thought for the day

[nagarifle]

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
— Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th American vice president (1911-1978)

[goodboy_mentor]

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Steve Biko

[goodboy_mentor]

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." - Sally Kempton

[goodboy_mentor]

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin

[brihacharan]

Just like a little cold (water) & heat (iron) can remove the wrinkles from your clothing....
A Cool Mind & a Warm Heart can remove the miseries in everyone's life....
Briha

[spin_drift]

Just like a little cold (water) & heat (iron) can remove the wrinkles from your clothing....
A Cool Mind & a Warm Heart can remove the miseries in everyone's life....
Briha

So can a bazooka...

[brihacharan]

Men & Malt are Best when Single
Briha

[slingshot]

"Back in the late nineties I had the pleasure of strength coaching a seventy-some year-old gentleman named Milton. He had a sparkle in his eye reminiscent of a young boy ready to kick the world’s butt. Milton approached his deadlifts fiercely, ripping 225 off the platform like a bag of groceries the first time I showed him the lift. Guilty of stereotyping, I asked him if he played golf. The young man in an older man’s body gave me a disdainful look and told me that he would take it up when he got old—at ninety or later.

This happened fifteen years ago. Today, golf seems like a hardcore sport. I had a startling revelation—most of the favorite activities of today’s ten, twenty, and thirty-year-olds can be engaged in by folks in nursing homes. In a New Yorker cartoon a boy is playing with his phone and his mother suggests that he go play outside. The boy gives her an amused look: “What is this, 1962?”

Our pear-shaped kids are the reverse of my student Milton—old men and women in young people’s bodies. They bring the timidity of the old age into the age when one is supposed to drink life out of a fire hose. Fighting, loving, climbing trees, lifting kettlebells, throwing knives, making model rockets, running and doing pull-ups before dawn getting ready to join the Marines. Dreaming of Future, Unlimited… Scratch all that in favor of Grand Theft Auto.

Twenty- and thirty-year-olds are equally lame. They walk around like zombies, glazed eyes glued to their prized phones. They cross streets with a nursing home shuffle, infuriating drivers trying to take a turn. They have zero situational awareness and fall prey to any crime or accident. Not long ago, newspapers published a still shot from the security camera that had caught a contract murder in New York City. The image shows the victim in the last seconds of his life, the killer a couple of steps behind him, ready to pull the trigger. What is the man about to die doing?—Walking and fooling around with his phone. What was the last image imprinted on his retina before his status got permanently updated? A photo of somebody’s lunch or a string of semi-coherent LOLs and OMGs?

Go live. There is no app for that." Pavel Tsatsouline - STRONGFIRST

[nagarifle]

No gift is really ours until we have thanked the giver. — Proverb

[nagarifle]

When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical “thank you” to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us. – Michael Josephson

[brihacharan]

I may not have the most beautiful hair and eyes...
prettiest face or even perfect body.....
but I do have a Beautiful Soul and Caring Heart!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Briha

[nagarifle]

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

~Giuseppe Mazzini

[nagarifle]

Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. ~Carl Schurz

[Hammerhead]

[nagarifle]

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner