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“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life

Hahaha ... I know, I know. When will this ends? LOL. I think my answer would be "Only God knows",  though I really hope you like this series.

In this blog, I am going to dedicate myself on writing the origin of certain expressions and idioms because I really like to read and know the origins of these idioms and expressions.

Did You Know? Series :-

1. Did You Know?

2. Did You Know - Continuation

3. Did You Know - Another Continuation

4. Did You Know - Not Another Continuation!

Did You Know?

1. Red tape

Th

   The Grand Mansion in Kozłówka was built circa 1742 by the Magnate Zamoyiski's family. It is one of the best preserved old mansions in Poland and it is highly ranked in Europe for its original interior decor, stylish furniture and paintings. The Kozłówka village lies some 32km from Lublin and its geographic situation, away from main roads, saved it from serious damage during the two World Wars.

  At the back of the mansion there is a beautiful park with very old trees, lanes, ponds and season g

I was reading this remarkable story about Richard Lee Norris who had "successfully" undergone a complicated face transplant procedure. I thought this story suits this month Writing Challenge : Pretty Paragraph since this is indeed a pretty remarkable story. Please click here to read the full article in Huffington Post UK.

Mr Norris lost most of his upper and lower jaw as well as his lips, teeth and tongue in a gun accident in 1997, and had been living as a recluse after that accident. Though the

What is that to be left, if we, human beings, lost our humanity? 

then what ? don't let the dark side in you control the bright one ,live one life , it's your only one available life ,make it  deserve.

   When saying about Greece what comes to our mind mainly is its rich, wise historic past because of its grand historical figures, like philosophers - Plato, Aristotle and many others. But, we can't forget Greece is too, an exuberant region with landscapes which take our breath way, by the way,landscapes like magazine covers or desktop wallpapers .

   First of all, Greece is a country which takes part of the southern  Europe, and has a temperature that is privileged by a lush vegetation, which ex

About 15 years back, I was occupied in Tea Research; hence, I was lucky enough to enjoy my life in a comfortable environment and to get familiar with a different community living in that part of my country. In fact, we mainly focused our time on research activities and studied many issues related to research work. The majority living in the area is of Tamil origin, but this community is mainly categorized by people in the name of “Indian Tamils.”

A long time ago in the past, Sri Lanka was ruled

Its to hard to learn any other language. Basically i am gujarti, I have no background of education. I mean that i only the boy in my family who right studying in higher eduction. So for me its to hard to learn english language 

In every day, there are some of inventions like , phones, satellite ,internet and some of them give as much as take.
Today I undergo from the vanity and artificiality in our society. The unusual youth`s conduct nowadays are illustrated by triviality of their actions .This is my view of course, so I am just about to highlight some points.
During a discussion between group of younger people and me at a barber’s shop , I am extremely shocked when I see the younger demand from the barber to make the

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The nicest person I've ever seen

How do you feel if you enter a room full of balloons that you can’t be able to even see the person next to you? How do you react if you see your doctor wears a clown outfit while examining you? How do you feel if you go to a hospital, and instead of being afraid, you have to play games, listen to funny jokes, paint or even plant flowers?

All these sound unreal. At least, they

Welcome to this month's writing challenge! Anyone can join. You don't even have to be a member of MyEC. You just need a blog! 

This month we are going to review the importance of paragraphs. A paragraph is a single block of text. It typically focuses on one main idea. A good paragraph size for the web is 3-5 lines.  

Paragraphs are important to readers. They help readers follow a piece of text more easily. It is difficult to read a large amount of text that doesn't contain paragraphs. If your read

Here goes another blog in my "Did You Know?" series. I hope I did not bore you to death yet with this series. LOL.

Did You Know Series :-

1. Did You Know?

2. Did You Know - Continuation

3. Did You Know - Another Continuation

Did you know?

1. Lobsters are immortal 

I have came across this fact when I was researching for my blog Did You Know - Continuation. Did you know that a lobster can replace any of its body parts which make it immortal? LOL. Not really immortal, but it can grows to be 100 years old.

I have posted the same topic in the forum. Therefore, feel free to add in here or in the forum.

Old wives tale

What is the meaning of "old wives' tale"? According to a simple definition it means a belief, usually superstitious or erroneous, passed on by word of mouth as a piece of traditional wisdom.

In nearly every Society, they have their own "old wives' tales" which had been passed down from generations. It doesn't matter if you believed these "old wives' tales" or not, but to read or listen abo

You usually  hear or read a title then search for  suitable links  to see whether this title relevant  to the topic context   or notMany times in newspaper you read a title so far from the topic itself  , you read for example a title ;

 " The  president divorces  his wife "

Then, you become eager to read this interesting news as the title catches your intention  but later on you will discover  a core of this news , it is  a film company will produce a film about  a president  who divorces his wife

Good afternoon everyone!

When I started to learn English I was a kid and the only motive that I had was to have fun trying to identify words in a different language and create codes with my friends in order not to be understood by some mean kids that bullied us. 

After some time, I wanted to learn English for having good grades at school. English in my country is an obligatory subject since primary school and everyone has to study. The issue is that the classes are so structural that everyone is a

Nowadays the results of examinations have been declared in Iraq.At every end of every year , Ziad prepares some presents to successful students of his neighbors who pass the exams successfully and promote to new classes, because he loves to see happiness in kids’ faces .He is loved by children and teenagers alike.

He declared , today was the time of presents. Children gathered in queue to receive their gifts. He gave the first child his gift and reached the last one . All children were so gratefu

Answer: During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and

Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their l

My friend Sima's love story of Shirin and Farhad had aspired me to write this story. The Legend of Mahsuri is a famous Malay legend which had been told and retold countless times and became a myth. I never read any of English version of this story, if any. I'm writing this story after gathering information from various local sources and trying my best to stay true to the legend.

Mahsuri - The Legend

According to the legend, Mahsuri was a beautiful Malay lady who lived in Padang Matsirat, Langkawi

 I know most of us have some disbelief in this major  web-encyclopedia, but, calm, don't overdo it! I can list some steps which you can follow to assure you're extracting a secure-source web material ; )

1 - Pay attention in the source(s) of the article(s);

  First, look at if the article which you are acessing is provided by more than one source or not. If it has just one source, beware it cannot be a good option to extract informations from it to your school, college work;

2 - Verify the external