Friday Wisdom

Friday Wisdom 25/10/13

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. B. R. Ambedkar   

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Friday Wisdom

Friday Wisdom 18/10/13

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.  Gilda Radner 

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Friday Wisdom

Friday Wisdom 20/09/13

My hubby has gone abroad for 2 months…so I think this quote is pretty relevant today.   “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” Roger de Bussy-Rabutin  

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Children

Friday Wisdom 06/09/13

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.  Anne Sullivan  It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination

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Friday Wisdom

Friday Wisdom 30/08/13

  If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass

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Friday Wisdom

Friday Wisdom 23/08/2013

  Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert Heinlein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert Heinlein

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