

"The process of recruiting a new permanent manager will begin in the coming days. There will be no further comments from the club or any comment on the recruitment process until an appointment is made," said Leicester's official statement.

Eriksson, 63, is best-known for spells in charge of England, Lazio, Roma, Sampdoria and Manchester City.

He has also managed clubs in Portugal and his native Sweden, and coached the Mexico and Ivory Coast national teams.

Eriksson's last two spells in English football also ended acrimoniously.

He was controversially sacked by Manchester City in 2008 - also then owned by a Thai, Thaksin Shinawatra - after leading them to eighth position in the Premier League.

In 2009 the Swede took on an ill-fated, brief role as Notts County director of football, a job he quit once it became apparent that the funding did not exist for an ambitious project to take the club from League Two to the top flight.

MATTERS ARISING (The Eagle Eye): GADDAFI BURIAL DELAYED AMID CALLS FOR PROBE

MATTERS ARISING (The Eagle Eye): GADDAFI BURIAL DELAYED AMID CALLS FOR PROBE: Libya's National Transitional Council has delayed the burial for Muammar Gaddafi in order to arrange a secure location and allow for an in...

GADDAFI BURIAL DELAYED AMID CALLS FOR PROBE

Libya's National Transitional Council has delayed the burial for Muammar Gaddafi in order to arrange a secure location and allow for an investigation into his death, officials say.

On Friday, as videos continued to surface showing the fugitive deposed leader being captured alive by a crowd of NTC fighters, the United Nations human rights office called for an investigation into how he died.

"Taken together, they were very disturbing," Rupert Colville, spokesman for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said of the images.

Gaddafi's body is being kept in a cold storage site in Misrata, where it was taken after NTC fighters captured and killed him in his hometown Sirte on Thursday. It bears a bullet hole in the head, the Reuters news agency reported.

Mohamed Sayeh, a senior member of the NTC, told the Associated Press news agency that a "third party will come from outside of Libya to go through the paperwork" relating to Gaddafi's death.

Sayeh said Gaddafi will be given a private burial with respect and in accordance with Islamic principles.

Following Gaddafi's death and the pending declaration of "liberation," which the NTC has pegged to the fall of Sirte, NATO nations are also expected to decide on Friday to phase out their seven-month air and sea mission, which played a crucial role in defeating Gaddafi's armed forces, alliance officials and diplomats said.

Captured alive

In the hours following Gaddafi's capture, NTC officials and fighters gave differing accounts of what happened, but several videos taken by fighters at the scene show the fugitive strongman being taken alive, though bleeding from the left side of his head.

In the videos, fighters shout, scream and fire their weapons in the air.

Some can be seen punching Gaddafi and pulling his head down by his hair.

Gaddafi, appearing dazed, gestures to them and touches his wound, then displays his bloody hand.

No videos have emerged showing the moment of Gaddafi's death, and it is unclear exactly how he received his mortal wound.

The first video, received by Al Jazeera, showed his lifeless body laying on the pavement. According to the Reuters news agency, Gaddafi's body bears a bullet hole in the side of his head.

An international commission of inquiry launched by the UN Human Rights Council is already investigating killings, torture and other crimes in Libya, and Colville, the UN human rights office spokesman, said he expected that panel would look into Gaddafi's death.

"It is a fundamental principle of international law that people accused of serious crimes should if possible be tried," he said.

"Summary executions are strictly illegal. It is different if someone is killed in combat."

Jibril claims 'crossfire'

According to some reports from Sirte, Gaddafi and an escort of bodyguards had attempted to break out of the siege of the city, which had lasted for more than a month.

Their convoy was struck by French fighter jets and a US Predator drone, and a wounded Gaddafi took cover in a drainage pipe with his surviving entourage, according to a Reuters news agency report.

A US defence official told AFP news agency that a US drone along with a French fighter jet had attacked a convoy of vehicles in Libya that the French believed was carrying Gaddafi.

Pursuing NTC fighters fired at the group as they fled, then fought and killed some of the men guarding Gaddafi and took the ousted leader captive, Reuters said, quoting eyewitnesses.

