1
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? 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’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (M. Williamson)
2

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.



3
YOU NEVER KNOW

You never know when someone
may catch a dream from you.
You never know when a little word,
or something you may do
May open up a window
of the mind that seeks the light,
The way you live may not matter at all...
but you never know - it might.

And just in case it could be
that another's life through you,
Might possibly change for the better
with a broader brighter view.
It seems it might be worth a try
at pointing the way to the right,
Of course, it may not matter at all,
but then again it might.


I do not know who wrote it



You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker



4

I do not choose to be a common man
It is my right to be uncommon...if I can
I seek opportunity...not security. I do not
wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled
by having the state look after me

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and
to build, to fail and to succeed

I refuse to barter incentive for a dole
I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor
my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat

It's my heritage to stand erect, proud and
unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy
the benefit of my creations and to face the
world boldly and say, this I have done
" My creed " by Dean Alfange
9
5
Before you can write a cheque , you must make out a deposit slip.Before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into the bank.before you are intitled to a living, you must give the world a life. If you want to make a first- class living, learn to give the world a first-class life
William J. H. Boetcker


6

________________________________________
Reporter: What do u think of Western civilization?
Ghandi: I think it's a great idea



'A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song'
Maya Angelou


Quote: "I have learned silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the
unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran

Quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle



"He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes, but he who does not
ask remains a fool forever"

-unknown

: "Religion is a great force - the only real motive
force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand
is that you must get at a man through his own religion and
not through yours." - George Bernard Shaw


'No one can whistle a symphony.It takes an orchestra to
play it'

An optimist is a person who starts a crossword puzzle with
a pen.




7

'......teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where,
by the addition of material to a surface, an image is
synthetically produced, but more like the art of sculpture,
where, by the subtraction of material,an image already
locked in the stone is enabled to emerge....'John Gatto


8

'If the First Wave wealth system was chiefly based on growing things, and the 2nd Wave on making things, the 3rd Wave wealth system is increasingly based on serving, thinking, knowing and experiencing'
Alvin Toffler

9

. The journalist, Lincoln Steffens once wrote, “Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done, or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted. The greatest play isn’t written. The greatest poem is unsung. Nothing is perfect; faucets drip, airlines lose luggage, tires still go flat.” “But,” said Steffens, referring to his son, “there is a job for him and his generation in the plumbing business, and in every other business. Teach your children,” he urges, “that nothing is done, finally and right, that nothing is known, positively and completely, that the world is theirs; all of it"

11
We cannot control the tragic things that happen to us, but we can control the way we face up to them

السلام عليكــم ورحمـة الله وبركاتــه

أشكركم أخي خالد سيف الدين عاشور

مقتبسات رائعة تحمل الكثير من الحكم والمعاني وتحث على تنمية الذات والنظر للحياة بعين التفاؤل

حبذا لو توفرت لديكم ترجمة هذه الحكم حتى تعم الفائدة

خالص شكري لكم


Dear Brother
great quotes , with lots of meanings
I enjoyed reading them

thanks for sharing them with us

kind regards

The one by the journalist is an interesting thought. We should not undermine the role of humananities as exposed in fine arts, music, and, other related subjects

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May


It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May


It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

"Listen , or your tongue will make you deaf"
- Native American Proverb


"The most important weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"
Steven Biko


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."


If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it
Jonathon Winters



There are two kinds of people, those that do the work and those that take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

- Indira Gandhi

THE FIRST STEP
To take the first step
Is a frightening thing.
To face the unknown
The uncertainty it brings.
But like the child
Who is tired of the crawl,
The first step is
The most important of all.

It expands your horizons,
You can see a new light.
The joy of discovery
Is like taking flight.
The first step you take
Will open all doors,
To see yourself as
You've seen you before.

And like the child
Who gives it his all,
Sometimes he faulters,
He will teeter and fall.
But strong arms are there
To catch them and then,
They stand him back up
To start walking again.

The longest journey,
Takes one step at a time,
But once you get going
You'll do just fine.
Take my hand, friend
I'll help you along
I'll be right beside you...
As two we'll be strong.

Yes, the first step's a big one,
The most important of all.
But I'll be there to catch you
Should you teeter and fall.
We'll set our sights forward
Grit our teeth and walk on...
When we see that road ending,
We'll break into a run.

I love you, I'll help you
All the way through.
But to take the first step,
We'll that's up to you.

