Quotable Quotes

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Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion. Be outrageous in forgiving. Be dramatic in reconciling. Mistakes? Back up and make them as right as you can, then move on. Be off the charts in kindness. In whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it in all aspects large and small. Fall short? Try again. Mastery is made in increments, not in leaps. Be brave, be fierce, be visionary. Mend the parts of the world that are within your reach. To strive to live this way is the most dramatic gift you can ever give to the world." Clarissa Pinkola Estes American Author, Poet and Psychologist

Linkin Park Lyrics interpretations

"Breaking The Habit"

Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again

[Bridge:]
I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

[Chorus:]
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I had no options left again

[Bridge:]
I dont want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

[Chorus:]
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight

[Bridge:]
I'll paint it on the walls
'Cause I'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends

[Chorus:]
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
to show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I’m breaking the habit
Tonight


The below is an interesting interpretation of the song "Breaking the habit" by Linkin Park. Just pasting it here ......


Source : http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/lookat.php/bands/linkinpark/c2f5628d6f90da3
Song : Breaking the habit


I find that the song has a meaning for almost every addiction. I talks about doing something, whether it is cutting or doing drugs, to hopefully forget the pain and hurt.

The best part in the song, personally, I find is:
"i'm picking me apart again
you all assume
i'm safe here in my room
unless I try to start again"
to me it talks about that you're pretending to the whole world and everyone seems to buy it. They think that you're okay, but they don't know how hurt you are from the inside.
It's almost like nobody cares about you.

The song also talks about helplessness.
"cause inside I realize
that I'm the one confused"

and



"I don't know what's worth fighting for
or why I have to scream
i don't know why I instigate
and say what I don't mean
i don't know how I got this way
i know it's not alright"

you don't know what to do except for the thing what you do, drugs or self harm. You feel helpless with yourself and there doesn't seems to be a way out.

And as last it can also talk about suicide. It's just the way how you see it and how it feels to you personally. I find everyone can recognize themselves in this song. Mostly because everyone battles an addiction. No matter if it are cigarettes, alcohol, drugs or self harm.

Quotations

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

We have to work, constantly work with all our power, to put our whole mind in the work, whatever it be, that we are doing. At the same time we must not be attached. That is to say, we must not be drawn away from the work by anything else;still, we must be able to quit the work whenever we like - Swami Vivekananda

Quotable Quotes

"Plenty are born with talent but few are as driven to express it in full and he is as much a product of the nets as blessed genes." - Former England Test player Peter Pringle about Sachin Tendulkar on reaching highest number of runs in Test cricket.

Sub prime crisis

What the world's big guns say about the meltdown?
Link ---> http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/sep/25slid1.htm

Quotes:
What is the nature of the crisis? The details can be insanely complex, but the basics are fairly simple. The bursting of the housing bubble has led to large losses for anyone who bought assets backed by mortgage payments; these losses have left many financial institutions with too much debt and too little capital to provide the credit the economy needs; troubled financial institutions have tried to meet their debts and increase their capital by selling assets, but this has driven asset prices down, reducing their capital even further: Economic Nobel laureate Paul Krugman

We live in an interdependent world and the fate of all countries is related to the international financial system. Our value markets are opened to the world and, if they are affected, this will affect our capacity to finance our development. If the financial crisis causes a recession in the main economies, this will compromise our exports: Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, India

The situation is going to get better when you feel good about buying Citigroup stock. Right now, nobody feels good about buying it: John Catsimatidis, supermarket billionaire and New York mayoral hopeful

I know too well how disastrous these slumps can be. During the 1991 recession I was basically bankrupt -- it all happens very quickly. So what's the use in finger-pointing? I don't want to see the Americans go down the pan. Everyone knows that we'll follow: Stephen Brown, British citizen

You can't just blame the banks, you also can blame the people that took out mortgages... We were brought up that you first had to put some savings together and then enjoy. But this whole society has gotten to the fact that we're a 'now, give it to me today' kind of society. I think regulation has not been adequate. There's no one person to blame other than all of us: Mike Bloomberg, mayor, New York, former Wall Streeter, founder, financial services company Bloomberg

My own view right now is that cash is king; liquidity is king: Don Marron, US billionaire
We have counted on emerging economies, which collectively account for half of global GDP, to hold up. However, with the credit crisis reaching shores of emerging market countries, their growth is now likely to fall well below trend by the end of the year: Moody's Economy.com

Regulators are helping us to identify the quickest and most efficient method to purchase equity in financial institutions so they can resume lending. Throughout this process, we have kept in mind one clear priority: to protect the taxpayers by making the best use of their money: Neel Kashkari, interim assistant secretary for financial stability, US

Globalisation, America as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This is now over. The game is out. It does mean a very serious adjustment for America: George Soros, billionaire investor, head of Soros Fund Management

This has been a man-made catastrophe. The actions and responses to overcome lie in all our hands. We must also insure that as governments and publics turn their attention to matters close to home that they do not step back from their commitments to boost overseas assistance: Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank

America is a different world, where all kinds of people can get credit they shouldn't be getting. We Germans are different: Micky Gliese, German citizen

Any company that is built around the need to add debt is in trouble. The process of deleveraging is industry agnostic. If I had the time, I would be researching every company that needs renewable and expandable debt to survive and would short the sh*t out of it: Mark Cuban, owner, Dallas Mavericks and founder, HDNet.

In an interconnected world, no nation will gain by driving down the fortunes of another. We are in this together. We will come through it together. There have been moments of crisis in the past when powerful nations turned their energies against each other or sought to wall themselves off from the world. This time is different: George W Bush, President, US

It does make me angry that this situation has been created by greedy, irresponsible, feckless city boys. The financial world has been acting in a megalomaniacal fashion and deserves to be taken down a peg or five. This is a terrible situation for the average hard-working family. It happened to my family in the 90's during the last downturn and affected us deeply for years: Katherine Walker, British citizen

It is now becoming clear that emerging market countries are likely to be hit hard by financial turmoil, despite stronger fundamentals and policy frameworks. Lest a sudden stop of capital bring their progress to a sudden halt or, worse, bring down their financial systems, some form of large and rapid financing should be kept ready. There should be no doubt that the fund is prepared to deploy its emergency procedures: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head, IMF

Contrary to popular belief, so far this hasn't really been a banking crisis. The institutions that have gotten into trouble handle a broad range of financial instruments. Real banks, in this sense, are the sinews of the economy. If they become affected, then we'll find ourselves in an even more serious stage of the crisis. Then the economy as a whole could begin to seize up: Heizo Takenaka, former Japanese minister of economic and fiscal policy

What is subprime crisis? How it caused financial mayhem?
Link ---> http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/oct/17slde1.htm

Badminton in action - snaps

Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want lyrics

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone in its 2004 list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Chorus is by London Bach Choir. The lyrics are about how hard it is to find happiness. No matter what you have, you always want more. The three verses (along with the varied theme in the 4th verse) address the major topics of the 1960s: love, politics, and drugs. Each verse captures the essence of the initial optimism and eventual disillusion, followed by the resigned pragmatism in the chorus.

Lyrics go here.....

[chorus]
I saw her today at a reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man

No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
And if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need

Oh yeah, hey hey hey, oh...

And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse"
Sing it to me now...

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need
Oh baby, yeah, yeah!

I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead"
I said to him

You can't always get what you want, no!
You can't always get what you want (tell ya baby)
You can't always get what you want (no)
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
Oh yes! Woo!

You get what you need--yeah, oh baby!
Oh yeah!

I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need

You can't always get what you want (no, no baby)
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need, ah yes...