Homemade Shampoo

Shampoo

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Shikkai 1/2 kg

Arrappu 1/2 kg

Moong dal 400 gm

Passalai keerai 1/2 kg

Hibiscus leaf powder 400 gm

Boondi kottai 400 gm reetha

Karisilangani  200gms

Ponnankanni 200gms

Thurtuvalai powder 50 gm

Black cumin 100gm

Fenugreek 100gm

Amla 100 gm

Henna 200 gm

Tulsi 100 gm

Neeli / Auri / indigo 100 gm

All these above things mixed as a dry powder and can be used as a shampoo to grow hair well.

Liver Foods

Best foods for Liver Detox

Artichoke
Asparagus
Avocado
Beetroot
Cabbage
Dandelions
Garlic
Ginger
Grapefruit
Green Tea
Kale
Lemongrass
Lemon
Olive Oil
Seaweed
Turmeric
Water
Water Cress
Wheatgrass

Date Formats

In C#.Net we can use GetDateTimeFormats() function.

DateTime.Now.GetDateTimeFormats('d')[x]

[0] "10/4/2007" string
[1] "10/4/07" string
[2] "10/04/07" string
[3] "10/04/2007" string
[4] "07/10/04" string
[5] "2007-10-04" string
[6] "04-Oct-07" string

So for a simple test :

if(p.StartDate <= Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.GetDateTimeFormats('d')[3]))

We also have the ToString() Method

All the patterns:
0	MM/dd/yyyy	01/31/2011
1	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy	Monday, 31 January 2011
2	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48
3	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm tt	Monday, 31 January 2011 05:48 PM
4	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy H:mm	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48
5	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy h:mm tt	Monday, 31 January 2011 5:48 PM
6	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48:23
7	MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm	01/31/2011 17:48
8	MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt	01/31/2011 05:48 PM
9	MM/dd/yyyy H:mm	01/31/2011 17:48
10	MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt	01/31/2011 5:48 PM
11	MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss	01/31/2011 17:48:23
12	MMMM dd	January 31
13	MMMM dd	January 31
14	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss.fffffffK	2011-01-31T17:48:23.0232229-05:00
15	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss.fffffffK	2011-01-31T17:48:23.0232229-05:00
16	ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:48:23 GMT
17	ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:48:23 GMT
18	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss	2011-01-31T17:48:23
19	HH:mm	17:48
20	hh:mm tt	05:48 PM
21	H:mm	17:48
22	h:mm tt	5:48 PM
23	HH:mm:ss	17:48:23
24	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'	2011-01-31 17:48:23Z
25	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48:23
26	yyyy MMMM	2011 January
27	yyyy MMMM	2011 January

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'd' ) :
0	MM/dd/yyyy	01/31/2011

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'D' ) :
0	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy	Monday, 31 January 2011

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'f' ) :
0	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48
1	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm tt	Monday, 31 January 2011 05:48 PM
2	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy H:mm	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48
3	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy h:mm tt	Monday, 31 January 2011 5:48 PM

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'F' ) :
0	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48:23

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'g' ) :
0	MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm	01/31/2011 17:48
1	MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt	01/31/2011 05:48 PM
2	MM/dd/yyyy H:mm	01/31/2011 17:48
3	MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt	01/31/2011 5:48 PM

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'G' ) :
0	MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss	01/31/2011 17:48:23

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'm' ) :
0	MMMM dd	January 31

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'r' ) :
0	ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH':'mm':'ss 'GMT'	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:48:23 GMT

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 's' ) :
0	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss	2011-01-31T17:48:23

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'u' ) :
0	yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z'	2011-01-31 17:48:23Z

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'U' ) :
0	dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss	Monday, 31 January 2011 17:48:23

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'y' ) :
0	yyyy MMMM	2011 January

Dropping some tables in the Database

SELECT name INTO #tables from sys.objects where type = 'U'

while (SELECT count(1) FROM #tables) >= 0

begin

declare @sql varchar(max)

declare @tbl varchar(255)

