Το Παραπαίον Γήρας (Σουρής)

Τας τρίχας άσπρης κεφαλής
σκοπόν τας έχουν προσβολής
κι ειν' εμπαιγμός της μοίρας
το παραπαίον γήρας.

Όπου το πόδι μου σταθεί
και όπου περπατήσω
σιγά-σιγά μ' ακολουθεί
ο χάρος από πίσω.

Αυτό το έρημο κορμί
το τριγυρίζουν σκύλοι
και "χόρτασες κι εσύ ψωμί"
μου λεν εχθροί και φίλοι.

Ως φάσμα τρέχω της νυκτός
μακράν του δρώντος κόσμου
και όπου τάφος ανοικτός
μου φαίνεται δικός μου.

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

Περί γυναικών

Οι γυναίκες είναι σαν τα μήλα σε ένα δέντρο: τα καλύτερα μήλα βρίσκονται στην κορυφή. Οι περισσότεροι άνδρες δεν θέλουν να φτάσουν στα καλύτερα γιατί φοβούνται να μην πέσουν από την κορυφή και χτυπήσουν, έτσι προτιμούν να μαζεύουν από τα πεσμένα που παρόλο δεν είναι νόστιμα είναι τα πιο εύκολα να μαζέψουν. Μερικές φορές τα μήλα που βρίσκονται στην κορυφή του δέντρου νομίζουν ότι κάτι συμβαίνει με αυτά και κανείς δεν μπορεί να τα φτάσει, όταν απλά είναι απίστευτα όμορφα. Πρέπει να περιμένουν με υπομονή τον κατάλληλο άνδρα να φτάσει, αυτόν που είναι πραγματικά θαρραλέος να σκαρφαλώσει μέχρι την κορυφή του δένδρου. Δεν πρέπει να πέσουμε για να μας μαζέψουν: όποιος μας έχει ανάγκη και μας αγαπάει θα κάνει τα ΠΑΝΤΑ για να μας φτάσει. Η γυναίκα φτιάχτηκε από τα πλευρά του άνδρα: όχι από τα πόδια για να την πατάει, όχι από το κεφάλι για να είναι ανώτερη, αλλά από τα πλευρά για να είναι ίση, κάτω από το μπράτσο για να προστατεύεται, δίπλα από την καρδιά για να την αγαπάνε..
Στείλε το στις κοπέλες που γνωρίζεις και μην ξεχάσεις να το στείλεις και στους άνδρες για να μην ξεχνούν πόσο αξίζει μια γυναίκα!!!

