have you ever heard of this fairy tale?

March 9th, 2010

this is a story i heard a long time ago:

there was a young girl who lived with her stepmother and stepsister. (no, she was not cinderella). the stepmother was very wicked and ordered the girl to walk for a mile or more on a hot summer’s day to fetch a pale of well water. the girl didn’t argue, and did what she was told.

when she arrived at the well she noticed an old woman sitting near to it. the old lady asked the girl if she would allow her to drink from her pale after she filled it with fresh water. the girl hesitated at first, she didn’t want to get in trouble, but the woman looked so frail and the girl felt sorry for her.

she sat down with the old woman and let her drink as much as she needed. the woman thanked her for her generosity and said she would be truly blessed. the girl filled her pale once more, and started her journey home.

when she arrived it was very late and her stepmother greeted her with a temper. the girl was quick to apologize. but when she opened her mouth to speak, something amazing happened. for every vowel her lips spoke, a diamond, ruby, or rare flower fell from her mouth.

the stepmother was amazed and asked her how this was possible. but the girl wasn’t entirely sure. then she remembered the old woman, and what she said about being “truly blessed”. she told her stepmother who in turn told her stepsister.

the next morning the stepmother ordered her own daughter to take the pale once more to the well. her daughter whined and complained the whole way there. when she arrived the woman was once again at the well.

“young lady i am thirsty, and too weak to turn the handle on the well. could i please share your water with you?” the stepsister was disgusted at the fact that the old woman would dare to speak to her. so she ignored her. the woman asked again, “please child, i am very thirsty”.

the step sister, who was very much like her mother, lost her temper and shouted at the old woman to go away and leave her alone. the old woman then revealed herself to be a witch and told the girl that she would be cursed due to her lack of charity.

when the girl arrived home her mother was there to greet her. she asked her what gift had been bestowed upon her, but the girl wouldn’t speak. the mother harassed her for hours, and eventually grew very stern. the girl still had nothing to say. her mother began to say things, terrible things. things she never said to her stepdaughter; she was now saying to her own daughter.

the girl could take it no longer and in her defense demanded that her mother go away. but she opened her lips to speak, something disgusting happened. for every syllable her mouth spoke, two flies would fly out of her lips, (or snakes, or toads, or spiders).

sorry, i got carried away, (i love to write). i was only curious to know if anyone else had ever heard the story.
to truthbetold:
thank you that was the version i knew as a child.
i remember the prince and the fact that the other mother died.
i “add-libb’d” the version above.

Delivering the Winning Proposal

March 9th, 2010

If business proposals were judged solely on their weight and volume (rather than content and focus), then most of them would be very successful.

The problem is that, somewhere in sales folklore, there are two fairy-stories about proposals that, most proposal writers appear to believe, will cast the magic ‘buy-this-one’ spell over any prospective customer.

The stories are:

1) Lots of ‘bumph’ is better than too little.

2) The first thing proposal-readers are looking for is information about us.

Driven by an almost universal belief in these stories, the assembly order of most business proposals tends to be as follows:

- Title page
- Information about ourselves- how long we’ve been in business etc
- Pictures: Our directors (with career backgrounds), Our office/ warehouse
- Detailed Information about our services and products
- Confirmation of the amount of product/service the customer wants to buy
- The Price the customer will have to pay
- The Installation and implementation requirements
- Terms and Conditions and copy of our contract
- Conclusion

The first, horrible truth I have to set before you, in an effort to wean you off this mythical-magic-proposal- template, is written below. It is so fundamental to the whole sales process that I would like you to do this for me right now: (write, print, draw, daub the following words on a very large piece of paper and place it over your desk where you can see it every day:

“NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS”

The word ‘I’ (alongside its close companion words, ‘We’ ‘Me’ and ‘Our’ ) is the weakest and least persuasive word in the World. And yet it is the commonest word in all business communications. Yes, despite the fact that every bit of research on business-persuasion says that, ’stuff about you and what you think’, has no positive effect on the selling process, business people still cram their proposals full of it.

If you want to read up on the research and books about why this is not the way to do it, you can start back 75 years ago with Dale Carnegie’s seminal work: “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (still a best seller and still in print) and work through to all of the most recent business books. But they will ALL tell you the same thing: (Apart from your family and close friends) Nobody cares about you….nor what you are…nor what you do….nor what you think. And ‘no’ your business is NOT different. And ‘yes’ this does apply to YOU too.

So, if you kick-off your proposal with a whole lot of guff about you and your business, it will soon have a key position in the pile labelled: “Same As All The Others”.

Not only do the majority of proposal-writers pad out the first few pages of their proposals with stuff about themselves (“Yeah-this is what they want to know…this’ll impress them!”), but they go into tremendous detail about it too. You will find full ‘Bios’ and CV’s of all their key players, smiling head-shot photos, photos of the premises, pictures of warehouses and offices and even photos of the trucks and vans used for delivery.

As the reader ventures further into the proposal, in a vain search for that which he truly seeks, he is next confronted by ‘the product brochure’. This usually consists of a description and/or pictures of the products the customer is interested in, plus – for good measure- all or nearly all the other products and services offered (just in case). This is several pages long and often includes detailed technical specifications.

After that comes the price list and bottom-line quotation for the job in hand. Plus a full description of payment terms and penalties for not paying on time and other ancillary costs.

Finally comes the killer conclusion: “Do not hesitate to call us if you require any further information. We look forward to hearing from you soon.”

OK You’ve got your wish: You’re dead.

So what’s to be done?

Would you like me to show you how your proposal can go in the rare pile marked “Winner.”

OK it’s not difficult…here goes:

First let us remind ourselves about the reason your business exists. It exists, like all businesses, companies and commercial organisations, to solve at least one problem. That’s it!…If you are not clear about the problem your business solves then you probably don’t have a business.

When your customer made contact with you -or responded to an overture from you- the only reason they did it was that they thought you might be able to solve at least one problem for them. What that specific problem is (and there maybe more than one) depends on the type of problem your business is set-up to solve.

So the first thing that needs to appear in your proposal is something about ‘the problem’. Because the first thing your prospective customer will be saying to himself, as he opens the pages, is: “My problem.. where is it?…Was this person listening when I was telling him about all my problems- the ones he might be able to fix?… Does he show, somewhere here, that he understands my problems and the effect they are having on me?”

To satisfy this basic customer need, the first few pages of your proposal must therefore feedback to the customer, in his/her own words if possible, that you were listening and have understood all the problems that your customer wants fixing. There should be nothing ‘problem-solving’ in your early words. It should be a mirror-summary of what the customer said to you.

Immediately following this opening section, start at the top of a new page.

In this next section you will be outlining what, ‘might’… ‘has’… ‘could’ happen if these problems are not fixed. Enlarging on the knock-on effects of not fixing a problem, starts a process of psychological reinforcement which increases the desirability of your service. This is especially powerful if you have previously managed to get the customer to tell you what he thinks could happen if the problem rolls on unchecked. And it is even better if he has revealed how much the problem is costing or might cost him. If he’s told you put it in (but don’t invent anything).

