We need four hugs a day for survival, eight hugs a day for maintenance, and twelve hugs a day for growth.Virginia Satir***No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.St. Thomas Aquinas***You must give time to your fellow men - even if it's a little thing.Albert Schweitzer***Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.Ralph Waldo Trine***Dignity and humility are the cornerstones of compassion.Theodore Isaac Rubin***
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Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house.Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next - door neighbor....Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.Mother Teresa********Everybody can be great.You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.Martin Luther***********Love cures people- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Karl Menninger
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The Tet Nguyen Dan( Festival of the First Day) announces the Lunar New Year and is the most important date in the Vietnamese festival calendar.Commonly knows as Tet, it is much more than your average Gregorian New Year's celebration;It's a time when family reunite in the hope of good fortune for the coming year, and ancestral spirits are welcome back into the family home. and Tet is everybody's birthday; on this day everyone become one year older.The festival falls sometimes between 19 January and 20 february on the Western calendar, the same time as Chinese New Year. The exact dates vary from year to year due to differences between the lunar and solar calendars. New Year's Day will fall on the following dates:9 February 2005, 29 January 2006 and 18 February 2007.The first three days after New Year's Day are the official holidays but many people take the whole week off, particularly in the south.Tet rites begin seven days before New Year's Day. This is when the Tao Quan- the three spirits of the Hearth, found in the kitchen of every home- ascend to the heavens to report on the past year's events to the Jade Emperor. Often these kitchen gods are described as a single person and may be called Ong Tao, Ong Lo or Ong Vua Bep.The tao Quan ride fish on their journey to heaven, so on this day people all over Viet Nam release live carp into rivers and lakes. Altars, laden with offerings of foo, fresh water, flowers, betel and live carp for celestial transport, are assembled in preparation for the god's departure, all in the hope of receiving a favourable report and ensuring good luck for the family in the coming year.Other rituals performed during the week before Tet include visiting cemesteries and inviting the spirits of dead relatives home for celebrations. Absent family members start to make their way home so that the whole family can celebrate Tet under the same roof. All loose ens are tied up so that the new year can be started with a clean slate; debts are paid and evrything is cleaned, including ancestors'graves.( Nick Ray)
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Nasreddin woke up in the middle of the the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house. "That is athief!" he thought, and he took his gun and shot at him. Then he went back to bed, because he was too frightened to go out of the house in the dark.The next morning Narseddin went out and saw one of his white shirts hanging on the clothes-line in the garden. His wife had washed it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet-hole right through the middle of it."My God," said Nasreddin, "I was lucky last night. If I had been wearing that shirt, the bullet would have killed me!" And he called his neighbours together and asked them to thank God for saving him.
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If we have money we can ....buy a house, but can not buy a happy familybuy a watch, but can not buy timebuy a bed, but can not buy a deep sleepbuy a book, but can not buy knowledge*****go to see doctor, but can not buy a good healthbuy a high position in society, but can not buy respectbuy blood, but can not buy the lifebuy a person, but can not buy his love.*****So Shiva, which is more important money or sastification?
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Nasreddin's wife was very ill, and at last she died. After a few months, he married again. His new wife was a widow.Exactly seven days after he married her, she had a baby.Nasreddin at once hurried a way to the market and bought some paper, some pencils, some pems and some children's books. Then he hurried back home again with these things and put them beside the baby. His new wife was surprised."What are you doing?" she said. " The baby won't be able to use those things for a long time. Why are you in such a hurry?"Nasreddin answered," You are quite wrong, my dear. Our baby is not an ordinary baby. It came in seven days instead of nine months, so it will certainly be ready to learn to rea and write in a few weeks from now."
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Nasreddin was cutting a branch of a tree in his garden. While he was sawing, another man passed in the street. He stopped and said, " Excuse me, but if you continue to saw that branch like that, you will fall down with it." He said this because Nasreddin was sitting on the branch and cutting it at a place between himself ad the trunk of the tree.Nasreddin said nothing. He thought, " This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people wat to do an what not to do."The man continued on his way.Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasreddin fell with it."My God!" he cried. " That man knows the future!" and he ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man has gone.
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