Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama
   The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader of Lamaism, or Tibetan Buddhism, and traditionally the political ruler of Tibet. The office originated in the 15th century. It is believed that when a Dalai Lama dies, his spirit is immediately reincarnated in a male baby. Buddhist lamas, or monks, search for this child throughout Tibet and in neighboring countries and determine his identity by an elaborate system of magical signs. The 14th Dalai Lama now resides in India, where he sought asylum after Tibet came under Communist Chinese control.

Dhaka (Bangladesh)

   Dhaka is the largest city and the national capital of Bangladesh. Pop. (2013 est.) 7.000.940.
Dhaka lies on the Burhi Ganga River in Dhaka district, a densely populated rural area with unusually fertile soil. The city is a processing and marketing center for the agricultural products of the district, principally rice and jute. The minor industries of the city and the surrounding district are mainly traditional handicrafts, such as gold and silver work, shell carving, and the making of mother-of-pearl buttons. There are rail connections between the city and other parts of the district, but the most common means of transportation is the close network of rivers and canals that crisscross the area. There is an international airport just northwest of Dhaka.
   The cultural center of Bangladesh, Dhaka is the site of the University of Dhaka, founded in 1921. The university library has a large collection of old Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts.
   The eastern section of Bengal, which included Dhaka, was combined with Assam, to the east, in 1905, to make up a new province called Eastern Bengal and Assam. The city was its capital until 1912, when the province was dissolved and Bengal was reunified as the presidency of Bengal. In 1947, Dhaka became the capital of the eastern region of the newly created independent country of Pakistan. The city was made the legislative capital of Pakistan in 1962. In 1971, when East Pakistan seceded and became Bangladesh, Dhaka became its capital.

Dachshund dog

   The dachshund is a short-legged long-bodied dog bred for hunting badgers and other wild animals that live in burrows and underbrush. The standard dachshund is about 9 inches tall at the shoulder and weighs about 20 pounds. It has a long, tapered head and drooping ears. The miniature dachshund weighs about 5 pounds.
   Dachshunds are usually red, tan, or black and tan, and their coats vary in length and texture. The short-haired, or smooth-coated, dachshund is the most common variety. Other varieties include the long-haired dachshund, which has long, silky, usually wavy hair, and the wirehaired dachshund, which has a short, rough coat of wavy hair.
   Although the breed is commonly believed to have originated in Germany, and its name is a compound of the German words Dachs ("badger") and Hund ("dog"), the dachshund was probably developed in France from terriers and French basset hounds. Because it is an alert, affectionate dog, the dachshund has become one of the ten most popular pet dogs in the United States.

Cyrano de Bergerac

   Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse by the French dramatist Edmond Rostand, first performed in Paris in 1897. It is based on the life of an actual 17th-century French writer and soldier.
   The hero of the play is Cyrano, a valiant and witty soldier whose appearance is marred by a grotesque nose. He is in love with his beautiful cousin Roxane. She does not know of his feelings and tells him that she loves Christian, a handsome but dull-witted soldier in Cyrano's company. Determined that Roxane shall be happy, Cyrano helps Christian win her by writing poetic love letters for him. Soon after Roxane and Christian are married, Christian is killed in battle. Roxane enters a convent, where Cyrano visits her regularly for 15 years. He helps her keep Christian's memory alive by reading his letters to her. In the final scene, as Cyrano dies, Roxane realizes that the words she has loved are Cyrano's.

Common spotted cuscus

Common spotted cuscus
   Cuscus also called phalanger or possum is any of several tree-dwelling nocturnal marsupials native to the East Indies, northeastern Australia, and adjacent islands. Cuscuses are about the size of large cats, ranging from 35 to 45 inches in length, including the tail. They have large eyes, thick woolly fur, tiny round ears, and a long grasping tail that becomes hairless toward the tip. Cuscuses feed mainly on leaves but occasionally eat birds or other small animals. The female cuscus bears one to four young, which she carries in her pouch. The bear cuscus (Phalanger Ursulas), from Celebes, is the largest of the group.
   Cuscuses are classified in the order Marsupialia, family Phalangeridae, genera Phalanger and Spilocuscus.