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

Big Brother

Scientists Discover Missing Element in Electronic Circuitry
Wired Magazine
2008-05-02
Researchers at HP Labs have built the first working prototypes of an
important new electronic component that may lead to instant-on PCs as well
as analog computers that process information the way the human brain does.
The new component is called a memristor, or memory resistor. Up until today,
the circuit element had only been described in a series of mathematical
equations written by Leon Chua, who in 1971 was an engineering student
studying non-linear circuits. Chua knew the circuit element should exist --
he even accurately outlined its properties and how it would work.
Unfortunately, neither he nor the rest of the engineering community could
come up with a physical manifestation that matched his mathematical
expression.
Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally
built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to
electrical circuit theory, one that will join the three better-known ones:
the capacitor, resistor and the inductor.
Researchers believe the discovery will pave the way for instant-on PCs, more
energy-efficient computers, and new analog computers that can process and
associate information in a manner similar to that of the human brain.
According to R. Stanley Williams, one of four researchers at HP Labs'
Information and Quantum Systems Lab who made the discovery, the most
interesting characteristic of a memristor device is that it remembers the
amount of charge that flows through it.
Indeed, Chua's original idea was that the resistance of a memristor would
depend upon how much charge has gone through the device. In other words, you
can flow the charge in one direction and the resistance will increase. If
you push the charge in the opposite direction it will decrease. Put simply,
the resistance of the devices at any point in time is a function of history
of the device -- or how much charge went through it either forwards or
backwards. That simple idea, now that it has been proven, will have profound
effect on computing and computer science.
"Part of what's going to come out of this is something none of us can
imagine yet," says Williams. "But what we can imagine in and of itself is
actually pretty cool."
For one thing, Williams says these memristors can be used as either digital
switches or to build a new breed of analog devices.
For the former, Williams says scientists can now think about fabricating a
new type of non-volatile random access memory (RAM) - or memory chips that
don't forget what power state they were in when a computer is shut off.
That's the big problem with DRAM today, he says. "When you turn the power
off on your PC, the DRAM forgets what was there. So the next time you turn
the power on you've got to sit there and wait while all of this stuff that
you need to run your computer is loaded into the DRAM from the hard disk."
With non-volatile RAM, that process would be instantaneous and your PC would
be in the same state as when you turned it off.
Scientists also envision building other types of circuits in which the
memristor would be used as an analog device.
Indeed, Leon himself noted the similarity between his own predictions of the
properties for a memristor and what was then known about synapses in the
brain. One of his suggestions was that you could perhaps do some type of
neuronal computing using memristors. HP Labs thinks that's actually a very
good idea.
"Building an analog computer in which you don't use 1s and 0s and instead
use essentially all shades of gray in between is one of the things we're
already working on," says Williams. These computers could do the types of
things that digital computers aren't very good at -- like making decisions,
determining that one thing is larger than another, or even learning.
While a lot of researchers are currently trying to write a computer code
that simulates brain function on a standard machine, they have to use huge
machines with enormous processing power to simulate only tiny portions of
the brain.
Williams and his team say they can now take a different approach: "Instead
of writing a computer program to simulate a brain or simulate some brain
function, we're actually looking to build some hardware based upon
memristors that emulates brain-like functions," says Williams.
Such hardware could be used to improve things like facial recognition
technology, and enable an appliance to essentially learn from experience, he
says. In principle, this should also be thousands or millions of times more
efficient than running a program on a digital computer.
The results of HP Labs teams findings will be published in a paper in
today's edition of Nature. As far as when we might see memristors actually
being used in actual commercial devices, Williams says the limitations are
more business oriented than technological.
Ultimately, the problem is going to be related to the time and effort
involved in designing a memristor circuit, he says. "The money invested in
circuit design is actually much larger than building fabs. In fact, you can
use any fab to make these things right now, but somebody also has to design
the circuits and there's currently no memristor model. The key is going to
be getting the necessary tools out into the community and finding a niche
application for memristors. How long this will take is more of a business
decision than a technological one."

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

Computer's revolution

Scientists Discover Missing Element in Electronic Circuitry

Wired Magazine

2008-05-02

Researchers at HP Labs have built the first working prototypes of an
important new electronic component that may lead to instant-on PCs as well
as analog computers that process information the way the human brain does.

The new component is called a memristor, or memory resistor. Up until today,
the circuit element had only been described in a series of mathematical
equations written by Leon Chua, who in 1971 was an engineering student
studying non-linear circuits. Chua knew the circuit element should exist -- 
he even accurately outlined its properties and how it would work.
Unfortunately, neither he nor the rest of the engineering community could
come up with a physical manifestation that matched his mathematical
expression.

Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally
built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to
electrical circuit theory, one that will join the three better-known ones:
the capacitor, resistor and the inductor.

Researchers believe the discovery will pave the way for instant-on PCs, more
energy-efficient computers, and new analog computers that can process and
associate information in a manner similar to that of the human brain.

According to R. Stanley Williams, one of four researchers at HP Labs'
Information and Quantum Systems Lab who made the discovery, the most
interesting characteristic of a memristor device is that it remembers the
amount of charge that flows through it.

Indeed, Chua's original idea was that the resistance of a memristor would
depend upon how much charge has gone through the device. In other words, you
can flow the charge in one direction and the resistance will increase. If
you push the charge in the opposite direction it will decrease. Put simply,
the resistance of the devices at any point in time is a function of history
of the device -- or how much charge went through it either forwards or
backwards. That simple idea, now that it has been proven, will have profound
effect on computing and computer science.

"Part of what's going to come out of this is something none of us can
imagine yet," says Williams. "But what we can imagine in and of itself is
actually pretty cool."

For one thing, Williams says these memristors can be used as either digital
switches or to build a new breed of analog devices.

