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I miss you, my weird & awkward ladies. :')

Tolerance

"Tolerance is not concession, not indifference. Tolerance is the knowledge of the other. It is mutual respect through mutual understanding. Let's throw out the old myths and take up the results of current research. Man is not violent by nature. Intolerance is not 'in our genes'. Fear and ignorance are the root causes of intolerance, and its patterns can be imprinted on human psyche from an early age."

Mr. Frederico Mayor,

Director General of UNESCO, A year for Tolerance, 1995

pic taken from here.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Aidan sure love his fox mask & tail. He didn't care about the bad sewing. He just love them. Aidan wore them all day long, posed for pictures in them & even played basketball wearing them. So meet Silly Mr. Aidan, or as we called him that day, Fantastic Mr. Fox. x)

"I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice." - Roald Dahl in Fantastic Mr. Fox

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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."  

~Henry David Thoreau

Happy Girls are the Prettiest Girls.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

— Audrey Hepburn

originally posted on Shamrock.

You Are You.

pic taken from here.

Life is like riding a bicycle.

pic taken from here.

Wit & Wisdom of Sir Terry Pratchett : pt. 3

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.

"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"

"What?"

"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"

~Night Watch~

Apology

Relationship 101

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

~Nick Hornby

when you try to speak their language

(originally posted on facebook August 21, 2009)

~from Adam Levine's twitter, posted Aug 19th between 8.14 to 8.58

newsflash: the french HATE when we try & speak french. i just speak plain english. they may not understand me. but damn it they respect me.

spanish is entirely different. they LOVE that s**t. if you try and speak they will help you along enthusiastically

but the italians win. they LOVE when you try. they will bring out a friggin text book and school your a**!

dont misunderstand me i do love the french. its just not their thing. i get it. they are busy...being french. totally understandable.

if you really wanna see a french person cringe, dont say thank you. say, "mercy bucket". i love doing that. they go nuts.

germans will help you if you're trying to speak german. but they have the tendency to smile and/or laugh at you while youre doing it.

insult to injury...when you try and speak french, they interrupt you in english! that s**t BURNS!

and americans? how do we react to people trying to speak english? we just stand there stunned and ask if we can see their spaceship.

and let me close tonights rant by saying that all culture is amazing! and these differences are what makes the world FUN and interesting.

You Are a Marvel

You are a marvel.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never be again...

And what do we teach our children? We teach them two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.

When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique.

In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.

You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is like you, a marvel?

You must work - we must all work - to make the world worthy of its children.

~Pablo Casals

Music and Misery

(originally posted on facebook July 18, 2009)

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Coffee

(originally posted on facebook May 25, 2009)

"Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich."
~Anonymous~

"I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee."
~Flash Rosenberg~

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?"
~Anthony Trollope~

“Listen carefully Neelix, because I'm only going to say this once. Coffee, black.”
~Captain Janeway (Star Trek: Voyage)~

"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."
~Abigail Reynolds (Pemberley by the Sea)~

"Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. "
~Jessi Lane Adams~

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. "
~Anna Morrow Lindbergh~

"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."
~Richard Brautigan~

"Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!"
~Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment) ~

"Tighten your fingers around a teaspoon, feel its metal pulse, its mistrustful warning. How it hurts to refuse a spoon, to say no to a door, to deny everything habit has licked to a suitable smoothness. How much simpler to accept the easy request of the spoon, to use it, to stir the coffee."
~Julio Cortázar~

"Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. "
~Drew Sirtors~

Wit & Wisdom of Sir Terry Patchett : pt. 2

(originally posted on facebook May 19, 2009)

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it.
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

~Thief of Time~

1st Crush

(originally posted on facebook April 26, 2009)

"All children, except one, grow up."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

Imagination

(originally posted on facebook April 8, 2009)

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
~Albert Einstein~

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
~Terry Pratchett~

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
~John Lennon~

"Imagination is intelligence with an erection"
~Victor Hugo~

"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
~G.K. Chesterton~

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
~Thomas A. Edison~

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
~E. E. cummings~

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
~ Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)~

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
~Walt Disney~

Book

(originally posted on facebook March 17, 2009)

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice~

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~Mark Twain~

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~Henry Ward Beecher~

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~ C.S. Lewis~

I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.
~Jorge Luis Borges~

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
~Nick Hornby~

Wit & Wisdom of Sir Terry Pratchett

(originally posted on facebook March 12, 200)

"What is your name?" he said.

"My name is immaterial," she said.

"That's a pretty name," said Rincewind.


~The Colour of Magic~

Venus & Mars

(originally posted on facebook, February 17, 2009)

One of my favorite quotes out of hundreds great lines from my most favorite TV show

"Boys are so confusing.
I don't know why they say Venus and Mars.
I mean, Mars and Venus at least have something in common they're planets.
It's more like Mars and a bowl of soup."

Rory Gilmore - Gilmore Girls