SELECT top 1 @tbl = name FROM #tables

SET @sql = 'drop table ' + @tbl

exec(@sql)

DELETE FROM #tables where name = @tbl

end

DROP TABLE #tables;

Quotes

Sayings to Inspire Women

For another business in which I am involved I collected these sayings.
It was such a pleasure to gather, read and re-read them I thought
you might also enjoy some of them.
~ ~ ~
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have."
~ Emile Augusta Chartier
“To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork.”
~ Dave Liniger, co-founder and chairman of RE/MAX
“We all want a partner to witness our lives, so that our lives will matter to someone.”
~ in the movie “Shall We Dance?”, Susan Sarandon’s character
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
~ Oprah Winfrey
"A relationship is like a shark. You know, it has to constantly move forward or it dies."
~ Woody Allen, said in “Annie Hall”
“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
~ Carrie Fisher
Legend has it British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his political rival William Gladstone had a date with the same woman on different nights. When asked her impression of the two men, she said, "When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England."
~ contributed by Dr. Mardy Grothe
“I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.“
~ Gilda Radner
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anais Nin
“I was on a search -- I wanted to discover woman-ness. I never had a female role model. My mother killed herself when I was 12, and I was very frightened of what it meant to be a woman because I thought it meant being a victim and dying.”
~ Jane Fonda, actor, activist and author.
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
~ Margaret Mead
"Going to Hollywood to talk about menopause was a little like going to Las Vegas to sell savings accounts."
~ Gail Sheehy, discussing, with film makers, the possibility of making of a movie out of her book, The Silent Passage: Menopause