For the former, Williams says scientists can now think about fabricating a
new type of non-volatile random access memory (RAM) - or memory chips that
don't forget what power state they were in when a computer is shut off.

That's the big problem with DRAM today, he says. "When you turn the power
off on your PC, the DRAM forgets what was there. So the next time you turn
the power on you've got to sit there and wait while all of this stuff that
you need to run your computer is loaded into the DRAM from the hard disk."

With non-volatile RAM, that process would be instantaneous and your PC would
be in the same state as when you turned it off.

Scientists also envision building other types of circuits in which the
memristor would be used as an analog device.

Indeed, Leon himself noted the similarity between his own predictions of the
properties for a memristor and what was then known about synapses in the
brain. One of his suggestions was that you could perhaps do some type of
neuronal computing using memristors. HP Labs thinks that's actually a very
good idea.

"Building an analog computer in which you don't use 1s and 0s and instead
use essentially all shades of gray in between is one of the things we're
already working on," says Williams. These computers could do the types of
things that digital computers aren't very good at -- like making decisions,
determining that one thing is larger than another, or even learning.

While a lot of researchers are currently trying to write a computer code
that simulates brain function on a standard machine, they have to use huge
machines with enormous processing power to simulate only tiny portions of
the brain.

Williams and his team say they can now take a different approach: "Instead
of writing a computer program to simulate a brain or simulate some brain
function, we're actually looking to build some hardware based upon
memristors that emulates brain-like functions," says Williams.

Such hardware could be used to improve things like facial recognition
technology, and enable an appliance to essentially learn from experience, he
says. In principle, this should also be thousands or millions of times more
efficient than running a program on a digital computer.

The results of HP Labs teams findings will be published in a paper in
today's edition of Nature. As far as when we might see memristors actually
being used in actual commercial devices, Williams says the limitations are
more business oriented than technological.

Ultimately, the problem is going to be related to the time and effort
involved in designing a memristor circuit, he says. "The money invested in
circuit design is actually much larger than building fabs. In fact, you can
use any fab to make these things right now, but somebody also has to design
the circuits and there's currently no memristor model. The key is going to
be getting the necessary tools out into the community and finding a niche
application for memristors. How long this will take is more of a business
decision than a technological one."

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

A Letter from Deepak Chopra

We are the only creatures on the planet who can change our biology through
our thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Our cells are constantly
eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by them. When we fall in
love, positive thoughts and emotions course through our body and strengthen
our immune system. On the other hand, the dark thoughts and feelings of
depression can leave us vulnerable to illness.

Over the past three decades, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing
holds more power over the body than the beliefs of the mind. This is the
quantum worldview, which teaches that we are all part of an infinite field
of intelligence - the source of our thoughts, mind, body, and everything
else in the cosmos. This paradigm, which is gaining increasing acceptance in
the world of modern Western medicine, is based on the following ten
assumptions:

1. The physical world, including our body, is a reflection of our
perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. There is no objective reality "out
there" that is independent of the observer. Instead, we create our bodies as
we create our experience of the world.

2. Although the physical body seems to be solid matter, it actually is
composed of energy and information. Quantum physics tells us that every atom
is 99.9999 percent empty space, and the subatomic particles moving at
lightning speed through this space are bundles of vibrating energy. These
vibrations aren't random or chaotic, but are carrying information along
specific patterns.

3. The mind and body are inseparable. There is one single creative
intelligence that can express itself as our thoughts - as well as the
molecules of our cells, tissues, and organs.

4. Our consciousness creates the biochemistry of the body. Our beliefs,
thoughts, and emotions direct the chemical reactions that take place in
every single cell.

5. MindPerception is a learned phenomenon. The way we experience the
world and our body is learned behavior. By changing our perceptions, we can
change our experience of our body and world.

6. In every moment, impulses of intelligence are creating our body. By
changing the patterns of these impulses, we can change ourselves.

7. Although to the ego-mind, we seem separate and independent, we are all
part of a universal intelligence that governs the cosmos.

8. Time is not absolute. What we call linear time is simply a reflection
of how we perceive change. In fact, time is eternal and changeless. If we
can begin to perceive the changeless, time as we know it will cease to exist
and we will experience immortality.

9. Our essential nature is pure being. Although we are used to seeing
ourselves as personality, ego, and body, our true Self is eternal and
unbounded.

