Inspiring Quotes on Life

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

- Thomas A. Kempis

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

- Danny Kaye

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy



To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
- Jim Beggs

Inspiring Poem - Things I learned that day

I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser For all she had to say!
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And never a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned that day from her
When sorrow walked with me!

- Unknown

If You Think You Can

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you want to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in a state of mind.

Life's battles don't always go
to the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
It the man who thinks he can.

- Unknown

Best Attitude Quotes

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, 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 will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot 

change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% 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.

- Chuck Swindoll

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us.
- Earl Nightingale 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude...nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

I am usually looking for something better to do. What I do seems to be monotonous and ordinary and I try to think of something better to do, something that will bring benefit to others too. But I really am not able to easily bring about such a change. What benefit I bring is not based on what I do, but it is based on the attitude I do it with. So I need to maintain an attitude of bringing benefit to as many as I can, with whatever I do. Then nothing I do will be waste or ordinary.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Some Great Quotes on Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.
- Ernest Hemingway

The one who has courage to bring about a change is free from excuses. For the one who recognizes the need for bringing about a change, every situation is an excuse for doing something new. If there is no commitment to change in every situation, excuses are given and others are blamed. So there is nothing new that is done and nothing new achieved. Life becomes very interesting for us when we are willing to take up the challenges that it brings. We are not afraid of new situations and challenges but are able to make the best out of the situation, we are free from fear and have the courage to bring about a change easily and naturally.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt. Abu

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Radmacher~Hershey

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

- Carolyn Hax 

Meditate on the image of a tree and think about its meaning. Visualize the growth of the tree of life from a seed to sapling to a mature tree. Now label the various parts of the tree (roots, trunk, branches, etc.) with what you think are the specific spiritual qualities which emerge from within the soul at different stages/phases of its journey through the time of the drama of life on earth.

In the above exercise, you could identify the roots of the tree with your childhood when qualities like carefreeness, innocence, obedience, etc. emerge from within the soul; the trunk could represent your youth when qualities like courage, determination, cheerfulness, etc. emerge; the branches could symbolize your middle-life when qualities like adaptability, tolerance, co-operation, etc. emerge; and the leaves could be a symbol for old age, during which qualities like contentment, humility (egolessness), forgiveness, etc. emerge from within the soul.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Clock Of Life

The clock of life is wound only once.

No man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop.

At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own.

Live, Love, Toil with a will.

Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.

- Unknown

Get Success In Your Life With Positive Quotes

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese proverb

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
- Lynn Johnston

The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese proverb

Whenever things go wrong, we find ourselves worrying a lot about the situation or the things that are going on. Then our mind is no longer in peace but is busy worrying and breaking the situation into pieces. We find that we don't find the accurate solution immediately but are thinking in circles. While working to find solutions, it is more important to work at our own inner peace before we make an attempt to try and find a solution. With the right state of mind, we automatically find that the right decisions are being made by us thus giving us the right results.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them...
- Anon.

Even with the best intentions, we can find ourselves stuck in cycles of negative thinking; often, these are caused due to negative self-belief. These cyclic thoughts waste our time, but more often, they are depressing or even destructive, especially if the cycle is due to a deep-rooted lack of self-esteem or self-confidence. Cyclic negative thoughts, by definition, have become a habit.

However, cycles of thinking can be positive too. Some people almost regularly respond to negative situations or events with feelings of optimism and positivity; they see success and are confident. If this is not natural to us, we can train ourselves to respond in this way. To become optimistic we need to create in our mind images of past success and generate a quiet self-assurance. Thus a cycle of positive thinking gets started and will, in time, become a habit.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Great Motivational Quotes

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

- Jacques Barzun

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

- Louise Hay

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.              

- Theodore Roosevelt

Tis better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

- Helen Keller

The quality of our life tells the quality of our contribution.

- Rosie Cash

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

- Peter McWilliams

Motivational Quotes of Life

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

- William Arthur Ward

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

- John Steinbeck

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Stephen Vincent Benet 

I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

-  Author Unknown      

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa 

Seeds of Thought

One of the most important principals for achieving success is to understand that your mind is like a garden bed where you cultivate and grow the seeds of thought.

When you plant a positive seed of thought in your mind and nurture it carefully, it germinates and grows until it leads you to take action.

As soon as you begin acting on your idea, your seed of positive thought becomes a seedling of positive action.

If you continue to feed and encourage this seedling, it gradually develops into a tree of positive habit.

Once this habit has become solid and immovable, it is then only a matter of time before it blossoms to produce the fruits of success.

- by Anthony

Best Relationship Quotes

The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

- Unknown

When there is the thought to do something altruistic for someone every day, there is the ability to give happiness unconditionally. Whatever the relationship or whatever the personality of the other person, the one who develops the habit of doing this, is able to remain a source of support for those around. The best gift we can give is to give happiness and to finish sorrow. When we are constantly thinking of this, not for any reward but just for the sake of it, we are able to discover and enjoy the fruit of that action. We are free from expectations and are able to enjoy the action itself.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

- Keith Sweat 

Relationships are like crystals, you don't realize how much you love it until it breaks.

- Unknown

The specialty of the ocean is to merge. The most beautiful pearl is made of the dirt that is thrown into the ocean.  So also the power to merge actually allows one to look at the positivity in spite of the obvious negativity that is expressed by the other person. So the relationship with the other person is only with their positivity. When we are able to merge the negativity of others, and look at the positive aspect in them instead, we can automatically experience being light and positive within.  Also we find others relating to us with their positivity. We are able to be successful in our relationship with others, however difficult the personality traits of the other person may be.

