[0101]

Summer is where the girls go barefoot and their hearts are just as free as their toes. Too bad it's coming to an end. Goodbye to the flip flops and hello to thermal socks and boots. Guess that also means goodbye to giving your heart up so easily...

[0100] -- Happy One Hundredth!

100 quotes to guide your life, one for each year of your life. Yes you can live to be a hundred. Maybe not on a calendar, but maybe through the wisdom you acquire each day. Here's to us all being 100, either spiritually, mentally, or emotionally.

1. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato
2. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace. -- Emerson
3. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Einstein
4. Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. -- Unknown
5. For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. -- Unknown
6. To bring anything into your life, imagine it's already there. -- Bach
7. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. -- Dali Lama
8. Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. -- Hightower
9. Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it. -- Ziglar
10. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Disney
11. Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. -- Unknown
12. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -- MLK Jr.
13. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you. -- Chopra
14. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -- Mother Theresa
15. To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. -- Stevens
16. Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -- Roosevelt
17. You must do the things you think you cannot do. -- Roosevelt
18. To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. -- Prefontaine
19. Do all things with love. -- Mandino
20. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. -- Waitley
21. Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things. -- Paterno
22. Don't frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. -- Unknown
23. Be kind whenever possible... it is always possible. -- Dali Lama
24. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Stowe
25. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -- D'Angelo
26. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Theresa
27. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -- Dyer
28. Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. -- Setter
29. Rule number one is don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. -- Eliot
30. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. -- Winfrey
31. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Disney
32. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Emerson
33. Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. -- D'Angelo
34. Anywhere is paradise. It's up to you. -- Unknown
35. Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. -- Linkletter
36. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. -- Karras
37. Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -- Austin
38. We must be willing to get rid of the live we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -- Campbell
39. Excellence is not a skill. It's an attitude. -- Marston
40. Small deed done are better than great deeds planned. -- Marshall
41. Don't find fault. Find a remedy. -- Ford
42. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- Baldwin
43. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -- Casey
44. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -- Brooks
45. Turn your wounds into wisdom. -- Winfrey
46. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. -- Disney
47. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -- Emerson
48. He who has a why to live, can bear almost any how. -- Nietzsche
49. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. -- Cheney
50. The darkest hour only has 60 minutes. -- Mandel
51. When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. -- Grosman
52. An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. -- Johnston
53. Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. -- Tagore
54. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. -- Pascal
55. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. -- Seuss
56. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. -- Hock
57. Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. -- Tracy
58. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -- Angelou
59. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -- Emerson
60. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -- Smedes
61. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. -- Twain
62. Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. -- Bottke
63. Never apologize for showing feeling. If you do, you apologize for the truth. -- Disraeli
64. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
65. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Roosevelt
66. Whatever good things we build end up building us. -- Rohn
67. If you cannot life the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. -- Tyger
68. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. -- Carradine
69. Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up. -- Jackson
70. You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -- Maxwell
71. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. -- Tagore
72. An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. -- Brault
73. Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there. -- Unknown
74. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. -- Ash
75. To see things in the seed, that is genius. -- Tzu
76. Peace begins with a smile. -- Mother Theresa
77. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. -- Pilgrim
78. Say not 'I have found the truth', but rather 'I have found a truth.' -- Gibran
79. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. -- Churchill
80. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were big things. -- Brault
81. Whenever you fall, pick something up. -- Avery
82. We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. -- Unknown
83. The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. -- Unknown
84. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. -- Keyes Jr.
85. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -- Maori Proverb
86. A promise is a cloud, fulfillment is rain. -- Arabian Proverb
87. Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. -- Gracian
88. If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Kaiser
89. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. -- Havner
90. The bast way out of a problem is through it. -- Unknown
91. People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. -- Cass
92. A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn. -- Unknown
93. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard word. -- Golden
94. Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose; the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. -- Brault
95. Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you do not have any problems, you don't get any seeds. -- Peale
96. The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. -- Unknown
97. Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears wont let you see the stars. -- Parra
98. The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. -- Confucius
99. How can something bother you if you won't let it? -- Guillemets
100. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -- Gibran