What is curry?

curry

   The curry is a pungent mixture of dried, ground spices used to flavor soups, sauces, lamb, shrimp, fish, and other foods. A curry may consist of as few as 5 spices or as many as 50. One of its chief ingredients is turmeric, the aromatic root of a plant raised in China and the East Indies. Other spices used in curry may include coriander, cinnamon, cumin, cardamom, cayenne pepper, pimento, fenugreek, ginger, black pepper, long pepper, cloves, and nutmeg. Curry was first prepared in India.

Feudalism

   Feudalism is a group of institutions used to carry on government on a local basis. Feudalism originated in medieval Europe in places where there was no central government or organized state after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was later developed by the Franks into a complicated political system and was adopted in most of Europe. From this basis an entire social and economic system developed.
   Feudalism, probably the most important institution of the Middle Ages, was based upon the rule of the military class. After the collapse of the empire of Charlemagne in the 9th century, government fell into the hands of counts, who were regional commanders. To strengthen their own position and to keep peace among the lesser lords of their regions, the counts became lords to these lesser men, who became vassals. It was the duty of the lord to protect the vassal, and he frequently gave the vassal a fief, a piece of land either to be rented or to be held in perpetuity. The vassal paid homage and swore fealty, or fidelity, to the lord and had to help the lord in battle. The vassal or vassals of a lord sat in court with the lord to decide legal cases in the district. If two vassals of a lord claimed the same village or piece of land, the lord decided whose claim was valid. If the lord fell into the hands of the enemy, the vassals had to pay for his release.
   Both the vassals and the lords derived their livelihood from their fiefs, which included one or many manors. But some portion of their lives was spent in fighting on horseback. Meanwhile, their serfs worked the fields of the fiefs at home. Peasants did not participate in war. The churchmen, or first estate, could become lords and could have their private armies if they wanted to.
   The more powerful lords, with more vassals to help them, soon began to extend their fiefs by defeating smaller lords with fewer vassals. In 987 the great lords of France chose Hugh Capet as their king, and all became his vassals. The rulers of England and what later became Germany were chosen similarly. Later on the English kings became for a while vassals to the French kings because they held some fiefs in French territory.
   The feudalistic system of government was based upon mutual rights and obligations among kings, lords, and vassals. The peasants, or serfs, were excluded from government. The kings could discipline their disobedient vassals, but if a king violated the rights of a vassal, all the vassals could join against such a king. Under feudalism no one had absolute authority. The kings, lords, and vassals together made up the nobility.

What is a fertilizer?

fertilizer   Fertilizer is any substance added to soil in order to enrich it with nutrients needed by plants in manufacturing their foods. Soil for farming is not fertile unless it contains all nutrients necessary for plants and contains them in the proper proportion and the right form. Every crop and every animal takes from the soil a part of these nutrients. A portion of these used nutrients is replaced from the atmosphere, but another part is forever lost unless it is replaced by man. For instance, not less than 50 pounds of phosphate of lime are carried from the soil in beef, butter, and cheese for every cow kept in a pasture through a summer. To know how to supply what is lost, the farmer must know something about the chemical nature of plants and of soils.
   Plants need oxygen and hydrogen, which they get from water; they need carbon, which they get from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; they need nitrogen, which comes from soluble compounds in the soil. Barnyard manure, dried blood, and any animal refuse contain ammonia or other nitrogen compounds, from which the plant can extract nitrogen. Nitrates are brought from Chile to make fertilizer for our soil, and chemical nitrates are made in huge quantities by extracting nitrogen from air.
   Plants also need phosphorus, potassium, and calcium. Most soils, before crops have been grown on them, contain phosphorus compounds, but these are soon depleted. Rock phosphate and fertilizers manufactured from it, bonemeal, fish, and guano (bird droppings) are used to provide phosphorus. The potassium needed is usually already in clay soils, soils of volcanic origin, and desert soils, but it is deficient in peat soils and in sandy soils of the Atlantic coastal plain. A clay dressing restores potassium when it has been depleted.
   In the old days farmers used to put fertilizers on the soil at random, often adding material of which there was already enough and not giving the soil the things in which it was deficient. After years of persistent experiment in the federal and state agricultural stations and colleges in this country and abroad, the type of soil needed for growing any particular crop is now generally understood with great exactness. Nowadays a farmer often has his soil tested. From the analysis of its contents he can know what fertilizer his soil needs for each crop.

