Quotes About Faith--A Quotes Of Life

Quotes About Faith

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” 

― C.S. Lewis

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.

"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” 

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” 

― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” 

― John Lennon

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” 

― Jon Katz

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.” 

― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.” 

― Greg Behrendt

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 

― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” 

― Elbert Hubbard

“And still, after all this time,

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe Me."

Look what happens with

A love like that,

It lights the Whole Sky.” 

― Hafez

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” 

― Corrie ten Boom

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” 

― Søren Kierkegaard

Quotes About Not Giving Up Staying Strong--A Quotes Of Life

Quotes About Not Giving Up Staying Strong

“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”

– Author Unknown

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas Edison

“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.”

– Thomas Edison

“I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

– Thomas Edison

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

– George Eliot

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

– Zig Ziglar

“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”

– Sugar Ray Robinson

“It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.”

– Unknown

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

– Jane Addams

“The day you give up on your dreams is the day you give up on yourself.”

– Author Unknown

“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

– Conrad Hilton

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

– Bill Cosby

“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

– Charlie Jones24

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

– Japanese Proverb

Encouraging Quotes--A Quotes Of Life

Encouraging Quotes

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

– Stephen King

ralph_emerson_encouragement_quote“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

– Ralph Emerson

tony_robbins_encouragement_quote”In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

– Tony Robbins

”Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

– Japanese Proverb

jerome_fleishman_encouragement_quote“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. “

– Jerome Fleishman

author_unknown_encouragement_quote“When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. ~Author Unknown”

– Unknown

edmund_hillary_encouragement_quote“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. “

– Edmund Hillary

garrison_keillor_encouragement_quote“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. “

– Garrison Keillor

friedrich_nietzsche_encouragement_quote“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.“

– Friedrich Nietzsche

jfk_encouragement_quote“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. “

– JFK

edwin_markham_encouragement_quote“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. “

– Edwin Markham

unknown_encouragement_quote“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. “

– Unknown

washington_irving_encouragement_quote“There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. “

– Washington Irving

henry_beecher_encouragement_quote“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. “

-Henry Beecher

rainer_rilke_encouragement_quote“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. “

– Rainer Rilke

ralph_emerson_encouragement_quote“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

– Ralph Emerson

tony_robbins_encouragement_quote”In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

– Tony Robbins

”Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

– Japanese Proverb

jerome_fleishman_encouragement_quote“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. “

– Jerome Fleishman

author_unknown_encouragement_quote“When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. ~Author Unknown”

– Unknown

edmund_hillary_encouragement_quote“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. “

– Edmund Hillary

garrison_keillor_encouragement_quote“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. “

– Garrison Keillor

friedrich_nietzsche_encouragement_quote“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.“

– Friedrich Nietzsche

jfk_encouragement_quote“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. “

– JFK

edwin_markham_encouragement_quote“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. “

– Edwin Markham

unknown_encouragement_quote“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. “

– Unknown

washington_irving_encouragement_quote“There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. “

– Washington Irving

henry_beecher_encouragement_quote“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. “

-Henry Beecher

rainer_rilke_encouragement_quote“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. “

– Rainer Rilke

Super Powers--Funny Jokes Of The Day

Super Powers

 I wish I had some superpowers. I was thinking about that the other day. Maybe quit comedy, fight some crime. Everybody wants to fly. That's the number one power. 

If I could grant you a power, "Dane, I'd love to fly." Yeah? Who the f**k doesn't? Who doesn't want to leave the show tonight and be like, 

"Alright I'll catch you guys later." Shwwooosh and zip up into the skies. "I can show you the world. Shining, shimmering splendor." 

You know what I'd like to be able to do more than anything else? I'd love to be able to shoot spaghetti out of my fingertips. Pppptthhh! Cause no one wants to be covered in spaghetti. No. If I'm on a date with a girl and she's very rude, I'd be like, 

"You know what?" Pppptthhh! "Enjoy your spaghetti, you're very rude. Enjoy your spaghetti, cause you're rude." Pppptthhh! These are all dreams. 

These are all things we want to have. (to man in audience) If I could grant you a power, any power, what would you want? Anything right now? "Dah, Jesus." You want to be Jesus? God you're such an egotistical prick. 

He thinks he's Jesus. Ah, Jesus. I'd love to cover him with spaghetti right now. Pppptthhh! Enjoy your spaghetti, you're very egotistical. Ahhh, Christ. Not you. I'd love to shoot a laser out of my c**k. And when I'm empty my balls glow. Low fuel, balls are empty. 

