Journey
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world,
a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to
gather and grow.
--Arthur C. Benson.
Don't Wait
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them great.
Weak men waits for opportunities;
strong men make them.
--Orison S. Marden.
Right or Wrong
Concept of right and wrong are not based upon any
specific truth, but upon the perception of the moment.
--David Nlmes.
Mistakes
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man;
but from their errors and mistakes
the wise and good learn wisdom for their future.
--Plutarch.
Achievement ?
What you get by achieving your goal is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals.
--Zig Ziglar.
Misunderstand
Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,
and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Trouble
The trouble with most people is that
they think with their hopes or fears or wishes
rather than with their minds.
--Will Durant.
Great Things
Great things are accomplished by talented people
who believe they will accomplish them.
--Warren. G. Bennis.
Hope
If you lose hope, somehow you lose
the vitality that keeps life moving,
you lose that courage to be, that quality
that courage to be, that quality
that helps you go on in spite of it all.
--Martin Luther King Jr.
Imaginations
Imagination will often carry us to worlds,
that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
--Carl Sagan.
Life and Power.
There is no real security in
what is no longer meaningful.
There is more security in
the adventurous and exciting,
for in movement their is life,
and in change there is power.
--Alan Cohen.
Lose / Win Explain
If you win you need not explain….. But,
if you lose you should not be their to explain.
--Adolph Hitler.
Victory
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
--General George. S. Patton.
Enjoy Work
The secret of joy is contained in one word—Excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
--Pearl. S. Buck.
Starting To Improve
How wonderful it is that nobody
need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.
--Anne Frank.
Courage
Courage is the first of human qualities,
because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
--Aristotle.
Begin....End.....
A little pain, a little pleasure,
A little heaping up of treasure;
Then no more end gazing upon the sun.
All things must end that have begun.
--John Payne.
We Are Stiff
We are such stiff
As dreams are made on and our little life,
is rounded with a sleep.
--Shakespeare.
Sunset Sky.
Clouds come floating into
my life, no longer to carry
rain or usher storm, but to
add colour to my sunset sky.
-- Rabindranath Tagore.
Hugging.
Oh, I love hugging.
I wish I was an octopus,
So I could hug
10 people at a time!
--Drew Barrymore.
The Purpose Of Life
The purpose of life is to
live it , to reach out eagerly
and without fear for newer
and richer experience.
--Eleanor Roosevelt.
More and More
For the things which men, to judge by
their actions, deem the highest good
are riches, fame or sensual pleasure……
the more we have,
the more we want.
--Baruch Spinoza.
Brain
The brain is a world
consisting of a number of
unexplored continents and
great stretches of unknown
territory.
--Cajal.
Interdependence
You live in the age of interdependence.
Borders don’t count for much
or stop much, Good or bad, anymore.
--Bill Clinton.
Conqure
Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by
goodness. Conquer the miser
with generosity. Conquer the liar
with truth.
--The Dhammapada.
My Small Planet
It suddenly stuck me that;
that tiny pea, pretty and
blue, was the earth. I put
up my thumb and shut one
eye, and my thumb bottled
out the planet Earth. I didn't
feel like a giant. I felt very,very small.
--Neil Armstrong.
Humanity
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocen; if a few drops
of the ocean are dirty, the ocean
does not become dirty.
-- M. K. Gandhi.
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