"The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid."

 

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.  

~Frank M. Garafola

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.  

~Winston Churchill

 

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.  

~Ann Landers

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.  

~Dorothy Nevill

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.  

~Abraham Lincoln

 

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.  

~Author Unknown

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.  

~Author Unknown

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. 

~Author Unknown

 

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.

 ~Author Unknown

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                      Quotes: www.quotegarden.com

"Every watch certainly has a watchmaker."

One of the most noted physicists of our day, Singer, rejects the theory of evolution and believes in God. At a conference, he criticized the theory of evolution with an interesting story: 

"Scientists discovered a deserted island. The scientists who stepped on the island were very impressed by what they saw there. They were fascinated by the jungles and wild animals. They climbed steep hills and examined their surroundings. They could not find the smallest sign of civilization in the island. Just when they were returning to their ship, they found a brand new watch on the beach. It was working perfectly. This was quite intriguing for the scientists. How did this watch come here? They knew for certain that no one had ever set foot on the island before them. So, there was only one other possibility. This watch, with its well crafted leather belt, glass, battery and other parts, came to this island by chance and settled on the beach. There is no other alternative." 

To explain the delusion of evolutionists, Singer ended his story in these words: 
"Every watch certainly has a watchmaker."


http://www.harunyahya.com/the_Quran_leads_the_way_to_science06_1.php

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed....

 If  you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed.  If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson
 
I always turn to the sports section first.  The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.  ~Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read:  "President Can't Swim."  ~Lyndon B. Johnson
 
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.  ~Thomas Jefferson

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.  ~David Brinkley
 
You can crush a man with journalism.  ~William Randolph Hearst
 
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. ~Robert Brault    www.robertbrault.com

If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?  BAM.  Busted!  ~Stephen Colbert
 
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.  
~Charles Anderson Dana
 
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not:  World domination.  ~Akbar S. Ahmed

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving  the people who are doing the oppressing.  ~Malcolm X

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness...

"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard." 

[Henry David Thoreau]

Photo: Ibn Hanif  [Eyewitness]

Truth

"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident."

[~Arthur Schopenhauer]

 Photo: Ibn Hanif (Eyewitness)

Unity

 

 

 

 

Photos: Ibn Hanif 

Shalimar Garden Lahore. 

Why "Life" in "Life, Nature and Me" ?

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. 

  

I know in this wide world there a few friends who care to check my blog, and I am really grateful for all of them. Although, its a bit late but I want to tell the purpose of "Life, Nature and Me". 

Life 

I am a slow learner and I spent  many years of my early teen age life, while questioning myself about our own creation and also about the rest of the world. Yes,  Parents cannot keep it a secret for long, how a baby comes in this world. But the issue for us is to know who designs the baby in the belly of a mother?

Mother? 

Father?

No!!!

They cannot claim , and they never claim. 

Not only this, there is not a single human being who could ever have and justify such a claim.

We are even unaware of the sex of the baby when he/she is in belly of his/her mother, until we use some type of electronic equipments. 

So, every human being has to get answers of some very important questions ! 

How are we created ?

Is there a creator?

If the creator does not exist than can we explain the "itself"?

If there is a creator, than who is the creator?

 What is the purpose behind our creation? 

And 

What is Next ? (Is there a life after death ?)

Dear Readers, I am  sorry but the actual  purpose of my blog is to remind myself and others about these unavoidable questions?

and that is why you see "Life" in "Life, Nature and Me".

 

My Favorite Truth Quotes

 

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.  ~Leo Tolstoy 

 

 The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men.  

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.  

~French Proverb

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

~Attributed to James A. Garfield

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on. 

~Stopford Brooke

 

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.   

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Photographs: Ibn Hanif
Truth Quotes: www.quotegarden.com/truth.html

My Favorite Nature Quotes

John Burroughs:
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Henry David Thoreau:
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Kenneth Patton: 
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.

 
Linda Hogan:
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

 

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.   

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Walt Whitman:
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
 

Rachel Carson:

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
 

Julie Moir Messervy: 

Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

Photos: Ibn Hanif

Nature Quotes: www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_nature.html

Speaking Nature

 

Linda Hogan:

    There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Photo: Ibn Hanif

Nature Quote: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_nature.html

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

Walt Whitman:
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

The Creation and the Purpose of Human Life

6 On the Day of Judgement We shall question those to whom Rasools (Messengers) were sent and We shall also question the Rasools (Messengers) about Our message and its response.

7 Then We shall tell their whole story as an eye witness for We were never absent at any time or from any place. 8 On that Day, the scale of justice shall be established. Those whose scale of good deeds will be heavy, they are the ones who will attain felicity, 9 and those whose scale is light, they shall find themselves in loss for they had done injustice to Our revelations.

{Story of Adam and Iblees (Shaitan) and Shaitan vowed to mislead Adam and his descendants}

10 We are the One Who established you on earth, and provided you means of your sustenance therein: yet little it is that you pay thanks. 11 Indeed We created you, then We fashioned you, then We asked the angels: "Prostrate yourselves before Adam." They all prostrated accordingly except Iblees (Shaitan) who did not join those who prostrated.

12 Allah said: "What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?" He replied: "I am better than he; you created me from fire and him from clay." 13 Allah said: "Get down from here. You have no right to brag here of your superiority. Get out, henceforth you are of the petty ones."

14 Shaitan requested: "Give me respite till the Day of Resurrection." 15 Allah said: "The respite you requested is hereby granted."

16 Shaitan declared: "Since You let me deviate, now I will lie in ambush for mankind on Your Right

Way. 17 I Will come upon them from the front, from the rear, from the right, and from the left, and You will not find most of them to be grateful." 18 Allah said: "Get out from here, you despicable outcast; I will certainly fill hell with you and all of them who follow you."

{Shaitan cunningly seduced Adam and Eve to disobey Allah and Their repentance and Allah's conditional acceptance}

19 Allah said: "O Adam! Dwell with your wife in paradise and eat any fruit you please; but never approach this tree or you shall both become wrongdoers." 20 But Shaitan tempted them so that he might reveal to them the private parts of their bodies which they had never seen before. He told them: "Your Rabb has forbidden you to approach this tree only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals."

in company of flowers

Photo: Ibn Hanif
Captured in Historical Shalimar Garden Lahore.