Best Romantic Good Morning Quotes

"When you wake up in the morning, kiss your loved one on the forehead and wish them a good day."

"I went to sleep last night with a smile because I knew I'd be dreaming of you ... but I woke up this morning with a smile because you weren't a dream."

"You have found true love the day you realize that you want to wake up beside your boyfriend/girlfriend, every morning, even though you have your differences."

"I could say that you complete me...but that would be a lie, because every morning when I wake I long for you more than the day before."

"You have no idea how good it feels to wake up every morning knowing you are mine and I am yours."

"I want you around in the morning and I want to know you're legally required to be there."

"Like the sunshine in the morning, may this brighten your day, and remind you that you're thought of in a very warm way."

"Being in love with you makes every morning worth getting up for."

"Come let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves."

"You are the first thing to enter my mind in the morning and the last thing to leave my heart at night."

"Morning is a wonderful blessing, either sunny or stormy. It stands for hope ... giving us another start of what we call Life."

"A morning greeting does not only mean 'Good Morning,' it has a silent, loving message saying, 'I think of you when I wake up.'"

"Love is not needing a snooze button on your alarm clock, because when it goes off for the first time in the morning, the thoughts of your loved one makes it impossible to fall back asleep."

"As I awaken each morning, my dreams of you fade as thoughts of you flood my mind with sensual assault."

"When I wake up in the morning, I think of you. When I go to sleep at night, I think of you. And for all those hours in-between, I think of us."

"When I wake up, turn over, and see you lying next me, I can't help but smile; it will be a good day simply because I started it with you."

"Even in a total eclipse of the sun, you brighten my life."

15 Things to 'Give up'

This is indeed a brilliant article and needs to be read again and again ...

Here is a list of 15 things, which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and you'll feel much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering and instead of letting them all go and allowing ourselves to be stress-free and happy, we cling on to them.

Well, not anymore. Starting today, we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go!

1. Give up your need to always be right. There are so many of us who can't stand the idea of being wrong wanting to always be right even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain for us and for others. It's just not worth it. Whenever you feel the 'urgent' need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question from Dr. Wayne Dyer: 'Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?' What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. Give up your need for control. Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, co-workers, or just strangers you meet on the street just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.

'By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.' Lao Tzu

3. Give up on blame. Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don't have, for what you feel or don't feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk. Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don't believe everything that your mind is telling you especially if it's negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.

'The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.' Eckhart Tolle

5. Give up your limiting beliefs about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!

'A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.' Elly Roselle

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6. Give up complaining. Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, many things people, situations and events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It's not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. Give up the luxury of criticism. Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. Give up your need to impress others. Stop trying so hard to be something that you're not just to make others like you. It doesn't work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you're not, the moment you take of all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. Give up your resistance to change. Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change don't resist it.

'Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.' Joseph Campbell

10. Give up labels. Stop labeling the things, people or events that you don't understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open.The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.'

11. Give up on your fears. Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist you created it. It's all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.

'The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.' Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. Give up your excuses. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck and lie to ourselves, using all kind of excuses excuses that 99.9% of the time, are not even real.

13. Give up the past. I know, I know. This one's hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening. But, you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for the past that you are now dreaming about was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all, life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. Give up attachment. This is a concept that, for most of us, is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too (it still is), but it's not impossible. You get better and better at it with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things (and that doesn't mean you give up your love for them because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another. Attachment comes from a place of fear, while love well, real love is pure, kind, and selfless; where there is love there can't be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot co-exist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. Give up living your life to other people's expectations. Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them; they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them; to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people's expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need and eventually, they forget about themselves. You have one life this one right now you must live it, own it, and especially don't let other people's opinions distract you from your path.

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Google Will Make Talking Shoes

The search giant wants developers to design a concept for a set of talking shoes. Google has released a video of what it wants, which went viral with some of the Italian media which announced that the company had already invented a set of talking shoes.

