"Golden Pearls"

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1.“I think that perhaps we always fall in 
love the very first time we see the man of 
our dreams, even though, at the time, reason 
may be telling otherwise, and we may fight 
against that instinct, hoping against hope 
that we won't win, until there comes a point 
when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by 
our feelings...”
-Paulo Coelho 


2.Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce 


3.Never allow someone to be your priority 
while allowing yourself to be their option.
-Mark Twain


4.Common looking people are the best in the 
world: that is the reason the Lord makes so 
many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln


5.Peace begins with a smile. 
-Mother Teresa 


6.This above all; to thine own self be true.
-William Shakespeare


 7.I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am 
 a free human being with an independent will. 
-Charlotte Bronte 


8.Always aim at complete harmony of thought   
andword and deed. Always aim at purifying 
your thoughts and everything will be well.
-Mohandas Gandhi


9.Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-Albert Einstein


10.Be careless in your dress if you will, but 
 keep a tidy soul.
-Mark Twain


11.We can never judge the lives of others, 
because each person knows only their own pain 
and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that 
you are on the right path, but it's another 
to think that yours is the only path.
- Paulo Coelho


12.Intense love does not measure, it just 
gives.
-Mother Teresa


13.Expectation is the root of all heartache.
-William Shakespeare


14.Love (understood as the desire of good for 
another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon 
that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul 
being unable to become virgin again and not 
having energy enough to cast itself out again 
into the ocean of another's soul.
- James Joyce 


15.A friend is one who has the same enemies 
as you have.
-Abraham Lincoln




16.Better to remain silent and be thought a 
fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
 -Mark Twain 


17.Anyone who has never made a mistake has 
never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein


18.Confession of errors is like a broom which 
sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface 
brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for 
confession.
-Mohandas Gandhi


19.I'm just going to write because I cannot 
help it. 
-Charlotte Bronte 


20.Old friends pass away, new friends appear. 
It is just like the days. An old day passes, 
a new day arrives. The important thing is to 
make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or 
a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama


21.I destroy my enemies when I make them my 
    friends.
-Abraham Lincoln


22.Give a girl an education and introduce her 
properly into the world, and ten to one but 
she has the means of settling well, without 
further expense to anybody. 
-Jane Austen 


23.Men are nearly always willing to believe 
what they wish.
-Julius Caesar


24.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.
-Buddha


25.Forgive your enemies, but never forget 
their names.
-John F. Kennedy


26.Don't be afraid to see what you see.
 -Ronald Reagan


27.Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's 
  seeing an imperfect person perfectly. 
- Sam Keen


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All the World's a Stage

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

 - by Shakespeare-