Jabez

Special

 Lessons

SILENCE

spiritual LEADERS

DALAI LAMA

scentific

government

Lesson 1 about books

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the misery of life- Somerset

You cannot open a book without learning something.- Confucious

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have 1 book- what would it be? I always say” How to build a boat”.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.- Martin Tupper

A room without book is like a body without soul.- Cicero

Learning is weightless,  a treasure you can always carry.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go- Seuss

Literature is a luxury , fiction is a necessity. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We read to know we are not alone.- CS Lewis

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.- Simone Weil

Books are not make for furniture, but there is nothing else so beautifully furnishes a house.- Henry W B

Good friends, good books and  sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life.

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend, inside of the dog, it is too dark to read.

Nothing in life is to be feared- it is only to be understood.- Marie Curie

What is a book – everything or nothing – the eyes see it all.- Ralph Emerson

Imagination  is more important than knowledge.

There is more treasure in books than in all pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

If you want to have creative children/ workers – give them enough time to play.- John Cheese

SILENCE

"Silence is more musical than any song."

Christina Rossetti

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

William Penn

"Silence is a text easy to misread."

A. A. Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

Kahlil Gibran

"Oppression can only survive through silence."

Carmen de Monteflores

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."

Mahatma Gandhi

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

John, Lord Morley

"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful."

Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."

Robert Fripp

"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."

Saadi

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."

Tom Blair

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

Cato

"The unspoken word never does harm."

Kossuth

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Pythagoras

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Edith Sitwell

"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."

Peter Minard

Lesson 2 famous quotes

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

 "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

- George Eliot (1819-1880)

 "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

 "Black holes are where God divided by zero."

- Steven Wright

 "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

 "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."

- Vince Lombardi

 "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

- James Branch Cabell

 "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

 "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

 "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

 "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

- Umberto Eco

 "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."

- Jimmy Durante

 "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

 "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

 "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."

- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)

 "There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet."

- Randy Pausch (1960-)

 "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

 "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

 "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

 "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

- Frank Zappa

 "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint Exupery

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."

- G. B. Burgin

 "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

 "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

- Jimi Hendrix

 "A clever man commits no minor blunders."

- Goethe (1749-1832)

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

- Richard Bach

"A witty saying proves nothing."

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."

- James Stephens (1882-1950)

 "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."

- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

 "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant

 "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

 "It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."

- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

 "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

 "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

 "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)   

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."

- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

 "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

 "Luck is the residue of design."

- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)  

"Wit is educated insolence."

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

 "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)  

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)  

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."

- Gore Vidal  

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."

- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

 "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

 "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"

- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

 "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

 "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

 "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

- W.B. Prescott

 "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

 "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."

- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

 "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

- C. A. R. Hoare

 "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

 "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

 "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

 "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)  

"Logic is in the eye of the logician."

- Gloria Steinem

 "No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

 "Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

 "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

 "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."

- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

 "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)  

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

- Goethe (1749-1832)

Lesson 3  QUOTATIONS  BY SUBJECT   

Quotations By Subject

Lesson 4    SPIRITUAL

DALAI  LAMA

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
 
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
 
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Sleep is the best meditation.
 
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
 
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
 
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
 
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
 
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
 

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing - God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

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

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Peace begins with a smile.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

 
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
 

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
 

Lesson 5 SCIENTIFIC

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

 

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

God always takes the simplest way.

God does not play dice.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Lesson 6    GOVERNMENT   

Lesson 8    TBA

Lesson 10   TBA