Who was Attila?

In 433 Attila and his brother Bleda became joint rulers of the Huns, wild tribes living in southeastern Europe. Eleven years later Attila had Bleda killed. Then he set out on a march of conquest. After conquering lands to the east and south, he started westward. Attila was so cruel a warrior that he was known as the "scourge of God."
At first his army swept everything before it. But Flavius Aetius, a great Roman general, joined forces with Theodoric, the king of the Visigoths, and met Attila and his army at Chalons. The fighting was so fierce that legends say the dead warriors continued the battle in the sky. About 250 thousand men were killed. In the end Attila was defeated.
In 453 Attila was preparing to march on Italy. But suddenly, just before his troops were ready to set out, he died.
The body of Attila was put in a coffin of gold. The gold coffin was put in a coffin of silver. The silver coffin was put in a coffin of iron. Men were sent to bury Attila. When they came back they were killed. No one must ever know Attila's burial place.

What is Bacteria?

   The tiniest organisms we know about are much too small to be seen without a microscope. These tiny organisms are called bacteria. Inside this letter O there would be room for millions of bacteria. These microorganisms are almost colorless.
   Bacteria are nearly everywhere. They are in the food we eat, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe. They are in the ground we walk on. They are even inside us. They grow best where it is warm, dark, and damp.
There are more than a thousand different kinds of bacteria. They can all be sorted into three shapes. Some are round. Others are rod-shaped. Still others are twisted, or spiral. They may have tiny "hairs" that help them to swim about in water and in other liquids.
   Bacteria never die of old age. As soon as one grows to its full size, it divides into two bacteria. It may take only 20 minutes for one of these microorganisms to grow up and then divide.
Some bacteria are disease germs. Some make our teeth decay. Some spoil food.
   But many kinds of bacteria are helpful. Some take nitrogen from the air and put it into soil. Green plants can then use it. Some help make vinegar and cheese. More important, some bacteria make dead plants and animals decay. Without bacteria to cause decay, the earth would soon have no room for living things.

What is coursing?

   Coursing is a hunting sport in which pairs of dogs are used in the pursuit of game. Coursing, an ancient pastime, is today most commonly practiced with fast-running dogs, such as greyhounds, which hunt by sight, rather than scent. In India and other countries the cheetah is used for coursing gazelles and other antelope. Dogs have been used to course a great variety of animals, but the most popular game is the rabbit or hare. Although coursing hares is still practiced as a form of hunting, it has largely become a formalized contest won by the scoring of points.
   The contest may be held in open countryside or in a fenced enclosure 450 yards long and 150 yards wide, with escape ports for the hares. Dogs are matched against each other in the pursuit of a hare, which is given a lead of at least 60 yards. Points are scored for causing the hare to turn, for speed, and for other maneuvers. Protests against the killing of animals for sport led to development of the mechanical hare as object of pursuit.

Gustave Courbet (painter)

   Gustave Courbet was a French painter. Born Ornans, France, June 10, 1819. Died near Vevey, Switzerland, Dec. 31, 1877.
   Courbet started the 19th-century movement toward Realism in French painting. In his works he broke sharply with the idealized subject matter of traditional painting. Courbet stated that, unlike the Classicists and Romantics, he would paint only what he could see. His interest in everyday events and average people is illustrated in two of his finest works, The Stonebreakers and A Burial at Ornans (both in the Louvre, Paris).

