Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Money and happiness are they really connected?
More money, more happiness or more money less happiness.
What do you think? Is money and happiness connected or are they incompatible or happiness is nothing to do with money. I would like to know your opinion about that. Wasn't so good we could make a quote about money and happiness maybe the most quoted basic ideas.
Tell me what you think ...
“Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.”
Henry Miller
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
Retirement Planning
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock, you would have $49.00 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago, drunk all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
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It is a secret c303a because I can not see almost nothing. The text can not be seen. Except if you highlight it.Quote:
Originally Posted by c303a
I don't know what it is. I can read it perfectly. Are you wearing sunglasses over there?;);)Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham
:-B No I am with the white screen and with that screen we can not read the text. In fact I use glasses but they are not sun glasses they are reading glasses. :D
:) I say you had changed the background color but the ones that are with the default background can not read your post. :p
I was only trying to say that c303a. :cool:
Sorry, let's try this. I don't know what happened on the original one. If it's not right please feel free to edit.
Retirement Planning
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock, you would have $49.00 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago, drunk all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
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No problem c303a. Maybe my ideas get mixed to try to explain them in English.
I was only trying to alert you, nothing else mate.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
'You should reach the limits of virtue, before you cross the border of death. '
'How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand, in front of battle for their native land!'
'Rise up, warriors, take your stand at one another side, our feet set wide and rooted like oaks in the ground. '
'...learn to love death's ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn. '
'Here is courage, mankind's finest possession, here is the noblest prize that a young man can endeavor to win.'
Some selected lines from the works of the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, who was also a military man, his poems were sung to inspire his men.
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Zarathustra , also referred to as Zartosht , was an ancient Iranian prophet and religious poet. The hymns attributed to him, the Gathas, are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism.
The date of Zoroaster, the date of composition of the Old Avestan gathas, is unknown. Classical writers such as Plutarch proposed dates prior to 6000 BC. Dates proposed in scholarly literature diverge widely, between the 18th and the 6th centuries BC.
In the Gathas, Zoroaster sees the human condition as the mental struggle between aša (truth) and druj (lie). The cardinal concept of aša—which is highly nuanced and only vaguely translatable—is at the foundation of all Zoroastrian doctrine, including that of Ahura Mazda (who is aša), creation (that is aša), existence (that is aša) and as the condition for Free Will.
The purpose of humankind, like that of all other creation, is to sustain aša. For humankind, this occurs through active participation in life and the exercise of constructive thoughts, words and deeds.
Elements of Zoroastrian philosophy entered the West through their influence on Judaism and Middle Platonism and have been identified as one of the key early events in the development of philosophy. Among the classic Greek philosophers, Heraclitus is often referred to as inspired by Zoroaster's thinking.
Zarathustra Quotes
“Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.”
“Let us be such as help the life of the future”
“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry”
“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”
“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”
“Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.”
“Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.”
“Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise”
You should read Zarathustra to know what he spoke and how he influenced the world and all other religions.
Zarathustra the first man (that we know) to have only one God, the very well known Ahura Mazda.
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Ahura Mazda on his Vimana
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
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For my father.
There are some memories in life that remain for a short time while and others stick with you forever. All the times I've spent with you are going to be sweet memories for the rest of my life. Let's raise a toast today and celebrate the beginning of yet another wonderful year in your life and cherish memories that we can have forever. Happy birthday.
Ric
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Vincent Van Gogh
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
I am not a prophet.
Jose Saramago
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
"Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
(...and the way we are spending money we don't have, our children, and their children, and their children...they get it good and hard too. Too bad they have taxation without representation. Sucks to have us spending on their behalf. Oh well. - me)
Politicians. Bah...
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It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.
Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!"
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.