thought provoking

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
-- Bishop Westcott

Joy comes from using your potential.
-- Will Schultz

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
-- Plato

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
-- Vash Young

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former first lady Barbara Bush at graduation of students at Wellsley College

" As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer,or business leader will be, you area human being first, and those human connections- with spouses,with children, with friends- are the most important investments you will ever make. AT the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.....Our success as a society depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house."

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.
-- Morris Mandel

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
-- Proverb

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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anonymous.


The surest way to make it hard for children is to make it easy for them.
Eleanor Roosevelt.

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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven;
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal ;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
A time to keep ,and a time to cast away;
A time to rend and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.
ECCLESIASTES 3 : 1-8

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I asked God for strength that I might achieve,
I was made weak, that I might learn to
humbly obey;
I asked for health, that I might do greater things,
I was given infirmity, that I might do better
things,
I asked for riches, that I might be happy,
I was given poverty, that I might be wise;
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things;
I got nothing that I asked for
But everything that I had hoped for;
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were
answered.
I am among all men. most richly blessed.
--AUTHOR UNKNOWN

[tears of sin]

so nice and great Quotes

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Meet people in such a manner that if you die, they should weep for you, and if you live they should long for you. [Ali radi Allah anhu]


Guidance of the day:
Do your very best to come to your Lord with a heart that is free of idolatry, hypocrisy, heresy, and reprehensible traits of character such as arrogance, ostentation, jealousy, deceitful behavior toward Muslims, and so on. Seek God's help and be patient. Strive in earnest and repeat often, "Our Lord, do not cause our hearts to swerve after You have guided us; and bestow upon us mercy from You, for You are the Bestower "(3:8). For this is how God has described those of His believing servants who are firmly steeped in knowledge. [Counsels of Religion by Imam al-Haddad]


Food for thought:
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is what are we busy about? Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of the rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into. What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Mrs Iffat Hassan

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.
-- John Paul II

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
-- Source Unknown


things like plastic surgery can be fixed, but a real, true freindship you can't.
-- Kendra Eddinger

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It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.
-- James C. Dobson

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It always amazes me to see people making a decision to never forgive. It’s like trying to punish their tormentors by harming themselves.
-- Nisandeh Neta

Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
-- Source Unknown

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
-- Sir Edwin Arnold

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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-- H. Jackson Brown

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-- Anouk Aimee

A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable.
-- Ene Riisna

Savor every moment of life and reflect deeply on each experience. Celebrate the peaks and valleys. Become aware of the authentic joy that continually binds moment to moment, year to year, and life to life.
-- Steve Brunkhorst

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
-- Bernard M. Baruch

Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.
-- Source Unknown

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1. Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.


2. Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.


3. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek elsewhere.


4. If we do not find peace in ourselves, we will never find it anywhere else.


5. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.


6. Nothing can bring us peace but ourselves.


7. In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety -- we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts.


8. Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.


9. There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.


10. A man's business is to do the will of God; then God Himself takes on the care of that man; therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.


Mrs Iffat Hassan

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
-- Russell Hoban

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
-- Charles Mackay

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
-- George Herbert Palmer