- Brahma Kumaris, Mt.Abu

Top 10 Famous Absence Quotes

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

- Colette

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

- La Rochefoucauld

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

- Bible

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Ouida

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

- Tacitus

The absent are always wrong.

- English proverb

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. - Helen Rowland

Top 10 Famous Acceptance Quotes

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

- Catharine Marshall

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

- Kathleen Casey Theisen

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

- Old German proverb

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

- Simone de Beauvoir

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

- Maureen Dowd

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

- Debbi Fields

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

- Arthur Gordon

Top 10 Famous Ability & Achievement Quotes

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Baker

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

- Werner Heisenberg

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

- Mason Cooley

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

- Edmund Burke

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- William Van Horne

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

Insperatonal Thought from Some Great People

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible.

-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer


I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at
once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist


Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to
hard work, perseverance and determination.

-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

Few Motivational Sayings

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance.
Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
--Jim Rohn


Either you run the day or the day runs you.
--Jim Rohn


Time is more value than money. You can get more money,
but you cannot get more time.
--Jim Rohn

Realize that good is present in your life right nowand more will be added onto you.
--Unknown

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
--Unknown

Self Help, Self Motivational Quotes

Patience is passion tamed.

-- Lyman Abbott


Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in
the past.

-- Tyron Edwards


Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews

Some Leadership Quotations

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him.
-- Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer


Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
-- Ruth McKenney


Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leaderwho seems to think they have good qualities.
-- John Richelsen

Positive Thoughts for Better Life

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are
suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these
unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best
behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you
are going to spend most of your waking hours.

-- Beatrice Vincent


I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with
decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know
where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe
and are acting from.

-- William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer


Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

-- Jean de la Fontaine


Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

-- Mary Lou Cook

Gratitude is what defines a successful life.- Jim Rohn

Some Motivational Thoughts By Jim Rohn

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology
and not complain when things don't go well.
--Jim Rohn


Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
--Jim Rohn


Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
--Jim Rohn


To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself:
First, what could I do?
Second, what could I read?
And third, who could I ask?
--Jim Rohn

Some Inspiring thoughts from JIm Rohn

• The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants
  and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering
  if something could have materialized - never knowing.
  
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
  
• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to
  draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
  
• The more you know the less you need to say.
  

Some Good Motivational Thoughts

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how
he acts when he loses money.

- New England Proverb

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them."

- William Shakespeare

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our lives teach us who we are."

- Salman Ruhdie

Self Improvement Quotations

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit
behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how
he acts when he loses money.

- New England Proverb

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them."

- William Shakespeare

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our lives teach us who we are."

- Salman Ruhdie

Self Motivational Thoughts

To make headway, improve your head.
--B. C. Forbes


The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds; and
the pessimist fears this is true.
--James Branch Cabell


The doors of wisdom are never shut.
--Benjamin Franklin



Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way,
in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes;
its what we do with them that's important.
--Jim Rohn

Success Thoughts

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
--Larry Elder

To follow, without halt, one aim:
There's the secret of success.
--Anna Pavlova


Success is dependent on effort.
--Sophocles


Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
--Jim Rohn

Positive Quotes for Love and Relationship

When I learn something new - and it happens every day
- I feel a little more at home in this universe, a
little more comfortable in the nest.
--Bill Moyers

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--Carl Jung

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
--Shirley MacLaine

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The walls we build around us to keep
sadness out also keeps out the joy.
--Jim Rohn

Some Motivational Thoughts

• If you want a chance - then take one.
  --Richard Rodney
  
• The only limits on what you can accomplish are
  the limits YOU place on your own imagination.
  --Walt Disney
  
• Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must
  have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
  --Marie Curie
  
• What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
  --Roy Rogers
  
• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others,
  is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
  --Wayne Dyer
  
• The three P's of success...Passion Persistence Patience.
  - Unknown
  
• The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
  - Unknown

Inspirational Success Quotes

• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
  --Napoleon Hill
  
• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete!
  --Jack Welch
  
• Do the hard jobs first. The easy ones will take care of themselves.
  --Dale Carnegie
  
• No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself,
  on the journey through life, which no one can take for you.
  --Sun Bear
  
• People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
  --H. Ross Perot
  
• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
  --Ayn Rand
  
• If your life is free of failures, you are not taking enough risk.
  - Unknown
  
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Love And Relationship Ouotes

• Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.
  --Thomas Heywood
  
• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck.
  --Emma Goldman
  
• To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
  --François Mauriac
  
• My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.
  --William Shakespeare
  
• Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
  --Dale Evans
  
• A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.
  --Leo Buscaglia
  
• Loyalty is one of the most valuable traits of a true friend.
  - Unknown

Don't Follow the Follower

Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Hanri Fabre, the French entomologist, once lead a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot so that the leader of the procession found himself nose to tail with the last caterpillar in the procession, forming a circle without end or beginning.

Through sheer force of habit and, of course, instinct, the ring of caterpillars circled the flowerpot for seven days and seven nights, until they died from exhaustion and starvation. An ample supply of food was close at hand and plainly visible, but it was outside the range of the circle, so the caterpillars continued along the beaten path.

People often behave in a similar way. Habit patterns and ways of thinking become deeply established, and it seems easier and more comforting to follow them than to cope with change, even when that change may represent freedom, achievement, and success.

If someone shouts, “Fire!” it is automatic to blindly follow the crowd, and many thousands have needlessly died because of it. How many stop to ask themselves: Is this really the best way out of here?

So many people “miss the boat” because it's easier and more comforting to follow — to follow without questioning the qualifications of the people just ahead — than to do some independent thinking and checking.