Jawaharlal Nehru--A Quotes Of Life

Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

the stacks

Klondike solitaire turn one is a game that precedes its computer version, and that means that all the cards are truly shuffled, without the computer peeking in to verify the game is solvable.

And like McKay mentioned, with a random shuffle you can definitely end up with an unsolvable game.

I'm sure it is possible to design a Solitaire variant in which each game is solvable, though.

Literally just played a game in which one of the stacks (the one containing 4 cards) was lead by the 9 of diamonds, and the cards inside of it were the King of Spades, the 5 of diamonds, the 10 of spades, and the 10 of clubs (I know this because I had the entire field solved except for this stack and used process of elimination). As far as I can see this makes the game impossible. I have a 9 of diamonds in which can never be moved, as the two 10s that it's eligible to rest upon are trapped underneath it in the stack face down. Attempting to get rid of the 9 by moving it to the diamond stack would also be fruitless, as the 5 of diamonds is stuck underneath it too. Unless someone can tell me some way that this could be solved, I'm pretty darned certain that if a card that is leading a stack is covering a stack that contains the two cards it is capable of resting on, and a lower number of it's own suit, then the game is made impossible right from the get-go.

However, if you started a list and enumerated the initial conditions -- I feel like I've seen this on a linux version of Solitare: the numbering of deck order, that is -- and you definitively decide a certain one is un-winnable, you then could compare notes across nodes (share with friends) and VOILA: a list of un-winnable starting deck stacks.

I've been starting to think the Windows 7 version has the un-winnable decks removed, ... I don't know, it's a little heavy-handed and smug about the statistics.

solitaire player

The game's continued pre-eminence is a remarkable feat—it's something akin to living in a universe in which Pong were the most-popular title for PlayStation 3. One reason solitaire endures is its predictability. The gameplay and aesthetic have remained remarkably stable; a visitor from the year 1990 could play the latest Windows version without a glitch, at least if he could figure out how to use the Start menu. It also remains one of the very few computer programs, game or nongame, that old people can predictably navigate. Brad Fregger, the developer of Klondike solitaire turn one, the first commercial solitaire game for the Macintosh and the PC, told me that his 89-year-old mother still calls regularly to brag about her high scores.

The game has also maintained a strong foothold in the modern-day cubicle. Despite the easy availability of other cheap amusements, five minutes of dragging cards around on the screen remains a speedy route to mental health and a mild form of workplace disobedience. (Just don't do it when Mayor Bloomberg is around.) Since solitaire doesn't take up the whole screen, it's easy to click over and play a hand or two when you get tired of data entry, then quickly toggle back over to your database program when your manager happens to walk by. This sort of multitasking, the ability to minimize and hide applications, is the most essential feature of the Windows OS. And solitaire taught us how to use it.

The ability to screw around while staring at one's computer—a posture once exclusively associated with doing work—added new friction to the boss-employee dynamic. While people screwed around at work before computers—what did they do exactly, those poor souls?—the advent of PC-based leisure pursuits launched a national conversation about how much screwing around is too much. By the early 1990s, companies like Coca-Cola, Sears, and Boeing either removed Windows' preinstalled games or enacted bans on engaging with them. In 1993, a travel agency executive educated Business Week on the prevailing wisdom: "If you let people play games on [office computers], you may as well let them insert a TV-reception board so they can watch The Beverly Hillbillies." (For his sake, I hope this guy retired before they invented YouTube.)

Despite all of these upper-management freakouts—and despite regular, bogus productivity studies that estimated solitaire and its ilk draining $800 trillion dollars a year from the economy—you could make the case that the card game has actually been good for business. Before e-mail and the Web, solitaire introduced the idea of being chained to your desk. Consider that the rise of FreeCell coincided with the erosion of coffee breaks, cigarette breaks, and lunch breaks. Why leave the office when you can just eat at your desk and entertain yourself?

For the goal-oriented solitaire player, the entertainment value comes in pushing for the game's outer limits: a new high score in Klondike, a record FreeCell winning streak. It's this sort of private record-keeping that brings on the game's addictive properties. Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, opened the first clinic for computer addiction in 1996. Her inspiration: becoming obsessed with beating her personal solitaire scoring record. "I kept playing solitaire more and more," she wrote in a 2006 Washington Post chat, "my late husband would find me asleep at the computer. I was missing deadlines. I knew something had to be done."