* U na e vrijeme mladi zauzimaju cudan stav: oni bi ucili a da ne pohadaju kolu (ce sto ucestvuju u kolskim trajkovima i slicno),

da imaju visoka zvanja bez napornog rada i da svoje fakultetske diplome dobiju u kaficima u kojima sjede i zabavljaju se. * Kada poku avamo se osloboditi od strasti i nikako ne uspijevamo u tome, onda se to dogada ili zbog na eg egoizma ili pak zato to kritiziramo i osudujemo b li nje. * Sna an je onaj koji dobro duhovno ucenje) vace, a ne onaj tko mnogo jede. (ovo se primjenjuje na

* Vrijednost materijalnih dobara stalno raste, dok ljudi neprestano gube svoju v rijednost. * ivite na najjednostavniji moguci nacin. Ne ote avajte vlastiti ivot. Previ e udobnos ti pretvara ljude u robove. * Najbolji biznis je otvaranje tvornice koja proizvodi pozitivne misli. * Imajte strpljenja, jer ne postoji drugi nacin da danas koracate kroz ivot. Budite strpljivi i nemojte sve uzimati pretjerano ozbiljno. Podite do velike tr n ice i kupite sebi malo bestra ca. * If God leads you to it, he will lead you through it. * I refuse to tip toe cautiously thru life only to arrive safely at deaths door. * When you say "I can't", you actually mean "I don't want to". * Early to bed and early to rise makes a man wealthy and wise. * Never own ANYTHING you aren't willing to drill a hole in. * God doesn't necessarily call the qualified, he qualifies the called. * Your enemies can hurt you, but only your fear defeats you! Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go. * Only those who attempt the absurd will acheive the impossible. * Kindness costs nothing, but pays big dividends. * The hardest part of raising your child is the same as teaching them to ride a bike. It's letting them go. * Things are not always what they seem, A stopped clock is right twice a day! * Anything is possible if you ve got enough nerve.

* Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear * Every sun has to set. * Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.

* He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light. * Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart. * Older than you by a day, wiser than you by a year. * One hand cannot applaud. * One hand for oneself and one for the ship. * Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh. * The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind. * Think of the going out before you enter. * Visit rarely, and you will be more loved. * When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. * When what you want doesn\'t happen, learn to want what does. * Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old. * A man must despise himself before others will. * A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion. * All things at first appear difficult. * Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding. * Better die ten years early than live ten years poor. * Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. * Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it. * Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tel l not all you know. * Easier to rule a nation than a son. * Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep. * Everyone pushes a falling fence. * Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choo se that way with all his strength. * Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. * Gold is tested by fire, man by gold. * Govern yourself and you can govern the world. * In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.

* Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl. * Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that y ou can do lying down. * One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calam ities. * A bad beginning may make a good ending. * A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land. * Depend on others and you will go hungry. * All happiness is in the mind. * If it were not for hope, the heart would break. * Nothing is easy to the unwilling. * To be willing is to be able. * With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant.

* A crown's no cure for a headache.

* Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind.

* You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. * As long as you live, keep learning how to live. * One should learn to sail in all waters. * One should speak little with others and much with oneself * An hour may destroy what an age was building. * As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. * At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish. * Beginning is easy; continuing, hard.

* If not today - when? * Life is like the moon: now full, now dark. * Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating. * The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.

* When the moon is full, it begins to wane. * All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. * A man's ruin lies in his tongue. * Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk. * Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along. * Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won't get any reward greater than that destined for you. * The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel.

* The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out. * A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair. * Every tear has a smile behind it.

* Trust in God but tie your camel. * Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move. * Postpone today's anger until tomorrow.

* There's no glory without sacrifice.

* However long the night, the dawn will break. * No man fears what he has seen grow.

* Only a fool tests the water with both feet.

* The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. * When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. * Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. * Don't set sail on someone else's star. * For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. * The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery. * The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks. * Venture all; see what fate brings. * He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree. * The shadow should be the same length as the body. * He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like * The darkest hour is that before the dawn. * Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue. * A merry life forgets father and mother. * A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sur e. * A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. * A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

* A sack is best tied before it is full. * A thing too much seen is little prized. * A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. * A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.

* A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine , never come to a good end. * Children are what they are made. * Children and fools are prophets.

* Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first di sagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens an d ameliorates the disposition.

* To do, one must be doing. * To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten. * Sadness and gladness succeed each other. * Saint cannot if God will not. * If you fear God, you won't fear humans. * Fall seven times, stand up eight. * Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law. * Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.

