The Best of Now & Here

No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,The best of now and here.

~John G. Whittier

Colors

Mountain Blue Bird

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

~ Marc Chagall

Each Moment Is A Beautiful Moment

Love, Hate & Anxiety

Blue Water Bird

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

~ Mignon McLaughlin

The Best Friend

Book 59, Number 59.1.1:

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that Luqman al-Hakim made his will and counselled his son, saying,

"My son! Sit with the learned men and keep close to them. Allah gives life to the hearts with the light of wisdom as Allah gives life to the dead earth with the abundant rain of the sky."

Translation of Malik's Muwatta, Book 59:

Calmness

wild life's collection

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

~ James Allen

The Great People

Snow petral (parodigma nivea) adult

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

~ Mark Twain

First Group

My grandfather once told me that there were two kind of people in the world:

those who do the work and those who take the credit.

He told me try to be in the first group, there was much less competitive.

~Indira Ghandi

Gathering & Organizing Ideas

Perhaps the two most difficult aspects of writing are knowing what to write and how to start

~ Catherine Hilton & Margaret Hyder.

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Hilton, H. & Hyder, M. 2003. Getting to grips with writing.

Petaling Jaya: Golden Book Centre Sdn. Bhd. (Page 84).

Angry Speaker

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

~Ambrose Bierce

The Beauty of Diversity

And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the variations in your languages and your colors; verily in that are signs for those who know.

~ Al-Quran, Surah Ar-Rum, Verse 22.

Women

Women make up 50% of the world population,

perform 67% of the world's working hours,

form 10% of the world's illiterates,

and own less than 1% of the world's property

~Cornwell

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Cornwell, L. 2000.

Engendering development studies: an inaugural lecture.

Department of Development Administration,

University of South Africa, Pretoria.