About Maddy & Maddy,s Den For fifty-two years Maddy wore the mask of a CSP (Certified Sane Person).He was serious, hard working, dedicated, calculative, believed in planning at the microscopic level, felt one could actually write ones destiny. But he was neither comfortable nor satisfied. On the eve of his fifty-second birthday, on 16th May 2008, he pressed the ‘ESC’ button.
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Laziness
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Shaping destiny?
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Express yourself.
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Silence is golden .........
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Some quotes for you
23.9.08
Failure
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Ashley Montagu: The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. Edward de Bono: It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Elaine Maxwell: My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elbert Hubbard: A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience. George Bernard Shaw: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw: My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw: My reputation grows with every failure. Havelock Ellis: It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Herbert B. Swope: I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. It's a Wonderful Life: Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. James Russell Lowell: Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. Jessamyn West: It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. John Dewey: Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Kin Hubbard: You won't skid if you stay in a rut. Laurence J. Peter: There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. Lloyd Jones: Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Madame de Stael: The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. May Sarton: A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. Mohandas K. Gandhi: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mother Teresa: Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures. Oscar Wilde: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Paulo Coelho: But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. Pearl S. Buck: Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Peter Drucker: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Rabindranath Tagore: We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Ralph Ellison: Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Robert F. Kennedy: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Frost: The best way out is always through. Samuel Goldwyn: You've got to take the bitter with the sour. Samuel Smiles: It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Samuel Smiles : We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Thomas Alva Edison: Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Fuller: No garden is without its weeds. Wallace Stegner: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
William M. Winans: Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. William Saroyan: Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. |
24.8.08
PEACE
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Quotes
Common sense is the 15.8.08
Quotes
14.8.08
Maddy's is forced to think
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell
Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break. Unknown
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams
Love is what ever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John LeCarre
The day you betrayed my trust was the day that I lost all my trust for you. I believed that you would take care of my heart and that's why I left it with you. Well, I am taking it back because at this very moment I can't trust you with my heart in fear that you will hurt me once more. Unknown
Anything may be betrayed; anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness. Ayn Rand
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Edward M Foster
It breaks my heart; it makes me sad to think of all the times we had. You made me laugh and you made me cry. And all that I can do is sigh and wonder why. Unknown
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