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."
~ Mark Twain
“Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.”
~ Joanne Woodward
"Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."
~ Russell Baker
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.“
~ Lily Tomlin
“Criticize the act, not the person.
~ Mary Kay Ash
“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
“I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we're all afraid of it and when we're afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.”
~ Diane Keaton
“I remember asking Rosemary (Clooney, his aunt) why she’s a better singer at 70 than she was at 21. …She said, ‘because I don’t have to prove I can sing anymore.’ That was a good acting lesson: not having to show off now.”
~ George Clooney, actor, screenwriter and director
(On her long marriage to Michael Williams) "We were just happy to be in the same room together."
~ Judy Dench
"There are two kinds of truth--trivial truths and profound truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is false, but the opposite of a profound truth is also true."
~ Niels Bohr
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Rather, it's the mastery of fear. It’s getting to the point where our fears do not stop us from daring to think new thoughts, try new things, take risks, fail, and start again. Fearlessness is all about getting up one more time than we fall down.”
~ Arianna Huffington
"Middle age is when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places."
~ Joey Adams
“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.“
~ Gracie Allen
“Age does not protect you from love but love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
~ Jean Moreau
“A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.”
~ Mark Twain.
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
~ Helen Hayes (at 73)
“We only keep what we lose.“
~ May Sarton
"An average tool in the best hands will always produce better results than the best tool in average hands.”
~ Don Groves
“Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened.”
~ Cora Harvey Armstrong
“Bloom where you are planted.”
~ Nancy Reader
“Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear. “
~ Nicole Brossard
"In a relationship, it's hard to sustain the passion; in a passionate affair, it's hard to sustain the relationship."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. “
~ Emily Dickinson
"To think that great love doesn't involve work is just as mistaken as thinking that great work doesn't involve love."
Dr. Mardy Grothe
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? “
~ Dolores Huerta
“Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. “
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
~ Al Rogers
“It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.”
~ Joyce Carol Oates
"Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground."
~ Marge Piercy, quoted in "Something More" by Sarah Ban Breathnach
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous”
~ Ingrid Bergman
"We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses."
~ Laurence Olivier
“You know you've created God in your own image when he hates the same people you do.”
- Annie Lamott
"I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me."
~ Robertson Davies
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
~ Stephen Levine
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.“
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Absence becomes the greatest Presence. “
~ May Sarton
"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."
~ Vincent van Gogh
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
~ Lily Tomlin
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
~ Joanne Woodward
“When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose.”
~ Amanda McBroom
”When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.”
~ Elayne Boosler
“Boyfriends need to understand that if women are worshipped, the world will be a better place.”
~ Nicole Kidman
"A man bears the same relationship to a woman as a multiple-choice test does to an essay exam."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
“Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ”
~ Caryn Leschen
“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable. “
~ L Arundhati Roy
“A woman is like a tea bag… you don’t know how strong she is until she’s in hot water.”
~ bumper sticker
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
~ James Baldwin
“Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment. “
~ Candace Pert
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- anonymous Chinese philosopher
“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
~ Lily Tomlin
"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
"You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
~ Eric Hoffer
"Follow your dreams,'' a message spray-painted on a concrete abutment near the interchange of highways in the San Francisco area, was painted over quickly several times during April and May, probably by our state agency, Caltrans. About a month ago, a new message appeared: "Fine, live in despair!'' This one has been left alone.
~ Leah Garchek quoted in her column in the San Francisco Chronicle
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
~ Carl Jung
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
~ Gertrude Stein
“All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
~ Lily Tomlin
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passers by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way."
~ Vincent van Gogh
“Walk with the light.”
~ Kare Anderson
"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
~ Carl Jung
“All sins are attempts to fill voids. “
~ Simone Weil
"We can never truly understand people when we hate them, and we can never truly hate people when we understand them."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer. “
~ Zora Neale Hurston
"Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures."
~ Francois Mauriac
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
~ Gertrude Stein
"Listening may be the most powerful statement a person can make.”
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
- Gertrude Stein
“The only thing you take with you when you are gone is what you left behind.”
~ John Allston
“How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world? “
~ Anne Frank
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
~ Eric Hoffer
“One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.”
~ George Sand
“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
~ Lily Tomlin
"A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
~ Carl Jung
"Some things emerge from so deep inside us they appear to come from an outside source.”
~ Dr. Marty Grothe
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction then both are changed.
~ Carl Jung
“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.”
~ Lily Tomlin
“When you long for a life without difficulty, it helps to remember that oak trees grow strong in contrary winds and that diamonds are made under pressure.”
~ Peter Marshall
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
“Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being -- hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”
~ Erma Bombeck
“In a combat between wisdom and feeling wisdom never wins.”
~ Merlin - Mort d'Artur
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
~ Albert Einstein
“Old age ain't no place for sissies. ”
~ Bette Davis
"Women deprived of the company of men pine, men deprived of the company of women become stupid."
~ Anton Chekhov
“I've got to the age now where the only things I'm proud of are my mistakes.”
~ Robert Altman
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
~ Jane Sellman
“Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
~ Jennifer Unlimited
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
~ Naguib Mahfouz
“I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
~ Jennifer Unlimited
"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
~ Gertrude Stein
”If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