A hard thing for most people to fully understand is that people in such numbers can be so wrong, like the caterpillars going around and around the edge of the flowerpot, with life and food just a short distance away. If most people are living that way, it must be right, they think. But a little checking will reveal that throughout all recorded history the majority of mankind has an unbroken record of being wrong about most things, especially important things. For a time we thought the earth was flat and later we thought the sun, stars, and planets traveled around the Earth. Both ideas are now considered ridiculous, but at the time they were believed and defended by the vast majority of followers. In the hindsight of history we must have looked like those caterpillars blindly following the follower out of habit rather than stepping out of line to look for the truth.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything — a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood.

AUthor : Earl Nightingale

Some Inspiring Quates

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
  - Gautam Buddha
  
• “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
  - George Bernard Shaw
  
• The power of imagination makes us infinite."
  -John Muir
  
• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
  - Pamela Vaull Starr
  
• "No great man ever complains of want of opportunities."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
  - Zig Ziglar
  
• "First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do."
  -Epictetus

Positive Attitude Makes Life Positive

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
- Winston Churchill

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
- William James

“A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.”
- Albert Einstein

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
- Bo Bennett

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
- Scott Hamilton

“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.”
- Paul Myer

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
- John N. Mitchell

Some Positive Thinking Quotes

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible."
- Lance Armstrong

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence."
- Helen Keller

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
- Herm Albright

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”
- Willie Nelson

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
- Winston Churchill

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Giving and Receiving : Circle Of Kindness

The Circle of Giving and Receiving

Anonymous giving and acts of kindness can lead the giver to a very lonely place in the universe. Like the Lone Ranger or some other disguised hero, we do kind things all the time and so often the people on the receiving end don’t see it or don’t recognize it.

Living a life of altruism, in its most ideal form, means setting the ego aside and not doing what we do for credit. Usually, I have no problem with this at all. But there are those days, perhaps when I’m feeling a little weak or drained, where I find myself feeling lonely with it all, feeling like I’m giving, giving, giving, to a world that is in super receiving mode and asleep to what’s being done for them. I get a little discouraged.

Even idealized heroes had their inner circle of friends who knew who they really were and what their life was all about. The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Batman had Robin and his butler, Alfred. You get the picture. Being truly altruistic means we do what we do without expectation for credit or recognition. Otherwise, it’s not truly altruistic. But at some point, we have to be good receivers to continue to be effective givers.

I remember shortly after my first child was born that my wife and I reached a point where we were really struggling to make ends meet. We both had jobs but the pay was very meager. We were both doing work that we loved doing and we were really caught up in the magic of being new parents. But a financial reality burst our bubble one day.We had nothing left in savings, and bills that were due, some overdue, could not be met.

We talked with other people about our dire circumstances. We got a lot of sympathy but we were still feeling a lot of stress and not coming up with any solutions. And then it happened. I opened the front door one morning and found a plain white envelope tucked inside the screen door. Inside the envelope was $100 dollars. I felt this tremendous sense of energy swell up within me, surrounding me like a great, warm comforter. Some kind soul anonymously gave what felt like an awful lot of money to me then. They obviously didn’t want credit for their generosity and to this day I’ve never known for certain who it was.

In those days, that $100 would have just about paid for a month’s rent. And even though it wasn’t enough to make good on all of our bills, receiving the money gave us such a sense of relief and humbleness to be blessed by some great kindness of a friend who wanted no credit from us whatsoever. We made it through that dark time, not so much from the money we’d been given, but by realizing how powerful an act of anonymous generosity can be.

I’ve paid that act of kindness forward over and over many times. And even being the veteran giver that I consider myself to be, my mind still swings like a pendulum between the extremes of totally selfless giving and the need to receive something in return occasionally. Despite the back and forth energy of the momentum that is created, my sense is that I am ever moving forward through a world that often feels thankless and uncaring. I am constantly aware that there have probably been countless occasions when I have been the receiver of many acts of kindness from others who may have been aware of what they were doing even though I was asleep to their gift.

I am committed to being more awake to what’s going on around me and to showing my gratitude whenever possible for any act of kindness given, even if it’s as small a thing as someone holding open a door for me. Living a life of kindness is like breathing: for every breath out, there has to be a breath back in. That isn’t about ego. It’s about staying alive and being fully human. Now, let’s get back to it. Hi, ho, Silver, away!


Author : Unknown

Inspirational story : Life is an Echo

A son and his father were walking in the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh! !!"

To his surprise, hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh! !!"

Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"

He receives the answer: "Who are you?"

Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"

He receives the answer: "Coward!"

He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"

The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention." And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"

The voice answers: "I admire you!"

Again the man screams: "You are a champion!"

The voice answers: "You are a champion!"

The boy is surprised, but does not understand. Then the father explains: "People call this echo, but really this is life. It gives
you back everything you say or do. Our life is simply a reflection of our actions. If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart. If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.

This relationship applies to everything, in all aspect of life; life will give you back everything you have given to it."

-- Author Unknown

What's Love?

When you are together with that special someone, you pretend to ignore that person. But when that special someone is not around, you might look around to find them.
At that moment, you are in Love.

Although there is someone else who always makes you laugh, your eyes and attention might go only to that special someone.
Then, you are in love.

Although that special someone was supposed to have called you long back, to let you know of their safe arrival,

your phone is quiet. You are desperately waiting for the call!
At that moment, you are in love.

If you are much more excited for one short e-mail from that special someone than other many long e-mails,
you are in love.

When you find yourself as one who cannot erase all the emails or SMS messages in your phone because of one message
from that special someone,
you are in love.

When you get a couple of free movie tickets, you would not hesitate to think of that special someone.
Then, you are in love.

You keep telling yourself, "that special someone is just a friend",but you realize that you can not avoid that person's special attraction. At that moment,
you are in love.