Mahmoud Jibril, the NTC's de facto prime minister, initially said Gaddafi had been killed in a "crossfire" and that it "doesn't make any difference" what happens to his body "as long as he disappears". Jibril pledged to resign after the fall of Sirte, which the NTC set as the final criterion for declaring the "liberation" of Libya.

"He was alive up to last moment, until he arrived at hospital" in the city of Misrata, Jibril said.

Abu Bakr Younus, Gaddafi's defence minister, and Mutassim, one of Gaddafi's sons and former national security advisor, were also killed in Sirte on Thursday.

NATO mission to end

A decision to gradually wind down the mission was expected to be taken at a meeting of ambassadors of the 28 NATO nations in Brussels starting at 1430 GMT, based on recommendations from NATO military commanders.

"Certainly surveillance will continue as we need to continue to monitor the situation," one official said.

NATO officials said the decision would take into account the ability of Libya's interim authorities to maintain security. On
Wednesday, NATO ambassadors put off a decision because of caution by countries such as Britain and France, which have been at the forefront of the military intervention.

"Clearly the operation is coming to its end," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.

William Hague, the British foreign minister, said on Thursday that Gaddafi's death brought the end of the operation "much closer", but added: "I think we will want to be sure there are not other pockets of pro-Gaddafi forces still able to threaten the civilian population."



Source: Aljazeera

BIOGRAPHY OF FERNANDO TORRES

Fernando José Torres Sanz (born March 20, 1984) is a Spanish football player. He was born in the Fuenlabrada neighbourhood of Madrid and was the youngest player to play for Atlético Madrid and the youngest to become captain (at age 19). Nicknamed 'El Niño' (The Kid) for his youthful face, Torres is a striker for Spain and Liverpool. Torres scored 55 goals over 5 seasons in the Spanish top flight, with only Samuel Eto'o and David Villa scoring more in the same period. Torres also played two seasons in the second division where he scored 7 goals in 40 games.

In 1999, Torres signed his first contract with the club and at the end of the 1999–2000 season he was part of the first team. His next success was at the European Under-16 Championship in England in 2001, where he finished as the Player of the Tournament en route to Spain's victory.

At the time, Newcastle United manager Bobby Robson was apparently informed of Torres' talent by a Newcastle scout.Robson, however, decided against a move for the Spaniard. Torres made his début for Atlético Madrid in the Vicente Calderón Stadium against Leganes and he scored his first goal for the club the following week, in a game against Albacete.

2002 saw Atlético Madrid returning to the first division of Spanish football. In his first season playing in the top division, Torres did not find the transition from second tier football too much of a hindrance as he scored 13 goals. Torres has been the top scorer for Atlético in La Liga for the past four seasons.He is the youngest player to play for Atlético Madrid and the youngest to become captain (at age 19).

In 2003–2004 Torres made further strides as he scored 19 league goals in just 35 appearances. He was also named as Atlético's club captain aged just 19. Atlético also improved, but were pipped for a UEFA Cup place on the final day of the season as they finished 7th behind Sevilla due to goal difference in the two team's head-to-head record (2-1, 0-2).

In this season Torres made his debut for the full Spanish national team on September 6, 2003 in a friendly against Portugal. His first goal for Spain came against Italy on April 28, 2004. At the end of the season Torres was chosen as part of the Spanish squad for Euro 2004. He only appeared as a late substitute in Spain's first two group games, but made the first eleven for the deciding game against Portugal. Torres hit the post in the 62 minute after Nuno Gomes put Portgual ahead on 57 minutes. Spain lost 1-0 and were eliminated.

Atlético's 7th place finish in 2004 did qualify them for the Intertoto Cup, giving Torres his first taste of European club competition. They made the final, but agonisingly lost on penalties, this time to Villarreal.

