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I just totally LOVE quotes! They summarize people's life experiences. They touch my heart and brain in a unique way.

I have recently resigned from my job and hoping to get a better one :)

Here are some quotes on Hope in life :)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

 Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.

We live by admiration, hope and love

 Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed

He who does not hope to win has already lost

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Hala2 never mind loosing weight, and shaping up… It is the feeling of freshness that gets into you even after hours at a gym class.

I’ve always been a member at gyms, and I just totally got sick of treadmills and bicycles, so I tried something new. They call them classes! Classes such as RPM, Body attack, Body Combat, Body Pump, Body Jam, and Body Balance.

Let me give you a brief summary of each as they were to me and you could also get use of them too.

These classes are all associated with music which gives you a great push!!!! The instructors are trained to keep you going! Sometimes they are tooo mean but hey atleast as they keep you moving then you like them!

After Gym, you go home and feel so fresh!

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away

Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it!

It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.!!!!!!

Love,

I guess women got sick of talking about dieting, make-up, and shopping and now they are moving towards LIPOSUCTION!

We were out today and a colleague of my friend brought it up! She started the conversation by asking if any of us knows someone who has done liposuction! My friend and I didn’t know anybody so the answer was no! Out of NOWHERE she says “ I have taken an appointment next week and I’m going to do it and I wanted to talk to more people about it before I go ahead!”

I was shocked! The girl is not even close to being fat! And I figured out that she wanted to do it because she thinks she has hips! I swear she DOESN’T! She just wants to do it!

If you were extremely fat and you had no other options then I would understand! Bas mish ZANAKHA!

You know what the main problem is?? These surgeries are getting cheaper every day… I guess they even have offers now! So for every hip that is sucked you get silicon for you lips for FREE! How tempting! J I asked her about how much it would cost her and I was shocked of how cheap it was L

Ya sabaya ya 7elween … BE real!! Your brain is what counts and your heart too!

This is how the story goes:

She : a Palestinian girl

HE: An Egyptian guy

They: have lived in the same country all their lives.

They: Have many things in common and love each other!

You live your life waiting for the SPECIAL someone! And this special someone finally comes across! You have the same interests, you talk so much, you like the same things and hate the same things too! To make it short… you guys fall in love! So you date for a while and it can’t get better .. he tells her he wants to come and meet her parents to get engaged! She loves the idea and thinks HE IS THE ONE! HE IS THE MAN I want to share my life with! She goes up to her parents and tells them about it and THEY DON’T WANT TO MEET HIM! Why ? simply because he comes from another country!

Okay so what does she do now?? TWO OPTIONS: 1- let the love of her life just GO and listen to her parents! 2- fight for him so bad and get married while knowing that they don’t want him and even if they eventually get married things wouldn’t be really comfortable for her parents!

She is Muslim and he is too, he is even Arab.. so what better do parents want? The question is do they REALLY know better! And when they just think it is going to be very different than the norms she is used to and that’s why she will be suffering later on? Well she chose the guy didn’t she?

The main question is what should she do???

Love,

Reema

We live in the Middle- East! I’m a FEMALE, and hold what they call a good degree! At the beginning of my career and love my job. Ambitious! Yes very ambitious and would want to rule the world ;)

What strikes me nowadays is no woman wants to stay home with the kids! Everyone wants to go out to work, prove themselves through their careers! I’m not against a working woman, but all I’m trying to say is that at some point a woman should STOP somewhere look at her life and say CAREER and WORK are not the only place I have to succeed at. I was biologically made to be a mother and a house administrator! Yes ADMINISTRATION!

Apparently many guys would think that: eventually a woman would end up at home taking care of her kids, cooking, and cleaning!

Many girls would argue: NO I’m too ambitious! I want a career I want masters I want a PHD! I want to work I want to prove to these men I could be even better!

WHERE DO I STAND?

I would say that having a family, raising your kids PROPERLY, and taking care of your HOME is a FULL TIME JOB! You want to get a PHD well yah why not?? Do it! You want to work why not?! Let’s talk about advantages and disadvantages of a woman who is in the workplace and wants to dedicate most of her time at WORK!

Advantages:

-         The woman fulfills her needs of being productive.

-         The woman is up- to- date with all the modern issues in the world and is not closed at home, so eventually knows more and is stronger!

-         Additional Income for the family.

Disadvantages:

-         Between a job, a husband, kids, and a home. The woman would always miss out on one of these!

-         A woman would GROW OLDER quickly J with all the stress going at work and home. She WILL grow older really fast!

-         Not enough time to spend time with husband

-         Not enough time to spend with kids (she would say oh but they are with the maid and then we ask ourselves why are kids nowadays IMPOLITE) Guess why? Simply because a maid doesn’t really care how they would turn out to be she would just do anything to make the kid shut up.. eventually the kid is so spoiled and out of control.