~ Catherine (scrawled on the wall in a women’s bathroom)
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
~ Lily Tomlin
”If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. ”
~ Sue Grafton
"Sex is about appetite. Love is about endurance."
– Jack Valenti
”In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ”
~ Margaret Thatcher
"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
~ William James
”I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ”
~ Gloria Steinem
“Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
~ Leonard Cohen
”Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
~ Carl Jung
“Look to someone’s positive intent, especially when he appears to have none.”
~ Kare Anderson
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
~ May Sarton
"For fast acting relief, try slowing down."
~ Lily Tomlin
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
~ Mother Teresa
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
~ Booker T. Washington
"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
~ Erica Jong
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."
~ Eric Hoffer
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
~ Virginia Satir
"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“Edna Ferber was fond of wearing tailored suits before they became fashionable among professional women. One day she arrived at the Algonquin Hotel wearing a suit that was very similar to one that English actor Noel Coward was wearing. Coward looked Ferber up and down and said, "You look almost like a man." She replied simply: "So do you."
~ contributed by Dr. Mardy Grothe
"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners."
~ Rita Mae Brown
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
~ Lily Tomlin
“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”
~ Henry Mencken
“Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration.”
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered—the trick is to discover them.”
~ Galileo
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anais Nin
"The first duty of love is to listen."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
~ Mark Twain
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
~ Booker T. Washington
“A true leader is not one you look up to because they are the best. A true leader is one that draws the best out in you. “
~ Anne Warfield
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
~ Eric Hoffer
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. “
~ May Sarton
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles."
~ Lily Tomlin
“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. “
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
"After great pain a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs."
Emily Dickinson
“Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn’t seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
~ anonymous
"Loneliness is a word to express the pain of being alone ... solitude is a word to express the glory of being alone."
~ Paul Tillich
"A vision without the ability to execute is a hallucination."
- Steve Case, former AOL CEO
“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.”
~ Ben Sweetland
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
~ Francois Mauriac
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
~ William Saroyan
"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right."
~ Marian Wright Edelman
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
~ Theophile Gautier
"No leader sets out to be a leader per se, but rather to express him- or herself freely and fully. That is leaders have no interest in proving themselves, but an abiding interest in expressing themselves."
~ Warren Bennis
"At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time."
~ Lily Tomlin
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
~ Lance Armstrong
"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
~ Al Rogers
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them--often in the same bed--a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition."
~ Robertson Davies
"After great pain a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs."
- Emily Dickinson
"Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?"
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
~ Gertrude Stein
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
~ Eric Hoffer
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. “
~ Maya Angelou
“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.”
~ G. K. Chesterton
“If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.”
- Carolyn Forche
“Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"A man bears the same relationship to a woman as a multiple-choice test does to an essay exam."
- Dr. Mardy Grothe
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
~ Stephen Levine
"The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him,
and to fly from all that pursue him."
~
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
~ Margaret Thatcher
"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
~ William Penn
"Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up."
~ Orson Welles
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating system of the heart.
- anonymous
When Groucho Marx was host of the 1950s TV game show "You Bet Your Life”, shot in front of a live audience, a contestant revealed that he was the father of ten children. Marx asked "Why so many children?" The man replied, "Well, Groucho, I love my wife." Marx paused for a moment, panned briefly to the audience, then responded, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."
~ Contributed by Dr. Mardy Grothe
"When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success
than success has ever been of happiness."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
“The armor of irony is a little ugly, it’s difficult to lug around, and it makes it hard to hug one another. But maybe irony is, in the end, better than abs of steel.”
~ Veronica Rueckert, The Big Book of Irony
“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package, I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
~ Joan Didion, Commencement Address at U.C. Riverside
“Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.”
~ Rita Rudner
“Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find our center.”
~ Buck Ghosthorse, Lakota Medicine Man
"The object of life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, 'Holy Shit, What a Ride!!!’
~ Mavis Leyrer
" If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud".
~ Emile Zola
"Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion."
~ Sam Ervin
"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."
~ Pearl S. Buck
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."
~ Peter De Vries
"In most marriages, it is likely that wives would be more respectful to husbands if they got more loving, and husbands more loving to wives if they got more respect."
~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
~ Rita Mae Brown
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
~ Elie Wiesel
"To have a good third act you need to understand what the first two have been about. I don't want to die without knowing who I am."
~ Jane Fonda
“Love is metaphysical gravity; it holds us and the universe together.”
~ Buckminster Fuller
“We're all in this alone.”
~ Lily Tomlin
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
~ William James
“The same boiling water hardens the egg and softens to the carrot.”
~ anonymous
"Sex is about appetite. Love is about endurance."
~ Jack Valenti
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
~ Woody Allen
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
~ Colette
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
~ Pericles
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
~ Will Rogers
"Action is the antidote to despair."
~ Joan Baez
" Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
~ Rita Mae Brown
"When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories ...the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.”
~ Federico Fellini
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