At his first ever appearance in a World Cup finals at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Torres scored the final goal in a 4-0 victory over Ukraine with a volley. In the second group match, Torres scored twice against Tunisia, in the 76th minute for Spain to take the lead 2-1 and then again from a penalty kick in the 90th. Torres was dropped from the team for a friendly versus Romania in November 2006, but returned to the national side for the friendly against England in February 2007, a 1-0 win for Spain. After the World Cup Torres admitted that he turned down the chance to join Chelsea after the end of the 2005-06 season.

Again in 2007, Torres's future at Madrid was the subject of much speculation after Atlético's inability to secure a UEFA Cup spot. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United were all linked with a move for the player. Following the end of the 2006-07 season, reports in the English media stated that Torres was the main transfer target of Liverpool.

The rumours reached such a fever pitch that Atlético president Enrique Cerezo made a statement saying "We've received no offer from Liverpool or any other club or player". However, a few days later new reports suggested that Atletico had agreed a deal with Liverpool for Torres, the fee rumoured was £20 million plus Luis Garcia. Then on 30 June Atlético announced agreeing a deal with Villareal to sign Diego Forlán (seen as a potential replacement for Torres).

On July 2 it was reported that Torres had cut short his holiday to fly back to Madrid to finalize the move. The next day Torres passed a medical for Liverpool and it was annouced that a farewell press conference would be held in Madrid the on 4 July to bid farewell to the Atlético Madrid fans. Later that day, Atlético officially confirmed his transfer to Liverpool on their website.

Torres will wear Liverpool's number 9 shirt, which has previously been worn by legendary Liverpool strikers Robbie Fowler and Ian Rush. It was revealed during the Liverpool press conference that the fee stood at £27 million. It has also been widely reported that Torres has taken a pay cut as part of the transfer. A drop from £103,000 a week in Spain, to about £90,000 according to The Times.

Torres made his official debut for Liverpool F.C. on July 17, 2007 during a friendly match against Werder Bremen. Torres scored his first goal for Liverpool F.C. on August 3, 2007 during a friendly match against Shanghai Shenhua, which was also his first start. Torres is Liverpool F.C.'s record signing. On August 11, 2007 Torres made his competitive debut for Liverpool F.C. against Aston Villa in a 2-1 win.

He scored his first English Premier League goal on his Anfield debut August 19th, in the 16th minute of the match against Chelsea running on to a Steven Gerrard pass he took the ball past Chelsea's defender Tal Ben Haim and slotted it into the Chelsea net, this silenced many critics including Aaron Williams, a biased Manchester United supporter and infamous media figure. The game ended 1-1 after a bad decision by Rob Styles who gave Chelsea a controversial penalty in the 62nd minute.

In November of 2001 Torres played in the Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. In July of 2002, he played in the Under-19 European Championships in Norway, a tournament Spain won. Torres was both top scorer and Player of the Tournament. He made his debut for the Under-21 national team in 2003. On September 6, later that year, Torres made his debut for the senior national team against Portugal. His first goal for Spain came against Italy on April 28, 2004.

It was widely expected that a good performance for Spain at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany would boost Torres' already significant demand among major European clubs. At his first ever appearance in a World Cup finals match, Torres scored with a spectacular volley helping Spain to a win over Ukraine. In the second group match Spain rallied from a 0-1 deficit against Tunisia to win 3-1. Torres scored in the 76th minute for Spain to take the lead 2-1 and then again from a penalty kick in the 90th minute.

He was subsequently given a much-needed rest in Spain's third group match against Saudi Arabia, entering the game only to substitute José Antonio Reyes in the 70th minute. Having managed to score three goals in the tournament, Torres was one of the leading goal scorers in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was also the first player to score three goals in the tournament. Torres started the round of 16 matches against France, but after initially taking the lead, Spain went on to lose 1-3 and were knocked out of the tournament.

The Spanish national team coach, Luis Aragonés, remarked that he "never scores two goals the same", highlighting Fernando's versatility as a player. Moreover he was Spain's best player at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.

However, Torres was dropped from the team for a friendly versus Romania in November 2006, after having only scored 2 goals in 8 matches due to a slight drop in form. He was the youngest player ever to score for Spain.

