Mother says ...

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love. Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa

I think I'm more difficult than critical. Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Mother Teresa Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa So many signatures for such a small heart. Mother Teresa Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done. Mother Teresa There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough. Mother Teresa We are all pencils in the hand of God. Mother Teresa We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. Mother Teresa

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Mother Teresa

when Harry met Sally

.When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Sally Albright: Harry, you're going to have to try and find a way of not expressing every feeling that you have, every moment that you have them.
Harry Burns: Repeat after me. Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Sally Albright: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Harry Burns: But I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie.

Harry Burns: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you. Sally Albright: What? Harry Burns: I love you. Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this? Harry Burns: How about, you love me too. Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving.

Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry Burns: You were going to be a gymnast. Sally Albright: A journalist. Harry Burns: Right, that's what I said.
Harry Burns: Why are you getting so upset? This is not about you.
Sally Albright: I don't have to take this crap from you.

Harry Burns: If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone? Sally Albright: I see people. Harry Burns: See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe? Sally Albright: What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I fuck somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something. Harry Burns: ...Are you finished now? Sally Albright: ...Yes. Harry Burns: Can I say something? Sally Albright: Yes. Harry Burns: ...I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Harry Burns: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.

Sally Albright: The first date back is always the toughest, Harry. Harry Burns: You only had one date. How do you know it's not going to get worse? Sally Albright: How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head and start flossing with it at the table? Harry Burns: We're talking dream date compared to my horror.

Jess: Emily is terrific. Harry Burns: Yeah. But of course when I asked where she was when Kennedy was shot she said, "Ted Kennedy was shot?" Jess: No.
Sally Albright: Well, if you must know, it was because he was very jealous, and I had these days of the week underpants. Harry Burns: Ehhhh. I'm sorry. I need the judges ruling on this. "Days of the weeks underpants"? Sally Albright: Yes. They had the days of the week on them, and I thought they were sort of funny. And then one day Sheldon says to me, "You never wear Sunday." It was all suspicious. Where was Sunday? Where had I left Sunday? And I told him, and he didn't believe me. Harry Burns: What? Sally Albright: They don't make Sunday. Harry Burns: Why not? Sally Albright: Because of God.

Harry Burns: Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours. Marie: Harry. Harry Burns: Please, Jess, Marie. Do me a favor, for your own good, put your name in your books right now before they get mixed up and you won't know whose is whose. 'Cause someday, believe it or not, you'll go 15 rounds over who's gonna get this coffee table. This stupid, wagon wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale COFFEE TABLE. Jess: I thought you liked it? Harry Burns: I was being nice.

Sally Albright: Is Harry bringing anybody to the wedding? Marie: I don't think so. Sally Albright: Is he seeing anybody? Marie: He was seeing this anthropologist, but... Sally Albright: What's she look like? Marie: Thin. Pretty. Big tits. Your basic nightmare.
[Playing "Pictionary."] Jess: "Baby talk"? That's not a saying. Harry Burns: Oh, but "baby fish mouth" is sweeping the nation? I hear them talking.
Sally Albright: You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.
Harry Burns: Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.
Harry Burns: You know, I have a theory that hieroglyphics are just an ancient comic strip about a character named Sphinxy.

Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends. Sally Albright: Why not? Harry Burns: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. Sally Albright: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved. Harry Burns: No you don't. Sally Albright: Yes I do. Harry Burns: No you don't. Sally Albright: Yes I do. Harry Burns: You only think you do. Sally Albright: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge? Harry Burns: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you. Sally Albright: They do not. Harry Burns: Do too. Sally Albright: They do not. Harry Burns: Do too. Sally Albright: How do you know? Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sally Albright: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive? Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too. Sally Albright: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU? Harry Burns: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story. Sally Albright: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then. Harry Burns: I guess not. Sally Albright: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.

Marie: I don't think he's every going to leave her. Sally: I know he's never going to leave her. Marie: You're right, you're right. I know you're right.
Harry Burns: And was it worth it? The sacrifice for a friend you don't even keep in touch with? Sally Albright: Harry, you might not believe this, but I never considered not sleeping with you a sacrifice.
Harry Burns: You take someone to the airport, its clearly the beginning of the relationship. That's why I have never taken anyone to the airport at the beginning of a relationship. Sally Albright: Why? Harry Burns: Because eventually things move on and you don't take someone to the airport and I never wanted anyone to say to me, How come you never take me to the airport anymore? Sally Albright: Its amazing. You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death.