Rabona Turner Gordon

It is never too late to become what you might have been”
George Eliot


“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them”
Albert Einstein


“Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death”
Anthony de Mollo


“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”



“For a conscious person, to exist is to change, to change id to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly”
Henry Bergson


“Poverty is a form of hell caused by man’s blindness to God’s unlimited good for him”
C. Ponder


“We are where we are because we are what we are, and we are what we are because of our habitual thinking.”


“If you think education is too expensive, try ignorance.”
Andy Mcintyre


Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
H. Keller



The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Buddha



“Not I –Not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself”.
Walt Whitman



“The only journey is the one within.”
Rainer Maria Rike


“Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man.”
Ha Gakure


“No one knows what he can do until he tries.”
Publilius Syrus

I made a mistake:
sometimes he falters

wooooooow

romantic


romantic


romantic



؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟
****************
look before you write

Falter:يمشي مضطربا، يتداعى،يترنح،يتلعثم،يتردد،ترنح الخ(المورد / منير البعلبكي Lدار العلم للملايين)
Falter:stumble,stagger,go unsteadily etc(The Concise Oxford Dictionary)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/falter

Are you still laughing?

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not
pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I
shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or
stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than
all the world, your return.

-- Mary Jean Iron[size="6"][/size]

Once I drew like Raphael,but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like
children
-Picaso

On Children


Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.


Kahlil Gibran

Once a little boy went to school.
He was quite a little boy
And it was quite a big school.
But when the little boy
Found that he could go to his room
By walking right in from the door outside
He was happy;
And the school did not seem
Quite so big anymore.

One morning
When the little boy had been in school awhile,
The teacher said:
"Today we are going to make a picture."
"Good!" thought the little boy.
He liked to make all kinds;
Lions and tigers,
Chickens and cows,
Trains and boats;
And he took out his box of crayons
And began to draw.

But the teacher said, "Wait!"
"It is not time to begin!"
And she waited until everyone looked ready.
"Now," said the teacher,
"We are going to make flowers."
"Good!" thought the little boy,
He liked to make beautiful ones
With his pink and orange and blue crayons.
But the teacher said "Wait!"
"And I will show you how."
And it was red, with a green stem.
"There," said the teacher,
"Now you may begin."

The little boy looked at his teacher's flower
Then he looked at his own flower.
He liked his flower better than the teacher's
But he did not say this.
He just turned his paper over,
And made a flower like the teacher's.
It was red, with a green stem.

On another day
When the little boy had opened
The door from the outside all by himself,
The teacher said:
"Today we are going to make something with clay."
"Good!" thought the little boy;
He liked clay.
He could make all kinds of things with clay:
Snakes and snowmen,
Elephants and mice,
Cars and trucks
And he began to pull and pinch
His ball of clay.

But the teacher said, "Wait!"
"It is not time to begin!"
And she waited until everyone looked ready.
"Now," said the teacher,
"We are going to make a dish."
"Good!" thought the little boy,
He liked to make dishes.
And he began to make some
That were all shapes and sizes.

But the teacher said "Wait!"
"And I will show you how."
And she showed everyone how to make
One deep dish.
"There," said the teacher,
"Now you may begin."

The little boy looked at the teacher's dish;
Then he looked at his own.
He liked his better than the teacher's
But he did not say this.
He just rolled his clay into a big ball again
And made a dish like the teacher's.
It was a deep dish.

And pretty soon
The little boy learned to wait,
And to watch
And to make things just like the teacher.
And pretty soon
He didn't make things of his own anymore.

Then it happened
That the little boy and his family
Moved to another house,
In another city,
And the little boy
Had to go to another school.
This school was even bigger
Than the other one.
And there was no door from the outside
Into his room.
He had to go up some big steps
And walk down a long hall
To get to his room.
And the very first day
He was there,
The teacher said:
"Today we are going to make a picture."
"Good!" thought the little boy.
And he waited for the teacher
To tell what to do.
But the teacher didn't say anything.
She just walked around the room.

When she came to the little boy
She asked, "Don't you want to make a picture?"
"Yes," said the lttle boy.
"What are we going to make?"
"I don't know until you make it," said the teacher.
"How shall I make it?" asked the little boy.
"Why, anyway you like," said the teacher.
"And any color?" asked the little boy.
"Any color," said the teacher.
"If everyone made the same picture,
And used the same colors,
How would I know who made what,
And which was which?"
"I don't know," said the little boy.
.And he began to make pink and orange and blue flowers.