Liverpool FC Premier League Premier League chances

The club formerly known as “The Most Successful in FC History” aka Liverpool FC, are back with a new manager in the hot seat and new hopes in Scouse hearts, but is there anything worth getting excited about?


Liverpool are a club with a great heritage, with one of the best top-flight records in FA history, having finished below fourteenth place just 12 times in 95 seasons and they have amassed more top-flight wins than any other English team. The Reds have won 18 league titles, seven FA Cups and (a record) seven League Cups.

On the continent Liverpool reign supreme as the most successful English club, with five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three UEFA Super Cups. Even the most rabid Evertonian or Red Devils has to admit that they were "THE" team in the 1980s, but both clubs are also well aware that that is just what Liverpool’s glories are…HISTORY.

The odds makers don’t think that history will start repeating itself this season though, Coral have the Scousers lifting the EPL trophy at 11/1, while the defending Champions are at 9/5 with Paddy Power (at time of press). The pain of slipping behind Manchester United in the “Most League Titles” will still be fresh and raw with Liverpool fans and they would love it, if they could wipe the smile of the Red Devil faces the world over and start writing a fresh page in the Big Book of Liverpool FC history, by winning the League this coming season.

Do you remember the last time?

The last time Liverpool won the League was the 1989-90 season. That’s 21 years ago, a whole person old enough to drink ago. Back then the Reds romped the league with 79 points and a +41 Goal Difference, second place was Aston Villa nine points and 22 goals behind. A little team called Manchester United finished in 13th position, with 48 points and a -1 Goal Difference.

21 long seasons without winning the league has tested the famous Scouse sense of humour. But Liverpool fans showed their class, and took it with good natured chuckles when the cheeky “MUFC 19 Times” banner was unfurled at Anfield on the last day of last season (19 being the number of titles Manchester United has, one more than Liverpool’s 18).

What was less well received was the first half of Liverpool’s last season. Firstly there was the departure of Rafael Benitez to Champions League winners Internazionale, replaced by LMA Manager of the Year, Roy Hodgson. The manager made the new signings of Milan Jovanovic, Joe Cole, Paul Konchesky, Brad Jones & Raul Meireles, which seemed to signal the club’s (lack of) ambition. It was hardly a sparkling start as games slipped away from Liverpool and the team was booed by their own fans.

Their form away from Anfield was utterly awful, there was a 3-0 defeat to Manchester City, 3-1 to Newcastle and a serious loss away to Manchester United, outside the league they fared little better, being booted out the Carling Cup by humble Northampton before being beaten by local rivals Everton in what Hodgson ludicrously described as his team’s “best performance of the season”.

By January 8th Liverpool were level with Blackpool and Everton. Their new owner; John W. Henry, decided to put an end to Roy Hodgson’s reign as Liverpool manager and appoint Kenny Dalglish as caretaker manager, a very popular decision among the fans, but it was clear that Dalglish (out of management since 2000) faced an up-hill (and up-league) battle. His task was compounded by Fernando Torres requesting relocation to Chelsea at the end of the transfer window. But, in what may prove to be a tidy piece of business Liverpool recruited Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll, to replace the Spaniard.

For anyone who believe s in the beauty of numbers, they should be aware that Roy Hodgson’s Liverpool record reads eight wins, four draws and eight defeats (with a -3 Goal Difference) while “King” Kenny managed ten wins, three draws and six losses (but swelled Liverpool’s GD to +15). Kenny Daglish’s average points per game last season was a mighty 1.83 while Roy Hodgson was just 1.25.

Had Dalglish (and the same average) been in place all season Liverpool would have finished the season on 70 points, and second in the League. That still wouldn’t have been enough to wrest the trophy from Fergies’ talons. That’s probably why Liverpool are still 10/1 with Paddy Power and Ladbrokes to manage it next season.

It will still be a good season for Liverpool and I think Andy Carroll will play a succession of blinders (and might even be worth a punt for the Golden boot), due to a) his skill b) Liverpool’s desire and c) the goal happy / hungry manner that Dalglish has his players playing. Bodog have Carroll at 9th favourite to manage it and have stuck him at +2000 to be the league’s Top Scorer, if you fancy this one, get a bet in early as Liverpool open their season at home against Sunderland, so will likely get off the goal scoring mark sharpish. However it will be an A for effort and a B for achievement as Manchester United will be just a bridge too far for Liverpool.

