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Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.  - Thanks to Aristotle. 

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

Thanks to Calvin Coolidge. Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thanks to Thomas Carlyle

Thanks to http://quotations.about.com for the online quote and to wikipedia for the image 

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. - Thanks to Mahatma Gandhiji

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

- Thanks to Ayn Rand

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

                   - Thanks to John F Kennedy

Thanks to thinkexist.com for the online quote and to wikipedia for the image

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men:  time.  Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

Thanks to the author and to www.quotegarden.com

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

                               - Thanks to William Shakespeare

Thanks to Wikipedia for the image and to www.thinkexist.com for the online quote.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. - Ayn Rand

Patience and perseverance, if we have them, overcome mountains of difficulties.    

Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and to www.mkgandhi.org

I AM not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. The religion of non-violence is not meant merely for the rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law-to the strength of the spirit.

           - Tribute to Gandhi and to www.mkgandhi.org

Mary Oliver's poems are always simple for me to read, understand and cherish. I like 'A visitor' a lot for its simplicity in expressing the need for utilizing the time. My heart felt thanks to Mary for her works. Thanks to www.english.uiuc.edu for the online version of this poem.

A  Visitor

My father, for example, 
who was young once
and blue-eyed, 
returns
on the darkest of nights
to the porch and knocks
wildly at the door, 
and if I answer
I must be prepared
for his waxy face, 
for his lower lip
swollen with bitterness. 
And so, for a long time, 
I did not answer, 
but slept fitfully
between his hours of rapping. 
But finally there came the night
when I rose out of my sheets
and stumbled down the hall. 
The door fell open

and I knew I was saved 
and could bear him, 
pathetic and hollow, 
with even the least of his dreams
frozen inside him, 
and the meanness gone. 
And I greeted him and asked him
into the house, 
and lit the lamp, 
and looked into his blank eyes
in which at last
I saw what a child must love, 
I saw what love might have done
had we loved in time.

"We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion to do as much as we can.  Then, whatever happens, we will have no regrets." 

-14th Dalai Lama

I was wondering what Rumi implied by the baby's forgetfulness of the wet nurse. This is a wonderful poem by Rumi that helps to provoke our thinking. 

A Star Without a Name

When a baby is taken from the wet nurse,

it easily forgets her

and starts eating solid food.

Seeds feed awhile on ground,

then lift up into the sun.

So you should taste the filtered light

and work your way toward wisdom

with no personal covering.

That's how you came here, like a star

without a name.  Move across the night sky

with those anonymous lights.

Thanks to www.armory.com and to Coleman Barks Maypop for the translation.

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