Miracle Of Friendship

There is a miracle called friendship
that dwells within the heart,
And you don't know how it happens
or how it gets it's start...
But the happiness it brings
will always give a special lift,
And you realize that friendship
is God's most precious gift!

- Author Unknown

Inspiring Message : Real Treasure To Be Found

Real Treasure To Be Found

If you're always chasing happiness, it will never be able to find you. Relax, simply give happiness a place to live in you, and it will be in great abundance.

When you put conditions on enjoyment, it turns into just another chore. Let go, and sincerely enjoy the miracle that is your life as it comes to you in each moment.

If you become overly attached to specific results, you set yourself up for disappointment and disillusionment. Be ambitious, yet do not be your ambition.

Sometimes, when things fail to go the way you planned, they turn out better than you could have possibly expected. Welcome life's surprises and choose to see the positive value that is in each one of them.

Don't be too quick to place judgments on the people, situations and events in your life. In everything that comes along, there is an opportunity for you to more fully discover and express your true purpose.

Be open to whatever life brings your way. There is real treasure to be found in it all.

- Author Unknown

A Smile Knows No Language Barriers

I was visiting my sister a couple of weeks ago and it was snowing hard, in between bursts of icy raindrops. My husband and I dived into a coffee shop for a quick burst of heat. Sitting there watching the rain run down the window and people battle with their umbrellas all I could focus on was the one girl standing outside of the shopping centre selling a homeless magazine. Her approach wasn't pushy, just to ask if anyone wanted to buy it and then avert her gaze to the puddles on the ground. So many people walked past weighed down by bags of goodies from the sales that I began to feel quite sad.

I sent my husband back to the counter to buy her what I had just enjoyed -- a big hot chocolate with cream. Her smile melted my heart when I handed it over to her. She was foreign so her English wasn't great, but a smile knows no language barriers. I toyed with the idea that maybe just buying her 'what I had' wasn't right and that I should go to ask her what she would like. But then I convinced myself that if I did ask her she might feel less happy to accept and so for a brief moment our lives were one. Ironically though, as she had a smile on her face, I had a tear in my eye - as if we'd swapped lives for a split second.

- Author Unknown

Hope

Hope

Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
that sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all thing you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.
You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.

Could we but look more clearly and wisely
We might discover somewhere in the garden
A strange new flower and an unnamed star.

Some people say that we should not trust our eyes,
That there is nothing, just a seeming,
There are the ones who have no hope.

They think the moment we turn away,
The world, behind our backs, ceases to exist,
As if snatched up by the hand of thieves.

- Czeslaw Milosz

MOtivational Story : Excellence Is A Drive From "Inside"

A gentleman was once visiting a temple under construction. In the temple premises, he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he saw, just a few meters away, another identical idol was lying.

Surprised he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statutes of the same idol”. “No” said the sculptor. “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage”. The gentleman examined the sculptor. No apparent damage was visible.

“Where is the damage” asked the gentleman.

“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol. Where are you going to keep the idol”.

“The sculptor replied that it will be installed on a pillar 20 feet high. When the idol will be 20 feet away from the eyes of the beholder, who is going to know that there is scratch on the nose?” The gentleman asked.

“The sculptor looked at the gentleman, smiled and said "God knows it and I know it ".

The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excellence is a drive from “Inside” not “Outside".

- Jasmine

Motivational Thoughts

The greatest handicap - Fear

The best day - Today

Hardest thing to do - To begin

Easiest thing to do - Finding faults

Most useless asset - Pride

Most useful asset - Humility

Most disagreeable person - The complainer

Great need - Common sense

Meanest feeling - Regret at another's success

Best gift - Forgiveness

The hardest & most painful to accept - Defeat

The greatest knowledge - Experience

The greatest thing - LOVE

The greatest success in the world - PEACE OF MIND

- Jasmine

Some Inspirational Quotes

Think Twice, Act Wise

Don’t make promise when you are in joy.

Don’t reply when you are sad.

Don’t take decision when you are angry.

Think Twice., Act Wise.

- Unknown

Motivational Thinking : Lost Time Is Never Gained

Nobody will sympathize with a person
who constantly lets chances pass by
without making any efforts to salvage them.

We normally don't realize
how important our loved and close ones are until they leave us,
and then we start regretting, which results in misery.

Lost time is NEVER gained again.

- Unknown

Self Motivational Thinking : You Create Your Future

If you stop and think about it, what we call the "future" is really only a product of our imagination. Each of us imagines the future out of our hopes and fears. If we feel good about ourselves, then we tend to focus on our hopes and dreams. On the other hand, if we don't feel good about ourselves, we project our fears into the picture of the future, which we view in our heads.

Too often, we tend to focus on worst case scenarios of what might happen to us. Unfortunately, the more we focus on this and visualize the awful events that we imagine in our heads, the more likely they will come to pass.

However, if you can begin to imagine a more enjoyable, fulfilling and desirable "future" and to picture it on a regular basis, you will find yourself drawn toward bringing this "future" into being.

Once you believe that this vision of your "future" is possible, then you can really commit to creating it and you'll begin to take action. As you see yourself acting with greater optimism, enthusiasm, and purpose, you will become like a magnet, attracting into your life the ideas, people, resources and opportunities that you need to bring about this vision.

- Jasmine

Life is About Creating Yourself – Think on This

1. Stand for something or Fall for anything!

2. It is difficult to get where you want to go, If you don't know where you are or where you have been!

3. Invest on Knowledge, It will give you the best Interest!

4. Don't forget Beauty is skin deep!

5. If you don't practice in problem on your OWN, you will DIE!

6. Success is not much what you are; BUT, rather what you appear to be!

7. Things would happen, but it takes time!

8. Suffering is not a punishment, but it's the result!

9. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF!; LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF!.