MOTIVATING QUOTES

She said, 'Haidoo, you have to command what you want. If you do not get it, demand it. If you still don't get it, grab it. If you still do not get it you have to kill to get it. If you worry about what the world thinks, you will waver from your goal.'

She was like that. She never cared too hoots if the world was shocked, embarrassed... right from the day she walked out of her house.

She hurt people in the process but she was able to compensate because she succeeded financially. She never took from people, she only gave. Throughout, she remained economically independent and died as a landlady.

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-- Judy Garland

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
Come to the edge!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.
-- Christopher Logue

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
-- James Allen

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulis

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
-- Jenny Craig

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting......Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams master the lessons we have learned as we have moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.... [At this point] Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
-- Paulo Coelho

Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Marianne Williamson

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
-- James Allen

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and this string is, Attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. And so it is with you....We are in charge of our Attitudes.
-- Charles Swindoll

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

Until one is committed
There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
Always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),
There is one elementary truth,
The ignorance of which kills countless ideas
And splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
Then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
That would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision
Raising in one's favor all manner
Of unforeseen incidents and meetings
And material assistance,
Which no man could have dreamt
Would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
-- W.H. Murray, from The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen

What a different story people would have to tell if they would adopt a definite purpose and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming purpose.
-- Napoleon Hill, Laws of Success

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
-- Henry Ford

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now.
-- Joan Baez

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason

Inspirational Quotes for Women

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains
unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have
altered.

-- Nelson Mandela

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When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the
advantage.

-- Bill Balance

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So often we try to alter circumstances to suit
ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is
what they are meant to do.

-- Mother Maribel

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Because of their age-long training in human
relations-for that is what feminine intuition really
is-women have a special contribution to make to any
group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to
contribute the kinds of awareness that relatively few
men . . . have incorporated through their education.

-- Margaret Mead

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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom
manifests itself.

-- Oprah Winfrey

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Women have served all these centuries as looking
glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of
reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural
size.

-- Virginia Woolf

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest
things in the world.

-- Lao-tzu

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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small
treats.

-- Iris Murdoch

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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

-- Oprah Winfrey

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If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born
open, and so is your heart. And though there may be
times when your hands are empty, your heart is always
full, and you can give things out of that.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings
deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous
bank accounts.

-- Anonymous - GQ magazine

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever
solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis

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We love because it is the only true adventure.

-- Nikki Giovanni

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The best relationship is one where your love for each
other is greater than your need for each other.

-- Anonynous

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given
birth.

-- Erma Bombeck

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What you discover on your own is always more exciting
than what someone else discovers for you-it's like the
difference between romantic love and an arranged
marriage.

-- Terrence Rafferty

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Don't trust someone who doesn't close their eyes when
you kiss them.

-- Anonymous

Inspirational Quotes

Whenever the world seems to get the best of me, whenever I feel it closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. And as a frightened child finds comfort and strength in a loving parent, I find my God and a band of loving Invisibles. From this place of power, I garner strength to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge from this sanctuary, the world has not changed but I have. And in my changing a whole new world is born.
-- John Harricharan

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-- Thomas Jefferson

I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
-- Og Mandino

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it's the only way to live life completely.
-- Anonymous

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides and gravitation -- after all the scientific and technical achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire!
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Never run away from anything. Never!
-- Sir Winston Churchill

I have had a long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them - nine-tenths of them never happened.
-- Andrew Carnegie

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.
-- Hannah Whital Smith

No obstacle will ever leave you the way it found you.
-- Anonymous

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
-- Garrison Keillor

Persistence is simply enjoying the distance between the fulfillment of God's promises.
-- Anonymous

Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body, too. Hence the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope; the balm and life-blood of the soul.
-- Anonymous

If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to or even into the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not you will remain dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?
-- C. S. Lewis

Just two things are necessary for success in this life:
One is a sense of purpose and the other is a touch of madness.
-- John Harricharan

In a world gone mad with illusion, a touch of madness is the only sanity.
-- Robert "Butch" James

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.
-- Max Lucado

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
-- Henry Miller

The three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
-- Anonymous

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-- Epictetus

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
-- Duc de La Rochefoucald

God created suffering so that we would learn to help one another.
-- Anita Bergen

Inspirational Quotes on Grief

All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the
Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In
trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator
only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk
among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in
stardust in the sky.
-- John Harricharan

Compensation
God, I have known sorrow-
I have stood by helplessly,
as fate like a madly rushing, rising river,
Sullen and ruthless, swept from me everything worth
buying at life's mart;
Baby eyes, slowly clouding with death,
have pleaded for life,
As I stood by anxious and sorrowing,
but oh! how helpless.
Sorrow has squeezed my heart dry of all emotion,
Even the tears are gone from my eyes,
I smile-I smile, but God, I have known sorrow.

