Mind activities of a Stone boy

* Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it. * Life is either a great adventure or nothing. * Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. * It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. * I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. * The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. * When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. * It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. * Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. * My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit worl

This is always the hardest moment in life these days for me. People don't respond the emails in the way I hope for. People show indifference in their attitude towards me. I feel ignored. I feel that people don't listen to me. I feel that people look beyond me. I feel that people take me for granted. Yes, right.. don't I also do this to others who I care less for? Why do I do that to others? 1. Don't want others to get the wrong impression and afraid of being hit on so I will have to deal with the uncomfortable situation to reject them. 2. Would like to hang out with more positive people. 3. Disagree what other people said. 4. Think that I am a better person than they are... See.. I am discrimate to strangers so that I am easily hurt by strangers' rejection. Does this make sense? I will ponder on this a bit more. Perhaps, the angle of looking at the things can be better based on being mindful, kindness, renunciation, and compassion. I will let go my superficial judgm

Earth's oldest living inhabitant "Methuselah" at 4,767 years, has lived more than a millennium longer than any other tree. Discover how these trees were found and where they live. Learn of their unique strategies for survival. The focus will be on the White-Inyo mountain range of California.

* Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. * I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe? "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. * Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. * Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. * The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. * A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.