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Some Quotes to Remind Us to Embrace the Mystery of Life If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently. — Bill Watterson The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. — Gregory Maguire You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe. — Rumi Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. — Rachel Carson I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. — Gilda Radner I am learning to trust the journey even when I do not understand it. — Mila Bron The quieter you become, the more you can hear. — Rumi Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. — Mary Oliver People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born. — Albert Einstein There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. — Edgar Allen Poe The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. — Barbara Kingsolver The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert Truly, we live with mysteries too marvellous to be understood.— Mary Oliver, “Mysteries, Yes” How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem. Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say ‘Look!’ and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

14 Quotes About Rest (Because You're Amazing When You Get It) Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar When you rest, you catch your breath and it holds you up, like water wings… — Anne Lamott Your commitment to your wellness is part of the revolution. — Danielle LaPorte Burnout is more of an issue of poor energy management and low clarity than of over-giving. - Brendon Burchard There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. — Alan Cohen It’s precisely those who are busiest who most need to give themselves a break. — Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. — Bansky Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you’ve had a lot of life change. — Barbara Freethy Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. — Bryant McGill There’s room for all of you, and for everything you experience—the grim and the glorious, the wounded, wounding, healing and healed. — Hiro Boga You celebrate what works and take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness. — Anne Lamott Renewal is what happens when you realise that some of this stuff you’ve been carrying around doesn’t matter. — Rob Bell We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Real rest feels like every cell is thanking you for taking care of you. It’s calm, not full of checklists and chores. It’s simple: not multitasking; not fixing broken things. — Jennifer Williamson

About Growing Older... First ~ Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've travelled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved. Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra... Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top. Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it's such a nice change from being young. Eight ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been. Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable and relaxed. Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf. And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska with bush pilot, Wiley Post, was one of the greatest political/country/cowboy ever known. Some of his sayings: 1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. 4. Never miss a good chance to shut up 5. Always drink upstream from the herd. 6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. 7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket. 8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. 9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. 11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in. 12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Twitter birth-year hoax locks users out of accounts TWITTER is warning users to be aware of a hoax that claims changing your birth year to 2007 will unlock alternative colour schemes on the network. Users who do this will be automatically locked out of their accounts due to 13 being the minimum age for having a Twitter account. Changing a birthday to a date in 2007 would make any user one year two young for the social networking site. Ahead of the upcoming April Fool’s Day, a prank going viral on the micro-blogging site Twitter is getting users kicked out of the platform for being “underage” to be on the platform. The prank claims that users who change their birth-year to 2007 on the platform would get access to new profile colour schemes, admin privileges and possibly the blue tick of verification. Twitter Support took to the platform to alert users about the practical joke. “We’ve noticed a prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthday in their profile to 2007 to unlock new colour schemes. Please don’t do this. You’ll get locked out for being under 13 years old,” Twitter Support tweeted on Tuesday. The micro-blogging site, however, did not disclose where did the prank originate from, how many users actually got locked out of the app and from which regions did maximum or minimum users got fooled. Early victims of the prank could get in touch with Twitter Support, upload a copy of their government-issued ID and redeem their account, The Verge reported. The hoax has been circulating on Twitter for a few days and one tweet that promotes it has received nearly 20,000 retweets since Monday. Twitter has been automatically preventing people under 13 from creating an account since May 2018 as it says that the site is "not directed to children." Due to recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies cannot create contracts of service with anyone under 13 without parental permission within the EU.

An Old Man Leaves A Tip An old man stops by a cafe for breakfast. After paying the tab, he checks his pockets and leaves three pennies for a tip. As he strides toward the door, his waitress muses, only half to herself, "You know, you can tell a lot about a man by the tip he leaves." The old man turns around, curiosity getting the better of him. "Oh, really? Tell me, what does my tip say?" "Well, this penny tells me you're a thrifty man." Barely able to conceal his pride, the man utters, "Hmm, true enough." "And this penny, it tells me you're a bachelor." Surprised at her perception, he says, "Well, that's true, too." "And the third penny tells me that your father was also a bachelor."

Grandpa A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again. Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?" "Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago." "Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?" "Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you a little while ago." Feeling their respective faces again, she observed: "God's getting better at it, isn't he?"

Eliminating Hitler It's Germany during WWII. The depraved Third Reich is in power. Two Jews friends, Shloime and Katz have come up with a way to get rid of Hitler, once and for all. They've learned that every day, at a certain time, like clockwork, Adolph drives by a certain corner on his way to pick up his morning coffee. They stake out by that corner, armed with handguns and ready to take out the leader of the National Socialist Party, enemy #1 of the free world. At 5 minutes past to the appropriate time, no Hitler. Its 10 minutes past to the appropriate time, and still no Hitler. The friends are now getting a little anxious. Shloime speaks up. "He should be here by now. What's taking him so long?" To which Katz responds: "I hope nothing's happened to him."