Harry Burns: Would you like to have dinner?... Just friends. Sally Albright: I thought you didn't believe men and women could be friends. Harry Burns: When did I say that? Sally Albright: On the ride to New York. Harry Burns: No, no, no, I never said that... Yes, that's right, they can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other people, then they can... This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted... That doesn't work either, because what happens then is, the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from the relationship and why do you have to go outside to get it? And when you say "No, no, no it's not true, nothing is missing from the relationship," the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which you probably are. I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it. Which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends.

Harry Burns: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. Sally Albright: Which one am I? Harry Burns: You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.

Sally Albright: You know, I'm so glad I never got involved with you. I just would have ended up being some woman you had to get up out of bed and leave at 3:00 in the morning and go clean your andirons, and you don't even have a fireplace, not that I would know this.

[Harry and Sally discussing orgasms] Sally Albright: Most women at one time or another have faked it. Harry Burns: Well, they haven't faked it with me. Sally Albright: How do you know? Harry Burns: Because I know. Sally Albright: Oh. Right. Thats right. I forgot. Youre a man. Harry Burns: What was that supposed to mean? Sally Albright: Nothing. Its just that all men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math.

Harry Burns: I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry Burns: With whom did you have this great sex? Sally Albright: I'm not going to tell you that. Harry Burns: Fine, don't tell me. Sally Albright: Shel Gordon. Harry Burns: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon. Sally Albright: I did too. Harry Burns: No you didn't. A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big Shel-don.' Doesn't work.

Sally Albright: Amanda mentioned you had a dark side. Harry Burns: That's what drew her to me. Sally Albright: Your dark side? Harry Burns: Sure. Why? Don't you have a dark side? I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their "i's" with little hearts. Sally Albright: I have just as much of a dark side as the next person. Harry Burns: Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Jess: Marriages don't break up on account of infidelity. It's just a symptom that something else is wrong. Harry Burns: Oh really? Well, that "symptom" is fucking my wife.
Sally Albright: But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it, if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real; if it's out of the can then nothing. Waitress: Not even the pie? Sally Albright: No, I want the pie, but then not heated.

Marie: All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband
Harry Burns: You know how a year to a person is like seven years to a dog? Sally Albright: Is one of us supposed to be a DOG in this scenario? Harry Burns: Yes. Sally Albright: Who is the dog? Harry Burns: You are. Sally Albright: I am? I am the dog? I am the dog?
Jess: You made a woman meow?

Marie: The point is, he just spent $120 on a new nightgown for his wife. I don't think he's ever gonna leave her. Sally Albright: No one thinks he's ever gonna leave her. Marie: You're right, you're right, I know you're right.
Harry Burns: The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe you're either (a) not at home, (b) home but don't want to talk to me, or (c) home, desperately want to talk to me, but trapped under something heavy. If it's either (a) or (c), please call me back.
Sally Albright: I am not your consolation prize, Harry.

[after Sally fakes orgasm in a deli] Older Woman Customer: [to waiter] I'll have what she's having.
Harry Burns: How long do you like to be held after sex? All night, right? See, that's your problem. Somewhere between 30 seconds and all night is your problem. Sally Albright: I don't have a problem. Harry Burns: Yes, you do.
Sally Albright: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve. Harry Burns: Which is? Sally Albright: Okay, there's this guy... Harry Burns: What does he look like? Sally Albright: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless. Harry Burns: Faceless guy, okay. Sally Albright: He RIPS off my clothes. [pause] Harry Burns: And? Sally Albright: That's it. Harry Burns: That's it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT'S the sex fantasy you've been having since you were twelve? Sally Albright: Well sometimes I vary it a little. Harry Burns: Which part? Sally Albright: What I'm wearing.
Sally Albright: Yes it is. You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman.
Marie: Tell me I'll never have to be out there again. Jess: You'll never have to be out there again.
Marie: Everybody thinks they have good taste and a sense of humor but they couldn't possibly all have good taste.
Marie: Restaurants are to people in the 80's what theatres were to people in the 60's. I read it in a magazine. Jess: I wrote that. Marie: Get out of here. Jess: I did. Marie: Where did I read that? Jess: New York magazine Harry: Sally writes for New York magazine
[Unable to guess what Sally is trying to draw during a round of Pictionary] Jess: Draw SOMETHING resembling ANYTHING.

Harry: [after he has run into his ex-wife] She looked weird didn't she? She looked really weird. Sally: I don't know, I've never seen her before. Harry: Trust me, she looked weird. Her legs looked heavy. Really, she must retaining water. Sally: Harry. Harry: Believe me, the woman saved everything.

