Here are various quotations about friendship from various authors including those taken from the bible (I won't mention the authors if you won't mind).
"As gold more splendid from the fire appears, thus friendship brightens by the length of years.
The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher the value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness .... of friends.
Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou cease to give, such will cease to love.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends without which the world is but a WILDERNESS.
You must act in your friend's interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable thoughts.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtues, and does not admit assumptions of superiority.
A friend makes your laughter heartier, your cares lesser, and your joy deeper.
With a friend, you do not have to pretend or live in a make-believe world. ALL YOU EVER NEED IS TO BE YOURSELF.
I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for COMPANY.
An honest answer is a sign of true friendship.
O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I MAY BE YOURS."
Friday, June 27, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
THE HEALING WONDERS OF GARLIC & VINEGAR
Nature's miracle healing combination of garlic and apple cider vinegar can melt ugly bulges fast, control killer cholesterol, prevent heart disease and soothe away the aching pain of arthritis. Yes, they are being hailed as one of nature's miracle weapons in the ongoing medical battles with arthritis, cancer and heart disease.
And the potent garlic can be doubly effective when it is served up with apple cider vinegar, also praised by researchers as a powerful antidote for all kinds of illnesses.
A Weekly World News in-depth survey of medical researchers, herbalists, and health and nutrition journals has come up with dozens of useful garlic and vinegar facts, plus some fascinating prescriptions for good health. Here they are in alphabetical order:
ARTHRITIS:
Chop the cloves from two large heads of peeled garlic and let them stand for five minutes in a cup of warmed olive oil. Soak a thick sock in warm water, then wring it out. Fill the toe of the sock with the garlic mash and a little oil. Gently rub the poultice over aching areas for several minutes. You can also find relief by boiling garlic in a vegetable broth and sipping it slowly.
Apple cider vinegar (one teaspoonful) with a teaspoonful of honey, mixed in water and drunk morning and evening, also soothes arthritic pain.
ASTHMA:
A popular folk remedy for asthma is one or two cloves of garlic, with a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and honey each morning - on an empty stomach.
ATHLETES FOOT:
Apply a clove of garlic to the infected foot area nightly for half an hour, then wash with water. Your problem should be cleared up within a week.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:
A teaspoon of garlic juice is effective in killing off the bacteria responsible for many women's bladder infections.
BURNS:
Puncturing a garlic oil capsule and squeezing it on to a skin burn area speeds up the healing process.
CANCER:
For many years the National Cancer Institute has been studying how common foods can help safeguard against cancer - and garlic figures high on their research list.
It is in a food group that contains phytochemical compounds that researchers believe can inhibit cancer growth. Eating garlic, onions, scallions, and chives can reduce your risk of getting stomach cancer, according to a joint study by Chinese researchers and America's own National Cancer Institute. Their research found that healthy patients ate 42 pounds of garlic and other bulb vegetables a year, compared to only 34 pounds for its cancer victims.
Deadly colon cancer may be prevented by a substance in garlic called diallyl sulfide, found by researchers at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital to be 75 percent effective in fighting off the disease in animal tests.
CANKER SORES:
Salad rich in garlic and onions, washed down with red raspberry tea, is an effective way of clearing up painful canker sores.
CHOLESTEROL:
Cholesterol levels in healthy test patients dropped on average from 237.4 to 221.4 in a mere three hours when they were given 50 grams of garlic along with four ounces of butter, proving that the dangerous effects of fatty foods can be controlled by adding garlic to your diet.
COLDS:
An old Russian remedy is to wedge a clove of garlic in your jaw between your teeth and your cheek like a wad of tobacco. Do not chew it. Colds have been known to vanish within hours using this technique. Follow this up with a mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey (a quarter cup of each) - particularly if you have a sore throat.
DIABETES:
If you're looking for a tasty diet which safeguards your health at the same time, look no further than a diet based on garlic, beans and rice, says New York nutritionist Dr. Charles Klein. As well as thinning your blood and improving circulation, these natural foods in combination are also effective in warding off diabetes.
And the potent garlic can be doubly effective when it is served up with apple cider vinegar, also praised by researchers as a powerful antidote for all kinds of illnesses.
A Weekly World News in-depth survey of medical researchers, herbalists, and health and nutrition journals has come up with dozens of useful garlic and vinegar facts, plus some fascinating prescriptions for good health. Here they are in alphabetical order:
ARTHRITIS:
Chop the cloves from two large heads of peeled garlic and let them stand for five minutes in a cup of warmed olive oil. Soak a thick sock in warm water, then wring it out. Fill the toe of the sock with the garlic mash and a little oil. Gently rub the poultice over aching areas for several minutes. You can also find relief by boiling garlic in a vegetable broth and sipping it slowly.
Apple cider vinegar (one teaspoonful) with a teaspoonful of honey, mixed in water and drunk morning and evening, also soothes arthritic pain.
ASTHMA:
A popular folk remedy for asthma is one or two cloves of garlic, with a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and honey each morning - on an empty stomach.
ATHLETES FOOT:
Apply a clove of garlic to the infected foot area nightly for half an hour, then wash with water. Your problem should be cleared up within a week.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:
A teaspoon of garlic juice is effective in killing off the bacteria responsible for many women's bladder infections.
BURNS:
Puncturing a garlic oil capsule and squeezing it on to a skin burn area speeds up the healing process.
CANCER:
For many years the National Cancer Institute has been studying how common foods can help safeguard against cancer - and garlic figures high on their research list.
It is in a food group that contains phytochemical compounds that researchers believe can inhibit cancer growth. Eating garlic, onions, scallions, and chives can reduce your risk of getting stomach cancer, according to a joint study by Chinese researchers and America's own National Cancer Institute. Their research found that healthy patients ate 42 pounds of garlic and other bulb vegetables a year, compared to only 34 pounds for its cancer victims.
Deadly colon cancer may be prevented by a substance in garlic called diallyl sulfide, found by researchers at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital to be 75 percent effective in fighting off the disease in animal tests.
CANKER SORES:
Salad rich in garlic and onions, washed down with red raspberry tea, is an effective way of clearing up painful canker sores.
CHOLESTEROL:
Cholesterol levels in healthy test patients dropped on average from 237.4 to 221.4 in a mere three hours when they were given 50 grams of garlic along with four ounces of butter, proving that the dangerous effects of fatty foods can be controlled by adding garlic to your diet.
COLDS:
An old Russian remedy is to wedge a clove of garlic in your jaw between your teeth and your cheek like a wad of tobacco. Do not chew it. Colds have been known to vanish within hours using this technique. Follow this up with a mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey (a quarter cup of each) - particularly if you have a sore throat.
DIABETES:
If you're looking for a tasty diet which safeguards your health at the same time, look no further than a diet based on garlic, beans and rice, says New York nutritionist Dr. Charles Klein. As well as thinning your blood and improving circulation, these natural foods in combination are also effective in warding off diabetes.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Happiness is a choice
Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! You are just as happy as you make up your mind to be. I remember my mother singing this old church song early in the morning when she wakes up: "Sing to the mountains, sing to the seas, let your voices in your heart, this is the day that the Almighty Father has made, let all the earth rejoice!" This simple song lifts my spirit and starts my day right with a good choice, to be happy!
The habit of being happy is developed by practicing happy thinking. Start the day with happy thoughts and expect good things to happen to you. "A merry heart does good like a medicine"
says King Solomon in one of his proverbs. A famous psychologist says, "there is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself to be."
Let me share the following tips to you through this blog:
1. For the next 24 hours, deliberately speak hopefully about everything, about your job, about your health, about your future. Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything. This will be difficult, for possibly it is your habit to talk pessimistically. From this negative habit, you must restrain yourself even if it requires an act of will.
2. You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts. Therefore, today start to shift your mind from negative to positive thinking. Start at the beginning of the New Testament and underscore every sentence about FAITH. Continue doing this until you have marked every such passage in the four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Particularly note Mark ll, verses 22, 23, 24. They will serve as samples of the verses you are to underscore and fix deeply in your consciousness.
3. Then commit the underscored passages to memory. Commit one each day until you can recite the entire list from memory. This will take time, but remember you have consumed much more time becoming a negative thinker than this will require. Effort and time will be needed to unlearn your negative pattern.
