The Leader Leads & The Boss Drives A Mercedes.

(BOSS!!!)

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt


The Boss drives - a Mercedes and his staff mad.

- Ghostwise

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“Sometimes it is the men 'higher up' who most need revamping – and they themselves are the last to recognize it.”

- Henry Ford


The one who needs the most revamping often ask the most revamping of others.

- Ghostwise

Tragedy Is When Man Is Nobler Than The Forces That Destroy Him.

(Rescue crews carry a woman to safety after she was pulled out of the rubble of a market in Sichuan province.)

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

- George Orwell

More than 200 relief workers have been buried by a mudslide in China's Sichuan province, a week after a massive earthquake devastated the country.

- Picture Above: Reuters, Story/Picture below: Daily Mail Online.

( An elderly woman mourns as her grandson is buried under the debris of a collapsed building)

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

- Oscar Wilde

There is often no answer for tragedies. But there must always be compassion. If we need reasons before we can have compassion for the sufferings, than that is a greater tragedy for mankind.

- Ghostwise

Why are so many rich men paupers?

(How I hate working with a stingy man, especially when I had to.)

“A rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper”

- Yiddish Proverb quotes


Why are so many rich men paupers?

- Ghostwise

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“The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor”

- Dutch Proverb


The generous man gives and lives a life; the miser hoards himself till death.

- Ghostwise

Yesterday He Hadn't Time, Now He Has Eternity.

(Today I think I'm a modern man, and that is not good.)


“Modern man thinks he loses something - time
when he does not do things quickly.
Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains
except kill it.”

- Erich Fromm


Why do we kill the thing we are afraid of losing?

- Ghostwise

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Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't time---
and now he has eternity.

-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)


When he has eternity, only does he realize how important are those things he hadn't time for.

- Ghostwise

When You Asked For An Orange, Be Happy With The Orange.

(Sorry, a little belated. On the 15th day of Chinese New Year, young ladies with throw an orange into the sea wishing for a good mate. A male will throw an apple. Check out the tradition in Ghostwalk)

“A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away”

- Arthur Miller


When you asked for a man, be sure to accept him whole.

- Ghostwise

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"give orange orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me me give give me you."

- Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee's longest sentence


When you ask for an orange, don't be unhappy when another gets an apple.

- Ghostwise

The Pearl,

(Last night I stayed in a hotel called Pearl View looking across at Penang, our "Pearl Of The Orient". Today's post is about pearl.)

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase”

- John Balguy


It is said the best pearl is produced in a calm sea.

- Ghostwise

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“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl—how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

“If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it..."

- John Steinbeck ("The Pearl")


If you found a pearl of great value and thought it a curse of bad luck, would you throw it back into the sea?

- Ghostwise

When You Look Up & See The Monkey's Behind.

(Today someone told me a tale of 3 monkeys born in 3 generations and how much the tale meant to her. Today's post is dedicated to monkeys)

“I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.”

- Loren Eisele


Don't make a monkey out of me.

- Ghostwise

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“An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind”

- German Proverb


Not a pretty sight for all except the monkey.

- Ghostwise

When Beauty Retreats To The Heart.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

- Martin Buxbaum


Where it is harder to be seen and thus only appreciated by those not overtaken by the beauty of surface.

- Ghostwise

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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

- Lois P. Frankel


But most men can't go deeper than the beauty of a face.

- Ghostwise

A Man Who Knows The Price Of Everything.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt


I would rather stand by the man who fought and failed than those who stood by and criticized his failures because he has my admiration for trying and also because I know such man always makes a better friend.

- Ghostwise

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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

- Oscar Wilde


A man who trusts no one but himself doesn’t know the value of anything.

- Ghostwise

Men Should Be More Like Their Mothers.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honoré de Balzac


Oh, Mother! How deep is your love?

- Ghostwise

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


Men should be more like their mothers, women less.

- Ghostwise

Man Wants To Be A Woman's First Love, Woman His Last.

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

- Oscar Wilde


There is no friendship between men and women IF there is passion, enmity, worship and love. Without them, friendship is always possible.

- Ghostwise

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.

- Oscar Wilde


In this case, I stand on the side of women and Oscar Wilde.

- Ghostwise

When Caged Birds Sing.

God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.

~Jacques Deval,


Man wants the things it loved to belong only to them.

- Ghostwise

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We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

- John Webster


They took a song from the wild and put it in a cage. The song of freedom became a song of longing, But to callous ears and selfish heart, the sound is just as sweet.

- Ghostwise

Plant A Green Tree To Wait For A Singing Bird.

(Yesterday I was in a bird sanctuary in the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand listening to the calls of wild birds. It was a cool windy morning and the tall grasses dance like rippling waves in the distance. I was up in a wooden tower surrounded by grasslands and a small lake, framed by the darker greens of the forest at the edges. I couldn't think of a better way to spend the day. This is dedicated to the birds (seen and unseen) that sang to me yesterday morning. Looked out for it in upcoming posts in Ghost Walk)



There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

- Robert Lynd


Birds enhance the landscape by its presence and its songs. Man changes the landscape to enhance no one but himself.

- Ghostwise

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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese Proverb


Too many waits for the singing bird without planting a tree.

- Ghostwise

Man and Nature.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland

Trees teach me endurance. Grass teaches me perseverance.

- Ghostwise

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

Because there is no man around.

- Ghostwise

Man & Prejudice.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)


If reason cannot rule the day, love them or leave them.

- Ghostwise

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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)


No, he is not. He did not hate himself - equally.

- Ghostwise