- Unknown

Some Motivational Quotes

You Make A Difference

Don't spend you precious time asking
'Why isn't the world a better place?'
It will only be time waster.

The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?'
To that there is an answer.

~ Leo F. Buscaglia ~


Wise Quotes

Don’t let someone become a priority in your life,
When you are just an option in their life …
Relationships works best when they are balanced.

When we wake up this morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours…

We make them cry who care for us,
We cry for those who never care for us
And we care for those who will never cry for us
This is the truth of life, it’s strange but true
Once u realize this, it’s never too late to change

Don’t make promises when you are in joy
Don’t reply when you are sad
Don’t take decisions when u are angry
Think twice, Act wise

Time is like a river, You cannot touch the same water twice
Because the flow that has passed will never pass again
Enjoy every moment of life

- Unknown


Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself

- ALEN STRIKE

You are not responsible for what people think about you but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.
- STANLEY FERRARD

Write your sad times in Sand; Write your Good times in Stone.

- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.

- BILL JACOBS

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
- Dr. ABDUL KALAM

Love your job but don't love your Company because you may not know when your company stops loving you
- Narayana Moorthy

You may get DELAYED to reach your Targets,
But every step you take towards your target is EQUAL to Victory.
- KARL MARX

It's better to loose your Ego to the one you Love, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO.
- JOHN KEATS

Don't make promise when you are in JOY. Don't reply when you are SAD.
Don't take decisions when you are ANGRY. Think twice, Act wise. BE happy.


When you start caring about yourself, you start loving somebody ,
But when start caring about others somebody will start loving you.


