What is a mother? by Helen Steiner Rice
– Helen Steiner Rice –
Photo: Anke Sundermeier, Promise Yourself, Christian D. Larson
‘Promise Yourself’, also known as ‘The Optimist Creed’, was written by Christian D. Larson. It was originally published in his book “Your Forces and How to Use Them” in 1912. Being one of the pioneers of motivational thought, Larson reasoned that affirmative thought sets in motion unseen forces, both spiritual and psychical, and aids in manifesting our desires. Till this day, “The Optimist Creed” (Promise Yourself) is still often quoted to inspire people around the world. Read more
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at ‘D5: All Things Digital’ conference in Carlsbad, California, in 2007, Photo credit: Wikipedia
Just this week, I received a forwarded WhatsApp message from a group chat attributing to Bill Gates, the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, titled ‘Bill Gates views in what is the Corona/Covid-19 Virus Really Teaching us?’ I remembered the first thing that came across my mind was, ‘Is it really written by Bill Gates?’ With the internet, it is not hard to verify this. From BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation confirmed with them that the Microsoft cofounder did not say these words. Read more
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today, Photo credit: Johannes Plenio
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow … You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you’ll never know.”
You are not everyone’s cup of tea, Photo credit: magaret_1974
Be true to who you are and know…not everyone’s gonna like you. Then again, there are some folks who don’t even like cupcakes. – Karen Salmansohn
Unstoppable Granny Running Full Speed at 81, Photo credit: CNA Insider, Youtube
Pan Shiu-Yu runs the 100 metres in a respectable 15 seconds, just two seconds more than her personal best when she was 13. That was seven decades ago. Now 81, she has barely slowed down. Read more
An Object at Rest, an animation by Seth Boyden
An Object at Rest is an animation that follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennial, facing nature’s greatest obstacle: human civilization. A final thesis film by Seth Boyden at CalArts! Read more