Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible. #OFWdiaries #whenindubai #justdoit #sundate #wearefamily #celnmike #godisgoodallthetime
"If you‘re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go."
Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“You know,” said Arthur, “it‘s at times like this, when I‘m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I‘d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.”
“Why, what did she tell you?”
“I don‘t know, I didn‘t listen.”
"He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life." --- Michael Connelly-- "The Lincoln Lawyer"
"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have" --- Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential
"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."~ Roald Dahl
#fatherdaughterbonding #likefatherlikedaughter
"Karma. Know what that is? I shook my head again, half-wishing now that Mr. Haloran would go away. It means what you sow, you reap. You do bad things and they'll come back eventually and bite you on the backside. That boy will get his one day. You can be sure about that" -- CJ TUDOR , The Chalk Man.
Took my little princess to the public library today. While I was taking this photo, I felt a little pinch in my heart and remembered my grandmother who was a school librarian back then. She always told me a quote from Dr. Seuss--"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you‘ll go". Somehow, I knew somewhere up there my grandmother is very happy to see the reading legacy lives on in our family.
"I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn‘t be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for" -- Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
"I remember this so clearly — when Mr. Penumbra looked me in the eye and said 'Rosemary'... 'Why do you love books so much?' And I said, 'Well, I don't know' ... 'I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.' He watched me, and he didn't say a word. So I said, 'Well, actually, I love books because they're my best friends."--- Robin Sloan--- "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore".
"If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again". ---C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
"I'm sorry this happened to you. I usually rent out the basement. But you can stay here. I'll give you some advice though, Rodney, don't cry about it. This is life and it's full of lessons; consider this part of your education" -- Rodney Mullen (The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself)
"Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift." -- John Green
"What else? She is so beautiful. You don‘t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don‘t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." ---John Green
"I found myself thinking of an ocean running beneath the whole universe, like the dark seawater that laps beneath the wooden boards of an old pier: an ocean that stretches from forever to forever and is still small enough to fit inside a bucket, if you have Old Mrs. Hempstock to help you get it in there, and you ask nicely." --Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Freedom of speech has a number. It was the WikiLeaks IP Address.”----- Daniel Domscheit-Berg,( Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website)
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”-- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, (Good Omens)
"Frienship is overrated. Who needs friendship when you can have the certitudes of hostility. You know where you stand with an enemy. You know he won't betray you. It's the ones who claims to be your friends that you need to BEWARE of" ----- Joanne M Harris (Gospel of Loki).
The book makes you think, "What makes a BAD person BAD? It makes you see Loki in a very different point of view. Love it till the end. A true page turner?
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." ----- Sir Paul Mccartney
"What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV" ----- John Green
"If there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it" ---Hermes (The Sea of Monsters)
"Face your life, it's pain, it's pleasure. Leave no path untaken."--- Neil Gaiman. One of the best book I have read in years?
