Good Words of Swami Vivekananda !!!

When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed

-Swami Vivekananda

So never feel bad for what GOD has given us...

He knows every thing........

"If you limit your actions in life to things that no body can possibly find fault with, you will not do much. "

Motivational Poem - Hope

If you can look at the sunset and smile,
then you still have hope.

If you can find beauty in the colors of a small flower,
then you still have hope.

If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly,
then you still have hope.

If the smile of a child can still warm your heart,
then you still have hope.

If you can see the good in other people,
then you still have hope.

If the rain breaking on a roof top can still lull you to sleep,
then you still have hope.

If the sight of a rainbow still makes you stop and stare in wonder,
then you still have hope.

If the soft fur of a favored pet still feels pleasant under your fingertips,
then you still have hope.

If you meet new people with a trace of excitement and optimism,
then you still have hope.

If you give people the benefit of a doubt,
then you still have hope.

If you still offer your hand in friendship to others that have touched your life,
then you still have hope.

If receiving an unexpected card or letter still brings a pleasant surprise,
then you still have hope.

If the suffering of others still fills you with pain and frustration,
then you still have hope.

If you refuse to let a friendship die, or accept that it must end,
then you still have hope.

If you look forward to a time or place of quiet and reflection,
then you still have hope.

If you still buy the ornaments, put up the Christmas tree or cook the turkey,
then you still have hope.

If you still watch love stories or want the endings to be happy,
then you still have hope.

If you can look to the past and smile,
then you still have hope.

If, when faced with the bad, when told everything is futile,
you can still look up and end the conversation with the phrase...
"yeah....BUT.." then you still have hope.

Hope is such a marvelous thing. It bends, it twists, it sometimes hides,
but rarely does it break. It sustains us when nothing else can.

It gives us reason to continue and courage to move ahead,
when we tell ourselves we'd rather give in.

Hope puts a smile on our face when the heart cannot manage.

Hope puts our feet on the path when our eyes cannot see it.

Hope moves us to act when our souls are confused of the direction.

Hope is a wonderful thing, something to be cherished
and nurtured, and something that will refresh us in return.

And it can be found in each of us, and it can bring
light into the darkest of places.

Never lose hope.

~ Many Thanks to Robert

Beautiful Motivational Quotes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
~ William Cowper
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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
~ Dawson Trotman
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How soon not now, becomes never.
~ Martin Luther
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President.
You realize that you control your own destiny.
~ Albert Ellis
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
~ Ben Stein
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Most smiles are started by another smile.
~ Anon
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Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance,
creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be OK.
Creating your own adventure!
~ Elana Lindquist
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You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
~ Ramtha
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Be kind whenever possible...It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama
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Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do.
~ David Wilkerson
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The way I see it is you have two choices in life; you can be grateful for everything life has given you or you can be resentful for everything life has done to you. Your degree of happiness is directly proportional to the conviction of your choice.
~ Enzo D'Alimonte
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Follow Your Dream

Follow your dream…
Take one step at a time and don’t settle for less.
Just continue to climb.
Follow your dream…
If you stumble, don’t stop and lose sight of your goal.
Press to the top.
For only on top can we see the whole view
Can we see what we’ve done and what we can do
Can we then have the vision to seek something new
Press on.
Follow your dream.
~ Amanda Bradley ~

Small Dose of Hope....

When I was in my first year of college, I hit a stretch where every area of my life was a disaster, I felt hopeless and alone, and more depressed than I knew was possible.

On one such day, I was walking from class across campus to catch my bus home, head down, fighting tears of total despair, when a guy came down the sidewalk toward me. I had never seen him before. Embarrassed at being seen in such an emotional mess, I turned my head away and hoped to hurry past. I figured he'd walk on by, but he moved until he was directly in front of me, waited until I looked up, then smiled.

Looking into my eyes, this stranger spoke in a quiet voice: "Whatever is wrong will pass. You're going to be ok, just hang on." He, then, smiled again and walked away.

I can't explain the impact of that moment, of that man's unexpected kindness and unconditional caring! He gave me the one thing I'd lost completely: hope. I looked for him on campus, to thank him, but never saw him again.

