Sunday, January 17, 2021

Words of wisdom together with Beautiful Vintage Rings

 


A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners.      

Virgin Islander (on friendship)


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.      

Chinese Prover


        He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.    Friedrich Nietzsche


Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted. 

     

Lost time is never found again. 



The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.      

Tibetan (on wisdom


o know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.     

Henri Frederic Amiel


One should speak little with others and much with oneself.      


When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.      

Chinese (on wisdom)



I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to.     

Seth Grahame-Smit

A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher

 


My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage.

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.

Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.

Teach him to be gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can – how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.

Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if every one tell him they are wrong.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him to listen to every one, but teach him also to filters all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patient to be brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind, in God.

This is the order, teacher but see what best you can do. He is such a nice little boy and he is my son.

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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Royal and Iconic Wedding Gowns on Display.

 


Queen Victoria. In 1840


Wedding dress of Louise of Sweden, 1850


Katharine Hepburn opted for an unusually ornate gown to say her vows in for her wedding to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928.


Elizabeth Taylor’s first wedding dress from her 1950



Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's wedding dress worn Sept.12, 1953 when she married John F. Kennedy


1st May 1967 Elvis and Priscilla Presley attire


Wallis Simpson married the Duke of Windsor in 1937


Elizabeth II - Wedding Dress





Princess Margaret Wedding Dress


Lady Diana's Wedding Dress









Kate Middleton’s Dress 







Meghan´s Wedding Dress 


 Princess Eugenie





Princess Beatrice's wedding dress loaned to her by the Queen


Grace Kelly Wedding Dress





Princess Madeleine of Sweden Wedding Dress


 Rania al Yassin June 10, 1993


Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece 


Queen Letizia of Spain's wedding dress was designed by Manuel Pertegaz.

Fotografia de Peter Macdiarmid no 
 
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“Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...” ― Sandhya Jane


“I like the woman you became better than the girl you were. I like the story you’ve written on your face”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk


“Aging is the knowledge and maturity is the wisdom”
― J. Tisa


“Aging is the divine and maturity is the blessing”
― J. Nedumaan


“Aging is not the process of making you old and ugly, aging is the process of making you bold and beautiful”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar



“As you grow older; keeping warm becomes more important than looking good.”
― Ulysses Brave


“Old age is meant to slow us down just before the final destination; otherwise reaching the stop would be too abrupt." 
― Lamine Pearlheart


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THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR