Today’s Quote: Hung Ying-Ming

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Posted on 2012-02-28 by dpkworldwide

“Even if you have performed world-shaking meritorious deeds,
If pride is involved then the value is lost.”

— Chinese Sage Hung Ying-Ming from The Unencumbered Spirit, Book 1, verse 18.

Today’s Quote: Rand

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Posted on 2012-02-25 by dpkworldwide

“…the rationally selfish man – a man of self-esteem…is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

— Ayn Rand

Today’s Quote: Cheng Yen

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Posted on 2012-02-21 by dpkworldwide

“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”

— Cheng Yen

Today’s Quote: Brooker

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Posted on 2012-02-18 by dpkworldwide

“I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

— Charlie Brooker

Today’s Quote: Livingstone

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Posted on 2012-02-14 by dpkworldwide

“…but it is by the little acts and words of every-day life that character is truly and best known.”

— Legendary explorer David Livingstone, in A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

Today’s Haiku

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Posted on 2012-02-11 by dpkworldwide

Hopeful flowers wait

for the butterflies and bees

At long last, they come

–Thomas J., age 9

Tweeted July 20, 2010 by The Huntington Library. Sometimes it’s the young who have keen insight; out of the mouths of babes…

Today’s Quote: Confucius

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Posted on 2012-02-07 by dpkworldwide

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

–Confucius

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Today’s Quote: Hung Ying-Ming

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“Even if you have performed world-shaking meritorious deeds,
If pride is involved then the value is lost.”

Today’s Quote: Rand

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“…the rationally selfish man – a man of self-esteem…is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

Today’s Quote: Cheng Yen

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“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”

Today’s Quote: Brooker

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“I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Today’s Quote: Livingstone

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“…but it is by the little acts and words of every-day life that character is truly and best known.”

Today’s Haiku

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Hopeful flowers wait

for the butterflies and bees

At long last, they come

Today’s Quote: Confucius

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Even if you have performed world-shaking meritorious deeds, If pride is involved then the value is lost.”

“…the rationally selfish man – a man of self-esteem…is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”

“I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

“…but it is by the little acts and words of every-day life that character is truly and best known.”

Hopeful flowers wait

for the butterflies and bees

At long last, they come

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Even if you have performed world-shaking meritorious deeds,
If pride is involved then the value is lost.”