• We will be with our friends again.
  We will be with our families again.
  We will meet again. (H.M. Queen Elizabeth II)
• Grief is the price we pay for love. (H.M. Queen Elizabeth II)
• Your smile is your logo. Your personality is your business card.
  How you leave others feeling, after they have had an experience with you, becomes your trademark!
• Be yourself! Believe in yourself!
• Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile.
• Never regret anything [or anyone!] that made you smile. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
• A real friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes, while everyone else still believes the smile on your face.
• Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
• There are Good Friends,
  There are Best Friends,
  And then there is You!
• Goodbyes are not forever
  Goodbyes are not the end
  They simply mean I'll miss you
  Until we meet again!
• Someone will always be prettier.
  Someone will always be smarter.
  Someone will always be younger.
  But they will never be you.
• You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart. (Winnie The Pooh)
• Love:
  I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves washed it away.
  I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind blew it away.
  So I wrote your name in my heart, and forever it will stay!
• The saddest part of life is when the person who gave you memories, becomes a memory!
• Those we love don't go away,
  They walk beside us every day.
  Unseen, unheard, but always near,
  Still loved, still missed and very dear.
  Death leaves a heartache no-one can heal,
  Yet love leaves a memory no-one can steal. (Irish Proverb)
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. (Ernest Hemingway)
• Nobody is perfect, but, you are perfect at being you; you are truly beautiful and I am beautiful too.
• You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start here and change the ending. (Clive Staples Lewis)
• It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice!
• Nothing in the world smells as good as the person you love.
• We choose our friends, but we don't choose our family!
  [Spiritually, we choose our parents!]
• To make a difference in someone's life, you don't have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care!
• Give what you can, and take what you need.
• How do we change the world?
  One random act of kindness at a time (Morgan Freeman)
• If you want to know someone's mind, listen to their words.
  If you want to know their heart, watch their actions.
• Fall in love with someone who wants you, who waits for you, who understands you, even in the madness;
  someone who helps you, and guides you; someone who is your support, your hope.
  Fall in love with someone who talks with you after a fight.
• Whoever loves you will never leave you, even if he or she has 100 reasons to give up. They will always find one reason to hold on.
• If your love was sincere, they will come back.
  And if they don't, because of pride, their mind will forever regret losing a true love like yours.
  True love is hard to find. (Najwa Zebian)
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
• It is often that we don't appreciate 'what we have' [or 'someone'] until it [or she/he] has gone!
• What is more important? The journey, or the destination?
• Be kind!
  Even if you may not be concerned, please accept that others around you may be.
  "Respect is love in action". (Bangambiki Habyarimana)
• Be kind, be brave, be honest, be generous with your talents, your time and your love.
  And laugh a lot!
• We are not a team because we work together.
  We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other.
• Be a reflection of what you would like to receive.
  If you want love, give love.
  If you want truth, be truthful.
  If you want respect, give respect.
  What you give out will always return. (Kristen Butler)
• If vocalising your pain to someone results in them dismissing you, this reflects poorly on their ability to provide you with support, not the validity of your experience.
• Don't become preoccupied with your child's academic ability, but instead:
  Teach them to sit with those sitting alone,
  Teach them to offer help.
  Teach them to be a friend to the lonely,
  Teach them to encourage others.
  Teach them to think about other people.
  Teach them to share.
  Teach them to look for the good.
  This is how they will change the world.
• It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do;
  we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. (Steve Jobs)
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
  If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
  Don't settle.
  As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it [or her/him!]. (Steve Jobs)
• Loyal people get hurt the most.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder!
• Know Your Worth!
  You must find courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served. (Tene Edwards)
• There is a reason for everything.
• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. (William Shakespeare)
• If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together! (an old African proverb)
• Alone, we go fast; together, we go further!
• You can love a person deeply and truly and still decide that doing so from a distance is best for your mental and emotional health.
• Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room. (Jeff Bezos)
• Good things come to those who believe,
  Better things come to those who are patient,
  And the best things come to those who don't give up.
• Kindness (noun): Loaning someone your strength, instead of reminding them of their weakness.
• True kindness is helping someone, without expecting anything in return.
• The best boyfriend is not the best-looking, the funniest, or the richest. It is the one that makes sure you know he loves you.