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[0098]

Everyday is a new day. When you wake up in the morning, the happenings of the past day should not matter. Everyday is a chance for you to do right all the things you had done wrong yesterday. Arise from your dusky slumber and seize every opportunity that fate flings at you. Worry not about what could, should, would happen. You are the maker of your future. Yesterday does not come to encumber today, it is long gone, erased from time. Forget about it. Focus on today, for today is all you have. Tomorrow might not come and yesterday has passed on. Revel in the excitement, don't be afraid. You have a soul, let it be free. Allow the sunlight to kiss you each morning, let the moonlight hug you goodnight. God has put you on this earth with a purpose, fulfill it all the while fulfilling yourself. Let yourself be truly happy today, for today is all you have.

[0097] - A letter from the masses

Dear Mr. President,

Seriously, fuck you. Let us start with the basics. You are an ass hole. A thief. An alleged murderer. And a scoundrel. And mind-blowingly incompetent to boot. The only reason you matter is because your equally incompetent, currently delusional, then dysfunctional, mother-in-law thought that you were such a lowly piece of shit that you would never get in the way of your late wife, also delusional, whose dowry included the most popular political party in Pakistan. Why she had such elevated expectations of a two-bit thug is beyond us. But still. After you had done your husbandly duties, the sensible thing for Benazir to have done would be to have had you shot. In fact, she should just had had your sperm frozen on day one and then had you tortured into the next dimension. But Benazir made many mistakes, marrying you being one class-fucking-A example. So long as Benazir was alive, you were an embarrassment. You stole with great abandon, from old and young, from the rich and the poor alike. You were, and remain, a fucking genius at stealing. And, surprisingly modest to boot. The world knew you as Mr. 10 per cent. You were maligned. The SGS Cotecna deal only called for a 6% kickback (as did the Agosta submarines deal). But, since Benazir was busy leading the masses, she needed a Luca Brasi to handle her business affairs. Division of labour, we believe, is what economists call it. In 1996, you went straight to jail and did not emerge for 8 years. Let's give you your due. Eight years in jail is a bitch. But you sucked it up, took your torture with a straight face, and eventually scarpered off to Dubai as part of confidence building measures between Benazir and the General. Then the General got into trouble and the doors to Pakistan swung upon for Benazir. You skulked along in her wake, hoping not to get noticed. But you were there, lingering like the bouquet of a garlic-laden fart. In December 2007, Pakistan was blown apart when Benazir died. You played your cards right, fought for the Federation, faced down the Sindhi chauvinists and insisted that democracy was the best revenge. We began to have second thoughts about you. And Benazir's mysterious will surfaced giving custody of her party, like a retarded teenager, to her darling husband. Most fucking convenient. The sympathy factor got the PPP the next election. And all the chootiyas in the party decided that their bread and butter depended upon their kissing your ass. So it became your party. And in the spirit of brotherhood that then prevailed, everybody said, hey let's just make the fucker our President. He seems to have changed. Let us begin with the fact that you have not changed. You have always been corrupt. And you are still corrupt today. Let us now add to the corruption your amazing fucking arrogance, your oh-so-charming response to all opposition – mein unn ko lund pay likhta hoon – and your general I-don't-give-a-fuck attitude. The funny thing is that we would still forgive you all of that because hey, you got elected President and let's face it, nobody's perfect. Deep down, we still felt that there was a part of your black heart which still cared about Pakistan. We were wrong. You don't give a fuck about Pakistan. Pakistan is simply put, your bitch, yours to screw whenever you feel like. Aggay, pichhay, whatever. No person who gave a shit about Pakistan, let alone any sane person tasked with the job of pretending to be the symbol of the fucking Federation, would ever abandon Pakistan during the worst floods in its entire history. Something like 2000 people have died in those floods. Your only job is to care for them, to make sympathetic noises. And you failed to do your job for the simple reason that you don't give a fuck about us. On top of the colossal stupidity of fucking off to England at a time of national crisis, there are the additional fuck-you factors. First of all, this was not a good time to go to England. Their Prime Minister just got done telling us to fuck off so going and staying in London in a $12,000 per night suite was not the ideal response. And second, there is the whole Normandy chateau thing which just takes the fucking cake in this entire stupid goddamn episode. What fucking planet do you live in if you think that taking a private jet to your private fucking chateau is a good idea when Pakistan is facing one of the largest humanitarian crises in its entire history. This was not work. This was just a giant fuck you to us. And why, might we ask do you have to put out a press release telling everybody that the chateau has been in the Zardari family for the last 24 years. Oh really? So when your father was running the fucking Bambino cinema in Karachi in the mid-80s, he was also the owner of a 5-acre chateau in Normandy? Is there some secret Zardari clan which has been part of French aristocracy for decades? Seriously, how fucking stupid do you think we are? We are out of words now. We cannot comprehend the depth and level of arrogance in you. We just can't. What we can say is this: fuck you Mr. President.

