• adulthood is commonly thought of as beginning at age 20/21; middle age commences at about 40 and old age at about 60
• adults asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up, because they are looking for ideas
• Society should see the need for education of every age, including adults.
• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
• If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. (Rachel Carson)
• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. (W.S. Landor)
• Historically, adulthood began with puberty. Now there is biological adulthood and social adulthood.
• A new period of life is emerging in which young people are no longer adolescents but not yet adults.
• an adult-sized tree house
• a child’s access to interesting adult conversations
• We all start adult life with an eagle and a dove inside us. The eagle is strong and decisive; the dove is peaceful and nurturing. As we grow in maturity, the two birds coalesce into one. We can act decisively with kindness, we can show strength and gentleness simultaneously. Keep your eagle compassionate and your dove fearless.

• discovering your adolescent belongings in a box in the attic
• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (Earl Wilson)
• From a biological perspective, adolescence should be the best time of life. Most physical and mental functions are at their peak. It is the time when foods taste best, appetite is heartiest, sleep is sweetest, and music is most seductive.
• Studies say teens fully recover from bad moods in about half the time it takes adults to do so.
• Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) was still a teenager when he set out to conquer a large part of the known world. As an adolescent, Bill Gates was already formulating the business strategy that became Microsoft Corporation.
• Adolescents who develop a relationship with an adult role model are more successful in coping with the everyday stresses of life.
• adolescence is from Latin adolescere ‘to grow up’
• For teenagers, it is important to show parents how your choices make you happy. If you make choices that reveal a deep sense of ease and happiness, then parents will see this and be more inclined to accept your choices. You will impress your parents with your maturity.
• Here are five precepts for living that will help: 1) try not to harm things needlessly, 2) try not to take what is not yours, 3) try not to engage in harmful sex, 4) try not to lie or harm through words, 5) try not to harm oneself with substances
• having a list of 100 things to do when there’s nothing to do (The Book of Lists for Teens)
• things to save or put in your scrapbook

• secret admirers
• obtaining the autograph of the person you most admire
• the quality of life you admire
• Admire and be transformed.
• Cultivate secret virtues - to be sure that your motives are free of any wish to be admired
• Few men have been admired by their own domestics. (Montaigne)
• We always like those who admire us. (Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld)
• The good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. (Francis Bacon)
• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. (T. Gautier)
• Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases. (Samuel Johnson)
• Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Alexander Pope)

• adjectives have no inflections aside from the determiners
• qualities can be broadly classified as abstract, comparative, or physical
• when you want to give more information about something than you can give by using a noun alone, you can use an adjective to identify it or describe it in more detail
• an adjective is used either before a noun or after a link verb and it is either qualitative (happy, intelligent) or classifying (financial intellectual)
• adverbs describe the manner in which things are done: time, frequency, duration; place; manner/how/circumstances; degree; focusing; linking; negative
• the top 20 most frequent adjectives, adverbs
• the endings -er and -est denote degrees of comparison and are regarded as noninflectional suffixes (English is the only European language to employ uninflected adjectives)
• adjectives and adverbs can function as nouns or verbs and adverbs can function as adjectives
• The order in multiple attribution tends to be as follows: determiner, quantifier, adjective of quality; adjective of size, shape, or texture; adjective of color or material; noun adjunct (if any, head noun <that one solid, round, oak dining table>)
• Adverbs are more mobile than adjectives.

• there is a physical aspect to thought and a mental aspect to action
• use red liberally in rooms with lots of activity to promote passion
• Learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose (Mahatma Gandhi)
• positive results stem from a combination of physical activity and mental calmness, as in gigong or yoga
• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. (M. Graham)
• actions can be classified as: Cognitive, Communicative, General, Motion, or Physical
• fields of human activity: agriculture, the arts, communications, education, entertainment, family, government and politics, health, legal, military, monetary/financial affairs, professions, recreation, religion, sex and reproduction, social interactions
• activities for each season - spring, summer, fall, winter

• acting, the ability to react to imaginary stimuli, has been described as an extreme sensibility and a profound intelligence.
• the actor is forever carving a statue of snow (Lawrence Barrett, 19th century)
• the actor is at once the piano and the pianist
• in acting, the famous paradox described by Diderot is that in order to move the audience the actor himself must remain unmoved
• actors often experience those flashes of intuition or inspiration that stimulate the imagination and turn something that one understands with the mind into an emotional reality and experience
• The actor can be called an athlete of the heart
• The more an actor learns to master concentration, the more aware he becomes
• The beats are the smallest units of dramatic action into which each role may be divided
• Charlie Chaplin ranks as one of the greatest actors of all time in any medium
• using pantomimes to dramatize specific physical actions, which also require imagination on the part of the actor; the size, shape, texture, and temperature of imaginary properties must be realized and projected
• improvisation really tests an actor’s imagination - choose one action, one character, and one location - and create an improvised scene
• every actor must make his/her voice adequate to the demands placed on it in any given role; articulation exercises focus on problems frequently found and the demands on vocal resources including variety, phrasing, emphasis, and dramatic pointing
• what one is striving for is scintillating and seemingly effortless delivery
• the lingo and slang of the theater and film, like: best boy, clapper/loader, dolly grip, Foley editor, gaffer, catwalk, flats, flies, Fresnel lights, gobo, props, scrim, and wings
• Hamlet’s soliloquy