Sally: He just met her... She's supposed to be his transitional person, she's not supposed to be the ONE. All this time I thought he didn't want to get married. But, the truth is, he didn't want to marry me. He didn't love me. Harry: If you could take him back now, would you? Sally: No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me? Harry: Nothing. Sally: I'm difficult. Harry: You're challenging. Sally: I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off. Harry: But in a good way. Sally: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty. Harry: When? Sally: Someday. Harry: In eight years. Sally: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73. Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

Sally: When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to live together, but we didn't want to get married because every time anyone we knew got married, it ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It's true, it's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids - and, actually, my one girlfriend who has kids, Alice - and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn't even complain about it, now that I think about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time, the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. And Joe and I used to talk about it, and we'd say we were so lucky we have this wonderful relationship, we can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in. We can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice. And then one day I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon because I'd promised to take her to the circus, and we were in the cab playing "I Spy" - I spy a mailbox, I spy a lamp-post - and she looked out the window and she saw this man and this woman with these two little kids. And the man had one of the little kids on his shoulders, and she said, "I spy a family." And I started to cry. You know, I just started crying. And I went home, and I said, "The thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moment's notice." Harry: And the kitchen floor? Sally: [sadly] Not once. It's this very cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile.

Marie: Someone is staring at you in "personal growth".
Sally Albright: At least I got the apartment. Harry Burns: That's what everyone says. But, really, what's so hard about finding an apartment? What you do is look in the obituary section. You see who died, find out where they lived, and tip the doorman. What they could do to make it easier is combine the two. You know, Mr. Kline died yesterday, leaving behind a wife, two children, and a spacious three bedroom apartment with a wood burning fireplace.
Harry Burns: We're talking dream date compared to my horror. It started out fine, she's a very nice person, and we're sitting and we're talking at this Ethiopian restaurant that she wanted to go to. And I was making jokes, you know like, "Hey I didn't know that they had food in Ethiopia? This will be a quick meal. I'll order two empty plates and we can leave." Yeah, nothing from her not even a smile.

The Divine Mercy Message

The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion
The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us — all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.

The Divine Mercy message is one we can call to mind simply by remembering ABC:

A - Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.

B - Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.

C - Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive.

This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received about God's mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread.

The message and devotional practices proposed in the Diary of Saint Faustina and set forth in this web site and other publications of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception are completely in accordance with the teachings of Church and are firmly rooted in the Gospel message of our Merciful Savior. Properly understood and implemented, they will help us grow as genuine followers of Christ.

Spend time to learn more about the mercy of God, learn to trust in Jesus, and live your life as merciful to others, as Christ is merciful to you.

http://www.thedivinemercy.org/message/

Awesome

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WW III

When the prophecies-within-prophecies are deciphered, the hidden timeline of World War III is revealed. A sample of the new predictions include:

A conflict between the US and Iran
The next major terrorist attack on the US
Osama Bin Laden
The nuclear destruction of Rome

From the Author:
"I'm afraid the making of World War III is actually taking place in front of our eyes." Prince Hassan of Jordan - March 26, 2004

Drawing on newly discovered Nostradamus manuscripts, a startling new view of the world is revealed. If you agree that signs like widespread terrorism, a volatile Middle East, and an economic depression could lead to World War III - then you will find this book truly eye-opening.

With a total of eight chapters, The Nostradamus Code: World War III opens with an overview of the bewildering events currently unfolding on the world stage. You will find out why they are happening, and what you can do about them to protect yourself.

Next, the years 2007 through 2012 are explained in precise detail. Referred to by Nostradamus as the Time of Troubles, this period is full of war, despair, and evil, but also of hope and promise. Use this book to enlighten yourself, your loved ones, your world, and your future.

http://www.nostradamusonline.com/?gclid=CICXtbWVqYwCFQJhYQodPSVwNw

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushnostradamus.htm

Mona Lisa in a sari

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God bless America

http://keshigirl.blogspot.com/2007/05/chance-to-live.html#comments

http://imnutsincaps.blogspot.com/2005/08/its-hiroshima-day-dont-look-away.html

http://imnutsincapsbushfires.blogspot.com/2005/07/perception-vs-dogma.html

http://imnutsincapsrock.blogspot.com/2005/08/born-in-us-of.html

Vanity, thy name is woman

In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. In some religious preachings, vanity is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own image, and thereby becomes divorced from the graces of God. The stories of Lucifer and Narcissus (who gave us the term narcissism), and others, attend to a pernicious aspect of vanity.
Philosophically-speaking, vanity may refer to a broader sense of egoism and pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."[1]

One of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful."[2]
In early Christian teachings vanity is considered an example of pride, one of the seven deadly sins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity

Quality of life for an indian in India

The best way of approaching quality of life measurement is to measure the extent to which people's 'happiness requirements' are met - ie those requirements which are a necessary (although not sufficient) condition of anyone's happiness - those 'without which no member of the human race can be happy.'
- McCall, S.: 1975, 'Quality of Life', Social Indicators Research 2, pp 229-248

WHAT IS QOL?
QOL may be defined as subjective well-being. Recognising the subjectivity of QOL is a key to understanding this construct. QOL reflects the difference, the gap, between the hopes and expectations of a person and their present experience. Human adaptation is such that life expectations are usually adjusted so as to lie within the realm of what the individual perceives to be possible. This enables people who have difficult life circumstances to maintain a reasonable QOL.
- Janssen Quality-of-life Studies

read more here http://www.gdrc.org/uem/qol-define.html

the body beautiful

beauty tips
http://www.handbag.com/galleries/gallery/style_trends/beauty_buys/sunshiny-spring-beauty/MemberID=1/

before and after
http://keshigirl.blogspot.com/2007/05/madrid-hilton.html


my type of woman
http://imnutsincaps60s.blogspot.com/2005/03/these-were-girls-dat-rocked-during.html

waving goodbye to a thousand flies

The thousand flies are the thousand souls VEST encountered in his eventful life

He reminisces about his difficult early childhood in the depression of the 30's
where another child meant another mouth to feed

VEST spent his early life in foster homes and institutions
He has a fotographic memory and he relives all the bitter sweet times

he remembers how he was befriended by Sally and Emily
brief moments of shore leave that ended all too soon
and he had to return to his ship
his only constant

VEST was a true sailor boy
He enjoyed his sailor life

He did not cry when he had to leave Emily and Sally and return to his ship
but he was heartbroken more than once

until he met his wife to be Mary
Mary showed him all the love he missed in his early childhood
VEST is a one man woman, he has remained faithful to his wife for more than 50 years and still going strong

VEST always kept in touch with his lovers
and he cried when they had to leave this planet

VEST does not tell much about the war events that happened in his life time at sea
maybe the Oath of secrecy did not allow him to rat

i was hoping to read about the great moments of the war through the pen of VEST
i was disappointed

PRETTY WOMAN
http://imnutsincapsapatriot.blogspot.com/

I love u Prachi

06 Feb 2006 02:32 PM
Saying "I Love You!"
by Teresa McEntire More from this Blogger

The first time your child says, "I love you!" is a milestone a parent treasures. But your child only said it because they learned it from you. "I love you," are three simple words that express such a wide multitude of feelings. Hearing these words is essential for children and adults as well. Love gives life meaning and provides fulfillment and joy.
Children who feel loved are more likely to have high self-esteem, excel academically, and have healthier relationships. They are more likely to grow up to be successful happy adults who know how to love. When children do not feel love within their family they often suffer from low self-esteem. They may search for love by joining a gang, being involved in unhealthy relationships, or having a child while a teenager. Unloved children suffer from a greater amount of mental, emotional, and physical problems. Knowing how important saying, "I love you," is I developed unique ways to say, "I love you," with each one of my children.
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· With my son I began playing a little game with him when he was two. I would hold my hands about 6 inches apart and say "I only love you this much." Then my son would say, "No!" So I'd hold my hands a little further apart and we'd repeat the process until my arms were stretched as wide as they could. Then my son would shout, "Yes, for all the days." My son is now six and he still enjoys playing the game.
· My second daughter had a hard time speaking, but she could say, "Love you." I would say, "Love you," and she would repeat it. Then I would change my voice and say, "Love you." She would change her voice and repeat it. We would do this five or six times before we'd dissolve into giggles.
· My youngest daughter is only two and she loves to rub noses with me. She'll grab my face in her hands and rub her nose against mine.
As a parent there are other ways you can let your child know you love them besides just saying it:
· Listening to your child when they talk and not judge them.
· Showing proper physical affection: hugs, pats, or even high-fives.
· Being involved in your child's education. · Knowing your child's friends.
· Doing things with your child.
· Developing family traditions.
· Taking family vacations.
· Eating dinner together.
· Being sympathetic when they express concerns.
However you let your child know they are loved is great, but it is also important to say it. Because you might think your child knows you love them, but unless you actually say, "I love you", they might not.
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Teresa McEntire grew up in Utah the oldest of four children. She currently lives in Kuna, Idaho, near Boise. She and her husband Gene have been married for almost ten years.
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the children are our future

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to

I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me [Chorus:]

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed

At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all Inside of me

The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way

Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be [Chorus]
And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place

Find your strength in love

God and Sex

~from CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, Book 1

dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear broken, which no longer support the structure.Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.Only you can know if you are happy. Only you can say of your life-"This is my creation (son),.in which I am well pleased." If your values serve you, hold to them. Argue for them. Fight to defend them.Yet seek to fight in a way which harms no one. Harm is not a necessary ingredient in healing.