Sincerely,

Pakistan

I did not write this, but this is my favorite rant in the history of rants.

[0096]

Do not stand at my grave and weep;

I am not there; I do not sleep,

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on the snow,

I am the sunlight on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain,

When you awaken in the mornings hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush,

of quiet birds in circled flight,

I am the soft stars that shine at night,

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there; I did not die.

RIP Julie Siuda. It's been 8 years but your memory is still very much alive inside me.

[0095]

Look at her with her eyes like a flame, she will love you like I never loved you.

[0094]

A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man must seek Him in order to find her.

-- CS Lewis

A very beautiful quote I think. It makes one reflect on their purity or lack thereof.

[0093]

[0092]

There is nothing so black as the inferno of the human mind.

[0091]

When I was five years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.

-- John Lennon

[0090]

I'm going through a volatile phase in my life...I think. One second I'm super happy with the changes I'm making, and the next I'm going what the f*&# am I doing? When I'm happy, everything goes easy. I don't need to explain myself to anyone. I do what I want and I answer only to myself. I like to maintain the upperhand in every situation, mainly with a young man we'll call Andrew for all intents and purposes. However sometimes I feel a sense of sadness, not large enough to be alarming but enough to be unsettling. The sadness stems from my inner psyche when I feel like I'm making bad decisions, or rather decisions which I'm not 100% sure about. But I guess no one is ever 100% sure about anything. I just hope my actions and decisions don't end up hurting me, or more importantly, hurting someone I care too much about.

[0089]

Isn't elegance about forgetting what one is wearing?

-- Yves Saint Laurent

[0088]

Profound annoyance of the week, volume 1:

Freaking retarded Zardari globe trotting trying to boost his weasel faced son's political career while his people are drowning and starving. WTF!!! @#*&$*^#!!! God bless the man that threw his shoe at him. Better luck to the next one who tries, hopefully this time they wont miss. Seriously, eff this guy. DROP DEAD ZARDARI!

Till next week,

Haneen

[0087]

Captured by Scott Stulberg

Not all those who wander are lost.

-- JRR Tolkien

[0086]

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; thou hast another time and space as well.

-- Muhammad Iqbal

[0085]

Coquette; I always say I hate all my boy problems. On some level maybe I do. But on a deeper level I quite enjoy them. Knowing I have the power to wrap a man around my finger is more than just a thrill, it's become a lifestyle.

[0084]

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[Vienna Court Opera, Austria, 1902]

Slow down you crazy child, you're so ambitious for a juvenile. But then if you're so smart, tell me why are you still so afraid? Where's the fire? What's the hurry about? You'd better cool it off before you burn it out. You've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day. But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want or you get old. You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? Slow down, you're doing fine. You can't be everything you want to be before your time. Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight. Too bad but it's the life you lead, you're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. You've got your passion, you've got your pride but don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

-- Vienna, by Billy Joel