That was thirty years ago. And I've never forgotten that moment. Over the years, whenever I see someone in distress, I think of that old man and try to give a glimmer of hope in the dark wherever I can -- carrying groceries for people, sitting with cranky babies in airport lounges while the mother got up and got herself food/restroom, talking to tired couples at the checkout line, it could be anything.

If you keep your head up, your heart will show you the place that need a small dose of hope.

-- by EsTeeBee

Today Is A Beautiful Day

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were u the one who changed my sign this morning? What did u write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what u said but in a different way."

What he had written was:

"Today is a beautiful day & I cannot see it."

Do u think the first sign & the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story:

-> Be thankful for what you have.

-> Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. Invite the people towards good with wisdom.

Great Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

Our deepest fear is not
that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyound measure.
~ Marianne Williamson
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Even if you are on
the right track, you'll
get run over if you
just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
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Ships in harbour are safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
~ John Shedd
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Go Confidently
in the direction
of your dreams !
Live the life
You've imagined.
~ Thoreau
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Let no one come to you
without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness :
Kindness in your face,
Kindness in your eyes,
Kindness in your smile.
~ Mother Teresa
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
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I choose My Direction
by choosing My Focus

What a man's mind can create,
man's character can control.
~ Thomas Edison
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Before you Speak, Listen
Before you Write, Think
Before you Spend, Earn
Before you Criticise, Wait
Before you Pray, Forgive
Before you Quit, Try
~ Unknown

Persistence

In 1947, Lester Wunderman was arbitrarily fired from his advertising job in New York. But he felt he still had a lot to learn from the head of the agency, Max Sackheim. So the next morning, Wunderman went back to his office and began working as he had before. He talked to co-workers and clients; he sat in on meetings - all without pay. Sackheim ignored him for a month.

Finally, he walked up to Wunderman: 'Okay, you win', he said, shaking his head. 'I never saw a man who wanted a job more than he wanted money.' Well, guess what? Wunderman went on to be one of the most successful advertising men of the century. He's credited with having invented preprinted newspaper inserts, plus subscription cards such as those used by Time-Life Books and the Columbia Record Club; ideas that have produced billions of dollars in profit. Now,advertising may not be your thing - but action must be. What are you willing to do to achieve your dream? Work without pay? Refuse to quit? Success begins at the beginning, and it continues with consistent action.

Now, ponder these thoughts:

1) You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
2) The first two letters in the word goal, are GO.
3) Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, others wake up and do them.
4) Anybody who brags about what they're going to do tomorrow probably did the same thing yesterday.
5) You will never be what you ought to be until you're doing what you ought to be doing.
6) If you're having trouble thinking outside the box, you're probably in the wrong box. Get out of there!

Classic Quotes on Leadership & Success

You never know when a moment and a few
sincere words can have an impact on a life.
~ Zig Ziglar

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
~ Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that

I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people

grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them.
~ Jack Welch

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
~ Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has

reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
~ Og Mandino

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
~ Goethe

If everyone is moving forward together,
then success will take care of itself.
~ Henry Ford

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

I never worry about action, only inaction.
~ Winston Churchill

Beautiful Positive Quotes

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a
soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"See luck when it is with you; and act responsibly when it is not."
~ C.P.G. von Clausewitz, Major-General

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
~ Mencius

Remember to keep calm and cheerful.
Don't let petty things annoy you
and get you off course.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.
~ Earl Nightingale

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections
must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson

Failure is impossible.
~ Susan B. Anthony

It is on the basis of actions that praise is received. The one who only talks and is not able to put his talk into practice does not become worthy of praise. On the other hand, the one who is able to bring his good thoughts and words into action becomes worthy of praise. Such a person's actions become inspirational for others and encourage them to follow him. When we are able to act according to our thoughts and words, we are able to take inspiration to do more. For every positive action that we do, we experience support and good wishes from others which encourage us constantly. Our account of positivity is always full and it takes us further to a cycle of positivity making it a habit. So we find that we don't have to work hard for performing positive actions.
~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

The Picture of Peace

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell, in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why? "Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.