Thursday, June 26, 2008


“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh—at yourself.”

Monday, June 23, 2008

Easy and Ageless


cozy, unfussy way -- comfortable, mismatched furniture arranged in one large but intimate seating group.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Your Body's Most Flattering Shorts





Best for small women
If you're petite, you don't want to drown your body in baggy shorts. Mid-thigh-length, cuffed styles--such as a pair with a flirty detail like these bow-belt khakis in Nicole Babb's "after"--are especially cute.

Trend to avoid:
Too-long Bermudas. You can wear longish styles, but make sure they hit above the knee.

Best for pear shapes
A straight-cut Bermuda style like Crista Vaccarello's "after" instantly lengthens and slims the thighs. Go solid on bottom and printed on top to draw attention up.

Trend to avoid:
Bulky cargos with pockets that add width to your hips.
Best for plus sizes
Justina Lacroze's overly snug denim cutoffs were making her curvy body look bigger than it is. Instead, she opted for a knee-length pair of unfussy, pleat-free Bermudas. They're flattering and dressy--chic!

Trend to avoid:
Short shorts and pleated looks.

The Perfect Fit Checklist:
1) Have too-long shorts hemmed. It’s worth it!
2) Avoid bulging pockets.
3) Cuffs should not grip your thighs.
4) Are your cheeks covered? Sit down n the fitting room and make sute!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

ETIQUETTE


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That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

CHILDREN



Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

BOREDOM

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

BEAUTY


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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

ATTITUDE


A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

inspirational


If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, June 16, 2008

JOY



The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

ACT OF KINDNESS


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

KINDNESS


People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

KINDNESS


At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.

We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.'

Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.

KINDNESS


That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

KINDNESS

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

INSIGHTS


"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."


Helen Keller

"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from."

Peter McWilliams

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."


Dorothea Brande


"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone."


Sam Levenson


"If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength."


Buddha


"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."


Albert Einstein


"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."


Buddha

"Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love."


Caroline Adams

"Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so."


J. Michael Straczynski


"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."

Corita Kent

SMILE


“Smile at each other,
smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”

INSIGHTS


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure."
William Feather

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
Jawaharal Nehru

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
Bernard Edmonds

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith

COURAGE


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

HOPE


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

COURAGE

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
When I was five, I didn’t know much about you. Except that maybe you liked to hop and pretend that you were a kangaroo. And that it would be nice if you had a pouch. And even nicer if you had two pouches. Because then I could put my crayons in one pouch. And my notebook in the other one.


"Do you love me?" Why do we ask this again and again even though we know that in reality there is only one right answer to this question? Sometimes the answer comes with a smile or a kiss, other times it comes after a pause or a sigh. Sometimes it's enthusiastic and other times it's dry and mechanical. Sometimes it's convincing, and often it's not. The problem is that when we ask this question, the other person has no choice in giving us the answer.

PATH

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

TIME

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.


All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

DREAM

Only as high as I reach can I grow,Only as far as I seek can I go,Only as deep as I look can I see,Only as much as I dream can I be.

DREAMS

"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"