* See with your mind, hear with your heart.

* Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.

* Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are

* It's not enough to know how to ride -- you must also know how to fall. * Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step. * A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wis dom.

* Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

* If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.

* If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.

* He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

* Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

* A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.

* Happiness is like crystal -- when it shines the most, it soon cracks.

* If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, th ings are just as they are.

* Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. * Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

* The obstacle is the path. * Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

* The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who sleeps. * Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is * Instinct is stronger than upbringing. * A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. !! !!!!!!!!!!! !!!! ! ! ! ! * Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot. * The pencil of God has no eraser. * If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt. * Events follow one another like the days of the week. * We start as fools and become wise through experience. * The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. * Only the cure you believe in cures. * If you have planted a tree you must water it too. * When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything. * Speech is silver; silence is golden. * Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, berathe more, talk le ss, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours. * God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. * Wisdom does not come overnight. * He who does not shave you does not cut you. * Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich.

* Success and rest don't sleep together. * For him who does not believe in signs, thre is no way to live in the world. * The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite. * The man being carried does not realize how far away the town really is. * The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. * God does not pay weekly, but He pays at the end. * He who lives without discipline dies without honor. * When ambition ends, happiness begins. * Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman. * A flatterer is a secret enemy. * If things are getting easier, maybe you're headed downhill. * Too clever is stupid. * God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. * Flatters, like cats, lick and then scratch. * Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between. * Assurance is two-thirds of success. * Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. * Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him. * Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. * It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. * When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. * Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvester s. * Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. * Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds. * Nothing seems expensive on credit.

* Do not protect yourself with a fence, but rather by your friends. * When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to vis it the bee's house some day. * A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. * A pretty basket does not prevent worries. * No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. * Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone bett er than you. * Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is call ed dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. * The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. * Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomac h. * Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. * By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. * The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruct ion fools despise. * Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's tea ching; A graceful diadem will they be for your head; a torque for your neck. * He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. * A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the le arned. * The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. * The words of tongue should have three gate keepers. * When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. * He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble * Rising early makes the road short. * It is better to walk than curse the road. * God is our neighbour when our brother is absent. * The climber of ladders will descend [the ambitious person will be brought b

ack down]. * The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long * Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having so mething and being nothing. - Ethiopia * When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you. * You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself. * Knowledge is better than riches * Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. * No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. * A rich man has no need of character. *The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich * When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father , both cry. * I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. * Where there is a will, there is a way * God is closest to those with broken hearts. * Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small. * If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird. * There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobi lity is in being superior to your previous self. * The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us an d the feeling of duty within us. * These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat , a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller. * Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. * When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us. * One kind word can warm 3 winter months. * Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. * Change yourself, change your fortunes.

* Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. * Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. * Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever kn own were learned men. * Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. * Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget. * The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

* A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity. * If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. * All of us are crazy in one way or another. * True poverty does not come from God. * A weak person goes where he is smiled at * A worthy man is still worthy even penniless, a donkey is a donkey even if h e is finely saddled. * No matter how tall a tree grows its leaves always fall to the ground. * There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill. * Remain hungry but do not start begging. * Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit. * Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. * Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. * Forsake not God till you find a better master. * It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock * Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. * Loose words are picked up like gold coin. *If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself *Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. *Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. * We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imaginati on than from reality. * If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor;

if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich. * It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. * The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. * We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. * The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. * Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. * Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly bef ore us or close to us. * Every reign must submit to a greater reign. * He who has great power should use it lightly. * A father is a banker provided by nature. * In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. * Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. * To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. * When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. * We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. * If we don't know life, how can we know death? * After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. * There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. * When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. * If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame * If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as y ou grow up. * Life is a dream walking death is a going home.

* Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

*In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

* Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. * A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. * Imetak se ne zadr ava u rukama rasipnika ni strpljenje u srcu zaljubljenog ni voda u re etu. * Ne misli na te kocu i bezizlaz i ne budi tu an Jer u tamnim dubinam je izvor ivota Ne budi tu an, mucenice, jer Bog posjeduje tajnu milost i dobrotu. Ne sjedi namr ten zbog sudbine, jer Alojevo drvo,premda gorko,ima sladak plod. * Courage is stronger than weakness *To ask is no sin and to be refused is no calamity. *Many things are lost for want of asking. *For a web begun God sends thread *The discontented child cries for toasted snow. *He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good *It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom. *When God wishes a man well, He gives him insight into his faults. He who fears something gives it power over him. *When God gives hard bread He gives sharp teeth. *Life is an onion which one peels crying. *ctions speak louder than words. Arabic In haste is regret, in slowness peace. Tunisien Advice Your brother is who gives you honest advice. If you wanted obedience command with what is possible. Advise and council him if he doesn t listen, let adversity teach him. African prov erb. Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh. A Arrogance diminishes wisdom. Arabic Beauty God is beautiful and cannot but love beauty. Beauty is beauty, drunk or sober. Moorish