• A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
• One small act of kindness is worth a month of heartlessness.
  One generous gesture can compensate for a season of selfishness.
  One precious moment of understanding can repair a lifetime of ignorance.
• 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)
• Why does it take a minute to say "Hello", and forever to say "Goodbye"?
• What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. (Helen Keller)
• The power of a single, positive thought, occurring to the human mind at a significant moment in time, can sometimes be sufficient to create tidal waves of change.
• Life is short, break the rules,
  forgive quickly, kiss slowly,
  love truly, laugh uncontrollably,
  and never regret anything that made you smile. (Juvy Ann, String of Fate)
• Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did.
  So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
  Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
• Every person has worth.
  Every person matters.
  Every person deserves to be treated with decency and respect. (Barack Obama)
• Accept your past without regrets. [That is sometimes easier said than done!]
  Handle your present with confidence
  Face your future without fear.
• As you start your day, remember these individual statements:
  Be considerate, respectful and kind to everyone. That is a reflection of who you are.
  What they do is a reflection of who they are.
  Not everyone will see you as you really are. And that doesn't matter.
  As long as you see the beauty and uniqueness within you, you don't need anyone's approval.
  Keep your head up high. And don't let anyone's lack of consideration put you down.
  Don't be a reflection of someone else. Be a reflection of yourself. (Najwa Zebian)
• If it is meant for you, it will follow you wherever you go. If it is not meant for you, it could be sitting right next to you and never truly belong to you. (Najwa Zebian)
• If you love something (someone?), set it (her) free.
  If it (she) returns, you never lost it (her).
  If it (she) disappears and never comes back,
  It (she) was never yours to begin with.
• You see in others, what you are yourself.
• TRUTH does not mind being questioned.
  A LIE does not like being challenged.
• Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. (Anne Frank)
• Because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. (Anne Frank)
• Legend says: When you can't sleep at night, it's because you are awake in someone else's dream.
• The ocean is everything I want it to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free. (Anonymous)
• The six best doctors are:
  Sunshine,
  Water,
  Rest,
  Air,
  Exercise and
  Diet.
• No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. (Robin Williams)
• Politicians should wear sponsor jackets, so we know who owns them. (Robin Williams)
• The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are. (Nelson Mandela)
• No-one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
  (Nelson Mandela)
• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life! (Muhammad Ali)
• There is a big difference between being human and human being.
• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
  We are spiritual beings having a human experience. (Teilhard de Chardin)
• There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. (Oscar Cainer and Jonathan Cainer (RIP), Astrologists)
• It is better to keep your mouth shut - and let the world suspect that you are a fool, than to open it and give the world its proof!
• I keep six honest serving-men. They taught me all I know. Their names are: What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. (Rudyard Kipling)
• When you replace "Why is this happening to me?" with "What is this trying to teach me?", everything shifts.
• When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you!
• Happiness starts with you!
  Not with your relationships,
  not with your job,
  not with your money,
  not with your circumstances,
  but with you.
• A Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month!
• I hate when people confuse education with intelligence.
  You can have a Batchelor's degree, and still be an idiot! (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
• La grande ambition des femmes est d'inspirer l'amour/The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
  (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin/Molière (1622-1673)
  [This is the very last sentence spoken by Hercule Poirtot (Peter Ustinov) in the film Death on the Nile]
• Love does not pass; it simply changes shape.
  It takes a different form when it meets an obstacle that will not move. (from Niall Williams' "Four Letters of Love")
• Live by the three Rs
  Respect for self.
  Respect for others.
  Responsibility for all your actions.
  When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
  Remember that not getting what you want in life can be a wonderful stroke of luck.
  Judge your success by what you had to give in order to get it.
  Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. (Dalai Lama)
• If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. (Dalai Lama)
• The most dangerous phrase in the language is "We have always done it this way!"
• Interesting quote:
  It is better to be poor than being broke!
• A physician once said "The best medicine for humans is love."
  Someone asked "What if it doesn't work?"
  He smiles and said "Increase the dose."
• Today is the Tomorrow we worried about Yesterday and All is Well.
  (A quote on a restored wooden item featured in BBC's The Repair Shop, currently the BEST program on British television.) Other links:
  An Emotional Moment
  The Repair Shop Theme
  The Repair Shop Theme (extended)
  Take Part
• Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC Comedy
  
