A repository of social and political commentaries, literary attempts in Ilokano and English. This includes notes on daily occurrences and quotations and sayings. "Abel" is the IIokano term for tapestry or woven cloth. The term tried to capture the contents of the blog.
Friday, September 24, 2010
"Quotations"
"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."--Rene Descartes, Mathematician and Philosopher
"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind, it is destroyed when you are cruel." --King Solomon
"Happines depends upon ourselves."--Aristotle
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."--King Solomon
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke it."--Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
"When the heart is set at right, then the personal life is cultivated. When the personal life is cultivated, then the home lif is regulated. When the home life is regulated, then the national life is orderly. And when the national life is orderly, then the world is at peace."- Confucius
"Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined."--Sports psychologist Thomas Tutko of California's San Jose State University
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."--Persian proverb
"Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man."--Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz
"Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire, but those who burn our finger."--Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian writer
"A non-doer is very often a critic, that is, someone who sits back and watches the doer, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change." --Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Creation is only the projection into form that which already exists."--Shrimad Bhagavatam
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