So in these first two sections you have shown the customer that, unlike probably ALL the other proposals on his desk, YOU were listening to what he was saying. This is as rare as a ‘90 cent Bill’

Only at this point is the customer sufficiently ’softened-up’ and therefore open to read about how your service and/or product will be able to address the previously described problems. Having been reminded of his problem he is ready for the solution.

But beware; DO NOT at this stage be tempted to talk too much about what the product ‘is’ or about your company and its background. Rather set out the way and manner in which your product or service will solve the problem. In other words concentrate on the solution (‘the benefits’) rather than the raw-facts (‘the features’)

And DO NOT be tempted into the common trap of adding-in a load of other features and benefits which don’t address the specific problems given to you by the customer. Spurious bits and pieces added in, like sprinkles on a cake, in order to give a proposal substance (and generally pad it out a bit), will usually not have the desired effect.

Far from making a proposal more desirable, research shows that there is a direct correlation between loads of unrequested bits and pieces and the prospective customer complaining about the price!

Yes, sometimes, despite your huge arsenal of products, they only want ONE thing from you…that’s it; and in that case, that’s enough!

So if, for some vague masochistic reason, you want to generate price objections, do add in more un-asked for stuff. If you don’t want them then DON’T.

Having now taken the trouble to pay the customer the compliment of clearly having listened to their problems and shown how you can fix them, he/she will be looking for the price.

So, in the next section (new page) set it out very simply. And always endeavor to have already given them a good idea of what it will be in previous conversations. The proposal should ,whenever possible, NOT be the first time the prospect learns about the price. If there has been no opportunity to do this, you must do everything in your power to deliver the proposal in person and go through it with the customer face to face.

If your proposal is actually a response to a Request for Quote (RFQ) or Request for Proposal (RFP) received from a potential customer out-of-the-blue (no prior face to face discussion possible), then I have to tell you something rather alarming: You are probably very late to the table and the whole deal is more or less sown up with someone else. You are being used!

Invariably another preferred supplier has already quoted. But during the decision making process the boss asked for a few comparative quotes just to cover himself if anyone asked. The problem is that the tender document is based on your competitor’s existing quote (and strengths) so you are, from the outset, fighting a very tough battle.

Most out-of-the-blue requests (with no discussion possible) will result in a massive amount of time wasting and mostly no deal.

Well here you are…the bulk of the important work is now done.

You may, if you wish, now add, towards the back, some brief sections about you, your company and how long you’ve been in business, but DO keep it short. People don’t have time or the interest to wade through loads of stuff…would YOU? And, as a general rule, no pictures of warehouses, factories or trucks…one looks like another. Nobody’s impressed.

It is often good to offer references at this point but only if they have asked for them. Remember that the proposal reader has usually and subconsciously made a decision by now. This is because people (your customers) primarily accept ‘you’ based on the amount of interest you have shown in them.

The final part in the compilation of your ‘Winning Proposal’ should concentrate on telling the customer what he needs to do next. This should be expressed in very positive terms with none of the usual, ‘Please do not hesitate to call me’, stuff which accompanies the majority of business offerings and covering letters. Remember that the human brain can’t hold a negative thought and fails to register the ‘do not’ leaving only the, “Please….hesitate to call me”, as the final message.

Make sure too, that you print and bind your proposal with a decent front title page and a see-through front cover. Do several top-copies too in case your prospect wants to distribute it to her colleagues; much better they all have a top-copy rather than a misaligned, gray copy, of a copy, of a copy. If you can’t do it take it to your local copy-store, on a memory stick, and ask them to do it for you. If you do this DO check that the pages look the same on their P/C and that there are no formatting differences that cause words, titles and sentences to leak across on to the next page.

Now print it on very good quality paper (Not the usual 60-80gm copier-stock). Check for spelling mistakes -especially people’s names- and use a good clear font (NOT ‘Comic Sans’ it makes you look ’stupid’ not ‘quirky’). And do number the pages and, after the front title page, add a contents page….it makes the document look more professional.

There is nothing more I need to add and it isn’t difficult to do.

- Title page
- Contents Page
- Problems in need of fixing
- Knock-on effects of not fixing
- Our Focused Solution
- Price
- Who we are/experience/background
- References
- Any other relevant material (keep it short and simple)
- What to do next

Following the method outlined above is going to make your proposals more interesting, readable and effective when presented to you customer.

It is also going to differentiate your offering from the many, even if your product looks very much like your competitors. And best of all it will bring you more business.
That’s not a fairy story.

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Bob Etherington

Bob Etherington

My name is Bob Etherington and I can make your customers buy from you. Whether your customers are internal (bosses, colleagues or partners) or external (customers and investors) the rules of human persuasion are universal and you can learn them. Selling is simple it is just not very easy because people insist on making the same fundamental mistakes over and over again. My experience goes back nearly 40 years and my current relationships with the World’s top business and academic institutions mean that you benefit from the latest research into what works and what is fatal in the 21st Century. For selling, public speaking, presenting and negotiating this is where you learn what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Our main objective is to put more confidence into you and more money into your bank account. Judge us by results.
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Dragons Through History

March 8th, 2010

The Dragon has played an important part in myths and religions since pre-historic times. The history of dragons goes back at least six thousand years, and there are dragon tales and legends from every continent except Antarctica. In almost every culture, and all throughout history, there are stories of these mythical and magical creatures called dragons. Different people have various theories of why so many cultures developed such a long lasting belief in dragons; however, none can actually be proven.


Many believe that dragons were what we now call dinausaurs. It may be that dragon stories partly grew out of people finding dinosaur bones. The thought is that when dragon bones were dug up later, they were given the new classification of dinosaur. Many evolutionists believe that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man walked the planet, while others claims dispute this. It is said that dinosaur fossils, which have been discovered along with human footprints and remains, add proof to the ancient people’s history of dragons. Others feel that people forgot that dragons were ever real, and quickly faded into mythology.


In almost every culture and all throughout history there are stories of these magical creatures called dragons. Later, in Europe these dragons in art forms were thought to be real life animals rather than symbols of evil.


Throughout many cultures, dragons may have appeared different, but they have always retained the same basic core elements. When most people think of dragons they generally think of fire breathing monsters, but originally dragons were usually connected with water. To the ancient Chinese, dragons were not creatures of fire, as so many would think, but rather creatures of water. The dragon of the Chinese resided in rivers, lakes, pools and rose in great clouds of mist to promote rainfall. In earlier Mideast stories, the dragons are most often associated with water and wisdom. Historians use this conection with water to distinguish dragons from other mythical animals.


While the east feels that the dragon is a divine, mythical creature that brings good fortune, prosperity and bounty, western dragons are viewed differently. They are connected to the element fire, and they fling their colossal tails about, and viciously create destruction. The contrary views of the east and the west indicate opposing views where humans viewed dragons as a symbols of wisdom and peace, or symbols of chaos and evil. Neither would disagree that dragons were viewed as powerful creatures. This, along with the wide variance in the physical description of dragons, contributes to confusion in the definition of a dragon.


The humans revered the dragons, some clans even calling them gods. Hence, dragons were held in high regard, and their images kept and worn, to win their approval. Originally, it was believed that dragons were the ones who talked directory to the Gods. It was also thought at this time that earthquakes were caused by battles between dragons and gods. In history, many different cultures began to adopt the idea of gods fighting with dragons to restore order.