-         Not enough time to take care of HERSELF! The husband is A MAN who needs to see the wife in her best states! Or else it is divorce or second wife or cheating!

-         Not enough time to practice any hobby whatsoever! Even with the best time management

That’s all that goes through my mind for now!

I’m not trying to convince anyone that a woman shouldn’t work, as am writing this from the office, but all am saying is that we women have been biologically made to be mothers and wives. Men were biologically created to be out there and support the family. It hurts when I hear a girl saying ( la22222 shoo 2a3od belbeit w ma asht3’il yeee yee )

I’m ambitious and want the best for my career, but there will always be a time that I would rather just stay home, and that is no harm and no 3EIB! At the end of this year am traveling to complete my masters degree, but I do it to satisfy my need for the love of education and being a better educated person, maybe also get a better job, maybe to travel and get more personal experiences in a place I haven’t lived in before. Experiences that would make me more exposed to the world that I would learn from and later implement not only at work but also with my family! Make my kids better kids, teach them and make them better people!

Who said  being a house-wife is not as an important job? Who said that being a house wife is going to demote you as a human being. Who said that it isn’t challenging? Who said that being a house- wife is not going to make you feel important? Who said that being a house-wife does not require creativity, excellent communications, and good education? Who said that being a good wife and a good mom is not noble? We claim women rights at work while we can be the masters at our homes! Why do women always think that it isn’t the THING they want to be?

I write this as I feel it is becoming a trend! Women getting out getting jobs and BOOM it is a life style! It wasn’t ever us! Where does this concept of AM A CAREER WOMAN work? Not within our culture I would say! Not because that our culture is CONSERVATIVE and CLOSED, but rather because our culture comes out of real good basis! Basis that countries where women are packed up in into their careers DON’T HAVE! The Arab woman has been always respected in our society. Never that she was treated as an object nor had her rights deprived from her! I would think that in other cultures a woman of a career and power would seek that just because they HAVE nothing else to fulfill their productivity needs from!

Women, you were created for noble causes don’t underestimate your roles in life!

Love,

Reema

Inspired by Omar’s comment on one of my posts, I remembered an argument I had with a friend some time ago J

The argument was Do we MAKE our luck or does it just happen?? My friend was saying that he doesn’t believe in luck and that people make their luck either better or worst! On the other hand I was saying, NOOOOO you are either born lucky or not! J

His argument was if you work hard to achieve something then your luck changes! My counter argument on that was okay so what if I was born in one of the really poor countries and don’t even have food to work hard to achieve something. I was trying to point out that maybe we are destined to live in a certain way and that sometimes no matter how hard you work .. you were just born in the wrong part of the world so UNLUCKY! We talked a lot about this and none of us was convinced J

I went up to google and here is something I’d like to share! Theories, Experiments, and results! I’ll make it as short as possible although I Love making stories longer J

A paper I read was about defense theory and Control Theory! The paper is called : Control or defense, Depression and the sense of control over good and bad outcomes.

Defense theory : The theory suggests that people BY NATURE are least depressed if they claim responsibility for good outcomes and deny it over bad ones. So when you are a manager you say OH I WORKED hard! And when you fail a course at university you say : the professor just hated me am just never lucky with professors J ( I used that excuse alllllllllllll the time )

Control theory: states that active, effective problem solving builds well-being; thus a sense of personal control and responsibility for both success and failure is associated with low levels of depression. ( so you give credit for YOURSELF when something good happens and you feel that YOU have done something wrong when something bad happens)

Which theory is right? Well NONE! After the study was made the results assured that blaming something on outer factors or blaming yourself for it is not what counts! It is the feeling of not being in control of outcomes! “Depression is associated with not feeling in control of good outcomes, or of bad outcomes, or of both. The sense of control reflects the reality of social and economic status. It explains part of the relationship between status and depression. We infer that defensive illusions are no substitute for genuine control.”

Why don’t you google it yourself!

Here are some tips on LUCK!

Do not dwell on the past or exist in the future!

Live in the moment, in an attitude of gratitude.

If you feel lost and sad, then watch a sunrise, hug a tree, lift your eyes to the heavens and you will be comforted, because that is what nature is meant to do.

Accept your defeats, flower where you are planted, and you will realize that you are much more capable than you gave yourself credit for.

Spread Love, joy and goodwill and the Universe will return it to you with interest!

Why worry? I have read somewhere that ‘today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday’.

I have also realized that we are unhappy because of our own conditionings. It has been imposed on our belief system that we can only be happy if we are rich, famous, powerful etc. Question your beliefs and superimpose them with a new belief that states that you will be happy no matter what!

Recognize that you hurt because your ego has been bruised or your desire has been obstructed by an obstacle! 

After having done your best, leave the rest! Surrender to Life and Its wisdom! Have faith!

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart ( Gebran Khalil Gebran)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

Beauty pleases the eyes only; Sweetness of disposi