Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 170

"Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away."

~ Cernuda y Bidon

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 169

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 168

We stand now where two roads diverge…. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

The other fork of the road, the one less traveled by, offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

~ Rachel Carson, woman of science

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 167

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.'

~Albert Einstein

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 166

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

~ Helen Keller

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 165

Money may be the husk of many things
but not the kernel.
It brings you food, but not appetite;
medicine but not health,
acquaintance, but not loyalty,
days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

~Henrik Ibsen

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 164

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

~ Deepak Chopra

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 164

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

~Victor Hugo

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 163

The rose with its redolent petals

The water lily with its robe of virgin white

These have surely come to us in transmigration

Of but a few of those

Endowed with sublime beauty and grace.

Some embrace death to spout again,

But most, forever, in dust remain.

~Mirza Ghalib

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 162

If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.

~ an African proverb

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 161

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR AN HOUR

TAKE A NAP

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A DAY

GO ON A PICNIC

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A WEEK

GO ON A VACATION

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A MONTH

GET MARRIED

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR AN YEAR

INHERIT WEALTH

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR LIFE TIME

LEARN TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO

~ Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 160

"In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today -- more serious even than the threat of terrorism."

~ David A. King

5th June observed as "World Environment Day"

(David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, once said this warning in a International science meet in 2004 to bring the issue of Global Warming in to sharp focus.)

Photo : TOI dated 5/6/07

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 159

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.

~ Anon

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 158

Marriage – an investment that pays rich dividends, if you manage to keep up the interest.

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 157

"Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight and you will crush it, look away and it'll be gone."

~ Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 156

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

~ Calvin & Hobbes