The dragon may be ancient, but it remains as influential today as it did four thousand years ago. Today, the popularity of fantasy, and such role-playing games as Dungeons and Dragons, means that dragon figurines are a hot commodity.


Online stores promoting dragon items have popped up including http://www.dragon-gifts.com

Fran Black

Francesca Black has long been a fan of dragons with Dragon Gifts http://www.dragon-gifts.com and http://www.mystical-creatures.com

Please comment on my 2nd fantasy story?

March 6th, 2010

Lilka ran.
Birds cried.
Some ways ahead, she glimpsed a wooly gray cloak swish out of sight beyond a hill…Stanislaw. Her dark eyes widened in recognition.
“Stanislaw!” she chirruped. “Wait for me, my lamb! My wizard!”
The wind kissed her bonny face, tangled her skirts. She cried out in laughter and swept her arms about like pinwheels. Glitter shot from her fingertips, dusting the sky in cottony pink. Her heart drummed fast and sharp. Despite, her heart was light with an unexpected joy.
Springtime rushed past in its vivid blur. The sun bathed her face in heat, made her inky locks shine rosily. Daffodils and poppies carpeted the grass under her bare feet. She danced among them like a flower herself, all springy and glowing. Shade from the surrounding maple trees dappled everything spotty. Magenta Prairie was stunning.
She flew down the hillock, chasing that silver cloak. But alas! Stanislaw was not to be found. Where was he? She pondered it for a second. He had to be close by, perhaps behind a tree. Or mayhap he had magicked himself invisible! She sprinted faster in fervent pursuit, so fast that the world disappeared. Pale sapphire was the sky. Red and yellow specks blistered under her eager feet.
“Lilka!” It was his voice!
“Are you there?”
Lilka came to a jittery stop, dizzy. Her legs felt like jelly. Sweat dampened her neck. One thing she knew for certain: she had run forever. Forever constituted…eighteen long and desolate years? Yes, she was eighteen. How had time slid past her so slyly? Ten years ago seemed nonexistent, even five…thirteen was none so complicated as eighteen, especially for a woman. Then the world lurched, rotated…looked gauzelike….
“I’m right here! Open your eyes, fool-lady!” It was her sweetheart again, talking to her from nowhere.
“Where are you?” she yelled breathlessly, getting more frustrated by the second.
But there was no time to be angry. The world was spinning too fast, spiraling into nothingness. Her heart had stopped beating so fiercely. In fact, now it hardly beat at all. She felt made of wood. Each eyelid weighed millions. She couldn’t lift them, couldn’t lift this nightmarish daze. Fear and trepidation goggled through her veins, gripped her with their vise-like hands.
Then, suddenly, the soles of her feet collided into something waxy and velvety. Had she been flying? She certainly hadn’t felt anything solid under her feet since everything sped up so wild.
Lilka gazed. Far and wide, a sea of blooms scoured the land: ruby-petaled poppy bulbs and sunny, bold daffodils. They shimmered beautifully. Next, her head dropped and she gazed no more. Black hair pushed itself around her face. It had lost its auburn sheen.
In truth, the entire of Magenta Prairie had lost its luster. Clusters of maple trees, once so green and verdant, faded to a chalky stain. Pastel powder piled up on the brittle branches. The perfectly blue sky fell away to rows of milky haze. This fog dispersed itself doggedly, fluttering like a disease, infectious among the lovely blossoms. Lilka could no longer see the cheerful red and yellow heads. She no longer heard the shrieks of birdsong; no longer saw the glorious golden sun. It nearly broke her heart, seeing the fairytale land crumble.
In all this uproar of nature, she had squeezed her eyes shut. Cool scuttled across her face, danced upon her eyelashes and froze them. The temperature dropped severely. White flakes wheeled from the heavens, zigzagging in the still air.
“No, my fairy story…you don’t exist, don’t survive,” she told herself, with eyes still screwed shut. “Nothing’s here, I’m not really here either.”
Even life, capricious though it was, couldn’t play such an imaginary trick as this.
Lilka opened her frozen eyes. Her bare feet were dusted in a fine layer of snow. Yet they were not cold, not even wet.
“Lilka, what’s the matter…?” a blurry voice cried out, shocking in its concern. It whispered, “Awaken.”
Then she closed her eyes again. A shiver raced up her body.
The voice said, “Snow is harmless for the most part, anyways.”
***
When Lilka did at last awaken, it was to the horrid sound of scraping. Digging…the iron clunk of a shovel.
“What’s going on?” she said, her words jumbled like potpourri.
She was cold, freezing cold. Goosebumps pricked their way up her arms and legs. All around was the blinding white glow of snow. Above stretched a black cobweb of tree branches. They were blanketed in sleeves of snow. For a confused second, she wondered if she was still dreaming.
“No, I’m awake,” she told herself resolutely.
“Ah yes, you are,” a voice said.
Lilka pushed herself up on her elbows. She wore a snowy white robe. The sleeves were lace-edged and billowy. Gently, she brushed her fingers across the fabric. It was dry…dry and stiff. However, underneath, she wore a thick black gown. Its woolen material had soaked up much of the melting snow, and thus was slightly damp.
“Who s-said that?” she swept h
“Who s-said that?” she swept her frost-dusted hair off her shoulders and gazed about for who had spoken. When she didn’t see him immediately, she whispered, “Stanislaw?”
“Miss, I’m not Stanislaw and I’ve no idea what’s going on,” he spoke again.
Still he remained invisible.
Now a little bothered by this whole act, she scrambled to her feet and flapped her robe and gown to rid them of powder. “Show yourself! I know you’re there…this is no dream!”
To her great surprise, a man stepped from behind a knotted bush….
Lilka nearly jumped from her skin and bones. It was awful. It was awful the way he looked at her, the way his cold eyes drilled into hers, awful the way he sauntered towards her catlike. Long black hair fell over his face to shroud his eyes silent. However, the way he walked was still horrid. It was slow and menacing, predatory and stalking.
“What do you want, M-mister?” she cried. “I beg of you, don’t hurt me!”
“Aye, don’ hur’ the girl, Atanazy…” A woman’s voice this time
“Aye, don’ hur’ the girl, Atanazy…” A woman’s voice this time…
Lilka leapt into the air in a strange, wild fright. She nearly stumbled and her eyes kept darting about madly. This was a nightmare…she must still be asleep. After all, was she being cornered? Did this sinister man before her have companions just as wicked?
“Y-yes,” she stammered in a soft voice, “I’m a-asleep, it’s only a nightmare, only a….”
Then everything happened so unbelievably fast that Lilka could hardly keep up with it all. The dark-haired one, with a twisted smile afflicting his face, kept sauntering towards her. His fleecy black boots cut deep circles in the frost. The velvet cloak he wore—it was pine green, not gray—slipped across the snow, bobbing behind him.
But that was not the fast part….
Someone burst from a snow pile in an explosion of white powder. With skinny, gloved fingers outstretched and blonde hair unruly, she rushed at the man like a killer.
“You better stop!” she screamed. “You demon!”
Wi
With that, she leapt on top of him and pulled them both to the ground. Buried deep in the snow, Lilka had a hard time seeing anything. She was nearly frozen with shock. What on earth was going on?
Snow and fleece and dark hair flew like fabric in a sewing mill. Lilka saw only seconds of the fury: the blonde lady’s face, marred by her seething expression…the man’s scowl, sharp white teeth and red mouth…torn emerald velvet….
The blonde lady, noticeably exasperated, stopped suddenly. Pinned helplessly into the drifts of snow, the man had not a chance. She had a gloved hand pressed around his forearm, the other clapped over his mouth, and her knees on top of his thighs. A fiendish grin slit her face and she pulled something glittery from a pocket. Lilka strained to see, for she had taken several steps backward in alarm. Was that a knife? Whatever the object was, the man clearly grew very frightened. His distressed mumbles and violent movements choked up Lilka’s senses. She bit her lip in
She bit her lip in sorrow, torn between two sides. Dark tears welled in her big eyes.
Gripping it tight, the lady drew back the shiny thing and, with a terrible slowness, plunged it forward. Lilka pinched her eyes together and wrung her hands, hopping in circles and feeling sick.
“Aha! Victory for me!” came the woman’s shrill cry. “You girl! Come here and see! Come to reap the wonders of a victory well met!”
But Lilka had started to cry. She submerged her face in the dry white lace of her robe. She stared into the soft darkness. Hot tears surged in her eyes. They met her tongue and tasted salty. Her face felt tense, her emotions prickly.
“Why?” she sobbed thickly. “Why? Why?”
Quiet, tentative footsteps penetrated her lacy shelter. Lilka smelled something metallic…and beyond that, something mild and sweet. However, she only wept harder. She wept loudly and recklessly.