The Stonebreakers by Courbet
   Courbet went to Paris at the age of 20 to study art. His early works were Romantic, but he soon changed to a more realistic style. Many of his paintings, however, continued to show his essentially Romantic nature even as he attempted to portray accurately the world around him. Such famous works as Young Bather (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) and A Spanish Woman (Philadelphia Museum of Art) are Realist in subject matter, but Romantic in mood. During his lifetime, however, he was considered a strict Realist, and Young Bather outraged spectators because it simply depicted a real woman rather than a woman meant to represent an imaginary ideal.
   Courbet's Realism brought him into conflict with the Salon, the official promoter and organizer of all public exhibitions. In 1855, when the Salon refused Courbet entry into its show, he organized his own exhibition. One of his paintings for this show, The Painter's Studio, is often considered his masterpiece. Courbet's conflict with authority extended to politics, as well as to art. In 1871 he was imprisoned for his part in the Commune, a French Socialist uprising. He escaped to Switzerland, where he died in exile.

What is a countertenor?

   Countertenor, in music, the highest male voice, between tenor and soprano. Once widely cultivated, especially in Renaissance England, counter tenor singing declined during the 19th century. Since that time, female contraltos have generally replaced male countertenors in choral groups. In the 20h century the art of countertenor singing has been revived most notably by Alfred Deller and Russell Oberlin.
   Countertenor, properly sung, is not a falsetto. It has the clarity and resonance of a naturally produced voice. The term "male alto" is sometimes used as a synonym for countertenor.

The Count of Monte Cristo

   The Count of Monte Cristo, or Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, a romantic novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas père. The hero of the story is a young sailor, Edmond Dantès who is unjustly imprisoned in the Chateau d'If. He is befriended by another prisoner, the abbé Faria, who tells him of a great treasure buried on the island of Monte Cristo. When the abbé dies, Dantès takes the place of the corpse. His body is thrown into the sea, and he swims to safety. He then goes to the island and finds the treasure. Assuming the name of the Count of Monte Cristo, he travels to Paris with his newly acquired wealth. In Paris he avenges himself upon his enemies and richly rewards his friends.
   The novel was published in 12 volumes in 1844 and 1845. It is one of the most popular of all romantic adventure stories.

What is counterfeiting?

   Counterfeiting is the crime of making false money in the form of paper currency, coins, or government bonds. It is also a crime to possess or exchange counterfeit money knowingly. The most prevalent type of counterfeiting is that of paper currency. However, most counterfeit bills are recognizably different from genuine bills. Some require careful examination and may be discovered only by trained experts.
   Counterfeiting has existed since money first replaced barter as a means of trade. In early England, counterfeiting consisted of imitating the king's seal or his gold and silver coinage. The act was considered treason and was punishable by death.


What is Osmosis?

   Molecules, the tiny pieces which make up all matter, tend to move from where they are more concentrated to where they are less concentrated. This equalizing movement, called diffusion, occurs because the random motions of the molecules make them move around. If there are more molecules of one kind in a certain region than outside that region, more molecules will move out of that region than move into it. Osmosis is the DIFFUSION of water through a membrane that will not allow other, larger molecules to pass through it. Such a membrane is called semipermeable.
    Many chemists and physicists include in osmosis the passage of any gas, liquid, or dissolved solid through a semipermeable membrane. Other scientists restrict the term to the passage of liquids and dissolved substances, such as food and minerals, through membrane. Most biologists, however, state that osmosis is the movement of water through a semipermeable membrane from where water is more concentrated to where it is less concentrated.
   The classic experiment which shows osmosis uses parchment as the semipermeable membrane. The parchment allows water, but not molasses, to pass through.
   The force by which water moves into the solutions is called osmotic pressure. Osmotic pressure depends upon the concentration of water inside and outside the membrane and upon temperature.    The greater the difference in concentrations and the higher the temperature, the greater the osmotic pressure. This pressure is frequently measured in pounds per square inch. Osmotic pressure is one of the important forces which makes sap in plants rise.
   Living cells have a membrane surrounding them through which osmosis can take place, but this membrane can allow or not allow molecules to pass into and out of the cell much more selectively than a simple semipermeable membrane can.