You say "hold to your values" at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this.

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right They are simply judgmentS. Assessments.Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps.Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience.

Yet experience is what you came here for-and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others.If there were such a thing as sin, this would be it: to allow yourself to become what you are because of the experience of otheis. This is the "sin you have committed. All of you. You do not await your own experience, you accept the experience of others as gospel (literally), and then, when you encounter the actual experience for the first time, you overlay what you think you already
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know onto the encounter.If you did not do this, you might have a wholly different experience-one that might render your original teacher or source wrong. In most cases; you don't want to make your parents, your schools, your religions, your traditions, your holy scriptures wrong-so you deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think.

Nowhere can this be more profoundly illustrated than in your treatment of human sexuality.Everyone knows that the sexual experience can be the single most loving, most exciting, most powerful, most exhilarating, most renewing, most energizing,.most affirming, most intimate, mCh"t uniting, most recreative physical experience of which humans are capable.

Having discovered this experientially, you have chosen to accept instead the prior judgments, opin ions, and ideas about sex promulgated by others-all of whom have a vested interest in how you think.These opinions, judgments, and ideas have run directly contradictory to your own experience, yet because you are loathe to make your teachers wrong, you .convince yourself it must be your experience that is wrong~

The result is that you have betrayed your true truth about this subject-with devastating results.

You have done the same thing with money. Every time in your life that you have had lots and lots of money, you have felt great. You felt great receiving it, and you felt great spending it. There was nothing bad about it, nothing evil, nothing inherently "wrong." Yet you have so deeply ingrained within you the teachings of others on this subject that you have rejected your experience in favor of Ntruth. n Having adopted this "truth" as your own, you have formed thoughts around it-thoughts which are creative. You have thus created a personal reality around money which pushes it away from you-for why would ou seek to attract that which is not good?

Amazingly, you have created this same contradiction
around God. Everything your heart experiences about God tells you that God is good.

Everything your teachers teach you about God tells you God is bad. Your heart tells you God is to be loved without fear. Your teachers tell you Cod is to be feared, for He is a vengeful God.You are to live in fear of God's wrath, they say. You are to tremble in His presence. Your whole life through you are to fear the judgment of the lord. For the lord is "just," you are told. And God knows, you will be in trouble when you confront the terrible justice of the Lord. You are, therefore, to be "obedient" to God's commands. Or else.Above all, you are not to ask such logi~1 questions as, "

if God wanted strict obedience to His Laws, why did He create the possibility of those Laws being violated?"

Ah, your teachers tell you-because God wanted you to have "free choice. "yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done? Those who teach you this would make a hypocrite of God.You are told that God is forgiveness, and compassioo-yet if you do not ask for this forgiveness in the "right way," if you do not "come to God" properly, your plea will not be heard, your cry will go unheeded. Even this would not be so bad if there were only One proper way, but there are as many "proper ways" being taught as there are teachers to teach them.

Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that 1 do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.These behaviors are the behaviors historically demanded of their subjects by monarchs-usually eg0maniacal, insecure, tyrannical monarchs at that.They're not Godly demands in any sense-and it seems remarlcable that the world hasn't by now concluded that the demands are counterfeit, having nothing to do with the needs or desires of Deity.

Deity has no needs.
All That Is is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants, or lacks, nothing-by definition.If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something-and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it-then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than!. You truly are Children of a lesser God.No, my children, please let Me assure you again, through this writing, that I am without needs. I require nothing.This does not mean I am without desires.

Desires and needs are not the same thing (although many of you have made them soin your present lifetime).Desire is the beginning of all creation. It is first thought. It is a grand feeling within the soul. It is God, choosing what next to create.And what is God's desire?I desire first to know and experience Myself, in all My g1ory-40 know Who I Am. Before I invented you-and all the worlds of the universe-it was impossible for Me to do so.Second, I desire that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are, through the power I have given you to create and experience yourself in whatever way you choose.Third, I desire for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, neverending expansion, and total fulfiilrnent in each moment of now.I have established a ~rfect system whereby these desires may be realized. They are being realized now-in this very moment.

The only difference between you and Me is that I know this.

In the moment of your total knowing (which moment could come upon you at anytime), you, too, will feel as I do always:

totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing, and grateful.