Emu A trucker walks into an outback cafe' with a full-grown emu behind him. The waitress asks them for their orders. The trucker says, 'A hamburger, fry's and a coke,' and turns to the emu, 'What's yours?' 'Sounds great, I'll have the same,' says the emu. A short time later the waitress returns with the order 'That will be $9.40 please,' and he reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact change and pays. The next day, the man and the emu come again and he says, 'A hamburger, fry's and a coke.' The emu says, ' Sounds great, I'll have the same.' Again, the trucker reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change. This becomes routine until the two enter again. 'The usual?' asks the waitress. 'No, it's Friday night, so I'll have a steak, baked potato and a salad,' says the man...‘Same for me,' says the emu. Shortly the waitress brings the order and says, 'That will be $32.62.' Once again, the man pulls the exact change out of his pocket and places it on the table. The waitress cannot hold back her curiosity any longer. 'Excuse me sir, how do you manage to always pull the exact change from your pocket every time?' 'Well, Mam' says the trucker, 'a few years ago, I was cleaning out the back shed, and found an old lamp. When I cleaned it, a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money would always be there...' 'That's brilliant!' says the waitress. 'Most people would ask for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want, for as long as you live!' 'That's right. Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there.' says the man. Still curious the waitress asks, 'What's with the emu?' The trucker pauses, sighs, and answers, 'My second wish was for a tall bird with a big arse and long legs.

Never Question a Drunk I was shopping at the local supermarket where I selected: A half-gallon of 2% milk A carton of eggs A quart of orange juice A head of lettuce A 2 lb. can of coffee A 1 lb. package of bacon As I was unloading my items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind me watched as I placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up the purchases, the drunk calmly stated, "You must be single." I was a bit startled by this proclamation, but I was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since I indeed had never found Mr. Right. I looked at the six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about my selections that could have tipped off the drunk to my marital status. Curiosity getting the better of me, I said, "Yes, you are correct. But how on earth did you know that?" The drunk replied: "Cause you're ugly."

Jesus and Satan Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who managed to get the most out of his computer. This had been going on for days and God, was tired of hearing all of the bickering. God said, "Cool it. I am going to set up a test that will run two hours and I will judge who does the better job." So down they sat at the keyboards and typed away. They did spreadsheets, they wrote reports, they sent faxes, and they sent out e-mail, they sent out e-mail with attachments, they did some genealogy reports, they made cards, and they did every known job. But just a few minutes before the two hours were up, a lightening flashed across the sky. The thunder rolled and the rains came down hard. And of course, the electricity went off. Satan was upset. He fumed and fussed and he ranted and raved, all to no avail. The electricity stayed off. But after a bit, the rains stopped and the electricity came back on. Satan screamed, "I lost it all when the power went off. What am I going to do?" Jesus just sat and smiled. Satan asked about the work that Jesus had done. As Jesus turned his computer back on the screen glowed and when he pushed "print it" it was all there. "How did he do it?" Satan asked. God smiled and said: "Jesus Saves."

Bird Flu A bear, a lion and a chicken were sitting having a chat. The bear said “when I growl the animals of the woods run and hide" Then the lion says “when I roar the animals of the jungle quiver with fear" Then the chicken says “I just cough and the whole world shits itself"

Soldiers On Hitler's Balcony Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945 The Russians were coming from the East, the Brits and Americans from the West, all with the objective of taking the Chancellery, knowing that would signal the end So, when they both finally met there, and the Nazis were irrefutably vanquished, they must have felt ecstatic. You can barely imagine what those men have gone through, and how many times they have nearly been killed or had to kill others to get there. Just think of the relief they must feel to be standing there knowing that it is over The picture depicts Corporal Russell M. Ochwad, of Chicago, playing the part of Hitler on the famous balcony of the Chancellery, in Berlin, from which the former Nazi leader had proclaimed his 1,000-year empire. A British and Russian soldier stand on each side of Cpl. Ochwad, while American and Russian soldiers cheer at the little get-together. The soldiers on the bottom are mostly Americans, the round helmets and M1A carbines are enough for that. There are three Russians as well, in the high boots and pilotka caps. The “A” on the shoulders on the right (two soldiers) is a shoulder patch which indicates they are a soldier of the U.S. First Army. The photo was taken by Fred Ramage on 6th July, 1945 (about 2 months after Germany’s surrender, 1 month before Hiroshima and the day after the Philippines were liberated). The building itself was called the “neue Reichskanzlei” (New Chancellery). In late January 1938, Adolf Hitler officially assigned his favorite architect Albert Speer to build the New Reich Chancellery. Hitler commented that Bismarck’s Old Chancellery was “fit for a soap company” but not suitable as headquarters of a Greater German Reich. Fred Ramage Portrait of Keystone War Correspondent and photographer Fred Ramage in action with his camera, 1946. Keystone Press, one of the original and most respected of the numerous ‘Fleet Street’ press agencies, rose to prominence soon after the First World War and soon became one of leading press agencies of the era. Amongst many other famous and respected Keystone photographers is Fred Ramage, who started taking pictures in 1917 at the age of 16, and whom Garai made manager of the Keystone View Company. Ramage was known for his initiative in taking pictures and once amazed his rivals by getting a picture of a Derby winner in the papers within 30 minutes of the race. He had many overseas assignments and covered Mussolini during his rise to power in Rome. Ramage was assigned to the American Army during Second World War and was in the front line with them throughout their campaign in France. Keystone Press (together with Keystone Featuers) were eventually acquired by PhotoSource in the mid-1980s and closed their doors for the last time in 1987 after nearly 70 years in existence. Photo Source were, in turn, acquired by The Hulton-Deutsch Collection, now a part of Getty Images and some 12 million negatives, prints and transparencies are still accessible at what is known as the Hulton Archive, an archive of some 80 million images in all based in West London, UK.