Help me with my short story? ideas to end it?

March 6th, 2010

Hi, i’m writing a fairy tale but I can’t think of how to finish the story? Any ideas for a nice happy ending? :D

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful kingdom called Glissando, and in this kingdom was a castle where lived a King and Queen and their three daughters, Celesta, Cappella and Aria. Aria was said to be the most beautiful girl in any of the kingdoms in the country. She had hair as bright as the sun and eyes as deep as the ocean and skin as that shimmered like the moon. But Aria had a terrible curse put on her at birth. The treacherous witch, Sforzando, stole Aria’s voice. Many years ago Sforzando had been very much in love with the King. When he married his queen Sforzando was enraged with jealousy. It had been said that the King had fallen in love with queen Gavotte the moment he heard her voice. In revenge she made sure that Aria had never spoken a word in her life and she never would unless the curse was broken. In order to break the curse Aria must find true love. For someone blessed with Aria’s beauty, this task doesn’t sound very difficult. But true love must come from the inside, what’s on the outside can play no part. How would anyone be able to truly love Aria when she could not speak. How could anyone get to know Aria on the inside when she has no voice to let anyone in?

The King and Queen were devastated that their child was unable to speak. Celesta and Cappella hadn’t inherited their mother’s beautiful voice so they had hoped that Aria would.

As Aria grew up she learned to cope with her muteness rather well. She was not bitter about it and wasted no time feeling sorry for herself. She had found another way to express herself – music. From an early age Aria had always been enchanted by music and had been delighted when she received a piano for her sixth birthday. She immediately connected with it. At such ease she could play virtuosic sonatas and she often composed many of her own works.

It was on the first day of spring that Aria’s sixteenth birthday arrived and all of Glissando prepared to celebrate it. The two older princesses had long ago married and moved away to far away kingdoms. Aria was excited about seeing her sisters again but she dreaded the party. She hated meeting crowds of people, she found it hard to cope with people other than her close family. Every prince in the country was to attend the grand ball that very night in the hope of winning her hand in marriage. This was in incredibly daunting idea for poor Aria. She knew that most people didn’t see beyond her beauty. No one really knew her. She doubted that of the hundreds of princes arriving at the castle one would be her prince charming.

So, the princes came, arriving in ships and in golden carriages, and riding atop beautiful horses. Each of them was as handsome and each bore a magnificent gift for Aria for even in the furthest kingdom they had heard of the Princess, and her legendary beauty.
Aria, in the meantime, was watching the travellers arrive from a high balcony in her chambers, she felt sick with nerves. She had never seen so many people in the one place! She was just about to retreat to her piano when, quite suddenly, her eyes fell upon a young man standing a little way apart from the milling crowd of royalty, like a bright ray of sunlight peeking out from behind dark storm clouds.
She sat up on her couch and leaned forward for a better look, gaping at him with her mouth hanging open in a very un-princess-like manner. If Aria was the sun, with her bright gold hair and summer-blue eyes, then this tall young man was surely the moon. He was dressed all in gray velvet and pale golden silk of the finest cut. His long, blond hair was so pale that it looked almost silver, exactly the color of moonlight. His eyes were like midnight, a deep purple-black that faintly glimmered with starlight, and when he suddenly turned them upon Aria, she saw great wisdom in their depths, and a soul so beautiful that it brought an ache to her throat to look into them.
When the princess finally looked back again, she saw that the prince had vanished. She searched the crowd for him, but he was nowhere to be found. Impatient to find out more about him, Aria bravely ventured down the stairs and approached the hall. As she entered she was overwhelmed at the amount of people crammed in. It didn’t take long for her to spot him, he stood out like a star at night Aria was transfixed, she was lost in his eyes. Suddenly she noticed his gaze change. It was now directed at her! Aria panicked as he approached her. She had to get away. She knew it was rude but she just couldn’t bring herself to stay there. In an instant she had left the room and was on her way to her piano.
She breathed out as she touched the keys. Sometimes she felt like the piano was her only true friend. The only one she could confide in. The only one who understood her.
Meanwhile Prince Rubato was very puzzled at Aria’s sudden exit. He was very concerned a
at the frightened look she had had on her face. He left the room in search of her. As he ascended the stairs he heard the most delightful music.
Rubato followed the noise to the room. It was hauntingly beautiful. Enchanted by the music he silently approached the door. His hand quivered as he pushed it ajar. He was amazed at her beauty. She was just as breathtaking as the music she played. He gazed in awe as her finger danced gracefully over the keys, as if she was barely touching them a tall. A soft smile played about her lips, as if for one moment she was truly happy. As the melody reached the climax he watched her shoulders shake at the expenditure of emotion. Lost in the music, she hadn’t noticed his presence.

Anyone know this story?

March 5th, 2010

I read a book a long time ago about a teenage girl whose grandmother was a fairy midwife. She gets accused of being a witch by two sisters in the village, the girls are acting possessed, and in the very end she’s supposed to be hanged but a Prince she saved earlier comes and releases her.

At another part in the story she’s supposed to cut a fairy’s umbilici cord with an ice pick but she has to use her teeth. (Or something.)

I read this story like 4 years ago so I’m sorry but I can’t remember any more details. Just wondering if anyone happeneded to remeber the name…

Do you like this poem?

