Peshawar Attack: A Letter from 8-year old Bilal to his Mother

Unbelievable how anyone who calls themselves human in the name of God or Allah can do this. We consider children as God himself and they killed God taking his name feeling no remorse and taking pride in their act. Hope they rot in hell.

Syed Ammar memoirs

It was a bright and a very beautiful morning in the city of Peshawar. The mid-december brought with it really cold weather. The usual morning rush hour had started. Little kids carrying school bags which were bigger and heavier than themselves were coming out of their houses. They looked funny but cute. All the kids were wearing those warm woollen hats, gloves and warm jackets.  Some were waiting for their vans alongside their parents and crying too. The mothers were , as always, persuading their kids to go to school. Their usual comforting line would be,” Beta, it’s gonna be fun, you’ll enjoy with your friends at your school, and while returning I shall prepare for you a delicious meal.” Some kids were comforted by this, while others were not. Everything seemed completely calm. The Warsak Street was filled with little and big feets making there way to their school…

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Everything is beautiful depending on the “Situation”.

A school bell sounds irritating at 9 a.m.
But the same sounds melodious at 4 p.m.

Life must be lived as play. – Plato

Go out, go out I beg of you
And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth
With all the wonder of a child.

Author: Edna Jaques

A baby is God’s way of saying that life goes on. –Carl-Sandburg

Soft kitty,

Warm kitty,

Little ball of fur.

Happy kitty,

Sleepy kitty,

Purr Purr Purr

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” ― Walt Whitman

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

 

 

 

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as to your fears. – Richard Wilkins

“Some days are much darker than others, but a bright one is always around the corner.”

“As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you truly own yourself.” – Neale Donald Walsch

The soul knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

The lifestyle of good people is like sunlight at dawn that keeps getting brighter until broad daylight…The Bible

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis,

Standing alone doesn’t mean I m alone, it means I’m strong enough to handle things all by myself.

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” — Hans F. Hansen

Nothing is old, nothing is new, it is just a matter of your point of view. Enjoy the life as happy days are few, because if life is ocean then happy moments are like dew.

Hope this New Year is Life-changing, world-shaping, wonderful, purposeful, awe-inspiring, incredible, fantastic, magnificent, extraordinary, blessed, thrilling, blissful, grace-filled, jubilant, delicious, unbelievable, astonishing, mind-blowing, spectacular, and ridiculously happy

You are a dreamer, and you are an achiever. May you dream and achieve bigger feats, with every passing year. All the best for the new year.

‘Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering‘. Paulo Coelho

The hardest part of moving on is not looking back at the memories you once shared with someone.

“Sometimes we are only given a few minutes to be with the one we love, and a thousand hours to spend thinking of them….!”

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner

Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to be put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.–: Norman W. Brooks

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher

I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what is going on in my life right now.

Life isn’t about finding yourself, Life is about Creating yourself.

In childhood, we cry loudly to get what we LIKE….But, when we grow up, we cry silently to forget what we LIKE …That’s Life!!

Never blame anyone in your Life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give you Experience. Worst people give you a Lesson & Best people give you memories.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” —Gilda Radner

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It’s the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here’s a happy one for you.
~Dale Evans

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” Henry Rollins

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” John Lubbock

That the days of thy lot may be lengthened bel
And the fame of thy worth like a pumpkin-vine grow,
And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset sky
Golden-tinted and fair as thy own Pumpkin pie!..John Greenleaf Whittier – The Pumpkin

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.Charles Dickens

 

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives–all bear secret relations to our destinies.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoires D’outre Tombe

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Stephen Hawking

“Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.”
― John Hodgman, That is All

Lucky means who get the opportunity. Brilliant means who create the opportunity. Winner means who use the opportunity. Be a winner always.

“If you miss an opportunity
don’t fill your eyes with tears.
It may hide yet another opportunity
lying in front of you”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ― Charles Darwin

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself. (Rumi)

Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain, teardrops and laughter, pleasure and pain. Just remember, there was never a cloud that the sun couldn’t shine through.

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”― J.M. Barrie

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn. – Umberto Eco

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
-John Burroughs