Dear Friends:
I love reading great quotes - it keeps me going and recharges me whenever I wish to feel better on any particular day....May it lift your spirits too whenever you read them....Regards, WON.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interests" -Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Sir Winston Churchill, 1871 - 1965
"The Boiserous sea of Liberty is never with a wave." - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
'Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington, 1732 - 1799
"Love is the Only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin L. King, Jr. 1929-1968
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." -Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962
"A people that values its priviledges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower, 1890- 1969
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela, 1918 -
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"Liberty without learning is always in peril, learning without liberty is always in vain." -John F. Kennedy, 1917- 1963
"We must become the change we want to see in the world." --Mahatma Gandhi, 1868-1948
"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart."
-- Helen Keller, 1880-1968
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --Henry Ford, 1863-1947
"The worst prison would be a closed heart." --Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005
"To reach a port, we must sail - Sail, not tie to an anchor. Sail - not drift." --Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" --George S. Patton, 1885-1945
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." --Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt, 1859-1919
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. " --Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." --Harry S. Truman. 1884-1972
"In life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love. " --Mother Theresa, 1910-1997
From: Simple Truths
2009-04-07
Poem "Invictus" By William Hensley
Poems of this nature inspires and keeps me singing... May it do the same for you as well...
Regards, WON
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloodied but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the manners of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the Master of my Fate:
I am the Captain of my Soul...
Regards, WON
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloodied but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the manners of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the Master of my Fate:
I am the Captain of my Soul...
2009-04-06
From the Poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Dear Visitor:
I've been pondering over this Tennyson poem for quite some time now- still not sure if I agree with him or not. One supposes that if the other party whom one has once loved is still very much a gentleman (or gentlewoman), then that love lost might be worth it. However, if that party whom one once loved is no longer a gentleman (or gentlewoman) by any means (there are much of these people around nowadays since values have changed greatly from days past), then I'd much rather not have had that love lost at all. In fact, the sooner one forgets about it, the better off one is....
Still, leave it up to you to decide....Regards, WON
In Memoriam:27, 1850:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;'
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all...
I've been pondering over this Tennyson poem for quite some time now- still not sure if I agree with him or not. One supposes that if the other party whom one has once loved is still very much a gentleman (or gentlewoman), then that love lost might be worth it. However, if that party whom one once loved is no longer a gentleman (or gentlewoman) by any means (there are much of these people around nowadays since values have changed greatly from days past), then I'd much rather not have had that love lost at all. In fact, the sooner one forgets about it, the better off one is....
Still, leave it up to you to decide....Regards, WON
In Memoriam:27, 1850:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;'
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all...
From William James' Philosophy of Pragmatism
Let no youth have any upshot about the anxiety of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If s/he keeps faithfully busy every hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty, count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out...
The Optimist's Creed
Something We Need to Constantly Remind Ourselves:
Be Too Large To Worry
Too Noble for Anger
Too Strong for Fear and
Too Happy to Permit
The Presence of Trouble
Think Well of Yourself
and Proclaim This Fact to the World
--not in Loud Words
But in Great Deeds
Be Too Large To Worry
Too Noble for Anger
Too Strong for Fear and
Too Happy to Permit
The Presence of Trouble
Think Well of Yourself
and Proclaim This Fact to the World
--not in Loud Words
But in Great Deeds
2009-04-05
中山公园的春天Spring@Zhong.Shan.Park - April 4th, 2009
Dear Visitors:
Here's many pictures taken of Spring at Zhong Shan Park. Zhong Shan Park is located to the immediate left of the Palace Museum main entrance along Chang An Avenue. In the imperial days, it was part of the Palace Museum but is now separated for tourist purposes. The entry fee is only RMB3. That's a fantastic rate considering what one can see and experience. There are many long corridors flanking both sides of the park and at various locations where one can sit and soak in the beauty, to dwell upon whatever private thoughts you may have, or to simply observe the different kinds of people visiting. There is a wonderul lake with an equally wonderful pavilion, lots of flowering plants which continue to bloom up through fall. One can sit under the shades of various trees, arches or wisterias in tranquility... There is also a performing arts center within the ground. that you can enjoy all sorts of music. Although it is only a fraction the size of the botanical garden, ZSP never fails to cheer me up whenever I visit for moi generally comes out feeling refreshed after an exhausting day...
Hope you will get a chance to visit...Enjoy these pix at link below. Regards, WON.
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