March 3rd, 2010

I see thy love in the distance
breathless gasping for air, for in thy dreams you were there
awakening to the bleakness in my room
as my eyes begin to blur reality sets and starts the fear
for do dreams come true or do I die alone
waiting like the petals of a wilting flower fall off
until there is none and the once beautiful flowers dies naked
with no one to cloth it
will I hold you in the grave or will the grave hold me?
the numbing dreams never end the swallow’s wings still amongst
the idle wind
my colored world turns to grayscale
recollecting the memories eyes covered hazel
contradiction of thy thoughts standing calm love not lost
searching till I find my princess whose passionate eyes cut right through me
for what is life if love only exists in thy thoughts?
what is romance if it is all fiction?
nothing but a portrait left empty, a passing cloud of hurt
by to meet my love in the flesh is to find my whole heart
your heart breaks through me your love is the key
longing for my hearts door
to what day till I see sunrays shine upon your face
I dream of you the way you look
the beating of love in your heart
your words are like the flowing of a spring, knowing thy love
waits for me until eternity’s end
is this poetry or is this love’s sickness
engulfing my every being
take the heart from you and the blood ceases from me
I see what you hear
breath taking the closest thing to me and my savior
falling in love to a person I have never met but knowing she has salvation’s fragrance
by God’s grace this love will be free and able to fly away above
the earth to a point of exhaustion
but your breath will keep me alive
words are pointless for this love is speechless
preparing for the curtains close
laying their clutching hands so tight I can feel your heart
telling me it will be all right
ascension to heaven where this love can not only walk
but it runs through the endless fields of joy
where love neither ends nor begins but flows everlasting
this was thy dream this daybreak and will by thy prayer
that I will rest sleepless till the sun rises on that day
and butterflies sing with us as we write love symphony
the pages of life fill the story of our love in a time long ago
where fairy tales come true
and you and I my love will live happily everafter
I love you

Win Back A Love Of A Lifetime

March 2nd, 2010

Rekindling a romantic relationship from the past is quite acceptable. Remember those special moments you spent together that you wished would last, sadly all good things come to and end. You kept thinking what would have happened if the two of you were still together. But maybe they still might have feelings for you and want to take another chance with you as well.

It sounds like a plot from tragic love stories of long ago. Two star-crossed lovers who met at some point in time and sadly did not end up together simply because things did not work out right for them. They are only left with sweet memories of the good old days which they find hard to forget. Yearning to be together again and bring back the good times.

If you are at a point in time where you are alone and have failed in relationships since then, it could very well be that the one you dream of is supposed to be with you. Dont just sit around and reminisce, do something about it. If you dont know where they are now, find them. There are many things that you can do to find them. Use the resources you have available to win back a love.

Now that you found them, you might run into some issues. You need to find out if they are still available. You could send them an email saying that you were going through some stuff that brought back memories of times you had together. Ask them how they are doing and what are they up to.

Talk about your status. Don’t be too obvious about your intentions; make them think you are not that interested. Let them be if they are in a good relationship. Or they could be pretending. Nevertheless, find out what you can about them.

Build a relationship with them if they are still single. Get to know each other again and take things slow. Never rush into things.

After you have been corresponding for a little time, instead of asking for their phone number (if you don’t have it already), give them yours and say, Feel free to call anytime. Doing it this way takes the pressure off the situation. If they want to talk to you, you will know.

Before you know it, your friendship will blossom into something special and you start seeing each other often. There are tell tale signs if you still have feelings for each other. Give it a little time. If things turn out right then there is a possibility that you can get back together.

jason bb han

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EXCELLENCE

March 1st, 2010

ANONYMOUS - “ After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg.”

ANONYMOUS - “I like my new telephone, my computer work just fine, my calculator is perfect, but lord, I miss my mind.”

ANONYMOUS -“Love is giving someone  the ability to destroy you, but trusting ass look like a man and a notable.”

ANONYMOUS – “A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.”

ANONYMOUS -“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”   

ANONYMOUS –“ The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.”           

ANONYMOUS - “ True happiness comes from doing what’s right not just doing what makes you feel good.”

ANONYMOUS –“ Ugadi and Gudi Parva are Hindu new year Celebrations that fall on the first day of the month of Chaitra according to the lunar calendar. It signals the end of the winter harvesting season and the start of the upcoming one. Thanksgiving to God is celebrated by rejoicing through dancing and singing on the occasion.”    

ANONYMOUS –“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”        

ANONYMOUS –“A day will come when I pervade the world when my song of the dark night thrills the earth I will open like the white petal of the world lotus I will sing like the string of the world lyre I will fly like the flag on the top of the world.”   

ANONYMOUS –“A hug is worth a thousand world. A friend is worth more.” 

ANONYMOUS –“A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.”        

ANONYMOUS –“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”   

ANONYMOUS –“A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”   

ANONYMOUS –“A vague sense of awareness,/trapped within thought./ Dark patterns churning, misting,/ a spiraling tale of truth./ Devils and demons lurking/…painting a false reality./ Feelings surface, unknown, unwanted…/ feelings felt, but not of my own.”

ANONYMOUS –“Above all, be yourself Be but don’t just exist There’s more to life Than just being another Name on the list Be active, alive and Adventurous, boisterous, Brave and bold Confident, cool and Clear-headed, daring Determined and decisive Eager, earnest and  Eloquent, free-thinking, Fresh and fun-loving, but, above all, Be you.”

ANONYMOUS –“Above all, be yourself Be, but don’t just exist There’s more to life Than just being another Name on the list. Be active, alive and Adventurous, boisterous, Brave and bold Confident, cool and Clear-headed, daring, Determined and decisive Eager, earnest and Eloquent, free-thinking, Fresh and fun-loving, But, above all, BE YOU.”  

ANONYMOUS –“Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.”   

ANONYMOUS –“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

ANONYMOUS –“Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever that may be — sports, medicine, whatever. The same principles apply.”

ANONYMOUS –“Always remember to/be happy because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile.”          

ANONYMOUS - “And the day come when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.”

ANONYMOUS –“Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomach ache and a headache.”     

ANONYMOUS –“Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it- and some of yours spouse’s family does too.”

ANONYMOUS –“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”   

ANONYMOUS –“Believe in yourself To the depth of your being Nourish the talents Your spirit is freeing Know in your heart When the going gets slow That your faith in yourself Will continue to grow Don’t forfeit ambition When others may doubt It’s your life to live You must live it throughout Learn from your errors Don’t dwell in the past Never withdraw From a world that is vast Believe in yourself Find the best that is you Let your spirit prevail Steer a course that is true.”    

ANONYMOUS –“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”         

ANONYMOUS –“Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.”

ANONYMOUS –“Don’t learn safety rules simply by accident.”

ANONYMOUS –“Efforts may fail, but don’t fail to make efforts.”  

ANONYMOUS –“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”  

ANONYMOUS –“Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, and best friends listen to what you don’t say.”

ANONYMOUS –“Freedom is something spiritual. Whoever has once had it, can never lose it.”

ANONYMOUS –“God helps those who enable others to help themselves.”

ANONYMOUS –“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.”    

ANONYMOUS –“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”     

ANONYMOUS –“Happiness keeps you sweet, Trials keep you strong, Sorrow keeps you human, Failure keeps you humble, Success keeps you glowing, But only God keeps you going.”

ANONYMOUS –“He could hear the crowds screaming “crucify” “crucify”… He could hear the hatred in their voices, these were his chosen people He was beaten, bleeding and weakened … his heart was broken, But still He walked. He could see the crowd as he came from the palace. He knew every smile, laugh, and shed tear, But now they were contorted with rage and anger…his heart broke, But still He walked. When I forget how much My God loves me, I remember his walk. When I wonder if can be forgiven, I remember his walk. And to show him how much I love him, I wake up each morning, turn my eyes to him, And I walk.”