Quotes about Common Sense

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain



Common Sense quotes

What is a Oscilloscope?

   An oscilloscope is an electronic instrument which displays the image of an electrical signal on a fluorescent screen. The "heart" of the oscilloscope is a cathode-ray tube. Oscilloscopes are used to look at the waveform (shape) of an electric signal and to measure the strength and duration of very high frequency currents and voltages. When a serviceman fixes a television set, he looks at the waveform of the signal on the oscilloscope screen and compares it with a picture of what he should see.
   An oscilloscope with long persistence has a screen coated with a special type of phosphor (the material which glows when bombarded with electrons) which will continue to glow at the spot the electrons have hit for a few minutes after the electrons have been removed.
   It is sometimes necessary to compare two traces. This is most easily done using either signal and then switches to trace out another signal. The long-persistence screen of this type of oscilloscope displays both traces at the same time.
   Dual-beam oscilloscopes, on the other hand, use two electron beams. Each beam traces out a different signal. Both signals are displayed simultaneously on the screen. A long-persistence screen is not necessary in a dual-beam oscilloscope.

Beauty quotes

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe

To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus


Beauty quotes

Altruism quotes

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
Jonathan Sacks

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Alan Dershowitz

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
Alison Gopnik

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
David Rakoff

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
Lewis Thomas

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
Nicholson Baker

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Katherine Fullerton Gerould


Altruism quotes

Oak tree

   The mighty oak is a strong tree. The trunk is large and holds many sturdy branches. The roots go deep into the soil to keep the tree upright. Oaks are very important hardwoods in North America. They give shade, beauty and timber.
   Oak leaves are simple, pinnately veined and usually lobed. The small flowers are pollinated by the wind. The fruit (acorn) is classified as a nut. The acorns of the white oaks will ripen and germinate in one year. It takes two years for the black oak species to accomplish the same process.
   The western oaks are not as valuable for lumber as the eastern varieties. The bark is high in tannin which is extracted for use in treating leather. The eastern oaks include the following kinds. The red oak is the largest, growing over 100 feet. The scarlet oak leaves turn bright red in fall. The live oak has evergreen leaves. The bur oak has large nuts which are eaten by animals. The blackjack oak leaves form a triangle. There are about 200 kinds of oak.

Laozi quotes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.


Laozi quotes

Buddha quotes

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.


The best quotes of Buddha

Quotes about Clinical Depression

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Jonathan Davis

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
Joyce Meyer

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
Polly Toynbee

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
Giles Andreae

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Swami Sivananda

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
Tony Campolo

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk

Quotes about Alcoholism

“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
― Denise Hildreth Jones

“I’m such an alcoholic that I go to church just for communion.”
― Jarod Kintz

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”
― Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
― Robert Frost

“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

Quotes about Cancer

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.
Terri Clark

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
Dave Pelzer

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
Regina Brett

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
Ray Comfort

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
Betsey Johnson

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
Kurt Cobain

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.
Arlen Specter

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Quotes about Hope

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lose, Accept, Infinite None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve

Quotes about Dance

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
― George Carlin

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
― Martha Graham

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
― Martha Graham

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
― Martha Graham

“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”
― Robert Frost

“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.”
― Dave Barry

Watt (unit of power)

   A watt is a unit of power— usually electrical power. This unit was named in honor of James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. Although the watt is the standard unit of power in the metric system of MEASUREMENT, the kilowatt is more generally used. The kilowatt is simply 1000 watts.
   In the metric system, a watt is that amount of power used when a force of one newton acts through a distance of one meter in one second of time. In electrical terms the watt is equal to the power developed when one AMPERE flows under a pressure of one VOLT.

Quotes about Design

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma Bombeck

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus

Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon

Everyone, Action, Changing
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

Dating quotes

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
Mitch Hedberg

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Natalie Portman

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Taylor Swift

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Orson Welles

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
Christina Aguilera

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Tim Allen

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
Vanessa Hudgens

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall