Ghurbat

Ghurbat maal o dolat se mehroom honay ka naam nahin hai, ghurbat bhari dunya main tanha honay ka naam hai. 

Poverty is not when you have no money, poverty is when in the whole wide world, you're all alone. 

— Dr Amjad Saqib, Akhuwat Foundation 

A bunch of quotes

“In the midst of repeat failure, some self-delusion about your abilities ... comes in handy.” Bill Watterson

"The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or a hostile universe."  Albert Einstein


"It's OK to slip into advocacy now and then, so long as you do it tastefully. If it sounds high- or heavy-handed — or anything like nagging — you're doing it wrong. Just explain why you care about a particular value. The goal isn't to change individual behavior (at least not directly), but rather to cultivate a network effect. And who doesn't like a network effect?
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Perhaps a metaphor will help. Delivering a sermon, I think, is a bit like planting a flag and setting up camp. It's an invitation to others: come, join me, it's safe and friendly around here. One strategy is to settle in with a big camp that will accommodate hundreds (or hundreds of millions) of people. Or maybe you'd prefer to huddle around a small campfire with a few close friends. That's nice too, as long as there's reason to gather.

Where do you want to hang your hat and lay your head? Is it good for others to join you? There's your sermon; let them hear it."
—Kevin Simler

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Archmaester (to Sam): In the Citadel, we lead different lives for different reasons. We are this world's memory, Samwell Tarly. Without us, men would be little better than dogs. Don't remember any meal but the last, can't see forward to any but the next. And every time you leave the house and shut the door, they howl like you're gone forever.

From Game of Thrones – Season 7 Episode 1: ‘Dragonstone’ (7×01)

V for Vendetta

Evey Hammond: I don't even know what you really look like. 
[Evey tries to remove V's mask] 
V: [V stops her] Evey, please. There is a face beneath this mask but it's not me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it or the bones beneath them. 
Evey Hammond: I understand. 
V: Thank you.  

V: The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is that we're both about to die. 
Creedy: How do you imagine that's gonna happen? 
V: With my hands around your neck... 
Creedy: [inhales with hint of fear] Bollocks. Whatcha gonna do, huh? We're swept this place - You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives, and your fancy karate gimmicks... we have *guns* - ! 
V: - Now, what you have are *bullets*, and the hopes that when your guns are empty, I'm no longer standing, because if I am... you'll all be dead before you'll reloaded 

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“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
— General George Patton

Can't shake the career-woman tree and expect a homemaker to fall out.

We value your privacy. The people we sell it to, value it even more.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."

Sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson. But one thing he did say was:

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground."

That's what we're seeing now.

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

–Galileo Galilei

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

—Poster Slogan

Man—despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments—owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child–the most important lesson for every time of life–is this: ‘Never hurt anybody.’

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

–Dr. Wayne Dyer

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

–Booker T. Washington

I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.

—Unknown

Hate is like drinking poison, hoping the other person will die.

–Rev. Marvin Wiley

Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head.

–Esther Lederer

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for that sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

–Carl Sagan

Bookmark? You mean quitter strip?

—Unknown

They condemn what they do not understand.

–Cicero

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

–Oscar Wilde

=CHANGE

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

–Charles Darwin

A bend in the road, is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.

–Helen Keller

I cannot say whether things will get better if they change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

–Georg C. Lichtenberg

=CHARACTER 

Character matters. Researches concerned with academic-achievement gaps have begun to study, with increasing interest and enthusiasm, a set of personal qualities—often referred to as noncognitive skills, or character strengths—that include resilience, conscientiousness, optimism, self-control, and grit. These capacities generally aren’t captured by our ubiquitous standardized tests, but they seem to make a big difference in the academic success of children, especially low-income children.

—Paul Tough

In Japanese schools, the students don’t take any exams until they reach grade four (the age of 10). They just take small tests. It is believed that the goal for the first 3 years of school is not to judge the child’s knowledge or learning, but to establish good manners and to develop their character. Children are taught to respect other people and to be gentle to animals and nature. They also learn how to be generous, compassionate, and empathetic. Besides this, the kids are taught qualities like grit, self-control, and justice.

—novakdjokovicfoundation.org

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

—Malcolm S. Forbes

The 12 Principles of Character: (1) honesty, (2) understanding, (3) compassion and empathy, (4) appreciation, (5) patience, (6) discipline, (7) fortitude, (8) perseverance, (9) humor, (10) humility, (11) generosity, (12) respect.

–Kathryn B. Johnson

Get to know two things about a man—how he earns his money and how he spends it —and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

–Robert James McCracken

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

–Thomas Babington Macaulay

=CHILDREN

Children are the messages we send to a future we will not see.

–Neil Postman

At some point in your life your parents put you down and never picked you up again.

—Unknown

When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. It might be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you.

—Dean Jackson

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

—Albert Einstein

It is as unforgivable to let a student graduate without knowing how to use a computer as it was in the past to let him graduate without knowing how to use a library.

–John Kennedy

I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC.

It plainly marks four my revue

Mistakes I cannot sea.

I’ve run this poem write through it,

I’m shore your pleas too no

It’s letter perfect in it’s weigh,

My checker tolled me sew!

–New York Times

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"He who opens a school, closes a prison" - Victor Hugo


“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person just enough comfort to be themselves." - Atticus Finch



“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” ~Navajo expression

Fast 5 Diet

Manhunt: Unabom

"You're not saving my life Judy, you're saving my body. And you're saving my body by destroying my life's work!"

When you fetishize — as opposed to value — something, you wind up celebrating the idea of the thing rather than the thing itself.

—Jonathan Mahler 

"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.”  - Publiilius Syrus

Give to a gracious message a host of tongues,
but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison

A faith not worth dying for, is not worth living for.

A VISION not worth dying for, is not worth living for.

"A person who has nothing to die for, has nothing to live for." —Martin Luther Kind

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means
to write one story, and writes another; and his hum-
blest hour is when he compares the volume as it is
with what he vowed to make it.”
—J.M. Barrie

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat: Because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which lead-
eth unto life, and few there be that fi nd it.”

—Matthew 7:13-14

Courage Quotes

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. 

Courage means you continue despite the fear. 

Learning Python The Hard Way

A quote from the first page:

As you study this book, and continue with programming, remember that anything worth doing is difficult at first. Maybe you are the kind of person who is afraid of failure so you give up at the first sign of difficulty. Maybe you never learned self-discipline so you can't do anything that's "boring." Maybe you were told that you are "gifted" so you never attempt anything that might make you seem stupid or not a prodigy. Maybe you are competitive and unfairly compare yourself to someone like me who's been programming for more than 20 years.

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit, keep at it. Force yourself. If you run into a Study Drill you can't do, or a lesson you just do not understand, then skip it and come back to it later. Just keep going because with programming there's this very odd thing that happens. At first, you will not understand anything. It'll be weird, just like with learning any human language. You will struggle with words, and not know what symbols are what, and it'll all be very confusing. Then one day BANG your brain will snap and you will suddenly "get it." If you keep doing the exercises and keep trying to understand them, you will get it. You might not be a master coder, but you will at least understand how programming works.

If you give up, you won't ever reach this point. You will hit the first confusing thing (which is everything at first) and then stop. If you keep trying, keep typing it in, trying to understand it and reading about it, you will eventually get it. If you go through this whole book, and you still do not understand how to code, at least you gave it a shot. You can say you tried your best and a little more and it didn't work out, but at least you tried. You can be proud of that.