Spank no lady
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children
If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice.
If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees.
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children.
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It’s a dog eat dog world
I come from Lebanon and the dog eat dog mentality is what I have experienced all my life.
I don’t know why, but for some reason I was different than others. I never liked or participated in the dog eat dog mentality. I was always honest even though people would most often take my fair share of things because of that. Eventually, as life wished it, I managed to leave Lebanon and live in a better country that is not rampant with cheating, bribing and corruption.
In my home country, politicians and people in power steal from the poor instead of helping them. The whole country is ran like a family business where the politicians pass the chairs down from father to son.
Due to scarcity, even the people started to adopt the mentality: “Me first, others later”. Eventually, they started cheating on each others. A famous song by Ghassan El Rahbani (in Arabic), describing the whole situation in Lebanon. Lebanon is not unique in that aspect. Probably other third world countries thrive with this mentality as well. Continue reading “It’s a dog eat dog world”
Interesting chart
When man got afraid
- When man got afraid
- When he got afraid from darkness, he invented electricity
- When he got afraid from cold, he invented clothing
- When he got afraid from thirst, he dug wells
- When he got afraid from disease, he invented medicine
- When he got afraid of fire, he invented the fire extinguisher
- When he got afraid from loneliness, he invented the television
- When he got very bored, he invented social media
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54 sayings about life and relationships
- First learn to listen, second learn to judge
- Nature gave man two ears and one mouth so that we listen more than we talk
- The treasures of the thieves goes back to the kings
- Do not offer salt or advise to those who never asked for it
- One hundred washes do not make the coal white again
- The tired can sleep on a pillow made of rock and can find rest. The lazy sleeps on a feather pillow and can’t find rest
- If you were right then no need to raise your voice
- Do not befriend those who are shy to announce your friendship
- The origin of all good is knowledge and justice, but the origin of all evil is ignorance and darkness
- A Tyrant cuts the tree to get the fruit
- During the storm, the fishermen befriend each other
- When the eagle is sad, he calls the owl “my brother”
- One cannot argue when it comes to colors and taste
- He who asks for a friend without a flaw, remains a person without a friend
- He who helps others so people can see him, cannot help anybody behind the scenes.
- A 1000 miles trips start with a single step
- Like the water flows back to the ocean, so good deeds go back to the benevolent
- It is easy to be a human being, but it is hard to be a man
- Success is a ladder that you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets
- A small hut to laugh with family and friends is better than a castle where we are lonely and sad
- After a good meal, have a nap. After a good dinner take 40 steps
- There’s nothing in life to be afraid from, but there are plenty of things worth understanding
- Water can wash away almost everything except for a bad tongue
- Duties are ligther than a feather but heavier than a mountain
- Keeping the head is better than keeping the hat
- The home is turned upside down when the cock is silenced and the chicken starts singing
- A hand washes the other hand, but both hands wash the face
- Do not spend a big part of the discussion talking about yourself and life with acquaintances, instead ask about them and their lives
- When there’s so many captains, the ship sinks
- If you do good to others, make sure you don’t mention that. If others do good to you, make sure you remember their favor.
- Do good to your friends so they appreciate you more. Do good to your enemies so they become your friends.
- Justice sleeps sometimes, but it never dies
- To become a master, first you have to become a servant
- The man loved most the things denied to him
- My advise to you is to get married: if you find a good woman, you will have a happy life. If you find a bad woman, then you will become a philosopher
- We are all born crazy, except that some stay crazy.
- If a woman speaks, then shut up. If she stops, then talk. You better not talk.
- Marriage is our last chance for us to grow up
- It is not the lack of love that makes a marriage miserable, but it is the lack of friendship in marriage
- Love: a temporary insanity that can be cured with marriage
- Two roosters were living in harmony until the chicken showed up
- Banging the head into the wall brings nothing but swelling
- If you saw your neighbor’s beard catching fire, go and wet yours
- A bad knife cuts a finger but not wood
- A book is a good friend, but unfortunately, its only defect is that it is bought with money
- Forgive your enemies but never forget their names
- One man in the house is better than ten in the street
- A man falls in love with through his eyes and the woman through her ears
- A man cannot live because of beauty, but is ready to sacrifice himself for beauty
- The mother spends twenty years to make her boy a man, till another woman makes her son a fool in twenty minutes
- Sorrow can be a bridge to happiness
- He who could not stand being taught for one hour, stays ignorant for ever
- Do not become curious about other people’s business lest you hear what you don’t like.
- We can understand life if we looked into the past, but we cannot live fully unless we look forward
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