ANONYMOUS –“He was fired with enthusiasm because he wasn’t fired with enthusiasm.”   

ANONYMOUS –“He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.”           

ANONYMOUS –“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.”       

ANONYMOUS –“How beautiful the turning of the year A moment artificial yet profound: Point upon an arbitrary chart Passing like a breath upon the heart, Yearning with anticipation wound, New hope new harboured, in old-fashioned cheer. Even when the boundary line is clear, We recognise the oneness of the ground. Years, like circles, do not end or start Except we lay across their truth our art, Adjusting dates as they go round and round Revolving to a tune long sung and dear.”     

ANONYMOUS –“I believe in love at first sight. Because I loved my mother ever since I opened my eyes.”      

ANONYMOUS –“I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don’t I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger.”      

ANONYMOUS –“If a drop of water falls in a lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where you can shine.”   

ANONYMOUS –“If at first you don’t succeed, find out if there’s a prize for the loser.”            

ANONYMOUS –“If God puts you to it, he sees you through it.  

ANONYMOUS –“In life, you must try and be the type of person that your dog thinks you are.”

ANONYMOUS –“In the wind of January Down flits the snow, travelling from the frozen north As cold as it can blow.”

ANONYMOUS –“In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body”

ANONYMOUS –“Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.”           

ANONYMOUS –“It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn’t love you were in. There are no ‘exit’ signs in love, there is only an ‘on’ ramp.”    

ANONYMOUS –“It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart.         

ANONYMOUS –“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”

ANONYMOUS –“Its better to be last in the traffic lane than first in the funeral procession.”           

ANONYMOUS –“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”

ANONYMOUS –“Knowledge is learning something every day Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” 

ANONYMOUS –“Knowledge leads you to light, imagination lets you grow.” 

ANONYMOUS - “Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.”

ANONYMOUS –“Man can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, all-out eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”

ANONYMOUS –“More men are sorry for speaking, than keeping silence.”  

ANONYMOUS –“Mr Brown: At Diversity Today, we believe it’s very easy to be a hero. All you need are honesty, empathy, respect, and open-mindedness. Dwight: Ah, excuse me? I’m sorry, but that’s not all it takes to be a hero. Mr Brown: Great, well, what is a hero to you? Dwight: A hero kills people, people that wish him harm. A hero is part human and part supernatural. A hero is born out of a childhood trauma, or out of a disaster, that must be avenged. Mr Brown: Uh, you’re thinking of a superhero. Dwight: We all have a hero in our heart.”                

ANONYMOUS –“Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree.” 

ANONYMOUS –“Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all they have.”

ANONYMOUS –“Never regrate anything because at one time it was what you wanted.”    

ANONYMOUS –“New years are a chance for a beginning Even when there hasn’t been an end. Wheels turn in an interminable bend, Yet, marked in one spot, seem to wobble spinning. Each year we hope to do a little better Although we know that really nothing’s changed. Reason thinks that everything’s arranged, So we must dream if we would fate unfetter.” 

ANONYMOUS –“One of the reasons why people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only thing that don’t change when everyone else does.”     

ANONYMOUS –“One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.”

ANONYMOUS –“Opinion polls measure the public’s satisfaction with its ignorance.”

ANONYMOUS –“For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”     

ANONYMOUS –“People laugh at New Year resolutions. But we could all use 10 minutes in a chair followed by a humble prayer.”

ANONYMOUS –“Pour men set out to look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first man went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the fourth during fall.”

ANONYMOUS –“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”         

ANONYMOUS –“Resignation is the timid sigh of courage.”

ANONYMOUS –“Resignee: “I quit because the boss used repulsive language.” Colleague: “What did . he say?” Resignee: “He said: ‘You’re fired!” 

ANONYMOUS –“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.”   

ANONYMOUS –“Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the renowned Irish-Australian nurse, was once asked by a friend how she managed to stay constantly cheerful. Sister Kenny replied: “As a girl I would often lose my temper. But one day when I became angry with a friend over a trivial matter, my mother gave me sound advice that I remember always. She said that anyone who angers you conquers you.”

ANONYMOUS –“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”     

ANONYMOUS –“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of others’ joy.”          

ANONYMOUS –“Soul mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.”

ANONYMOUS –“Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions.”

ANONYMOUS –“Tears can be more special than smiles. For smiles can be given to anyone, but tears are shed for people we love.”      

ANONYMOUS –“The attention span of a compiler is only as long as its electrical cord.”   

ANONYMOUS –“The character of Hanuman teaches us of the unlimited power that lies unused within each one of us. Hanuman directed all his energies towards the worship of Lord Rama, and his undying devotion made him such that he became free from all physical fatigue. And Hanuman’s only desire was to go on serving Rama… and through Him, serve all.”

ANONYMOUS –“The collapsing impulse, even though going to a state of no expression — nothingness, Atyantabhava— imparts its quality onto the gap. The gap is therefore the silent witness, which sees the previous impulse and the following impulse. It holds in silence the memory of both. The nature of the gap which holds the memory of both, the previous and the following impulses, is called Anyonyabhava. This is what maintains order in creation on the field of the unmanifest Atyantabhava. This is the secret of all transformations on the path of evolution.”      

ANONYMOUS –“The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.”  

ANONYMOUS –“The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.”     

ANONYMOUS –“The top of the hill is but the  botton of another mountain.”       

ANONYMOUS –“There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.”          

ANONYMOUS –“This poem has nothing to do with floods. It is a commentary on the human potential for violence. Our display and love for it.”   

ANONYMOUS –“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.”

ANONYMOUS –“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”   

ANONYMOUS –“To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.” Benjamin Franklin –“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”   

ANONYMOUS –“Too many folks go through life running from something that isn’t after them.”

ANONYMOUS - “True happiness comes from doing what’s right not just doing what makes you feel good.”

ANONYMOUS –“We can not expect to people have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”

ANONYMOUS –“We meet to create memories, we part to preserve them.”

ANONYMOUS –“What constitutes national honour…? Is it about hoisting the national flag and singing the national anthem? Symbols are important as they serve as a visible reminder of who we are as a nation and what we represent… Of what use are symbols by themselves?”

ANONYMOUS –“What you are, never ends. What you have does.”       

ANONYMOUS –“When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.”

ANONYMOUS –“When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.”          

ANONYMOUS –“When you lose your dreams, you die.” 

ANONYMOUS –“Which else shall beautify a home/ But the flame of a lovely lamp/ which else shall adorn the mind/ But the Light of Wisdom deep.” 

ANONYMOUS –“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” 

ANONYMOUS S –“Why do the wicked always form groups, whereas the righteous do not? Because the wicked, walking in darkness, need company, but the righteous, who live in light, do not fear being alone.”        

ANONYMOUS –“You haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s right under your nose. You forget it was there.”   

ANONYMOUS –“You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!” 

ANONYMOUS –“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”

ANONYMOUS –“You win some, you lose some, but you always try again.”