10. Since our essence is immortal and changeless, we do not have to become
victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are caused by gaps in our
self-knowledge and the centuries-old delusion that our bodies are material.
As Ayurveda teaches, any disorder can be prevented if we can maintain
balance in the body, mind, and spirit.

These may seem like vast assumptions, but they are rooted in the findings of
modern quantum physics. I want to encourage you to see that you are much
more than your limited body, ego, and personality. At the deepest level,
your body is ageless and your mind is timeless. Once you identify with this
reality, you have unlimited freedom to create greater health, joy, and
whatever else you wish to bring into the world.

Love,

Deepak

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

ΕΠΙΘΥΜΙΑ

Αχ και να ήμουν πλούσιος, πολλά να έχω φράγκα

σ΄ επιχειρήσεις μπόλικες να έχω τα κουμάντα,

νάχω πολλούς διευθυντές και να τους διατάζω,

εκείνοι να δουλεύουνε κι εγώ λεφτά να βγάζω

την κάθε μέρα που περνά να κάνω τον σπουδαίο

αφού κάθε εξάμηνο θάχω αμάξι νέο

κι ένα μεγάλο κότερο, μόνο για εξορμήσεις

εις του Αιγαίου τα νερά να κάνω καταδύσεις,

δυο τρία ελικόπτερα, αεροπλάνα δέκα,

να τρώω τον αγλέουρα όμως να μένω στέκα.

Και όποτε τ΄ αμάξι μου θα οδηγώ με ρίσκο

ποτέ μου ένα κόκκινο φανάρι να μην βρίσκω

όλα καλά να μούρχονται και βολικά συνάμα

κι η δοξασμένη μου ζωή να είναι ένα θάμα.

Μα ξάφνου άγρια φωνή με κάνει να τρομάξω

η σύζυγος διέταξε την σκούπα να αρπάξω

κι εγώ που ήμουν έτοιμος μέχρι να κυβερνήσω

ο δόλιος αναγκάζομαι πλακάκια να γυαλίσω.

Γιαλώ δεξά, γυαλώ ζερβά και τα πλακάκια τρίζουν

απ΄ την μεγάλη μου ορμή οι βρώμες πια λυγίζουν

κι ως νέος Μεγαλέξαντρος κρατώντας το σπαθί μου

εάν καλά καθάρισα ρωτάω την καλή μου.

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

THEY SAID

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

William James, 1842-1910

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

-Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

-Failure is only a postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

-Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible

Dalai Lama

-Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

Wayne Teasdale

-You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jack Kornfield

-We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

-He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

Philip Jason

-Children dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

William Stafford

-All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up...

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

-Life is what you do with it, so follow your heart!

-Small-minded people are hazards to the dreamer.

-Those who've abandoned their dreams, will discourage yours.

-And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

-We will have meaning beyond meaning and happiness beyond happiness because we will keep looking and doing what is needed...

Darin Lang

-Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

-Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

-Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Zen

-You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Marcia Wieder

-Love is not an emotion; it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.

Ravi Shankar

-True friendship means knowing your needed even without being told.

-If I had a rose for every time I think of you, I would walk in my garden forever.

Rose Macaulay (1889 - 1958)

-Knowledge is Power, But Wisdom is Eternal.

Bonnie Hefner

-We walk in beauty and we blossom in wisdom, we swim in truth and we fly in joy.

Darina Stoyanova

-Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

-Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Swedish Proverb

-Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Robert Redford

-The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

Rosabeth Moss Cantor

-The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann von Goethe

-Your happiness is not determined by weather. It is determined by whether or not you choose it.

-Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

-Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Vincent van Gogh

-Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

-I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow, 1908-1970

-We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer

-Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Lyndon B. Johnson

-It's not about what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.

-What you find tells you what you are looking for.

Alan Cohen

-Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Ram Dass

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

Lao Tzu

-Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

-The ego creates and maintains the subconscious. When you let go of your feeling of separation, that identity is love in its highest form. You are going to have to realize that when you become everything and feel that you need nothing, then the slightest thought for something will bring it to you immediately. The proof of this subject is the result you get.

Lester Levenson

-Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!

Neale Donald Walsch

-In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent that love?