  "The only way to understand The Press is to remember that they pander to their readers' prejudices".
  
  "Don't tell me about The Press. I know exactly who reads the papers.
  The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country.
  The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
  The Times is read by people who actually do run the country.
  The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country.
  The Financial Times is read by people who own the country.
  The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
  And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is".
  
  "Prime, Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun"?
  
  "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, so long as she's got big tits"!
  [YouTube clip]
• I am in competition with no-one.
  I have no desire to play the gane of being better than anyone.
  I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.
• When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it - always. (Mahatma)
• Don't tell me I'm behind.
  Don't tell me I'll be held back forever.
  Don't tell me I need longer at school.
  Don't tell me I'm lost.
  
  Tell me I can do it.
  Tell me you'll help me.
  Tell me you believe in me.
  Tell me we'll do it together.
  Yours sincerely, The Children.
• Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught.
  Material wears out, but knowledge stays. (Bruce Lee)
• Do not educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so that when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price.
• Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees and titles.
  Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility and generosity.
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
• The impossible we do at once; miracles take a little longer!
• Making miracles is hard work; most people give up before they happen. (Sheryl Crow)
• Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese Proverb)
• We can't always change what happens to us, but we can change what happens in us.
• From the sense of the past, we can make sense of the present!
• War is God's way of teaching geography to Americans! (Stephen Fry on BBC's QI program)
• "I'm not a robot" tick box! Who knew this about those statements! Watch this clip and be surprised! BBC's QI program
• Tell me and I forget
  Teach me and I may remember
  Involve me and I learn (Benjamin Franklin)
• Only if we understand, we can care.
  Only if we care, we will help.
  Only if we help, we shall be saved. (Jane Goodall)
• If vocalising your pain to someone, results in them dissmissing you, this reflects poorly on their ability to provide you with support, not the validity of your experience.
• You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.
  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. (Jane Goodall; Planet Patrol #planetpatrol)
• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it! (Henry Ford)
• An old Cherokee told his grandson "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all.
  One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego.
  The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth."
  The boy thought about it, and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?"
  The old man quietly replied "The one you feed."
• It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. (Bill Murray)
• While you cannot control someone's negative behaviour, you can control how long you participate in it!
• If you think it is expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur!
• For the mountins that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb!
• The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. (Voltaire)
• Mistakes don't require punishments; they require corrections!
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
• The world won't bedestroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them, without doing anything. (Albert Einstein)
• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. (Oscar Wilde)
• Just because I am going through the menopause, doesn't mean I am going to put men on pause! (Marie Osmond)
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln)
  [Read this from the Quote Investigator]
• Women's Creed: Men Are Like Linoleum.
  If you lay them right the first time, you can walk on them for 20 years.
• A magnum is the correct amount of liquor for two people, so long as one of them doesn't drink. (Winston Churchill)
• Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
  Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober!"
• Lady Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee!"
  Winston Churchill: "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
• During a visit to America, Winston Churchill was invited to a buffet luncheon, at which cold fried chicken was served.
  Returning for a second helping, he asked politely, "May I have some breast?"
  "Mr. Churchill," replied the hostess, "in this country, we ask for white meat or dark meat." Churchill apologized profusely.
  The following morning, the lady received a magnificent orchid from her guest of honor.
  The accompanying card read: "I would be most obliged if you would pin this on your white meat."
• It is a tail, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (Macbeth) [This applies to Boris Johnson/the Conservative Party!]
• There will come a time when fascism will take over this great nation of ours, and destroy the peaceful and economic ties with our neighbours in Europe. They will come armed with their silver tongues, and promising the earth.
  Be extremely vigilant. (Winston Churchill) [This applies to Boris Johnson/the Conservative party!]
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. (Confucius)
• Eat your food as medicine, otherwise you will need to eat your medicine as food.
• If you are being attacked, that means you are worth attacking. If you are worth attacking, you are winning.
• Humans are deuterostomes, which means that when they develop in the womb, the anus forms before any other opening. That basically means, at one point, you were nothing but an arsehole!
  Some people never develop beyond this stage.
• A couple went to London's Natural History Museum, where they saw the large dinosaur skeleton. They asked the attendant how old it was. He said "It is 65 million, 14 years and 3 months old".
  They said (in an American accent) "Well, that's amazing. Is that by carbon dating? How can you tell so precicely how old it is"?
  The attendant said "No. When I first came here, they told me it was 65 million years old, and I have been here 14 years and 3 months!" (Stephen Fry on BBC's Quite Interesting (QI) program, 2009)
• What borders on stupidity?
  Mexico and Canada!
• Lost...
  Money can be re-earned
  Time can be claimed back
  Love can be re-ignited
  Integrity is unrecoverable!
• [COVID-19] Germany is now advising people to stock up on sausages and cheese; this is called the Wurst Käse scenario!
• "ANOTHER MONTH ENDS"
  All Targets Met,
  All Systems Working,
  All Customers Satisfied,
  All Staff Eager and Enthusiastic,
  All Pigs Fed and Ready to Fly!
• Adequate care provided is always better than perfect care withheld. (Emergency First Response (EFR) mantra)
• Don't forget to prioritise, otherwise everything gets worked on and nothing gets done!
• Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don't want to! (Richard Branson)
• A lack of organisation on your part, does not mean an emergency on my part!
• Plan B: If you intend pushing brown smelly stuff, don't push it my way!
• This is a crisis. A large crisis. In fact, if you've got a moment, it's a twelve-storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24-hour porterage and an enormous sign on the roof saying: This is a Large Crisis! (Black Adder, S04E06)
• It is said that the observation deck of the Tour Montparnasse, enjoys the most beautiful view in all of Paris, because it is the only place from which the tower cannot be seen! (Nicolai Ouroussoff, 26-Sep-2008)
• Cricket - As Explained to a Foreigner:
  You have two sides; one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in, and the next man goes in, until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in, and the side that’s been in, goes out, and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes, you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out, try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out, and goes in.

