Saturday, September 19, 2015

Quotes which you must like..



Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.


Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.


We do not remember days, we remember moments.


Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.


In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.


Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.


Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.


The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.


Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.


The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.


If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.


One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.


Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Big Bright World......

The inspiration for the song, and the title specifically, came when Barbara MacDonald said to her husband singer/songwriter Pat MacDonald, "The future is looking so bright, we'll have to wear sunglasses!" But, while Barbara had made the comment in earnest – it was the early '80s, the two had met and married and were starting a family, their first EP was coming, their book was filling up with gigs – Pat heard the comment as an ironic quip and wrote down instead, "The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades."[1]

From there, the lyrics to the song were born, but not the song as it ended up in the minds of popular culture. While Pat wrote a song of a young nuclear scientist and his rich future,[1] listening audiences heard a graduation theme song.

Pat revealed on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s that the meaning of the song was widely misinterpreted as a positive perspective in regard to the near future. Pat somewhat clarified the meaning by stating that it was, contrary to popular belief, a "grim" outlook. While not saying so directly, he hinted at the idea that the bright future was in fact due to impending nuclear holocaust. The "job waiting" after graduation signified the demand for nuclear scientists to facilitate such events. Pat drew upon the multitude of past predictions which transcend several cultures that foreshadow the world ending in the 1980s, along with the nuclear tension at the height of the cold war to compile the song.

When they performed the song on the Joan Rivers show in 1989,[2] a third verse fit the ironic intent of the song:

I'm well aware of the world out there,
getting blown all the pieces, but what do I care?
Similarly, the group's EP Looks Like Dark to Me contains a slower version of the song with an additional verse, making clear the dark nature of the song's intent:

Blowin' up the lab,
Blowin' the professor,
Torn between two evils,
I always pick the lesser.

That same EP's title track also refers back to this song:

The future's been bright for so long now, it looks like dark to me.



The genesis of "Big Bright World", came from a three-night bout of insomnia suffered by the band's guitarist, Steve Marker, while staying in an apartment on Hollywood and Vine. "[It] was probably about the noisiest place in the world that I've ever been. I couldn't sleep... and I grabbed an acoustic guitar and just did this little riff with some of the chorus of that song," Marker Later recalled. He played it back for vocalist Shirley Manson, who loved it. "To me, it's probably the most anthemic track on the record," remarked drummer Butch Vig later. "We were really excited as a band to get back together and that song captures the excitement of us playing together for the first time in a long time," Manson added.

Nature is given by god

Nature is given by god....
Natural and legal rights are two types of rights. Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system. Natural rights are those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., cannot be sold, transferred, or removed).

The concept of natural law is closely related to the concept of natural rights. During the Age of Enlightenment, the concept of natural laws was used to challenge the divine right of kings, and became an alternative justification for the establishment of a social contract, positive law, and government — and thus legal rights — in the form of classical republicanism.[dubious – discuss][original research?][clarification needed] Conversely, the concept of natural rights is used by others to challenge the legitimacy of all such establishments.

The idea of human rights is also closely related to that of natural rights: some acknowledge no difference between the two, regarding them as synonymous, while others choose to keep the terms separate to eliminate association with some features traditionally associated with natural rights. Natural rights, in particular, are considered beyond the authority of any government or international body to dismiss. The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an important legal instrument enshrining one conception of natural rights into international soft law. Natural rights were traditionally viewed as exclusively negative rights, whereas human rights also comprise positive rights. Even on a natural rights conception of human rights, the two terms may not be synonymous.


Kant argued that our experiences are structured by necessary features of our minds. In his view, the mind shapes and structures experience so that, on an abstract level, all human experience shares certain essential structural features. Among other things, Kant believed that the concepts of space and time are integral to all human experience, as are our concepts of cause and effect.[4] One important consequence of this view is that one never has direct experience of things, the so-called Noumea world, and that what we do experience is the phenomenal world as conveyed by our senses. These claims summarize Kant's views upon the subject–object problem. Kant published other important works on ethics, religion, law, aesthetics, astronomy, and history. These included the Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, 1788), the Metaphysics of Morals (Die Metaphysik der Sitten, 1797), which dealt with ethics, and the Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), which looks at aesthetics and teleology.



