Several quotes about battles.

Always remember!

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar N. Bradley

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Philo

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

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Are you ready for divorce?

Wait! Wait!

Don’t tell me that you are not married!

Don’t tell me that you love your spouse so much that you’ll never divorce her or him!

I am not talking about dissolving marriage.

I am talking about your readiness to listen, to think, be flexible, to part with your opinions if it makes sense.

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Several weeks ago a couple of friends visited us in Pocono Manor. We had a very nice time together and we discussed different topics. They mentioned that their grandson (who is a college graduate) had opinions about everything and became angry and rude if somebody had expressed a different opinion.

It did not surprise us. We hear very often that students and professors are against discussions in universities, that they simply vote against allowing people with different opinions to speak on campuses.

I remember with great love wonderful teachers who gave us good knowledge of their subjects and at the same time taught us to think, to read a lot, to form opinions, to express them, to listen to opinions of others, to like discussions and to divorce (change) our opinions if necessary.

Teachers salaries were low in the Soviet Union but it was an honorable profession. Teachers were “Engineers of Human Souls”.

Think about it! Not engineers of human minds but engineers of human souls. Teachers taught us love, friendship, responsibility, difference between good and bad. They did it in all possible ways but the most effective way was by personal example.

Please, try to find time to read my story OH, THOSE AMERICANS! and pay special attention to what our teachers Boris and Nasir did. It is no wonder that we loved and respected then so much.

I hope that in the nearest future our society will drastically change and students will learn to think, to listen, to discuss, to form opinions on their own instead of taking opinions of their politically motivated teachers or professors.

I want to finish with two quotes:

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

                                       Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

                                     Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

Several quotes about battles.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Omar N. Bradley

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Philo

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

Funny quotes to remember.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

Several quotes about lying.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Alfred Nobel

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

John Ruskin

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving..

James E. Faust

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics..

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Several quotes about promises.

“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”  ~Norman Vincent Peale

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” 

~Robert Service

“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”  ~William Dean Howells

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”  ~Denis Waitley

Under influence of rain.

Tonight I saw the movie “Love Crime” and I liked it.

If you did not see the movie you can read about it HERE.

As I mentioned in several posts I always liked and admired smart strong women. If they were also beautiful it was fine but it was not really that important

On the way home heavy rain started and I came home in wet condition (I hope very much that you’ll forgive me this expression).

I took a hot shower, drank a hot tea and thought a bit about the movie.

Then I remembered the article by Hanna Rosin “Men are obsolete” that I already discussed in the post  “A look from a different angle (part 2).”

The two women in the movie “Love Crime” are smart, strong and beautiful. They are top executives in a large company. Should we admire them? Is it a good prove that men are obsolete? Is it good for modern society that women who reach top positions behave the way these two women behave in the movie? Is it a victory of feminism?

I read many times in different blogs statement: “I am a feminist”.

Could anyone be so kind to explain to me what this statement means in America and other countries of the West today?

Please let me know.

Three funny quotes?!

I really don’t know why all these quotes were in “funny quotes”.

From my point of view, all of them are extremely serious and real.

For example, who can argue with the first quote below? We can see different realities almost in every family or political dispute.

It is also clear that the second quote here is simply a fact. I am sure that no person in FBI will say that it is not true.

Finally, the quote about COMMON SENSE. Surely, it is a rare commodity today. There is no wonder that people prefer to save it for the distant future.

Internet is a very strange place. I wonder who decided that these quotes were funny?