Intellectual growth

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." - Albert Einstein -

Live your dream!

Life gives Answers in Three ways:

It says YES and gives Whatever u Want,

It says NO and gives u Something Better

It says Wait and gives u the Best

"Don't just Dream. Live your Dream."

Experience

"I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - Omar Bradley -

Three kinds of love

There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish.
The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings.
In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling.
The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa -

It is not the critic who counts

It is not the critic who counts,
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly;
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt -

Attitude

The Longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company a church a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
And so it is with you we are in charge of our ATTITUDES.
- Charles Swindoll -

Seven sins in the world

There are seven sins in the world:

Wealth without Work.
Pleasure without Conscience.
Knowledge without Character.
Commerce without Morality.
Science without Humanity.
Worship without Sacrifice
Politics without Principle. - Mahatma Gandhi -

Toast - Irish

May the road rise upto meet you

May the wind be always at your back

May the sun shine warmon your face

And the rain fall softupon your fields

And until we meet again, May God hold you

In the palm of his hand

- An Irish Blessing -

Toast - Irish 2

May there always be work for your hands to do.

May your purse always hold a coin or two.

May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane.

May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.

May the hand of a friend always be near you.

And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

- Irish toast, author unknown -

Life

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations…!” - George Bernard Shaw -

Positive thoughts

"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience." - Eddie Rickenbacker -

Dreamers vs skeptics or cynics

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy -

Make the circumstances you want

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw -

Experience

"I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - Omar Bradley -

Power within you

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs." - Dr. Maxwell Maltz, 1899-1975, Author -

Footprints

The footprints you leave behind show clearly where you have been.

Yet they do not dictate where you can now go.

Perhaps your life up to now has been difficult and filled with disappointment.

Or perhaps it has been easy and filled with good fortune.

None of that matters when it comes to the choices now available to you.

At this moment in time, you can go in any direction you choose.

You can learn much by looking at how you arrived at where you are.

Now that you're here, you can benefit from what you've learned and experienced.

Now that you've been through your past, you have a much better idea of where you truly want to go.

Look back at the footprints you've left behind, and decide where the next footprints will lead.

At this very moment, your possibilities stretch out in countless directions, yet your next step must be in one specific direction.

You have the choice to make right now, so choose the very best.

- Ralph Marston -

The power of touch

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn alife around.

- Leo Buscaglia -

Winners and Losers

"The Winner is always part of the answer; The Loser is always part of the problem.¨

"The Winner always has a program; The Loser always has an excuse.¨

"The Winner says, "Let me do it for you"; The Loser says, "That is not my job."¨

"The Winner sees an answer for every problem; The Loser sees a problem for every answer.¨

"The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it is possible"; The Loser says, "It may be possible but it is too difficult."¨

"When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong"; When a Loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."¨

"A Winner makes commitments; A Loser makes promises.¨

"Winners have dreams; Losers have schemes.¨

"Winners say, "I must do something"; Losers say, "Something must be done."¨

"Winners are a part of the team; Losers are apart from the team.¨

"Winners see the gain; Losers see the pain.¨

"Winners see possibilities; Losers see problems.¨

"Winners believe in win-win; Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.¨

"Winners see the potential; Losers see the past.¨

"Winners are like a thermostat; Losers are like thermometers.¨

"Winners choose what they say; Losers say what they choose.¨

"Winners use hard arguments but soft words; Losers use soft arguments but hard words.¨

"Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things; Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.¨

"Winners follow the philosophy of empathy: "Don't do to others what you would not want them to do to you"; Losers follow the philosophy, "Do it to others before they do it to you."¨

"Winners make it happen; Losers let it happen."

- Author Unknown -

Struggle a little before flying

Lessons from a Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly

One day a small opening appeared

He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours

It struggled to force its body through that little hole

Then it seemed to stop making any progress

It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could

And it could go no farther.

So the man decided to help the butterfly

He took a pair of scissors and snipped off

The remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily, BUT,

It had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings

He continued to watch the butterfly

He expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge

And the body would contract

Neither happened!In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling

Around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

It was never able to fly.

The man acted with well-intentioned kindness

But he didn't understand the consequences.

The restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get

Through the tiny opening, were nature's way of forcing fluid

From the body of the butterfly once it achieved,

It's freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.

If nature allowed us to go through life without any

Obstacles, it would cripple us.

We would not be as strong as we could have been

And we could never fly

Have a great day, great life, and struggle a little.

Then fly!

- Author Unknown -

Two Days We Should Not Worry

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry,

Two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,

Its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.

We cannot undo a single act we performed;

We cannot erase a single word we said.Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow

With all its possible adversities, its burdens,its large promise and its poor performance;

Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.

Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.

Any person can fight the battle of just one day.

It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities

Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

- Author unknown -