ANONYMOUS –“Your bank balance can be full, Let your mind remain empty. Maintain accounts in balance sheets, not ever in your mind. Record nationality in your passport; Erase it from your thoughts. Mother and father in your genes is OK, Don’t carry them in your mind. Nations might have enemies, Mind should have none. Plan meticulously on paper, don’t clutter your mind. Jeweler and title deeds are OK in the locker; don’t let your mind get burdened with them. Put down names and surnames on forms, Obliterate them from the mind. Let dictionaries get filled with words and their meanings while your mind exults in emptiness.”

ANONYMOUS –“Your mind is the sole author of your destiny and your success.”         

ANONYMOUS-“He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.”

ANOUK AIMEE –“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”  

ANONYMOUS –“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”       

ANSEL ADAMS –“Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.” 

ANSEL ADAMS –“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, hut all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” 

ANSEL ADAMS –“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with Silence.”   

ANTHEA PAUL –“Commitment is emotional intent backed up by action. Commitment isn’t something you pledge, it’s something you do.”  

ANTHONY BURGESS –“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”

ANTHONY DE MELLO –“I was a neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed, selfish. And everyone kept telling me to change. And I resented them, and agreed with them, and wanted to change, but simply couldn’t, no matter how I tried. What hurt the most was that, like the; others, my closest friend kept urging me to change. So I felt powerless and trapped. One day he said: “Don’t change. I love you as you are.” Those words were music to my ears: “Don’t change. Don’t change. Don’t change… I love you as you are.” I relaxed. I came alive. And, suddenly, I changed! Now I know that I couldn’t really change till I found someone to love me whether I changed or not. Is this how you love me, God?”

ANTHONY DE MELLO –“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs  you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held that it never occurs to you to question them.”          

ANTHONY DE MELLO –“What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.”            

ANTHONY EUWER –“No matter how grouchy you’re feeling, You’ll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth — Thus preserving the face from congealing.”     

ANTHONY J. D’ANGELO –“Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.”       

ANTHONY J. D’ANGELO –“Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.”         

ANTHONY ROBBINS –“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”       

ANTHONY ROBBINS –“The most powerful tool on the planet is the biocomputer between your ears. Your brain can make your life greater than any dream you’ve ever had… Knowledge is important, but it’s not enough. Plenty of people had the same information as a Steve Jobs or a Ted Turner. But the ones who tool action created fabulous success and changed the world.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT –“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to. Him but God that the gift was made.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERV –“The proof of the little prince existed is that he was charmed, he laughed, and he wanted a sleep. When you want a sleep, it is proof you exist.”

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY –“I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”            

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY –“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”  

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY –“There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilisation that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.”          

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPIRY –“”It’s a question of discipline”, the little prince told me later on. “When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet”.”   

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPIRY –“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral… The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry He does not recognise that these, three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him… He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.”

ANTOINE de St EXUPERY –“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”

ANTON CHEKHOV –“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”    

ANTON CHEKOV –“Everyone has the same God; only people differ.”   

ANTON CHEKOV –“If I had listened to the critics, I’d have died drunk in the gutter.”

ANTON CHEKOV –“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

ANTON CHEKOV- “When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always says, you have lovely eyes. You have lovely hair.”

ANTON NEMILOV –“Up till now the concept of inequality between men and women has been so deeply rooted not only in the lesser educated people but also in the highly educated people as well as in women themselves, that if, on occasion, women are treated as having full equality with men, this is attributed to men’s weakness and impotency If we pursue the thoughts of any scientist, writer, student, businessman… we shall soon realise that he does lot in his heart of hearts regard woman as his equal. If we read any recent novel, however free a thinker the writer might be we shall certainly find something or other in it which will expose as superficial his concept of woman as equal to man.”  

ANTON PAVLOVITCH TEHEKHOV –“Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” 

ANTONIN ARTAUD –“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth.”        

ANTONIO MACHADO –“That dialogue may happen, ask first, the listen.”

ANTONIO MENDEZ –“Well, the Pope is like any other person. He goes the same way as allot us… like my father, your father and everyone… that’s life.”    

ANTONIO PORCHIA –“Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.”   

ANTONIO PORCHIA –“He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.”      

ANTONIO PORCHIA –“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.”  

ANTONIO PORCHIA –“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”       

ANTONIO PORCHIA –“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”   

ANTONIO QRAMSCI –“I am a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”    

ANURADHA CHOUDHUR –“The spark of life in individuals comes from the one and only flame, Brahman.”

APACHE PRAYER –“Now you will feel no rain, For each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, For each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness, For each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two bodies, But there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place To enter into the days of; your togetherness And may your days be good and long upon the earth.”      

APARNA RAGHUNATH –“Vasantha (Spring) is here and Nature’s rejoicing, For buds and blooms the time has come; For love and romance these are the days, For the young, light-hearted and gay; Throughout the year it’ll be remembered As the time when hearts start singing.”     

APJ ABDUL KALAM –“As a young citizen of India, armed with technology, knowledge and love for my nation, I realise, small aim is a crime. I will work and sweat for a great vision, the vision of transforming India into a developed nation powered by economic strength with value system. I am one of the

APJ ABDUL KALAM –“Dreams translate into thoughts and thoughts translate into action.”  

APJ ABDUL KALAM –“I can accept a second term of presidency provided there is certainty about his … I am willing to wait a few days more for this certainty.”   

APJ ABDUL KALAM –“I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness?” (11th  PRESIDENT OF INDIA)  

APJ ABDUL KALAM-“Only strength respect strength.”

APOLEON BONAPARTE –“Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.”

APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS –“In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.”   

APULEIUS –“The dream that comes in the day light are not to be trusted.”  

APULEIUS –“The soul is born in this world upon leaving the soul of the world (animal mundi) in which her existence precedes the one we all know. Thus, the gods

ARAB PROVERB –“Silence is medication for sorrow.”           

ARABIAN PROVERB –“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”

ARABIAN PROVERB –“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”         

ARABIAN PROVERB –“He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool—shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple— teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep —awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise —follows him.”              

ARABIAN PROVERB –“He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool—shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple— teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep —awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise —follows him.”

ARABIAN PROVERB –“He who see the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.”

ARABIAN PROVERB –“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.”         

ARABIAN PROVERB –“It is not the road that wears you out — It is the grain of sand in your shoe.”

ARBUTHNOT JOHN –“You may observe the force of numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduced to a mathematical reasoning; and when they cannot it’s a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confused; and when a mathematical reasoning can be had it’s as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a candle standing by you.”            

ARCESILAUS- “Where you find the laws most numerous there you will find also the greatest injustice.”

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU –“There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human, beings and their natural capacity for love: of the deepest sort.”   

ARCHBISHOP WILBERFORCE –“I plead for them (beasts and birds), that you will help to shield them, first, from the thoughtlessness of ignorance; secondly from the senseless cruelties of fashion; thirdly, from the barbarities of science.”  

ARCHIBAID COX – “I CONFESS THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN PLOT, LIE, CHEAT AND COMMIT MURDER ABROAD AND REMAIN TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUSTED AT HOME.”

ARCHIBALD MCLEISH –“There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

ARCHIE GRIFFON –“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”

ARCHIE GRIFFON –“Restrain yourselves, give, and be compassionate.”