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

-The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

-Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

-Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

John Kennedy

-It is Love and the Lover that live eternally

-Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

Mevlana Rumi (1207 – 1273

-Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

-What’s stressing you out right now? You really think you’re still going to be stressed about it in 10 years? right. Wanna laugh now or wait?

-Start with yourself and then move out into the world and the world will welcome you with open arms.

-Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

Paulo Coelho

-Happiness depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180, Roman Emperor

-Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

-Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

-All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.

Neale Donald Walsch

-The best year of our life begins today.

Alan Cohen

-If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not “want” it choose it.

-May I do all things in the HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL LIFE EVERYWHERE?

-When love is unexpressed, the world is dimished by its absence.

Karen Kelsay

-Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.

-Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

-The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

Neale Donald Walsch

-Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.

-Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."

George Sand (1804 ~ 1876)

-The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

-No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

Jean Paul Getty

-Take time this week to look within. When you find what you want inside you, you will find what you want outside you.

Alan Cohen

-There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

-Very often we think our problems make us sad. But the reality is, we’re sad and therefore we have problems. Waiting for any external force to awaken our joy and happiness is precisely what keeps us lacking in joy and happiness.

-Today, think about what you are waiting for before you can allow yourself to be truly happy. How would it feel if you had what you wanted right now?

Epictetus (c. 50 - 120)

-When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

Pema Chodron

-Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.

Henry Chang

-The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.

John Welwood

-When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy Disney

-When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

Neale Donald Walsch

-Love is not an emotion; it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.

Ravi Shankar

-Sit down, shut up and ask yourself, "What's true?" until you know.

Jed McKenna

-There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard Bach

-Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

-Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Seneca

-The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948

-The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.

Tom Bradley

-Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldnt be driving with your brakes on.

-Everything passes, everything.

-A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

-Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

-Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling

Anthony de Mello, 20th century Jesuit priest

-Love is not an emotion, it is your very nature. Learn to live in the mystery.

Ravi Shankar

-The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

-Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble.

Tao Te Ching

-To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.

-Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it: the fear of it.

Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

-Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than hardening of the arteries....

Franklin Field

-Be kind whenever possible...It is always possible.

-Dalai Lama

-The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

-Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

-As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

-Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?

Leo F. Buscaglia

-Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hil

-If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Pema Chodron

-I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

THEY SAID (unknown)

-A kiss is something that brings two people so close together,that they cannot see anything wrong with each other.

-GRATITUDE IS MY PERMANENT ATTITUDE!

-Life is like a pitcher of lemonade; It's sour at the surface and sweet at the bottom.

-Your work is meant to be enjoyable for you and helpful to others.

-Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.

-The best way to get what you want is to help other people get what they want.

-Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.

-The best way to get what you want is to help other people get what they want.

-You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others

-There is a fundamental principle which dictates that we are the creators of our own reality. So inasmuch as we must take responsibility for the obstacles and challenges we face, we must also be accountable for the miracles and wonders we create in our lives.


-Therefore, part of the miracle formula is knowing that it starts with me. While the Light force of the Creator is the origin of all blessings in my life, I am the catalyst, the channel, the conduit through which those miracles come into fruition.


-Be proactive today. Ask yourself, “Am I behaving in a way that creates and causes miracles?” If the answer is no, start now.
-The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving

-Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

-Do something for someone else today. You don't have to move mountains or save the world. Simply listening when you want to talk or forgiving when you want to hold a grudge will shed some Light into your dark hole.

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »

MARRIAGE

-You have two choices in life:
You can stay single and be miserable,
or get married and wish you were dead.
-At a cocktail party, one woman said to another,
"Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?""Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
-A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds:
"Husband Wanted".Next day she received a hundred letters.
They all said the same thing:
"You can have mine."
-When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.

-A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished
-A little boy asked his father,
"Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?"
Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying"

-A young son asked,
"Is it true Dad, that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?"Dad replied, "That happens in every country, son."
-Then there was a woman who said,
"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late."
-Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-If you want your spouse to listen and
pay strict attention to every word you say -- talk in your sleep.

-Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking th ey had no faults at all.
-First guy says, "My wife's an angel!"Second guy remarks, "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

Διαβάστε ολόκληρο το άρθρο »