The right to what is in essence inalienable is imprescriptible, since the act whereby I take possession of my personality, of my substantive essence, and make myself a responsible being, capable of possessing rights and with a moral and religious life, takes away from these characteristics of mine just that externality which alone made them capable of passing into the possession of someone else. When I have thus annulled their externality, I cannot lose them through lapse of time or from any other reason drawn from my prior consent or willingness to alienate them.

In discussion of social contract theory, "inalienable rights" were said to be those rights that could not be surrendered by citizens to the sovereign. Such rights were thought to be natural rights, independent of positive law. Some social contract theorists reasoned, however, that in the natural state only the strongest could benefit from their rights. Thus, people form an implicit social contract, ceding their natural rights to the authority to protect the people from abuse, and living henceforth under the legal rights of that authority.


Many historical apologies for slavery and illiberal government were based on explicit or implicit voluntary contracts to alienate any "natural rights" to freedom and self-determination. The de facto inalienability arguments of Hutcheson and his predecessors provided the basis for the anti-slavery movement to argue not simply against involuntary slavery but against any explicit or implied contractual forms of slavery. Any contract that tried to legally alienate such a right would be inherently invalid. Similarly, the argument was used by the democratic movement to argue against any explicit or implied social contracts of subjection (pactum subjectionis) by which a people would supposedly alienate their right of self-government to a sovereign as, for example, in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. 

Dont judge me

Don't judge me..
“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!” 
― Bob Marley

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” 
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” 
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” 
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

“That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.” 
― Emily Raboteau, The Professor's Daughter: A Novel

“While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.” 



“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.” 

― Toba Beta

“As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.” 
― Eric Wilson, A Shred of Truth

“I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.” 
― Mz. Robinson, The Lies 

“The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.” 

Don't judge me, you can't handle half of what I've dealt with. There's a reason I do the things I do, there's a reason I am who I am. - Unknown.

Don't judge me. I was born to be awesome not perfect. -Unknown

Don't judge me by they mistakes i've made, but by what i've learned from them.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.
[Judge Me Quote By Author: Lil Wayne]

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. [Writer: Kelly Rowland]

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect & I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!”  [Saying Writer: Bob Marley]

Don't judge anyone, Behind every person; there's always a reason why they are the 
way they are. We just can't help it. We are who we are and who we are meant to be in this life. 
- Kemmy Nola

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

  1. Laurence J. Peter
  2. Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle. Wikipedia
  3. Born: September 16, 1919, Vancouver, Canada
  4. Died: January 12, 1990
                              
                                                                                                                       If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.  
                                               - Laurence J. Peter



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Monday, December 29, 2014

The unexamined life is not worth living ....

The unexamined life is not worth living ....



But Socrates believed that these alternatives would rob him of the 

only thing that made life useful: Examining the world around him

 and discussing how to make the world a better place. Without his 

"examined life" there was no point in living. So he suggested that 

Athens reward him for his service to society. The result, of course, 

is that they had no alternative and were forced to vote for a 

punishment of death.

Luckily, we don't have to choose between an examined life and 

death. But the sad thing is, most people avoid leading an examined 

life. It's not that they don't have time or make time. They actively 

avoid examining their lives.

People who do examine their lives, who think about where they've 

been, how they got here, and where they're going, are much 

happier people.  

No one has all the answers. And no one's life is free from 

trouble and strife. But those who have some sense of where they 

belong in the universe also have a context for understanding how 

all the elements of their life fit together.


I've always been fascinated by Socrates' bold statement that "The unexamined life is not worth living."