ARCHIMEDES- “ Do not guess, when you can calculate. Do not calculate, when are true.”

ARCHIMEDES- “Do not guess, when you can calculate. Do not calculate, when you can measure.”

ARCHIMEDES –“Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.”   

are true.”

ARIANNA RANOCCHI –“With Mother Teresa and Gandhi, he was one of the most positive people of the last century He taught Christian values by example. He spoke directly to young people. He brought a whole generation closer to the Church.”      

ARIANNE MOORE –“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”   

ARISTOPHANES –“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”       

ARISTOTLE –“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”         

ARISTOTLE –“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.”          

ARISTOTLE –“Anybody can become angry- that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way- that is not within everyone’s power and is not easy.”

ARISTOTLE –“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”    

ARISTOTLE –“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence; rather, we have those because we have acted rightly; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

ARISTOTLE –“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.”

ARISTOTLE –“Happiness depends upon ourselves.

ARISTOTLE –“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than one who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”       

ARISTOTLE –“It is not always the same thing to be good man and a good citizen,”

ARISTOTLE –“It seems that ambitions makes most people wise to be loved rather than to love others.”       

ARISTOTLE – “Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.”

ARISTOTLE –“Law is mind without reason.”

ARISTOTLE –“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”   

ARISTOTLE –“Love is true when it comes from the heart, not from the mouth.”

ARISTOTLE –“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”  

ARISTOTLE –“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

ARISTOTLE –“The body attains perfection at age thirty five; the soul at fifty.”   

ARISTOTLE –“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”             

ARISTOTLE –“The family is the association established by nature/or the supply of man’s everyday wants.”       

ARISTOTLE –“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”

ARISTOTLE – “Therefore, the good of man must be the end of science of politics.”

ARISTOTLE –“Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.”   

ARISTOTLE –“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”        

ARISTOTLE –“We are what we repeatedly do… Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way — you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”  

ARISTOTLE –“We make war that we may live in peace.”

ARISTOTLE “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

ARISTOTLE –“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled, and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.”     

ARISTOTLE E- “When water chokes you, what are you to drink to wash it down.”

ARJUNA SAID –“But, 0 Descendant of Vrishni (Krishna) impelled by what power does a man commit sin even against his wish, constrained, as it   were, by force?” The Blessed Lord said.

ARMAN De CAILLVET –“Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.”

ARMAND HAMMER –“Just think of something that everyone agrees would be “wonderful” if it were only “possible.” Then set out to make it possible.”  

ARMENIAN PROVERB –“It is not he who has lived the longest, but he who has traveled the farthest, who knows the most.”   

ARNOLD –“It’s OK that you made different religions but don’t you get mixed up sometimes?”

ARNOLD BENNETT –“It is easier to go downhill than up, but the view is from the top.”    

ARNOLD GLASGOW –“Laughter is a tranqwilliser with no side effects.”

ARNOLD GLASGOW –“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.”  

ARNOLD GLASOW –“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

ARNOLD GLASOW –“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”          

ARNOLD GLASOW –“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg—not by smashing it.”  

ARNOLD H GLASGOW –“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.         

ARNOLD J TOYNBEE –“The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER –“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”  

ARNOLD TOYNBEE –“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.”    

ARNOLD TOYNBEE –“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”     

ARNOLD TOYNBEE –“Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science.” 

ART BUCHWALD- “Friend, whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”

ART CLANIN –“Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional.”  

ART HOPPE –“Only young people need new friends.”   

ART SPANDER –“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.”       

ARTHUR BLOCH –“A conclusion is the place where you got tried of thinking.”     

ARTHUR C BENSON –“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”   

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“” Eye of the Storm Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”          

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“A faith cannot survive collision with the truth is nor worth many regrets.”       

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”    

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“It is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.”       

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”       

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe — or nothing… The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close.”   

ARTHUR C CLARKE – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic.”

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“In an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is possible, he is very probably wrong.”

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”  

ARTHUR C CLARKE -“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic.”

ARTHUR C CLARKE –“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.”    

ARTHUR C CLARKE – “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLA –“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.”

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR –“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”   

ARTHUR FREEMAN –“Look at that word blame. It’s just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking about. Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on. If you want those feelings to go away you have to say: ‘Its up to me’.”   

ARTHUR GODFREY –“I’m proud of paying taxes. The only thing is– I could be just as proud for half the money.”         

ARTHUR GUITERMAN –“So once in every year we throng/ Upon a day apart,/ To praise the Lord with feast and song/ In thankfulness of heart.”    

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH –“ As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!”       

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH- “Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.”

ARTHUR J GOLDBERG –“Power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.”  

ARTHUR KOESTLER – “God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.”

ARTHUR KOESTLER –“Stifling Creativity Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.”

ARTHUR KOESTLER –“The definition of the individual: a multitude of one million divided by one million.”

ARTHUR KOESTLER- “The evils of mankind are caused by the individual’s self-transcending identification with group whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”

ARTHUR MILLER- “An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

ARTHUR MILLER –“Maybe all one can do is hope to end with the right regrets.”

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER –“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”    

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER –“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.”    

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER- “Money is human happiness in the absreact: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.”

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER –“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”  

ARTHUR STRINGER –“Genius seems to be the faculty of having faith in everything, especially oneself.”   

ARTHUR TRUDEAU –“Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty to choose the right.”

ARTHUR WALEY- “ What is hard today is to censor one’s own thoughts.”

ARTHUR WINGH PINERO- “Those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of old age, but they die young.”

ARUNA JETHWANI –“There is but one mind — the Universal Mind. We are unhappy because we wander. We wander because we are not in harmony with the Universal Mind. To be in harmony with the Universal Mind, let us seek the fellowship with the pure; spend sometime in silence everyday; and help as many as we can to lift the load on the rough road of life.”  

ARYABHATT–“The  coiled kundalini is the female energy existing in the latent form. Not only in every human being but in every atom of the universe. It may frequently happen that an individual’s kundalini energy lies dormant throughout his or her entire lifetime and he or she is unaware of its existence. The object of the tantric practice of kundalini-yoga is to awaken this cosmic energy and cause it to unite with Shiva, the Pure Consciousness pervading the whole universe.” 

ASA GRAY –“Faith in order whicli is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an ordainer, which is the basis of religion.”

ASARAMJI BAPU –“Desires in the mind cause fear. A politician fears losing his seat, a strong person fears losing his strength, a wealthy man fears losing his wealth. The root cause of fear is that instead of loving God, they love their possessions and are dependent on them. That is why they suffer from sorrows, tensions, jealousies and rivalries.”  

ASHANTI VERSE –“The stream crosses the path, the path crosses the stream: Which of them is the elder? Did we not cut the path to go and meet this stream? The stream had its origin long, long ago, It had its origin in the Creator. He created things pure, pure, tano.”   

ASHLEIGH –“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”    

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT –“ If you can’t go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.”     

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT –“Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take complete rest.”           

ASHLEY MONTAQUE –“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”        

ASSYRIAN CLAY TABLET –“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”    

ASTRID ALAUDA –“After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.”   

ASTRONAUT ELLISON ONIZUKA –“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds, to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine… Make your life count and the world will be a better place because you tried.”                                           

Mr. Ashok Sharma

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