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Wisdom for Body & Mind
Thu, January 08, 2009
 

Chinese Horoscopes:
The Rooster

Rooster: 1957 Fire, 1969 Earth, 1981 Metal, 1993 Water, 2005 Wood
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Rooster in 2008 - It’s a happy, lucky year for you. If you learn to be satisfied, it’ll be even happier. Pressures from a heavy workload will cease. Focus on managing your emotional relationships and you will feel the meaning of life. If you chase your business and money, remember that if you rush it, you’ll lose it. Be practical. Take one step at a time. Manage one matter at time. Be careful to protect your liver and gall bladder from disease and injury.

2/4-3/5: You’ll be very competitive and enjoy showing off.  Indulging in some self promotion is good, but avoid overdoing it.  Otherwise, it will harm you and others.

3/5-4/5: Your health is poor.  There will be a lot of emotional ups and downs, fatigue and insomnia.  Take a leisure trip or lose your mind.  Indulge in some gourmet food. 

4/5-5/6: It’s a good time for heartfelt relationships, marriage or hooking up.  Don’t miss the chance for better public relations. 

5/6-6/5: Business is smooth.  You’ll be busy in body and mind.  Attend to your health.  You’re prone to injury.  Be careful when driving.

6/5-7/7: good time for matrimony.  Feelings will be high.  Good month for pr, social life.  don’t indulge/sink into just these feelings and not doing your work. 

7/7-8/7: when you make friends with others, don’t cause too much pressure on others.  Don’t just look at others for what they can benefit you, or you’ll lose your friends.

8/7-9/7: Mind your personal relationships, especially with your superiors.  Smooth talk and a soft expression is the way.  Go with the flow. 

9/7-10/8: This month asks for trouble.  Be reasonable and appropriate.  If you’re too moody, it will only bring more worry.  Schedule a holiday and cultivate your body and mind.

10/10-11/7: Don’t be content with the present condition.  Develop a new work situation.  Market power is essential.  While an old malady relapses, treat it aggressively.

11/8-12/7: With so much pressure to go, your mind and body hesitates and your heart falters.  Be irascible.  Aggressive exercise is the best medicine.

"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."
Rooster Steve Allen

"It is vital to transform the world by changing the way people treat each other, and by modeling that kind of changed behavior ourselves."
Rooster Anne Murray

"They should do kung-fu versions of every fairytale."
Rooster Natalie Portman

"Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars."
Rooster Tama Janowitz

"Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them."
Rooster David Riesman

"Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing."
Rooster Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."
Rooster Priscilla Presley

"The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go.  Life is too short to blend in."
Rooster Paris Hilton

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Rooster Scott Adams

"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
Rooster Jessica Alba

"But we must feel the pain before the pleasure.  Only then can we tell them apart."
Rooster Gloria Estefan

"In the Sutras there are certain Sanskrit words that are of great importance to the understanding of the teaching that are difficult to translate into single words."
Rooster Dwight Goddard

"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."
Rooster Jennifer Aniston

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else."
Rooster Dianne Feinstein

"When I remember how infused and kind of single-minded I was then, it set me in good stead for all the years later."
Rooster Eric Clapton

"Nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."
Rooster Walter Winchell

"I'm pretty good as long as my sword was handy"
Rooster Catherine Zeta Jones

"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
Rooster Serena Williams

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
Rooster Willie Nelson

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
Rooster William Faulkner

" Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. "
Rooster Alex Haley

"Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again."
Rooster Mike Myers

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
Rooster Fidel Castro

"I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me."
Rooster Melanie Griffit

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and, whatever you hit, call it the target."
Rooster Ashleigh Brilliant

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
Rooster Sir Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out."
Rooster Kyong Ho

"There are no old men any more. Playboy and Penthouse have between them made an ideal of eternal adolescence, sunburnt and saunaed, with the grey dorianed out of it."
Rooster Peter Ustinov

"Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
Rooster Paul Gallico

"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it?"
Rooster Nina Simone

"Seem like such a simple thing to follow one's own dream. But possessions and concession are not often what they seem."
Rooster Neil Young

"Make the viewer feel the blow."
Rooster Yuen Wo Ping

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
Rooster Michael Caine

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
Rooster Bette Midler

"Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love."
Rooster Dean Koontz

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. "
Rooster Errol Flynn

"History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!"
Rooster Louis Farrakhan

"I can do about 75 [sit-ups] at a go."
Rooster Britney Spears

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
Rooster Diane Sawyer

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
Rooster Benjamin Franklin

"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
Rooster Yoko Ono

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
Rooster Geena Davis

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or because they're lucky." Rooster Katharine Hepburn

"You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one, who has to do it."
Rooster Donny Osmond

"I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people."
Rooster Rodney Dangerfield

"You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one, who has to do it."
Rooster Donny Osmond

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
Rooster Geena Davis

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or because they're lucky."
Rooster Katharine Hepburn

"The less I say the more my work gets done."
Rooster Elton John

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