Prediction: A decent finish, maybe the best in years but there won’t be a 19th Premiere league title this year. My soccer betting prediction is that Liverpool will finish third in the 2011-12 season.

courtesy: www.sbrforum.com

DR. PAA KWESI NDUOM TO RUN AGAIN

The 2008 flagbearer of the CPP, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom has declared his intention to contest the flagbearership slot of the party for next year's presidential election.

 According to Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, his exploratory committee has identified all the problems that led to his defeat in the 2008 elections.

He said he is taking steps to address the problems before Election 2012.

Dr Nduom said as part of his efforts to rejuvenate the CPP, he will be opening the Osu Klottey office today in consultation with the National Executives whilst the Winneba office will be opened tomorrow.

  He said that notwithstanding he spent the whole day on CPP related activities including Radio Programmes.

Meanwhile, the CPP says it is embarking on massive membership drive across the country.

According to the party, what is needed now is to sell its ideology to Ghanaians and convince the electorate on why the CPP should be the alternative to the NPP and NDC.

  He said the CPP will conduct its presidential primaries before December this year although he is not certain on the exact date.

DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE

Some people go to extraordinary lengths to be difficult. Think of the diva actress whose on-set needs can never be met or the boss who keeps moving the goal posts. The difficult person elevates the deliberate provocation to an art form. The underlying message is often, "Unless you agree with me and go along, you'll regret it."

One clue that a person is attempting to intimidate or manipulate you is the use of unpredictable, or protean, behavior—acts that are random and seemingly out of the blue. A dictator keeps his minions guessing—and scared.

Erratic behavior is a powerful weapon because it defies accurate prediction. Often, the behavior comes as a surprise even to the person generating it.

Flying into a rage or staring you down and dismissing you summarily are common strategies to keep you off-kilter. Unpredictable actions serve the purpose of confusing potential usurpers and avoiding responsibility. Your boss freaks out, throws things and yells. Some might call him irrational. But the irrationality gives him a leg up.

Erratic behavior served adaptive ends in our past, and it still does. Just as a minnow might cut a zigzagging path to avoid being snapped up by a larger fish, the boss alternately screams and stonewalls to avoid having her motives laid bare.

Protean behavior evolved to prevent people from being psyched out. That's not to say that fickle acts are always openly hostile and aggressive. The difficult person can just as easily be solicitous or seductive: Think of femme fatales from biblical Judith. Unpredictable behavior is at heart about deception, and it's just as likely to be unconscious as conscious.

If such behavior comes from a boss or a spouse, you've got some tricky choices to make. There are several problems confronting you at once, since you're juggling competing goals. Your ego tells you to stick up for yourself, but you want to avoid an unnecessary argument.

Usually we can't resist getting riled up in our own defense. The ease with which we fall into dueling dyads is a remnant of a "culture of honor" that most of our ancestors needed to adopt. Our neural circuitry equips us to immediately jump to our own defense.

We usually regret having charged into battle—or at least we wonder what we were thinking. And that's just it: We weren't thinking. An emotional reaction bypasses thoughtful deliberation. No rational person today would engage in an argument with a random person on the street. But if someone bumps into us, blocks our way or otherwise wants to hassle us, our immediate inclination is to freeze, fight or flee. Similarly, our immediate response to the verbal slights or manipulative barbs of a difficult person is often to fight back. Your immediate reaction is, "I can't stand this crazy, insulting behavior."

We too quickly jump to our own defense when we feel insulted. We do so because we have evolved a hypervigilant concern for our standing among peers. This focus on status makes sense as a play for dominance and power, qualities that translate into real mating options.
Still, we're so captivated by displays of dominance that we pay boxers millions of dollars to watch them square off and even pay to see professional wrestlers play-act a power struggle.