He doesn't mince words. He doesn't say that the unexamined life is "less meaningful than it could be" or "one of many possible responses to human existence." He simply and clearly says it's not even worth living.

Why does he make such strong, unequivocal statement?

Socrates believed that the purpose of human life was personal and spiritual growth. We are unable to grow toward greater understanding of our true nature unless we take the time to examine and reflect upon our life. As another philosopher, Santayana, observed, "He who does not remember the past is condemned to repeat it."

Examining our life reveals patterns of behavior. Deeper contemplation yields understanding of the subconscious programming, the powerful mental software that runs our life. Unless we become aware of these patterns, much of our life is unconscious repetition.

As a psychotherapist, I see so many tragic examples of the effect of an unexamined life. I remember Melissa, a sensitive, attractive woman in her late forties who realized that a series of repetitive, doomed-from-the-beginning relationships had used up so many years of her life that it was now very unlikely that she could still manifest her dream of a husband and children of her own. I recall Donald, a caring, hard-working man who neglected his wife and family emotionally for too many years. By the time he came to see me he was divorced, depressed and living alone in an apartment.

If only Melissa and Donald had taken the time to examine and reflect upon their lives as they were living them, they could have made changes and had a different experience during their lifetime.

The good news is that it is never too late to start examining our life more thoroughly -- and to reap the rewards. Melissa never had the child she wanted but she stopped recreating her past and eventually married a loving man who helped her heal her childhood wound of a father who deserted her. It was too late for Donald to get a second chance with his wife, but he was able to build strong relationships with his children.

We all have blind spots. Sometimes when I examine a chronic problem in my life, I have that unsettling feeling that I must be missing something, but I can't quite see what it is. We try to examine ourselves, but none of us can see our own back side (our "shadow").


If there are two people, one with a map and one 

without a map, who has the better chance of 

reaching her destination? The one with the map, of 

course.

When you set aside time to examine your life,
You get to choose your destination; You get to set 

the goals;


You get to determine the path; You get to decide 

how long it will take;

You get to decide whether you're on the right pathor 

the wrong path.

In other words, you begin to know your self and to 

take control of your life. You decide who you want to 

be and begin to become the person you want to be.



Sunday, December 28, 2014


Not Giving Up & Staying Strong...

Not Giving Up & Staying Strong...

 Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without  thinking about. 

Life is a struggle. Life will through curveballs at you, it will humble you, it will attempt to break you down. And just when you think things are starting to look up, life will smack you back down with ruthless indifference.
The reason most people never achieve their dreams is because they simply give up. Life was never meant to be easy – its a constant struggle, with extreme lows and extreme highs. Remember that the times when its most important to persevere are the times that you will be most tested.
To help you in your quest to stay strong and persevere through adversity, here are some encouraging quotes about staying strong and not giving up. These are words of some of the greatest men and women who have ever walked this little blue planet we call Earth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else.
– Unknown

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
– Albert Einstein
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
– Winston Churchill
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.



– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
– Author Unknown
A winner is someone who gets up one more time than he is knocked down.
– Author Unknown
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
– Earl Nightingale
You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.
– Babe Ruth
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
– Samuel Beckett
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
– Author Unknown
Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
– Vince Lombardi
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
– Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Stowe
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
– Author Unknown
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas Edison
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.
– Thomas Edison
I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
– Thomas Edison
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
– George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
– Zig Ziglar
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
– Sugar Ray Robinson
It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.
– Unknown
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
– Jane Addams
The day you give up on your dreams is the day you give up on yourself.
– Author Unknown
Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
– Conrad Hilton
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
– Bill Cosby
Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
– Charlie Jones
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
– Japanese Proverb
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
– William Feather
The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
– Rocky Balboa
Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
– Sidney Sheldon
When someone tells you that you can’t do something, perhaps you should consider that they are only telling you what they can’t do.
– Sheldon Cahoon
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
― Author Unknown
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.
– Maeve Greyson
Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’
– Mary Anne Radmacher