  There are two men called umpires, who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in, are out. When both sides have been in, and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

• Rugby - The Rules
  The fat guys all run into each other, while the slightly slimmer guys stand in a line watching them. Eventually, the fat guys get tired and have a lie down on top of each other. The ball comes out the back of this lie down and the skinnier guys kick it back and forward to each other for half an hour.

  Then the fat guys wake up and start running into each other again. Every now and again, the referee stops play because someone dropped the ball. That's the only thing you are not allowed to do in rugby.

  Everything else would appear okay. Sometimes, the group of fat guys pushes the other group over the line and there is some manly hugging, but no shifting like in soccer. After 80 minutes, they add up the score and New Zealand wins.

• Ten Steps to Happiness (Sylvia Duckworth/@sylviaduckworth)
  
  1. Hate less, love more
  2. Worry less, dance more
  3. Take less, give more
  4. Consume less, create more
  5. Frown less, smile more
  6. Talk less, listem more
  7. Fear less, try more
  8. Judge less, accept more
  9. Watch less, do more
  10. Complain less, appreciate more
• Don't worry if you are a kleptomaniac. You can always take something for it!
• Love your job but don't love your company. You may not know when your company stops loving you. (Dr. AJP Abdul Kalam)
• Always leave the office on time.
  1. Work is a never-ending process; it can never be completed.
  2. Interest of a client is important; so is your family.
  3. If you fall in your life, neither your boss nor client will offer you a helping hand; your family and friends will.
  4. Life is not only about work, office and client. There is more to life. You need time to socialise, entertain, relax and exercise. Don't let life be meaningless.
  5. A person who stays late at the office is not a hardworking person. Instead, s/he is a fool who does not know how to manage work within the stipulated time. S/he is inefficient and incompetent in her/his work.
  6. You did not study hard and struggle in life to become a machine.
  7. If your boss forces you to work late, s/he may be ineffective and have a meaningless life too. So forward this to her/him.
• If you 'fail', never give up, because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt In Learning"
  'End' is not the end. In fact, E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies".
  If you get 'No' as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".
  So let's be positive!
• The waiting man gets the wind behind him. So stop rushing into things, and plan properly, in order to be successful!
• I sent my hubby a romantic text message:
  If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
  If you are laughing, send me your smile.
  If you are eating, send me a bite.
  If you are drinking, send me a sip.
  If you are crying, send me your tears. Love you.
  
  He replied with: "I'm on the loo, please advise?"
• Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them!
• There is no lift to success. You have to take the stairs!
• Everyone is gifted, but some people never open their package!
• Projects begin with "1% of what we know about what WE KNOW", and "1% of what we know about what WE DON'T KNOW". The remaining 98% is "what WE DON'T KNOW about what WE DON'T KNOW" until we begin!
• I am in competition with no-one. I have no desire to play the game of better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.
• When good men and women can't speak the truth,
  When facts are inconvenient,
  When integrity and character no longer matter,
  When presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security,
  Then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil. (Admiral William Harry McRaven, about Donald Trump, Feb-2020)
• (Master Yoda, in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace)
  Fear is the path to the dark side.
  Fear leads to anger.
  Anger leads to hate.
  Hate leads to suffering.
• HaHaHa Living en Belgie

  Je can't read cet artikel si t'es pas drietalig.
  Being drietalig est parmi de beste pleasures dans le hele wereld.
  Think about it pour un momentje. You can utiliser drie verschillende languages en même temps, in such a way dat uw hersenen want to exploser from the speed par laquelle it switches van één taal naar de andere, but still tu peux do it en tegelijkertijd avoir beaucoup de plezier et c'est pour ça dat je uniek bent. Le fact that tu peux lire dit artikel zonder stopping to think est un talent heel weinig people have. La majorité van de mensen struggle to lire just in één taal, but what you are doing maintenant est één teken van absolute genie. Reading a très complicated tekst in trois verschillende talen seamlessly makes you un nerd et someone die van talen houdt. Reading cet article must have given your brain één goed gymnastiekske. That's why you should le partager avec uw vrienden. De rien bij voorbaat and have a très bonne aprè midi.
   

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