Archives - March 2015
March 1, 2015
I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.
March 2, 2015
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
March 3, 2015
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
March 4, 2015
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
March 5, 2015
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
March 6, 2015
If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.
March 7, 2015
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done.
March 8, 2015
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
March 9, 2015
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
March 10, 2015
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
March 10, 2015
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
March 12, 2015
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
March 13, 2015
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away --- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
March 13, 2015
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
March 15, 2015
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse.
March 16, 2015
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
March 17, 2015
The shamrock on an older shore
Sprang from a rich and sacred soil
Where saint and hero lived of yore,
And where their sons in sorrow toil.
March 17, 2015
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
March 18, 2015
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
March 20, 2015
I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth?
March 21, 2015
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
March 21, 2015
The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
March 23, 2015
A woman is like a teabag --- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
March 24, 2015
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.
March 24, 2015
Waffles are just awesome bread.
March 26, 2015
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
March 26, 2015
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
March 28, 2015
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.
March 28, 2015
Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.
March 30, 2015
Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes.
March 30, 2015
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.