In reality, it was just an advertising experiment, where the company teamed up with Art, Copy & Code in order to develop “a series of experiments to re-imagine advertising”. A few days ago the partners decided to make a set of talking shoes. At this point the reality gets a bit tricky to handle – indeed, if you look at a lot of the copy penned over the weekend, you can mistakenly think that the shoes have already been made.

One of the prototypes is the sneakers (Adidas high-tops), which work with an accelerometer, gyroscope and Bluetooth and also have built-in speakers inside both tongues of the shoes. The search engine claimed that by connecting a pair of sneakers to the Internet, it was creating unique opportunities between physical objects and digital ad spaces.

In fact, every move made by the user generates information which is captured by an accelerometer, gyroscope and pressure sensors. This information then is pushed to a web app on the user’s mobile device and results in real-time into funny and motivating commentary. Such commentary is then pushed to banners and social media, creating innovative and attracting content in the digital world from something happening live in the physical world.

That is an undoubtedly interesting idea – just imagine your feet talking to Google and serving up advertising. Perhaps, soon we’ll live in a world where Google tells us that we get no chance of scoring unless we change our socks, and recommends the nearest place to buy some. On the other hand, that is the price of staying instep with fashion.

By: www.extratorrent.com

First Tablet for Women is Introduced

One of the tablet-making outfits came to a conclusion that there are huge amounts of cash to be made by patronizing women. The company has carried out a research to find out “what women want” and introduced “the first tablet specifically for ladies”.

The device dubbed ePad Femme is 8-inches and is pre-loaded with yoga, grocery shopping and cooking apps. It even has a clothing size converter app. The company believes that it’s the sort of thing that modern women are interested in – no business issues, no relationships… All women of today seem to be housewives.

The device has received a marketing push this past February as “the perfect Valentine’s Day gift”. Well, there might be some women who are looking forward to replicating the life of their grandparents, but we doubt there are many. The device runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with a light pink screen saver (apparently, pink is blondes’ favorite color).

The company claims that its new device makes a perfect gadget for women who might experience difficulties in downloading such apps and it is a quick reference. In the meanwhile, the tablet carries a 1.5GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, and an SD card slot – hopefully, housewives will be able to understand what any of this means.

The company also insists that the intent of the ePad Femme tablet wasn’t sexist. After all, the gamers have their gaming tablets that are geared to a specific interest, right? As for the ePad Femme, its price is as low as $190, which is far less than the iPad and about the same as a Nexus 7. Thus far, the company has sold only about 7,000 units, which doesn’t make it a great seller. Taking into account all the specifics, the market observers are not surprised.

By: www.extratorrent.com 

Afghan Awards 2010

Best Singer of 2010:
Shafiq Mureed (for the song Afghanistan and Ghoroor)

Best Debut Singer of 2010:
Mirwais Hamrah

Best Song of 2010:
Dosti - Farhad Darya

Best Video of 2010:
Watan - Sediq Shubab

Best Music Director of 2010:

Khaled Kayhan (for Sediq Shubab Gumshuda album and Taher Shubab new song)

Arash Howaida (for Fardin Faryad new songs and Najim Nekzad - Shahanshah album) 

Best Musician of 2010:
Shafi Hanif (Demo Performance - Live Play - Live in Concert)

True Meaning of Jehad

Jehad: Its True Meaning and Purpose

Jehad is never a tool of waging war against the innocents; it's never a means of flexing muscles or bullying the weak and oppressed. Jehad in Islam is something unique, established to defend the divine message from being eliminated or hindered by its enemies. Shedding more light on the true concept of Jehad, here is the statement made by Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, president of the Fiqh Council of North America, states.

Allah says, (And strive in His cause as ye ought to strive (with sincerity and under discipline). He has chosen you, and has imposed no difficulties on you in religion; it is the religion of your father Abraham. It is He (Allah) Who has named you Muslims, both before and in this (Revelation); that the Messenger may be a witness for you, and you be witnesses for mankind! So establish regular Prayer, give regular Charity, and hold fast to Allah! He is your Protector, the best to protect and the Best to help!) (Al-Hajj 22: 78)

Jehad is one of the most misunderstood, and abused aspects of Islam. There are some Muslims who exploit and misuse this concept for their own political objectives. There are many non-Muslims who misunderstand it. There are some non-Muslims who misinterpret it to discredit Islam and Muslims.