He liked his new school,
Even if it didn't have a door
Right in from the outside
Helen Buckley

Many years ago, the animals in the Great Forest decided that they wanted to start a school
for all their children. Until that time, it had been the responsibility of parents to teach
their children the skills they needed to know, but the animals in the Great Forest wanted
their children to learn from professional teachers. So they organized a school and hired
staff. The teachers met and decided to provide a standardized educational curriculum to their
animal students. So they adopted an activity curriculum consisting of swimming, running,
flying, and climbing. All the animals took all the subjects – because it was very important
to them that no child be left behind. To ensure that students were progressing
satisfactorily, standardized achievement tests were administered to all students. Here's what happened. The ducks were excellent in swimming. In fact, the ducks were
better than their teacher. But some of the ducks made only passing grades in flying and
all of them were very poor in running. Since they were slow in running, they had to stay
after school for remedial running practice, and they had to drop swimming in order to
practice running during their swimming class time. This was kept up until all the ducks'
webbed feet were very sore. And the ducks were so tired, that soon they were only
average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody worried about
that – except the ducks. In running, the rabbits started at the top of the class, but they did very poorly in
swimming. Also, the rabbits insisted on hopping around, and the teachers were concerned
about their hyperactivity – so they made the rabbits walk everywhere instead of allowing
them to run or hop. And the rabbits had to come in early every day for special swimming
class. Many of the younger rabbits developed severe fur problems because they were
having to spend so much time in the swimming pool. The squirrels were excellent in climbing and running. In fact, the squirrels were the best
students at climbing the standardized tree. But they wanted to fly by first climbing the
tree, then spreading their paws, and gliding to the ground. (That's the way squirrels fly.)
But in flying class their teacher made them start on the ground instead of at the treetop,
and the squirrels were not mastering the course material. So every day, the
squirrels had
therapy – a flying therapist took the squirrels into the gym and made them do front-paw
exercises to strengthen their muscles so they could learn to fly the right way. The
squirrels' paws hurt so much from this overexertion that some of them only got a C in
climbing. Some of the squirrels failed climbing altogether.
The eagles were definitely problem children – in climbing class, the eagles beat all the
others to the top of the tree, but they insisted on using their own way to get there and
were quite stubborn about it. The eagles said that clearly it was the goal that mattered,
and that it was quite right for eagles to get to the treetop by flying. The school
psychologist diagnosed them as having oppositional-defiant disorder. (That's a real
diagnosis that some children are given in school.) A strict behavior modification plan was
developed for the eagles. We can end this story in two ways. Sad to say, in some schools, we still make squirrel
children try to learn to fly by flapping their paws, and punish eagles for being defiant
about their right to be themselves. But happy to say, in some schools we enjoy all children for themselves. Each squirrel is a
perfectly wonderful squirrel. Each rabbit a lovely rabbit whether or not they choose to
hop, or skip, or roll, or walk. Each eagle is allowed to be an eagle; and we encourage
each duck to swim and swim and swim and not worry about learning to run. And the moral of the story is: When we try to make everybody the same, nobody is happy. People can get hurt and
http://cache.search.yahoo.net/search/cache...=1&.intl=us

their very best gifts can go to waste.

Childhood has its own way of seeing,thinking,and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs
Rousseau

If you ever get tired of hating ,there's a whole world of love waiting for you

Michael Weisser

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
"The Wise Woman's Stone"
Author Unknown

اسأل الله ان يشفيك ولايبتلي بماأصابك احدا من خلقه

آمين

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I
have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

thanks

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,but what they become by it

John Ruskin

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy


-- George Horace Lorimer

Quantity is what you can count.
Quality is what you can count on

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will
be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that 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 Michelangelo, 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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead




I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington


To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; no one can count the apples in a seed

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

— Enrique Jardiel Poncela.

Have old memories but young hopes

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than
because he was he, and I was I.-- Michel de Montaigne

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark


Michelangelo

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel


Maya Angelou

The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every
time we fall.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness
for fear of what might happen.

-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

Ask not what you can expect of life;ask what life expects of you

Victor Frankl

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.
Anon

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Virginia Satir

you can accept the life anyway
it's up to you

thanks

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick

great honour and respect to you for the precious words you write ,which is actually reflect how much you are a unique and a perfect man

best wishes
زهرة النرجس