"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading--It vexes me to choose another guide."
- Emily Bronte

"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
- Ovid

"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
- Aristotle

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear"
- Mark Twain

"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
- Charles M. Schwab

                                  The Game Of Imperfection

We are imperfect people that have come to this imperfect world to do perfect works.All through our lives,we search for perfection which we can find but cannot fully utilize.Our urge for perception makes us accomplish our imperfect plans perfectly without knowing it.So God never looks for perfect humans,because there is no one,but searches for imperfect humans with the desire for perfection to accomplish His perfect plan.

                                                                                                Ezeokwelume O.A. Vincent

    The name of the "game" is courage, perseverance, determination, persistence and consistency.

                                                                                                           Chika C. Unaigwe

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the "game"

   Life is a "game" of imperfection,a "game" we must play to perfection in other to survive.No matter how many times we fall, we just have to stand up and push a head. 

                                                                                                               Chika C. Unaigwe

                                                                          Happiness

* Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
Channing Pollock
* That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Plutarch
* It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
* Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett
* When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

* The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
* Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
* We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
Abraham Lincoln
* We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
* Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer
* There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash

* Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Orison Swett Marden
* There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
* I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
* Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Lane

* Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
William George Jordan

* The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
André Maurois
* The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
* All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
Dennis Prager
* In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
* I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)
* Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.
William George Jordan

* Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
* Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
* To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Henri Stendahl
* Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
* I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
* A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Seneca

* Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman
* The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Marie Hugo
* Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
Elbert Green Hubbard
* Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor...
Henry Ward Beecher
* The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
H. C. Mattern

* Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Count Leo Tolstoy

 

Dreams 2

* Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
* A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
* All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Thomas Edward Lawrence
* Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
Anonymous
* It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Butler Leacock

* When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.
Jiminy Cricket
* Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
* The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
* If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
* You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
Alexandar Pope
* Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

* Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
* Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
* We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer
* I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo

* How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
* Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
* Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
* The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
* Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.
Lita Bane
* I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

* The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe
* Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
* Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.
Anonymous
* The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.
Anonymous
* Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Binet

    * No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
Anonymous
* We must never surrended. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
* We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
George Lucas
* Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.
Anonymous

* Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement

Dreams

* You see things and say, 'Why?", but I dream things and say, 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
* Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
Anonymous
* When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old.
Bill Clinton
* We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
* We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Count Leo Tolstoy

* They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity.
Edgar Allan Poe
* But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.
William Butler Yeats
* Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling
* Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale E. Turner

* My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
Anna M. Uhlich
* Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
* In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.
Delmore Schwartz
* Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
* It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

* The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein

==Not living your dreams is like having in your possession something borrowed 
     God has given us these dreams not to kill it but to live it. 
 >chika unaigwe

                                                                                                         Friendship  3

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Friendship * A friend is a present you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson * We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. Epicurus * Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian (1647) * Friendship needs no words... Dag Hammarskjold * Friends are the sunshine of life." John Hay (1871) * A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Readers Digest * The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert * To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Sallust (1st century B.C.) * In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Kahil Gibran * Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. Charles Peguy * Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. George Eliot * What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane * There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. William Penn * Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain * A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings

                                          FRIENDSHIP II

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Friendship * There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher * True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton (1825) * Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. Aristotle (4th century B.C.) * There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart. Kathy Kay Benudiz * Friendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle * Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. H. G. Bohn * Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson * A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. Samuel Butler * I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over. Lord Byron * A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. James Boswell (1763) * Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell (1711) * A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Ralph Waldo Emerson * Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell * One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides (408 B.C.) * A good friend is my nearest relation. Thomas Fuller (1732) * My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. Solomon Ibn Gabirol

                                      

                                     FRIENDSHIP

Quotes Achievement Attitude Character Determination Discipline Dreams Friendship Funny Quotes Goals Happiness Health Leadership Life Quotes Love Peace Perseverance Strength Success WisdomInspiring Sunset Greeting Cards Greetings More Wedding Poems Love Letters Prom Puppies

Friendship * You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. Woodrow Wilson * It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship. Proverb * What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle * The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis Bacon * There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. Hillaire Belloc * The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end. Robert Alan * It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade. . . . George Matthew Adams * Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 * A friend loves at all times. Proverbs 17, 17 * A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil the Great * I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino * A faithful friend is the medicine of life. Apocrypha * Friendship is Love without his wings!" Lord Byron * A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein * Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Cicero (44 B.C.) Friendship needs a diet of mutual understanding and camaraderie

= Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are,       while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ~ John Wooden

=The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~ Helen Keller

="Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." ~ Inspiring Quote

="What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." ~ Author Unknown

="You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." ~ Michael Pritchard

="You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect." ~ Inspiring quotes by Buddha

="Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." ~ Author Unknown

="Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein

="When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerso

                                         Sometimes in life the act of doing "nothing"

                                                  is a process of doing "something"

                                                                                                           By: Chika Unaigwe

                               When you jugde people
                                you will not have time
                                 to love them

                                                    Mother Theresa

                

         "The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

- Aristotle        

 That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."

- Thomas Carlyle

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."

- Charles M. Schwab             

  "Little things affect little minds."

- Benjamin Disrael      

  "No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself."

- Henry David Thoreau