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Self-Degradation
 “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” (Chuck
Palahniuk)
 “Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.”
(Paulo Coelho)
 “If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders,
somatic diseases and personal degradation” (Sunday Adelaja)
 “Focus on rewarding and praising yourself instead of degrading and punishing yourself.
You'll get far better results!” (Akiroq Brost)
 “If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo
degradation” (Sunday Adelaja)

Overthinking
 “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go
in.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
 “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than
the problems of yesterday.” (Brian Tracy)
 “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” (Buddha)
 “You only have control over three things in your life, the thoughts you think, the images
you visualize, and the actions you take.” (Jack Canfield)
 “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you
anywhere.” (Erma Bombeck)

Mental Instability
 “Mental health is not a destination, but a process. It's about how you drive, not where
you're going.” (Noam Shpancer)
 “It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for
your body, but healthy for your mind.” (Steve Maraboli)
 “You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that
things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” ( Kody Keplinger)
 “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.” ( John Green)

 “Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”
(Mokokoma Mokhonoana)
Health
 “Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until
they have been depleted.”  (Denis Waitley )
 “Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” (Joseph Pilates)
 “Health is not valued until sickness comes.” (Thomas Fuller)
 “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep
our mind strong and clear.” (Buddha)
 “The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30
to 50 years.” (Deepak Chopra)

Three R’s strategy

 “The Earth is more important than money, and if we want our children to have a clean
place to live, we need to do our part now. We can't buy our children a new
planet.” (Catherine Norton)
 "You can help keep garbage out of landfills by using things again and again." (Margie
Burton)
 “Glass, like aluminum, is readily recyclable by simply melting waste glass into new
forms, and the rationale for the procedure is, likewise, for saving energy costs.” (Rodge
Daniel)
 “Recycling conserves natural resources, trims manufacters; energy costs and reduces air
and water pollution.” (Michael A. Fuoco)
 "Each individual contribution to the problem may be minimal, but the combined activities
of our neighbors, our community and citizens across the country have an enormous
effect." (Paul Griss)

Agriculture Affirmation
 If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right. (M. S.
Swaminathan)
 Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million
people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home
grown food. M. (S. Swaminathan)
 Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first
through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons,
giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. (Howard Graham Buffett)
  “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real
wealth, good morals, and happiness.” (Thomas Jefferson)

Grow Forest
 "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
(Nelson Henderson)
 “Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.” (Rene Dubos)

 “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
(Warren Buffett)
 “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more
glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” (Martin Luther)
 “To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have
trees.”(Theodore Roosevelt)

Feminism vs. Patriarchy

 “The most complete believer in faith is the best in morals, and the best among you is the
best to their wives.” (Hadith Tirmidhi)
 “Observe your duty to Allah in respect to the women, and treat them well.” (Prophet
Muhammad’s  Last Sermon)

 “And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women.” (Qur’an, 2:
228)

 “Their Lord responded to them: “I never fail to reward any worker among you for any
work you do, be you male or female – you are equal to one another.” (Qur’an, 3: 195)

Women Mainstreaming
 “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.”
(Emma Watson)
 “Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all kinds of
oppression.” (Nelson Mandela)
 “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and
men.” (Gloria Steinem)
  “Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains
unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.” (Saddam Hussein)
 “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same
things.” (Plato)

Professional Life
 "Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.” (Robert
H. Schuller)

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the
successful one is a lot of hard work. (Stephen King)

 “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to
try just one more time.” (Thomas A. Edison)

 “So, surely with hardship comes ease” (Quran 94:5)

 “Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without measure.” (Quran 39:10)

Social Life
 “Taking pains to remove the pains of others is the true essence of generosity.”( Abu
Bakr (R.A))
 “O My servants who have believed, fear your Lord. For those who do good in this world
is good, and the earth of Allah is spacious.” (Quran 39:10)

 “A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole
community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one
is living.” (Rudolf Steiner)
 Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the
individual in a truly social life. (Maria Montessori)

Individual Life
 “O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is
a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. ” (Quran 49:12)
 “What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?” (Ibn
'Ata' Allah)
 “Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously
conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing
lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”
( Muhammad Asad)
 O you who believe! seek help through patience and prayers indeed, Allah is with the
patient. (Quran 2:153)