What is the Secret of SUCCESS...? 'RIGHT DECISIONS'
How do you make Right Decisions...? 'EXPERIENCE'
How do you get Experience...? 'WRONG DECISIONS'..
_________________
~~~~Jasmine~~~

A Pocketful of Hope

Here's a quick reminder to all of you when you get stuck in a moment --- that, somewhere out there, someone always comes along with a pocket full of hope.

Today I spent all my coins and dollar bills on little deeds. I had skipped breakfast because the clock was ticking away too quickly. On top of the mad rush, I forgot my lunch. I was going to buy my lunch along the way, but a person in need asked me if I could spare them some cash, so I decided that moment, to put them first.

So, then later, that evening, I was heading home anxiously awaiting dinner, when I got a call from my Mom saying that she was stuck working the late night shift and wouldn't be able to make it to the market to pick up groceries. Even though there was no food in the house, I took a step back for a second, and I told my Mom not to worry as I would surely find myself something on which to munch. :)

While I was still processing this sudden set of changes in my food options for the day, I passed a young man with a broad smile handing out crunchy samples of crackers at a supermarket stand. He gave me a packet and then did a double take saying, "How about you take some more for school tomorrow?" In response to that, I opened up my heart by returning a warm smile to him and also opened up my plastic carry on bag as he gladly filled it with 20 little crunchy packets. I was thrilled.

Whether you call it luck, fate, serendipity or the stroke of the universe, I just wanted to say that somewhere out there somebody came along carrying a glimpse of hope in his heart and shared a piece of it with me! Somebody out there will one day do the same for you!

- Author Unknown

Inspiring Thought : You Came Here To Do Great Things

You are worthy of all the goodness that life can hold.

You are capable of making a valuable contribution to the moment you're in.

You do not need to beg for the kindness of others. For you have within you the ability to express and manifest enough kindness to fill your world.

There is no reason for you to feel sorry for yourself, and there is no point in acting in such a way that others feel sorry for you. For a world full of positive possibilities awaits you, if you will simply lift your head and open your eyes.

You have no cause to be ashamed of who you are or where you come from. For there is so much you have to offer.

You were born to do things that have never been done before and to understand things that have never been understood.

You are here in this place to express the rich and unique beauty that lives within you.

The silly little dramas of the day cannot get you down for it is just now you have realized you are here to do great things.

- Ralph Marston

What's Love?

When you are together with that special someone, you pretend to ignore
that person. But when that special someone is not around, you might look around to find them. At that moment, you are in Love.

Although there is someone else who always makes you laugh,
your eyes and attention might go only to that special someone.
Then, you are in love.

Although that special someone was supposed to have called you long back,
to let you know of their safe arrival, your phone is quiet.
You are desperately waiting for the call!
At that moment, you are in love.

If you are much more excited for one short e-mail from
that special someone than other many long e-mails,
you are in love.

When you find yourself as one who cannot erase all the
emails or SMS messages in your phone because of one message
from that special someone, you are in love.

When you get a couple of free movie tickets, you would
not hesitate to think of that special someone.
Then, you are in love.

You keep telling yourself, "that special someone is just a friend",but
you realize that you can not avoid that person's special attraction. At that
moment, you are in love.

- Author Unknown

Love Poem - Rainbow of Love

I'll Paint You A Rainbow


I'll paint you a rainbow to hang on the wall,
to brighten your heart when the gray shadows fall.
On a canvas of joy outlasting the years,
with a soft brush of sweetness to dry all your tears.
I'll paint you a rainbow with colors of smiles
That glow with sincerity over the miles.
On a palette of words I will tenderly blend
Tones into treasures of sunlight and wind.

I'll paint you a rainbow that reaches so wide,
Your sights and your sorrows will vanish inside,
And deep in the center of each different hue,
A memory fashioned especially for you.
So lift up your eyes, for suspended above,
A rainbow designed by the fingers of love.......!!!!!!

- Unknown

Love Poem

My Angel Of Love

There are not enough words in our language
To describe my love for you...
Only God knows the depths I would go
To prove my love is true.

For when he opened heavens doors
And let me find your heart
I found an angel who lost her way
In need a of brand new start..

God guided us to each other
With hands gently from above
He told all his angels,
Now watch them fall in love.

He knew what he was doing
For this love was meant to be
He wanted us together,
All the angels began to see

Our love will be blessed,
We'll have riches beyond anyone has known
For our love is richer than all golds
Just look how our love has grown..

So if you ever doubt my love,
Look how we came to be
God gave us both a chance
He opened heaven's doors for me...

The angels sang out in heaven,
God bless this love below
For without your guidance
This love would never grow.

I found an angel who lost her way
In need of a brand new start
God opened up Heavens doors
To let me find your heart...

- Unknown

Life and Love . . .

If you’re looking for Love - Look where you’d least expect it,
If you found it but He or She hasn’t ‘found’ you
– Tell them slowly from the heart what they mean to you,

If you lost yours' and are hanging you head in pain
– Love yourself for a while, treat yourself and show yourself some love, You will Love again,

Your partner is out there ….your soul mate……….your Heart or rib Frame,
Love is an ocean there are ups and downs, tossing and turning,
It’s not the Ending place of the journey, nor where you begin
Like Life, Love is a journey,
It’s what comes between its birth and death that define its True meaning . . .

- Unknown

Times In Love

There are times when words aren’t enough
feelings can’t always be put into words;
because they are inadequate and often escape us
sometimes, there are only feelings.

There are times when all you need is a look;
a silent, wordless connection between souls
an understanding that needs no translation
a natural, knowing stare that says everything.

There are times when all you need is a touch;
nothing spoken - just the gesture of reaching out
touching, silently transferring your energy
conveying something that comes from within

There are times when all you need is acceptance
to know that you are valued as you are
that any changes you make only enhance you more
as you discover yourself.

There are times when all you need is love
no conditions or demands, only simplicity.
to know that for no reason at all
another chooses you over all others.
There are times when all you ever wanted,
was to be completed by another person.

There are times when you need all of these things
there are times when nothing else matters.

- Unknown

Difference between "Somebody You Love" & "Somebody You Like"

1 - In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster, But
in front of the person you like, you get happy.

2 - in front of the person you love, winter seems like spring. But
in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.

3 - If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush. But
if you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.

4 - In front of the person you love, you can't say everything on your mind. But
in front of the person you like, you can.

5 - In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy. But
in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.

6 - You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love. But
you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.

7 - When the one you love is crying, you cry with them. But
when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.

8 - The feeling of love starts from the eye But
the feeling of like starts from the ear.

So if you stop liking a person you used to like, all you need to do is cover your ears. But
if you try to close your eyes, love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever...

- Author Unknown

Beautiful Romantic Poem

What You Mean To Me

You . . .
Are the beginning of every day.

You . . .
Bring happiness and warm feelings
Each and every time I feel down.
My thoughts are of you constantly.

Time stands still when I cannot hear your sweet voice.
When I go to sleep at night,
In my mind, you are the one lying beside me.
My dreams are of us and when I wake,
I feel your presence.

You are the beacon that draws me,
Like a moth to a light.