• studying the Tao to achieve effortless simplicity and freedom from desire
• facing discomfort greeting it, and going with it until it matures into accomplishment, pride, and satisfaction
• the ultimate goal of the yogi being to help others achieve their own experience of truth
• big things can only be achieved by attending to small details
• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. (Edmund Hillary)
• To go for the Guinness Book of World Records, you have to get in touch with then first, using their online application. Tell them as much as you can about what you want to achieve and then they will consider it and get back to you with the rules and guidelines to follow.
• a three-week master plan to 1) increase your reading speed, 2) boost your memory, and 3) improve your speaking and writing abilities
• Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Book of the Year with all the major accomplishments and achievements
• Ben Franklin’s accomplishments
• Individuals can accomplish at various levels - at the level of survival, growth, development, and evolution. An individual’s abilities to accomplish are determined by his capacities and character, which are made up of his skills, knowledge, attitudes, energies, attributes, endowments, and personal values. There are a number of factors within these categories that determine this capacities and character. The final outcome to whether or not one accomplishes is also reflected in the operations and undercurrent of forces that are subconscious to most humans. These include “life responses” and other hidden patterns and processes that seem to circumvent time and space and all sense of normal logic. Like the attempt to understand the mechanics of quantum physics if understood these secret patterns of life could reveal the ultimate mystery to endless accomplishment in life.
• Those who respond positively to significant opportunities can catch the wave of great accomplishment in life. Those who are indifferent or ignore those opportunities are left behind. If an individual doesn’t initially respond fully to the great opportunity, he may past through a number of stages of reaction until he embraces the opportunity. This process can be a difficult one, yet may be matched by a process of growth and personal evolution.

• Zen teaching perfect freedom to accept or reject without compulsion or remorse
• a resolution to accept yourself
• being as calmly tolerant as a potato field in the sun
• being able to accept help in time of need
• when you have amazing tolerance with something that previously you have had little or no tolerance for
• those who accept that they cannot fix, change, or do everything
• To say we love someone is not enough, we also need to be tolerant and respectful.
• The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. (Shunryu Suzuki)
• A Zen-like concept is to walk a mile in another person’s shoes. Whenever you catch yourself making “us and them” distinctions, spend a moment “being” the other person. Find yourself in him or her. It may change your perspective and help you find tolerance, even compassion, toward someone you didn’t understand.
• learning to accept what happens, through meditation
• Make yourself such that you can tolerate anything. Let yourself be impervious to suffering.
• teenagers who know it is important to show parents how their choices make them happy; if they make choices that reveal a deep sense of ease and happiness, then parents will see this and be more inclined to accept their choices
• The antidote to hatred is tolerance. Tolerance enables one to refrain from acting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. Tolerance protects you from being conquered by hatred.
• Hope for the best, shoot for the best, expect the best, and accept whatever comes.
• Happiness, then, is the confidence that pain and disappointment can be tolerated, that love will prove stronger than aggression. It is release from the attachment to pleasant feelings, and faith in the capacity of awareness to guide us through the inevitable insults to our own narcissism. It is the realization that we do not have to be so self-obsessed, that within our own minds lies the capacity for a kind of acceptance we had only dreamed of.
• If you are about to complain about the temperature, stop. When cold, be thoroughly cold. When hot, be thoroughly hot. Be one with the environment. Accept it.
• Let things be as they are and accept all that you like and dislike with equanimity. true generosity is the ability to tolerate ingratitude
• Be at peace, neither pulling anything to you nor pushing anything away. When you do not want things to be a certain way, what difficulties are there?
• You need to work at being non-judgmental, more patient, more accepting. See and accept people for who they actually are.
• 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.
• having experience in accepting ourselves, we can extend compassion and tolerance to others
• Only by acceptance of the past can you change it.
• Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (George Orwell)
• The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller)
• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. (Benjamin Franklin)
• not lying, criticizing, hurting with words; not indulging in lies, gossip, or other thoughtless talk
• Wise speech has the power to heal division, to foster love and trust, and to lead to intimacy.
• Take one aspect of Right Speech and practice it for a week: abstain from lying, abstain from speaking without care, abstain from gossiping in a way that creates negative energy, then continue with the others. How does each one feel? Can you work with patience and perseverance in these areas?
• Wise speech is a careful blend of cultivation and restraint. You cultivate speech that is truthful, helpful, kind, and leads to harmony or healing. You restrain from words of harshness, divisiveness, and dishonesty.
• speaking only what is true and useful; speaking wisely, responsibly, appropriately
• Wise speech is founded upon your capacity to listen wholeheartedly.
• Right speech is in some way compassionate or kind or useful to someone.
• To understand wise speech is a gift and it calls for immense mindfulness to know when to speak, when to be silent, how to speak words that touch the heart of another, and how to listen.
• Employing the precept of Right Speech means undertaking a path with heart, realizing how precious this life is.
• Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. (Buddha)
• be aware of how you actually use the energy of your words
• Speak when you are angry - and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. (Dr. Laurence J. Peter)
• Listening can be a compassionate, loving form of right speech.
• We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. (proverb)
• Someone who regularly practices right speech develops integrity, character, and self-respect, and these qualities give their speech and even their silence a certain power that cannot be measured but is felt.

♥♥♥

He asked me which was the most important.

I said LIVE because if I don’t LIVE, I can’t LAUGH and LOVE.

He corrected me, LOVE is the most important thing among the three because if you never find LOVE, you’ll never fully LAUGH and never completely understand the meaning of living.

By the way, GOD is my mentor.

God bless..

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