4. Make a list of your friends to determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. Do not abandon your negative friends, but get closer to those with a positive point of view for a while, until you have absorbed their spirit, then you can go back among your negative friends and give them your newly acquired thought pattern without taking on their negativism.
5. Avoid argument, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
6. Pray a great deal and always let your prayer take the form of thanksgiving on the assumption that the Almighty is giving you great and wonderful things; for if you think He is, He surely is. The Almighty will not give you any greater blessing than you can believe in. He wants to give you great things, but even He cannot make you take anything greater than you are equipped by faith to receive. 'According to your faith, be it unto you.' (Matthew 9:29). Excerpts from "The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Make it always a habit to be happy.
The habit of being happy is developed by practicing happy thinking. Start the day with happy thoughts and expect good things to happen to you. "A merry heart does good like a medicine"
says King Solomon in one of his proverbs. A famous psychologist says, "there is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself to be."
Let me share the following tips to you through this blog:
1. For the next 24 hours, deliberately speak hopefully about everything, about your job, about your health, about your future. Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything. This will be difficult, for possibly it is your habit to talk pessimistically. From this negative habit, you must restrain yourself even if it requires an act of will.
2. You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts. Therefore, today start to shift your mind from negative to positive thinking. Start at the beginning of the New Testament and underscore every sentence about FAITH. Continue doing this until you have marked every such passage in the four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Particularly note Mark ll, verses 22, 23, 24. They will serve as samples of the verses you are to underscore and fix deeply in your consciousness.
3. Then commit the underscored passages to memory. Commit one each day until you can recite the entire list from memory. This will take time, but remember you have consumed much more time becoming a negative thinker than this will require. Effort and time will be needed to unlearn your negative pattern.
4. Make a list of your friends to determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. Do not abandon your negative friends, but get closer to those with a positive point of view for a while, until you have absorbed their spirit, then you can go back among your negative friends and give them your newly acquired thought pattern without taking on their negativism.
5. Avoid argument, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
6. Pray a great deal and always let your prayer take the form of thanksgiving on the assumption that the Almighty is giving you great and wonderful things; for if you think He is, He surely is. The Almighty will not give you any greater blessing than you can believe in. He wants to give you great things, but even He cannot make you take anything greater than you are equipped by faith to receive. 'According to your faith, be it unto you.' (Matthew 9:29). Excerpts from "The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Make it always a habit to be happy.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Lifelong learning beginning at mid-life.....
" How do we keep from 'growing old inside'? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. If I try to deal with time by myself, I lose. Absolutely. Of that I am certain." - Robert McAfee Brown, 1980, p.18
"The most precious gift in the world is time. Time to do anything you want to do, whenever you want to do it... time gives you the golden opportunity to meet new friends, get involved in new activities, travel to new places. It's your chance to create, innovate, help others, be valuable in the community. It's your time to grow as a human being (Guide to Leisure, 50-plus magazine, 1981, p.2)
"We are complex, noisy, nosey creatures who need stimulation. Our activities, exercise, hobbies - and yes, our involved carings - all contribute to our psychological well-being and add spice to our everyday activities. In fact, the stress of our unexpected creative surprises draw us again and again to savor the change of creative experience. We need our arousals to motivate us, inspire us, teach us and give us pleasure. (Carlsen, unpublished material)
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your lonely love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trample in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - TO LEARN. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distruct, and never dream of regretting. Never stop learning ..... (T.H. White, "The Once and Future King ")
"Begin at once - not today, or tomorrow, or at some remote indefinite date, but right now, at this precise moment - to choose some subject, some concept, some great name or idea or event in history on which you can eventually make yourself the world's supreme expert. Start a crash program immediately to qualify yourself for this self-assignment through:
1. reading
2. research
3. reflection"
(Gross, 1982, pp. xii-xiii)
"Keep your body and your mind razor sharp. And always have something in the wings" (Rosenblum, l989, p. 34). Here's how:
Experiment with new careers, invest in learning, be active in sports and exercise programs, test new cuisine, produce art work, learn new hobbies, explore spiritual realm, write books, travel the nation and the world. Meet new friends, practice music, sing in choirs, play tennis, hike around the park night and morning. Contribute to the continuity, spirit and well-being of those around you. Pass along wisdom. . Try out something new. This is the idea of learning, growing, and creating. ("ADD LIFE TO YEARS, not years to life! " - Murlidhar Devidas Amte)
"The most precious gift in the world is time. Time to do anything you want to do, whenever you want to do it... time gives you the golden opportunity to meet new friends, get involved in new activities, travel to new places. It's your chance to create, innovate, help others, be valuable in the community. It's your time to grow as a human being (Guide to Leisure, 50-plus magazine, 1981, p.2)
"We are complex, noisy, nosey creatures who need stimulation. Our activities, exercise, hobbies - and yes, our involved carings - all contribute to our psychological well-being and add spice to our everyday activities. In fact, the stress of our unexpected creative surprises draw us again and again to savor the change of creative experience. We need our arousals to motivate us, inspire us, teach us and give us pleasure. (Carlsen, unpublished material)
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your lonely love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trample in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - TO LEARN. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distruct, and never dream of regretting. Never stop learning ..... (T.H. White, "The Once and Future King ")
"Begin at once - not today, or tomorrow, or at some remote indefinite date, but right now, at this precise moment - to choose some subject, some concept, some great name or idea or event in history on which you can eventually make yourself the world's supreme expert. Start a crash program immediately to qualify yourself for this self-assignment through:
1. reading
2. research
3. reflection"
(Gross, 1982, pp. xii-xiii)
"Keep your body and your mind razor sharp. And always have something in the wings" (Rosenblum, l989, p. 34). Here's how:
Experiment with new careers, invest in learning, be active in sports and exercise programs, test new cuisine, produce art work, learn new hobbies, explore spiritual realm, write books, travel the nation and the world. Meet new friends, practice music, sing in choirs, play tennis, hike around the park night and morning. Contribute to the continuity, spirit and well-being of those around you. Pass along wisdom. . Try out something new. This is the idea of learning, growing, and creating. ("ADD LIFE TO YEARS, not years to life! " - Murlidhar Devidas Amte)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
My childhood days, a reminiscence.......
Gazing at rainbows, catching colored butterflies , chasing fireflies at moonlit nights........ remind me of my family and my childhood here in Masara, high up in the rugged and western flank of Davao del Norte , Philippines , where the sun seemed to rise rather late , and the sounds of birds named "Kalaw" reminding me of the sun almost settling down . I could hear my father say "it's 5 p.m." when these birds sounded "Kaw kaw kaw". As a little girl growing up with two brothers and 2 sisters, daytime was the most enjoyable building toycars and small toytrucks out of tiny, raw avocado fruits , picking up wild strawberries and edible ferns and climbing up trees (the tallest climb I made was a lanzones tree fronting our house, the most challenging one was a kalamansi tree with all its thorny and slippery branches) . I remember picking up kalamansi fruits and sell them once a basket was full . My siblings and I somehow learned the idea of selling at a very young age from tomatoes, fried camotes, ice candies , banana barbecues, hotcakes for merienda, and delivering door- to door-newspapers and magazines to my father's co-workers in the mining site. Piles and piles of Tagalog comics I would first enjoy reading while enriching my vocabulary as a first grader.
Early morning breakfast with native ricecakes and "suman" wrapped in banana leaves reminded me of my mother, an optimist who would rather tell us "the pail is almost full" while it never will. I couldn't imagine the source of her power and strength rearing a big family of five children. A childhood life full of prayers , joys and excitements. Imagine this kind of life without a mother!
A great tutor, that was my father, imbuing us the value of education, teaching us the 3 R's before the age of 6, envisioning us to be professionals supporting us while earning only a meager income as a construction worker. Imagine another childhood life without a father!
Ahh, my childhood days....... so nice to remember!
Early morning breakfast with native ricecakes and "suman" wrapped in banana leaves reminded me of my mother, an optimist who would rather tell us "the pail is almost full" while it never will. I couldn't imagine the source of her power and strength rearing a big family of five children. A childhood life full of prayers , joys and excitements. Imagine this kind of life without a mother!
A great tutor, that was my father, imbuing us the value of education, teaching us the 3 R's before the age of 6, envisioning us to be professionals supporting us while earning only a meager income as a construction worker. Imagine another childhood life without a father!
Ahh, my childhood days....... so nice to remember!
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