Inspiration from the rain

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank Howard Clark  

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood 

Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman

  

Friday thoughts and bloghops

My thoughts for this week:

"Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."

– Jacob Braude

Today is a legal holiday here in the Philippines as celebration for Eid ul-Fitr (the Festival of Fast-Breaking or end of Ramadan). 

But before the weekend closes, you can out first the ongoing Blogfest 2010. Hurry, it will end on Sept 12,2010! There will lots of prizes at stake!






And maybe visit several bloghops. You'll never know, a great blog is waiting to be discovered, a friend  waiting to be found!

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Qoute of the Day -- the power to choose

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
– Groucho Marx

Qoute of the Day -- Pay it forward

"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."

– Julia Alvarez

About Julia Alvarez

Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez is best known for her novels, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, about sisters adjusting to life in the US, and In the Time of the Butterflies, the tragic life story of the anti-Trujillo activists, the Mirabal sisters. Born in New York in 1950, she was raised in the Dominican Republic until she was ten, when her family fled the country. She and her husband live in Vermont and run a sustainable coffee farm/literacy center in the Dominican Republic.

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Friday Quotes

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Roses with thorns, or thorns with roses?

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."

                                                        – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

...waiting for the storm

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

– Morris West

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How will you deal with it?

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

– James Russell Lowell

QUOTE of the Day

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."

                                                                           

– Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, is considered one of her era's most powerful women. She was born in 1917 in New York. After her father bought the newspaper, she joined the staff as a reporter. Her husband inherited the paper from her father, and Graham took it over when he died in 1963. During her tenure, the paper printed the controversial Pentagon Papers and uncovered the Watergate conspiracy. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her autobiography, Personal History. She died in 2001.

Qoute of the Day

"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult."

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of the Day -- Persevarance

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
– Ovid

Quote of the Day

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."

About Hannah More

English writer and philanthropist Hannah More, one of the most influential women of her time, is seen as a proto-feminist because she argued for true education for women. She was born near Bristol in 1745. When her long engagement to a local landowner ended badly, he gave her a yearly stipend in apology, which allowed her the freedom to move to London and write plays. She later shifted to philanthropic work and writing popular religious tracts. She died in 1833.

Quote of the Day

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

              – Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill was an extraordinary British prime minister; he laid the groundwork for welfare in England, helped set the boundaries in the Middle East, became a symbol of the resistance against the Nazis in Europe, and was a central force in the Allied victory in World War II. He was born in 1874 near Oxford. He was known for his courage, his stubbornness, and his powerful personality. He was also an accomplished painter and writer. He died in 1965.

Waiting for the Train

"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting", Warhol (1923 – 1987)

 

 

Qoute of the Day~Choice

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

          – Norman Cousins

About Norman Cousins

American writer and editor Norman Cousins is best known for his book, Anatomy of an Illness, an account of how he used nutrition and positive visualizations, including laughter, to heal from an illness diagnosed as fatal. He was born in New Jersey in 1915. He served many years as editor-in-chief of the Saturday Review, a job he loved. Under his guidance, circulation increased from 20,000 to 650,000. He received the UN Peace Medal for his world activism. He died in 1990.

QUOTE of the Day

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

               – Dr. Joyce Brothers

About Dr. Joyce Brothers

The popular American psychologist and advice columnist Joyce Brothers first found fame by winning The $64,000 Question game show. She was born in 1928. Her influence, through a daily newspaper column, radio and TV shows, and more than ten best-selling self-help books, has made her one of the ten most admired women in America, according to a number of polls. After her husband died in 1989, she wrote her most personal book, Widowed, delving into her own grief. She lives in New York.

QUOTE of the Day

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous."

            – Margot Fonteyn

About Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn, the elegant British prima ballerina, is considered one of the truly great dancers of our time. She was born in 1919 in Surrey. She made her debut in 1934 as a snowflake in Nutcracker and was a leading ballerina within four years. She flirted with retirement in the late 1950's until Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union; he became her dancing partner for the next decade, a brilliant creative match despite their 20-year age difference. She died in 1991 in Panama.

QUOTE of the Day~Action

"Action is the antidote to despair."
– Joan Baez

About Joan Baez

American singer Joan Baez, known for her clear soprano and her belief in music as a tool for change, is widely considered the godmother of modern folk-rock. She was born in New York in 1941. She is an ardent activist, working for civil rights, nonviolence, and worker's rights. She received the ACLU's Earl Warren Award for her commitment to international human rights and, at the 2007 Grammy's, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her music includes the chart-topping version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and the album Diamonds and Rust. She has one son.

QUOTE of the Day~Life

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
– Colette

About Colette

Colette was the pen name of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the French author acclaimed for her intimate, lyrical novels, including Chéri and The Vagabond. Born in Burgundy in 1873, she moved to Paris in 1893 when she married Henri "Willy" Gauthier-Villars, who locked her in a room and demanded that she write. After their divorce, she became a music-hall performer and continued to write. During World War I, she converted her second husband's estate into a hospital for the wounded. She died in 1954.

QUOTE of the Day~Resolutions

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
– Henry Moore

About Henry Moore

British sculptor Henry Moore is known for his voluptuous abstract figures. He was born in 1898 to a poor mining family. After Moore served in World War I, he became the first student of sculpture at Leeds School of Art; a sculpture studio was set up specifically for him. As he studied primitive arts, his own work became more abstract. He established The Henry Moore Foundation in 1977 to promote public appreciation of art. He died in 1986. His work can be seen in public spaces all over the world.