Your kind words are a blessing to my ears.
Your unselfishness is a trait that many strive for,
Coming naturally to you.

Though you may feel down at times,
You still have kind words to share
Cheering others up.

When I tell you these three words,
Know they come from the heart:
"I love you" and everything about you.

- Author Unknown

Special Poem on Love

Can’t Live Without You!!!!


Do you know who I am?
The man you love!
Who stays up nights.
Who thinks of you.
And do you care enough,
to think of me,for what I am?

I can’t live without you,baby!
You are the only one.
I care enough,to think about.

I can’t live without you,honey!
You are the only one.
Who cared enough,to comfort me.

Do you know what I need?
The love in life,you’ld give to me.
And if you share your life with me.
I will think of you everyday.

I can’t live without you,baby!
I need your loving ways.
Your tenderness,your sweet caress.

I can’t live without you,honey!
Your love,just fills me up.
It gives me strength,to carry on.

Do you know where to be,when I arrive,
to share my love?
Would you stand next to me?
So I can hold,and comfort you.

I can’t live without you,baby!
Your love’s the greatest thing.
The ultimate desire for me.

I can’t live without you,honey!
Your love will never end.
It will stay with me eternally.
Till the end of all time.

- Author Unknown

Beautiful Romantic Poem

Touch My Heart

Touch my heart with tenderness
And fill my cup with love,
Share my dreams as I share yours
And we'll reach the stars above.

Take my hand as I grow old,
And lead me when I'm blind,
I'll show you that I really care
True love is hard to find.

Touch my life and I'll touch yours
A little more each day,
And we can both find happiness
Somewhere along the way!

- Unknown

Eternity Of Your Love

Your love is... an ocean,
Where sand meets the sea,
Waves of love rolling over me,

Your love comes to me,
As the tide comes to the shore,
Wanting and needing to embrace me more,

Your love is... the moon,
Shinning across the shimmering sea,
Deep, wide, strong, and calm.
Always there to carry me..

Your love is... my shelter,
My compass, my true north,
Where ever I go, your love is guiding me forth,

Your love is.... the fresh ocean breeze,
Gently sweeping across my face,
Touching me from place to place,

Your love is...
The salty air I smell,
Clearing my thoughts and thinking,

Your love is...
The life preserver that keeps me from sinking,

When I go there to the sea,
I am not alone, for your love is with me,

I feel you all around,
The beauty, the wind, the mystery,

Your love engulfs me,
Takes my breath away,
Holds me in wind's arms,

When I close my eyes,
Dancing memories of your charms,
Never escape my deepest memory,

So if ever our souls part to say goodbye,
Meet me there, where the sea meets the sky,

Your love will forever be with me,
Where the sands touch the sea,

Our love lives on,
Our love flows back out into all eternity.

- Unknown

The Time For Love

Some say the time for love is Spring,
While nature blooms and newborn sing.
The innocent year's early hour
Is when the seeds of want will flower.

But others claim that Summer's best,
When suns are neither east nor west,
But overhead in youthful glory -
The longest page in love's short story.

Still others think that in the Fall
there's love for one and love for all -
While sailing under the autumn trees
Passion's true course is charted with ease.

And some prefer the frozen heart -
Cold white Winter's the place to start -
With no warmth to gain and none to lose,
The lonely, lifeless snows they choose.

But as for me the choice is clear:
'Tis every season I hold dear,
For time itself is time for lovers,
It matters not what climate covers.

Flowers and leaves, snow and sun -
When I'm with you, seasons are one;
A year of love I now live through,
And years will become a life with you.

- Author Unknown

Beautiful Love Poem

Why I Love You

I love you for so many reasons
Big and small
And all of them are wonderful.

I love you for all the special qualities
That make you one of a kind...
The only one in the world for me.

I love you for the things you do
That bring such special meaning to my life
I love you for the silent times
When your eyes and arms tell me all I want to know.

I love you
Just because I do

Because now
In the deepest part of my heart...
A place where there was nothing before
There is love.

- Unknown

What Is Life Without Love?

I fell in love with you once . . .
And while I couldn’t let you know immediately
Eventually, in time, all was revealed.

They say that when you fall into love,
It can never last.

They say that true love grows, takes time,
But from the time I first fell in love with you,
My love has grown.

I know now that if I had the choice
To do it all over again.
I would, without a moment’s hesitation.

Yes, there may be regrets.
Yes, there may be disappointments.
Yes, there may be uncertainty.
But what is life without love?

And while I know you’re not perfect -
After all, who is?
And while there may be things about you which get to me,
I love you, despite them all.

And while I’m sure there may be others,
Considered more beautiful, more lovely, more charming,
There are none considered by me.

For you, my love, are the most lovely in spirit,
The most charming in personality,
The most beautiful person I have ever known -
And as such, I love you.

I said I fell in love with you once -
Well, that wasn’t exactly true.
Because every time you look me in the eye,
And smile that smile of yours,
That bubbles up from within your heart,
I find myself falling in love with you all over again.

No matter what has happened in my day,
No matter how I feel,
I find my heart opening to you all over again
No matter what has happened in the past,
No matter what may, or may not happen in the future,
I find myself in love.
After all, what is life without love?
And what is love without you?

- Author Unknown

When You Don't Try

You've failed many times, although you don't remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim.

Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss,
when you don't even try.

- Unknown

A True Friend

In life, its not the obvious things
that are important,
It's the seemingly insignificant
and often unseen things
that we appreciate.

The friend who asks us
how we are and genuinely wants
to know the answer.

The friend with the shoulder
wet from our tears
who makes time to listen to us again.

The friend who smiles
with their eyes
as well as their mouth.

The friend who says "I care"
simply by being there for you.

But most important of all
is the friend who knows you
with all your imperfections and shortcomings
and still loves you,
just the way you are.

- Unknown

4 Basic Things For A True And Ever Lasting Relationship

These four ingredients can be used in every sort of relationship. If you want them to be long lasting..

They are as follows...


1) Trust

You have to trust the person with whom u want to have relationship

2) Respect

You should respect each other.

3) Compromise

The two of you must compromise in different matters.

4) Patience

The important one..both of you should remain patient and take decisions after a deep thinking on every matter.

- Author Unknown

Motivational Life Quotes

Relations are all about three things:

Winning, losing and sharing.

Winning heart.
Losing ego,
Sharing joy and sorrow.
So always be related.
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Reality is something to think.
Like a water that you drink.
This isn't a beauty you need to wink,
But a fact that your eyes shouldn't blink.
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We are like teabags whose strength comes out
when we're put in hot water.
So when problems beset you, just think,
you must be God's favourite cup of tea.

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~ Unknown

Inspirational Success Thoughts

Destiny is not a matter of chance, It's a matter of choice;
It's not a thing to be waited for, It's a thing to be achieved.

~ William Jennings Bryan
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When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough,
you'll find a way to get it.

~ Jim Rohn
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

~ Albert Einstein
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~ Henry David Thoreau
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

~ William Feather
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Challenges are what make life interesting;
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

~ Joshua J. Marine
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The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Success can never be controlled, but performance always can.

~ John F. Murray
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties:
you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

~ Phyllis Bottome
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

~ Unknown
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Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success

~ Michael Flatley
