Quotes - Herbert B. Swope

Herbert B. Swope:

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Quotes - Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo:

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Vocabulary - Two Timing Whore

Two Timing Whore:

Specifically referring to the female cheating with other men at the same time she claims commitment to another.

That two timing whore was screwing her ex-old man while we were together.

Quotes - Whitney Otto

Whitney Otto:

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Quotes - Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom:

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. 

Persian Literatrue

از منزل کفر تا به دین یک قدم است
وز عالم شک تا یقین یک نفس است
این یک نفس عزیز را خوش میدار
کز حاصل عمر ما همین یک نفس است

Quotes - Sandra Carey

Sandra Carey:

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Proverb - You can't take it with you when you die

You can't take it with you when you die:

When we die we leave everything on earth. We don't take anything with us. Even the richest people cannot take their money with them after death.

Idiom - Once in a blue moon

Once in a blue moon:

If something happens once in a blue moon, it happens very rarely.

We hardly ever go out these days, though once in a blue moon we might go and see a movie.

My daughter lives in Brazil and she only comes to see us once in a blue moon; maybe every two or three years if we're lucky.

Persian: به ندرت

Quotes - Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa:

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Quotes - Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper:

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Persian Literatrue

افسوس که صاحب نفسی پیدا نیست
فریاد که فریادرسی پیدا نیست
بس لابه نمودیم و کس آواز نداد
پیداست که در خانه کسی پیدا نیست

Quotes - Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo:

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.

Poem - Thinking About Mother By Terrie L. Sherman

Thinking About Mother:

Within these walls this prison
My mind and thoughts run free.
I think of mom and days gone by
And of what she meant to me.
I wonder how life would have been

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Proverb - Death keeps no calendar

Death keeps no calendar:

Death may call upon us at any time - it has no appointment book. We never know when we will die.

Idiom - Vim and vigor

Vim and vigor:

If you have vim and vigor, you have lots of energy and enthusiasm for life.

Our grandmother is always full of vim and vigor when we go to visit her.

If you want to have lots of vim and vigor when you get older, you need to eat good food and get plenty of exercise when you're young.

Persian: انزژی، شور و اشتیاق

Quotes - Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult:

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Quotes - James Baldwin

James Baldwin:

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Quotes - Sam Levenson

Sam Levenson:

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm

Vocabulary - Nosegay

Nosegay:

old-fashioned A small arrangement of flowers.

Persian: دسته ی گل

Poem - My nosegays are for captives By Emily Dickinson

My nosegays are for captives:

My nosegays are for captives;   
  Dim, long-expectant eyes,   
Fingers denied the plucking,   
  Patient till paradise

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Quotes - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein:

You never fail until you stop trying.

Story - The Way to a Man's Heart

The Way to a Man's Heart:

Lina often asked Luke to dinner. Lina loved Luke, but Luke loved Lina's cooking, not Lina herself. Lina accepted that for the time being. But she felt that, with enough meals and enough time, she would get her man.

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Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Persian Literatrue

حکایت سحر خیز باش تا کامروا گردی:

حکایت کرده اند٬ بزرگمهر٬ هرروز صبح زود خدمت انوشیروان می رفت٬ پس از ادای احترام٬رو در روی انوشیروان می گفت:

سحر خیز باش تا کامروا گردی.


شبی٬ انوشیروان به سرداران نظامی اش٬ دستور داد تا نیمه شب بیدار شوندو سر راه بزرگمهر٬ منتظر بمانند.چون پیش از صبح خواست به درگاه پادشاه بیاید٬ لباس هایش از تنش در بیاورندو از هر طرف به او حمله کنندتاراه فراری برای او باقی نماند.

بزرگمهر راه فراری پیدا نکرد. برهنه به درگاه انوشیروان امد٬پادشاه خندید و گفت:

مگر هر روز نمی گفتی٬سحر خیز باش تا کامروا باشی؟

بزرگمهر گفت:دزدان امشب ٬کامروا شدند٬زیرا انها زودتر ازمن٬ بیدار شده بودند.اگر من زودتر از انها بیدار می شدم و به درگاه پادشاه می امدم من کامرواتر بودم

Proverb - The early bird catches the worm

The early bird catches the worm:

Birds that wake early in the morning will find worms to eat, but birds that wake late will find no worms. The saying suggests that the same is true for us in life. If we do something early, before other people, we will be successful.

Persian: سحر خیز باش تا کامروا شوی

Idiom - A ray of sunshine

A ray of sunshine:

Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone. - This idiom is most often used when talking about something that has brought happiness to someone who's been having trouble in their life.

The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.

After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.

Story - How to Get out of Jury Duty

How to Get out of Jury Duty:

The mailman delivers good news and bad news. Topping the "bad news" list for many people who live in Los Angeles is a jury summons. This document tells you that you must respond by mail or phone for possible service on a jury. Many people feel that jury duty is a boring chore and would prefer not doing it.

In fact, court clerks say that the most common question they hear is: Why do I have to serve? The official response is: Jury duty is a responsibility that all qualified citizens must share.

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