This is not to say that everyone has the immediate urge to lash out in self-defense. Some people freeze when confronted with criticism, telling themselves, "I must not be criticized" or "I must be above criticism." Temporary paralysis in response to a physical threat may once have kept you alive; but freezing in the face of a verbal onslaught won't help you make your case.

To cope with a difficult person, you need to learn to question your automatic defensive philosophies, such as "I will not be treated that way; I won't let you get away with this" and "My reputation is on the line if I fail."

Resisting the trap set by difficult people is easier if you're aware of your vulnerability to getting hurt and then feeling angry.

Better to check your fight, flight or freeze reactions and refuse to be a part of a duel in which you're an inadvertent participant. Sure, you need to stand up for yourself, but do so without demanding that you be above criticism at all costs. Remind yourself of your long-range goals: saving time, energy, hassle and maybe even your own hide.

I WILL NOT RETIRE - MESSI

Lionel Messi                                                                                                       Argentina star Lionel Messi has guaranteed that he is not considering retiring from international football despite all the criticism from media and fans.                                                                                                                  The diminutive midfielder has expressed his affection for the national team, before revealing his admiration for Chile's Alexis Sanchez and Brazil's Neymar. Earlier on Thursday, Julio Grondona, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), suggested Messi could stop playing for his country if all the negative remarks about him did not stop. The Barcelona ace has now guaranteed he will not quit Argentina, though he confessed that such comments had an impact on the team. "We suffered a lot with the criticism, although we know we were not doing things right, but at the same time they helped us, because they made us stronger as a group," Messi said at a press conference. "Although I get criticised, I will always come to the national team. I come because I always want to play and I will not change because of what the press say. "I have never cared about what the press say and I will not start now. The only thing I care about is what the fans say ... no-one likes to be insulted. "I come to the national team because I feel it it is part of me, and I try to stay distant from all this. This is the first time I have been through something like this with the media, but I am not going to change." Quizzed about Neymar, Messi stated that the Santos star "is a really good player" and that it would be great if he moved to Spain. About Udinese's Alexis Sanchez, who is very close to joining Barcelona, Messi said: "I have known him for some time, he is a great player and he would be a great signing for us because he would add a lot to our team." Goal.com

TEN SECRETS MEN KEEP FROM WOMEN

Yes, men tell women what we think you want to hear because, let's face it, you're going to decide if we're having sex tonight. If you ask us to communicate, we think it's a trap. Women say they want me to be honest, but when men let it rip, women don't like the answers. As I have no personal attachment to anyone on this site, I'm going to let it rip.
Things men tell their buddies that they don't tell their wives and girlfriends.
1. Yes, it's about sex. Men like sex, men like variety. Men like women that enjoy sex, enjoy variety, and are     active partners in sex.

2. A man is less likely to feel romantic if a woman is making his life miserable. If you want to cuddle, don't start a fight over leaving the toilet seat up or not taking out the garbage.
3. Men are passionate about the things women hate. In general, when men tell you they don't like cartoons, action movies, motorcycles, Political talk-shows, sports, firearms, the Telenovelars, and ESPN, etc. they are lying so that they can have sex with you. 
4. Men don't like women's entertainment. I'd rather eat glass than watch Dela's Show, but I've watched it for sex.
5. There's only 24 hours in a day. Eight hours of sleep, ten hours at work, two hours commute, 90 minutes at the gym, and 90 minutes cooking, eating, and washing up leaves only one hour each day for "us" or "me" time. Keep your expectations reasonable and share.

6. Women have cold hands, feet, butts, and other body parts. Men are not your personal heaters. Warm them or keep them to yourself.
7. A man's willingness to put up with a women's incessant nagging is directly proportional to how hot they are. Yes, men will kiss a beautiful women's ass for sex, that doesn't mean you're going to get the same treatment.
8. When women say they want to sit down and talk, men hear "I'm pissed." You never want to talk about things we like, like sports, so telling us you want to talk sends us the signal that you want to bring up something that's bothering you. You might fool us once in a while by actually wanting to talk about something the other sex is interested in. Men have to, it's called dating.
9. Men hate dating because we have to lie. Lying isn't fun. We can't wait to be married so we can really tell you how we feel about Delay"s Show. Unless he's a jerk, a man's happiest day is when he no longer has to lie to have sex.
10.  Working out doesn't count unless you sweat. We don't want to hear about how tough your yoga class was if all the girls in class are wearing makeup. 