Beauty is skin deep. The one who you love is the one who is beautiful. Turkish Destiny No water can wash away the destiny written on a man's forehead. Moroccan Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change. Arabic Desire All that your heart desires your spirit attain. Discipline Where the teacher strikes roses will grow. Turkish Education * Seek education from the cradle to the grave. * Seek education even if it takes you to China. Evil Leave evil, it will leave you. Pick the lesser of the two evils. If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of wh o is above you. Evil in people does not go away when they get buried. Arabic Envy The envious person is the least happy. The worst emotion is envy. Experience Experimenting is the great science. Arabic One people's misfortune are another's people's instruction. Lebanese Experience are the glasses of the mind. A jug can pour forth only what it contains. Generosity

Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts. Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you.

Thank who gives you and give who thanks you. The best generosity is giving without being asked. The generous is never satisfied with riches. Arabic Good Manners Good manners is the greatest friend Ideals If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less th an the stars. Have patience and you'll get what you want. Intelligence

The greatest poverty is the lack of intelligence. Smart people are blessed. The smarter you get the less you speak. For smart people, signs can replace words. Human thinks and God plans. An Arab's intelligence is in his eyes. Arabic In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone. Ignorance Ignorance is the death of the living. Knowledge Forgetting is the plague of knowledge. I have taught you to dive, and now you wish to drown me. The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing. Learning A scholar who does not produce is like a cloud that doesn't rain. Arabic Learning is a treasury whose keys are queries. Lies

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe h im. Lies are the plague of speech. Lying lets you live one night, the truth makes you live forever. Truth builds, lies destroy. Arabic Movement Movement is a blessing.

Mislead The most misled is the one who misleads others. Sufi saying Power Unity is power. A problem is solved when it gets tougher. Proverbs Proverbs are the lamp of speech. Arabic Purity If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too. The purest people are the ones with good manners. Silence If talk is silver then silence is gold. Some silence is more informative than talk. The best medicine for the heart is silence. Arabic Some silence is more informative than talk. Stupidity Stinginess Stupidity is a disease without a medicine. Stinginess demeans the value of man.

The stingy has a big porch and little morality. Success Success depends on a man's reputation, not his soul. Turkish Teaching I taught him archery everyday, and when he got good at it he thr ow an arrow at me. Truth Truth is the salt of mankind. Arabic The image of friendship is truth. Arabic A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. Arabic Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts till the end of time. Arabic Wisdom The wisest is the one who can forgive. Women A single woman destroyed Paradise. Arabic Intelligence is the ornament of every serious woman. Lebanese

A fat woman is a blanket for winter. Even a one eyed guy will wink at a beautiful woman. Work Work is prayer. Arabic

*If you do not drink unclean water several times you will be thirsty, who am ong people ever drinks pure? Arabic Proverb Translation You have to put up with bad times, no one s life is void of bad times. *When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 3 Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 3 Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 3 Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 2 Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the b arriers within yourself that you have built against it. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 2 You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 2 Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside th e tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 1 The lion is most handsome when looking for food. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 1 Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 1 Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 1 Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Thanks! 1 All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Jalal ad-Din Rumi *Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that w ork has been put in every heart.

* In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds * I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to beg in. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sun set *However long the night, the dawn will break. 2. It is not what you are called, but what you answer to. - African Proverb 3. By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. ~ Ugandan Proverb 4. When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sil l. ~Yoruba Proverb 5. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~African Quotes 6. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. 7. To get lost is to learn the way. 8. By crawling a child learns to stand. 9. What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him t o learn. ~African Proverb 10. One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~African Proverb 11. If you close your eyes because of the bad people around you, you will not s ee the good people passing by. 12. The eyes that have seen the ocean cannot be satisfied by a mere lagoon. 13. To try and to fail, is not laziness. 14. Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. 15. It is not work that kills, but worry. 16. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes didn't have tears. 17. We desire to bequest two things to our children -- the first one is roots; the other one is wings. ~Sudanese Proverb 18. Those who accomplish great things pay attention to little ones. - Malawi * * * * * *

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