Some Funny Quotes to make you smile - by P.G Woodhouse

 

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

 
Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Calm your Nerves -Quotes to Relax

Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
Terri Guillemets

 

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum


“Believe what you believe and it will be,
believe what others believe and they will consume you!”
― Stanley Victor Paskavic


It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary



“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.” 


 The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.


Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now 

Fall in love with Fall -Some quotes

 

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
― George Eliot

Bittersweet October.  The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.  ~Carol Bishop Hipp

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.  ~Stanley Horowitz

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.  ~Hal Borland

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryan
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Bronte

"Summer is already better, but the best is autumn. It is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously...It cools down, clears up, makes you reasonable..."Valentin, Finnish writer

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burroughs
Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
Author Unknown

How much are you worth?

The comment made by my11 year old diagnosing my current insecure condition (do you think I look old /fat) to having an issue of low self-esteem, made me want to smile and think at the same time.  “Look in the mirror mom and say there is no one like me – I am the best “, were his words. Open hearts and open minds give kids the advantage of visualizing things from a higher vantage point and perceiving situations clearer than us adults.

In the western society, the concept of having high-esteem is regarded as indispensable tool for young children to grow and rightly so. I have been reading about the seemingly disadvantages of it, for instance they really don’t know where they actually stand compared to their peers. Yet, growing up in an Asian culture, where your worth (esteem) is weighed by how you fulfill the standard requirements of the society’s expectation of what is norm, it is very easy to lose the worth of self. Letting others decide your worth is a trap that leads to gratifying others to increase our self-esteem.

The persistent struggle with low self-esteem is very prevalent among girls. Sometimes, the shadows of its remnants are visible even when we grow older. Building healthy self-worth takes not only time, but consistent input and effort of parents. We cannot control what the child goes through in school,   – bullying or some reckless remark by an adult, but we can definitely show our kids that only they have the right to define who they are.

We are all fragile to some extent, some more liable to break and damage than others. Some are fortunate to have the support system of friends in adult life to lift you up and show you a glimpse of your real worth – a creation of God, when you are down, some not so. 

Whatever be the case, let us promise to teach our kids, to always see  in mirror, what we as parents first saw when we held them in our arms, a precious and priceless source of joy.

PAINS

This morning, thanks to social media, I was chatting to a friend of mine. Discussing about all the problems we face as a generation of boom and bust economy , I mentioned to her feeling low and letting all the negativity seeping in through the cracks of life experiences.Career stagnation, teenage blues  and aging parents along with all the pieces of broken dreams mocking at you, now starting to show on our faces.

Growing old is not about aging , it is all about  having fun and finding  joy in spite of challenges faced. Some people have easier life , some tougher, but in the end it  all melts down to how you treat the undesirable incidents and people in your life. Do you let the muck stick to you, or do you wash it away with love for self and others? Whether we like it or not, we are born with certain personalities. It is easier for some to be positive, while others have to learn it along the way and like we all know it is not easy to go against the flow.

PAINS is what I am trying to learn. I am great with the positive attitude when the journey is smooth, but also very susceptible to the negative incidents around me. Maybe it has something to with being sensitive or something to do with being self-centered.

So here I am trying to take my friend's advice and learning to practice Positive Thinking In Negative Situations -PAINS.

The reason behind…..

Does all that happens to us is random or does it have a reason?  I have contemplated on this question, and the more I dig deep into my own life so far, every single incident that happened taught me a lesson. If you are thinking that the lessons learned most times, do not seem in proportion to the suffering, I agree with you. 

Just like there is a reason for trees shedding leaves in fall, or for night and day, so does all that we assume to be inexplicable in our life happens to teach us something. Honestly, though I really believe, I would rather learn theoretically the lessons than going through it.

We are creatures of free-will, yet, we don’t choose our place of birth or the family we are born in. Sometimes I feel it is like free-will is playing a game of chess with fate, each move by human beings is counteracted by destiny. Sometimes the move made by fate is in our favor; sometimes we are forced to take a step backward. It doesn’t matter how much a tree wishes to bloom in winter, it still has to wait for spring. So it is with us, we might desire our problems to be resolved instantly, but have to wait for the time to be ripe for it to materialize.

Quotable quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

 
 There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve

 

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own

 

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

 

 The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Some quotes by Jane Austen

1. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. 
2. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
   “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
   ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility .
3. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other
4. Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
5. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.  It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
6.  Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure to be kindly spoken of. 
7.   A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of
8.  History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all
9. .“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.” 
10. “There are persons who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    
    
    
    

Some musings

The quilt of life is made of  patches of different emotions, different experiences that we assimilate as a part of our personality. It is colorful and may not make much sense on its own but when stitched together by threads of love, creates something that is a beautiful piece of love.

I have yet to meet someone who hasn't had any sort of setback in life - it might be financial, personal , or related to health. We all in our own ways surmount all the challenges that we face. The fact we are still  living is a proof . It is not whether or not we overcome the obstacles, it is how we let it change us. It is extremely tempting to let the negative incidents in our life to change us , to succumb to loss of innocence, and to become bitter. 

When we remain true to our basic nature, to retain the same trust and kindness of a child, when we can proudly say that in spite of whatever life throws at me, I still have faith in the good side of human nature, is when we are truly victorious. . 

It is very easy to get disillusioned with the events in life ; to let the negative incidents color the whole landscape as black or white,and  forget that people are shades of grey and life is  a myriad of colors that gets distorted when you see it with glasses tinted with judgements.