GRAPHIC'S REPORTON 8,000 REGISTERED GAYS IS DOUBTFUT - LECTURER

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A Lecturer at Ghana’s Premier Journalism Institute, GIJ, Dr. Wilberforce Gyissah, has told Citi News Daily Graphic’s publication which claimed that about 8,000 gays have been registered in two regions of the country, with majority of them infected with sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, has too many loopholes to be accurate.

Dr. Gyissah suspects the story could have been mooted by advocates for homosexual rights, who want the practice legalized.

According to the Daily Graphic June 10 edition, the registered homosexuals included students in junior and senior high schools, the polytechnics and workers.

The Paper said the revelation came out at a day's workshop organised in Takoradi on June 9, 2011, for more 200 health workers drawn from the 17 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Western Region.

The workshop, which was funded by the United States Agency for international Development (USAlD), was aimed at training health workers to be abreast of the basic facts about HIV and AIDS, as well as manage post-exposure prophylaxis of blood products and body fluids in the course of their work.

The Paper further reported that it also came out that more than 2,900 lesbians and gays had been registered in the two regions in 2008, the figure tripling as of 2010, with most of them testing not only positive for STDs but also for HIV/AIDS after they had undergone voluntary counselling and testing.

The rise in STDs, including HIV, in the two regions, according to the NGOs, was due to the fact that almost all those registered were bi-sexual, with some having wives and girlfriends.
That, according to the NGOs, resulted in the rapid spread of STDs, including HIV/AIDS.

But Dr. Wilberforce Gyissah says the Paper’s report has too many loopholes to be true. He told Citi News that he discovered the loopholes in the story following a research he was carrying out on homosexuality in Ghana.

“In my content analysis of the story from the perspective of intellectual study, I realise there were serious problems with the story carried by the Daily Graphic. First of all, there is the issue of source strategy in journalism. The story was carried and banner-headlined with a reporter’s name, but nobody was mentioned in that story in terms of source attribution. The next thing was that, not even a single NGO has been mentioned as being an NGO that is involved in the registration of these homosexuals".

“Then I also have an issue with the JHS and SHS students. Most of these students are minors. Are we saying that they have left schools to register with NGOs declaring that they are homosexuals? Or is it the case that certain elements are trying to draw our children out of school and sodomize them? That should be a concern for all of us. Without the names of the NGO’s, Graphic did not provide any attribution, and in addition to that, there was no demography to tell us how many people from Central and Western Region, and from the specific districts or localities are involved in this. I think that for a flagship Newspaper to carry a story such as this it would have meant that they had every necessary ingredient as far as journalism is concerned. So they have to rethink and go back to the story and look at it critically”.

“What is even worrying was the fact that, there was another story carried by the same Newspaper and put in a corner somewhere attributed to a senior official from the Social Welfare Department, who said that they had no name of an NGO in the Western or Central Region that was dealing with health workers or registration of homosexuals. And that raises serious doubts as far as the credibility of the story is concerned” he noted.

Dr. Wilberforce Gyissah said the Newspaper had a responsibility to look out for the NGOs engaged in the said registration, in order to further establish the ages of the JHS and SHS students alleged to have registered as homosexuals.

“My position is that, Graphic would have to go back and do a re-evaluation of that particular story. If it is an attempt to legitimize gay rights in this country, then so be it. However if it is an attempt by somebody hiding behind the scenes with a long hand trying to push this into the media to the sub-consciousness of the people and use it to manipulate the minds of our people to believe that this is becoming legitimate, then I have a serious problem with it” he noted.

When contacted for a response, the Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr. Ransford Tetteh, told Citi News the Paper will respond at the appropriate time if it deems it necessary.




BY: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie,Citifmonline.com/Ghana