What is Jehad?

The word Jehad does not mean "Holy War". It means "struggle" or "striving.

The word for war in the Qur'an is "Harb" or "Qital.  Jehad means serious and sincere struggle on the personal as well as on the social level. It is a struggle to do good and to remove injustice, oppression and evil from the society. This struggle should be spiritual as well as social, economic and political. Jehad is to work hard to do right things. In the Qur'an this word is used in its different forms 33 times. It often comes with other Qur'anic concepts such as faith, repentance, righteous deeds and migration.

Jehad is to protect one's faith and one's human rights. Jehad is not a war always although it can take the form of war. Islam is the religion of peace, but it does not mean that Islam accepts oppression. Islam teaches that one should do one's utmost to eliminate tension and conflict. Islam promotes non-violent means to bring change and reform.

Actually, Islam urges that one should eliminate evil through peaceful means without the use of force as much as possible. In Islamic history from the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) until now, Muslims most of the time resisted oppression and struggled for liberation in non-violent and peaceful manners.

Islam teaches proper ethics in the situation of war also. The war is permissible in Islam, but only when other peaceful means such as dialogue, negotiations and treaties fail. It is a last resort and should be avoided as much as possible. Its purpose is not to convert people by force, or to colonize people or to acquire land or wealth or for self-glory.

Its purpose is basically: defense of life, property, land, honor and freedom for oneself as well as defense of others from injustice and oppression.

The basic rules of war in Islam are:

1. Be strong so that your enemy fear you and should not attack you.

2. Do not begin the hostilities. Work for peace as much as possible.

3. Fight only those who fight, no collective punishment; non-combatants should not be harmed. Weapons of mass destruction should not be used.

4. Stop hostilities as soon as the other party is inclined to peace.

5. Observe the treaties and agreements as long as the enemy observes them.

Allah says very clearly: (Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not do aggression, for Allah loves not the aggressors.) (Al-Baqarah 2: 190)

(The prohibited month, for the prohibited month, and so for all things prohibited, there is the law of equality. If then any one transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress ye likewise against him. But fear Allah, and know that Allah is with those who restrain themselves.) (Al-Baqarah 2: 194)

Jehad is not terrorism:

It is to be emphasized that terrorism against the innocent civilians, whether through aggression or suicidal means, is under no circumstances permissible in Islam. Islam encourages the oppressed people to struggle for their liberation and it commands other Muslims to help those who are oppressed and suffering, but Islam does not allow, under any circumstance, terrorism against non-combatants and innocent people.

Terrorism is not Jihad, it is Fasad (mischief)

It is against the teachings of Islam. There are some people who use their twisted arguments to justify terrorism for their causes, but it has no justification:

Allah says: (When it is said to them: 'Make not mischief on the earth,' they say: 'Why, we only want to correct things.' Indeed they are the mischief doers, but they realize (it) not.) (Al-Baqarah 2: 11-12)

Islam wants to establish a world order where all human beings - Muslims and non-Muslims - can live with justice in peace, harmony and good will. It gives its followers full guidelines to find peace in their personal and social lives, but it also tells them how to extend the good will on the basis of human relations towards others. Muslims worked under these principles for centuries. People of many faiths lived with them and among them. Islamic societies were known for their tolerance, generosity and humanity.

In our modern society where we are living in a global village, where non-Muslims are living with Muslims in the Muslim countries and Muslims are living with non-Muslims in countries where non-Muslims constitute a majority, it is our duty to bring better understanding among ourselves, work for peace and justice for all people and cooperate with each other in matters of goodness and virtue in order to stop all terrorism, aggression and violence against the innocent people. This is our Jehad today.