You have been kind, dear God, for I have known love-
Not mere white, hot passion, but a love so possessing,
Consuming, that no sacrifice was too great to keep it;
A love that hid me from every hurt,
taking me in its strong, tender arms
Up to a land peopled with fairies,
and carpeted with pale hyacinths.
I willingly bear the the lonliness-the sorrow-
Since I have known love.
-- Ruby Berkeley Goodwin




No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
-- C.S. Lewis



Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a
person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through
his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an
emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system.
Here lies the road to recovery.
-- F. Alexander Magoun

The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.
-- Emily Dickinson



I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me
but I find I am grateful for having loved them.The
gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
-- Rita Mae Brown

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
-- Christina Rossetti



Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his
own burden, his own way.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born.
And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and
they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I
have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to
the butterfly of the universe.
-- John Harricharan

The Widower
For a season there must be pain-
For a little, little space
I shall lose the sight of her face,
Take back the old life again
While she is at rest in her place.
For a season this pain must endure,
For a little, little while
I shall sigh more often than smile
Till Time shall work me a cure,
And the pitiful days beguile.
For that season we must be apart,
For a little length of years,
Till my life's last hour nears,
And, above the beat of my heart,
I hear Her voice in my ears.

But I shall not understand-
Being set on some later love,
Shall not know her for whom I strove,
Till she reach me forth her hand,
Saying, "Who but I have the right?"
And out of a troubled night
Shall draw me safe to the land.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Perhaps, they are not stars in the sky, but rather
openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know
they are happy.
-- Eskimo legend



It is possible to provide security against other ills, but
as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city
without walls.
-- Epicurus



What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-- Jewish Proverb

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really
makes having priorities and trying to follow them very
real to you.
-- Susan Sontag

Rest assured that in her dying, in her flight through
darkness toward a new light, she held you in her arms
and carried your closeness with her. And when she
arrived at God, your image was imprinted on her
joy-filled soul.
-- Molly Fumia

Not only should we be unashamed of grief, confident
that its expression will not permanently hurt us, but
we should also possess the wisdom to talk about our
loss and through that creative conversation with
friends and companions begin to reconstruct the broken
fragments of our lives . . . We should not resist the
sympathy and stimulation of social interaction. We
should learn not to grow impatient with the slow
healing process of time . . . We should anticipate
these stages in our emotional convalescence: unbearable
pain, poignant grief, empty days, resistance to
consolation, disinterestedness in life, gradually
giving way under the healing sunlight of love,
friendship, social challange, to the new weaving of a
pattern of action and the acceptance of the irrestible
challenge of life.
-- Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman



I'm Gone now, but I'm still very near.
Death can never separate us.
Each time you feel a gentle breeze,
It's my hand caressing your face.
Each time the wind blows,
It carries my voice whispering your name.
When the wind blows your hair ever so slightly,
Think of it as me pushing a few stray hairs back in place.
When you feel a few raindrops fall on your face,
It's me placing soft kisses.
At night look up in the sky and see the stars shining so brightly.
I'm one of those stars and I'm winking at you and smiling with delight.
For never forget you're the apple of my eye.
-- Mary M. Green



I shall die, but that is all I shall do for Death, I am
not on his payroll.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

God comforts us in the pressures we have to endure...
Remember that "comfort" does not mean relief from the
pressure. It is not a feather bed to lie on or a
cushion to absorb the blows. It means, literally, "with
strength." God gives to the person who trusts him
strength to bear the pressures. Remember, too, that it
is always given for the added purpose of equipping us
to help others who need comfort.
-- L. D. Johnson



Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to
re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you
new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of
grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small
voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
-- Sara Paddison

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