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To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life.

~ Unknown
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Some Beautiful Leadership Quotes

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something
you want done because he wants to do it.
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There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
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The history of the world is but
the biography of great men.
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The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them.
Start with what they know. Build with what they have.
The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished,
the people will say we have done it ourselves.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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To do great things is difficult;
but to command great things is more difficult.
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A good general not only sees the way to victory;
he also knows when victory is impossible.
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- Unknown

A Special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

- Unknown

Relationship SECRETS

ANNIVERSARIES : Always celebrate! Whether it's the 1st or the 50th, each year together is a triumph.

APPRECIATION : Let each other know how much you appreciate each other. You may already know but hearing it from each other is always better.

BEST FRIENDS : Be best friends preferably before being boyfriend-girlfriend. Take time to know each other so the relationship will be a deep one. Tell each other about your crushes, dreams and problems. Make sure he/she is your best friend before getting engaged. The strong bond of friendship will help you both survive tough times.

BOND : Make it a point to spend time together often but leave room for each other. Also spend time alone w/ each other, so that at the end of the day you could both share your experiences. This way, you stay interesting with your partner.

CHANGING EACH OTHER : Don't marry an as...le, j.... or a bi.... (an unsuitable person) You'll never change each other.

COMPLIMENTS : Always compliment each other. This will prevent feelings of resentment & thinking that one is being taken for granted.

DATE: Keep doings things that you both enjoy, do them together. Make time & continue to date to keep the romance - look good, smell good to maintain physical attraction

DIFFERENCES : Celebrate differences. Never force your ideologies down each other's throat. Give up trying to turn your partner into you. Accept differences, appreciate them.

FIGHTS : Fight with the aim to resolve the issue. Don't outdo each other. The longer you extend the fight. The more chances that you'll say something hurtful that you don't really mean. As mad as you were w/ your partner, he/she is still the person who laughs at your jokes & thinks you're hot. Hear each other out, don't dig up old issues. Choose your battles. Make sure the fight will be worth it & that something will change in the relationship as a result of the fight.

FLAWS : Know that the perfect person does not exist. Know that just as there are things that you love about him/her, there will be things that will make you go crazy. We are only human with our own flaws.

FUN : Have fun together! This means keeping the fun & spontaneity that was there in the early days. Allow yourselves to get silly - shower together, pee w/the door open etc. Being able to make each other laugh & see the lighter, crazier, absurd side is the best way to get through all the differences in personalities, adjustments in lifestyle & opposing viewpoints.

GOALS : Make sure you have similar goals. It would be difficult to keep your bond intact if your views are complete opposite.

GRUDGES : Quit tabulating grudges. Let it off. Discuss it, then trash it, don't recycle it.

KEEPING IT HOT : Keep it hot by traveling to diff. places together. A new setting will do wonders. Always have skin contact - be it holding hands, a massage or just plain leg rubbing.

HONESTY : Don't lie or hide things. The problem will only get bigger.

KNOW EACH OTHER : Learn each other's interest. It really keeps the conversation flowing!

HUG : A hug can be far better more intimate than a kiss.

IDENTITY : Don't lose your personality - that's why he/she fell in love with you. Have separate interest & activities to keep your individual, & to be able to contribute more to the relationship.

INDEPENDENCE : Having your own income means you're the boss in your life.

IN-LAWS : Make rooms for the in-laws.

INTENTIONS : Wish each other well. Don't wish each other worst.

ISSUESS : peak up about the awkward stuff now, like money & sex. The earlier, the better.

LISTEN : Listen, listen, listen. Hear each other out especially during arguments.

LOOK GOOD : Mind your appearance! Stay fit & healthy for each other.

LOVE : It all boils down to your love, chemistry & respect for each other.

MEMORIES : Remind each other of the old days. Do something that you used to do for each other before. It may even be corny but it made you two together. Experience new things together- from dining into a new restaurant to experiencing street food together to exploring to new places. It's the little surprises that make great memories.

MIND READING : No matter how long you've been together, do not think that you can read each other's mind.

NEEDS : Be good to yourself,then be good to your partner. That's what love is all about. Think about your partner. Will it make him/her happy?
Will she/he enjoy it? Consider each other's feelings. Be very attentive & sensitive to each other's needs, physically & emotionally, that way your partner learns to do the same for you. Never take your partner for granted.

PRIORITIES : If one says it's important, then it is! Prioritize each other among other things!

SPACE : Give each other space. Have dates with your girlfriends, have your boy's night out. If you can't trust each other with this, then don't get married.

SORRY : Say sorry when you're wrong.

SURPRISES : No matter how long you've known each other, be open to surprises, both good or bad.

TEAMWORK : Think for two & always work as a team. Consult each other before making a decision because everything will always affect both of you. Strengthen couple power. In many ways, we have to decide based on what is best for the relationship in favor of our individual selves.

SUPPORT : Support each other's dream. Be willing to follow your passions, support your partner in his/her decisions & create new ones together.
Two heads are better than one.

TALK : Tell each other's stories. Life goes by so fast & its easy to see how easily couple can grow apart. Whenever something funny, scary, exciting or juicy happened to you or to someone you know, tell each other about it & have your partner do the same. Keep each other in the loop of life, even by email if you have to.

- Author Unknown

Balloons and Angels

Sometimes, it is the smallest acts of kindness that are the most memorable. It was several years ago that this particular event occurred; the reason I remember it because it was my daughter Kathy's birthday.

My children and I were finishing the last minute preparations for Kathy's birthday celebration. At one store we had bought colorful helium balloon with Kathy's favorite character design on it. We had to make one more stop at another store to complete our purchases. I sent out my older daughter and her little brother out to our van while my other daughter and I were waiting at the cashier line.
A very short time later, my older daughter with little brother in tow came running back into the store; upset that Kathy's birthday balloon had escaped while they trying to get into the van. I was tired from shopping, but I sent them back to the vehicle telling them not to worry we would get Kathy another balloon. I paid for our purchases all the while trying to think of the most expedient place to obtain another balloon.

As Kathy and I approached our van a mature looking lady with kindly face came up to us almost of out of thin air. She pressed some folded bills in my hand. She related to me that she had seen what had happened and did not want my older daughter or my younger daughter to be upset at the loss of the balloon. She told us that she was mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Mind you she looked barely old enough to be a grandmother much less a great grandmother.

I thanked her for kindness and attempted to give her the money back; as it was not a problem to get another balloon. She was most insistent because she said "I love children and I like to see them be happy." I was overwhelmed by the kindness of a total stranger that my daughters and I hugged the lady thanking her for kindness. She left so quickly that I was unable to even ask her name. Finally, I looked in my hand what I found was not just a single one dollar bill but four one dollar bills.

I was very touched not by the money, but by this lovely lady's act of kindness and generosity. Because of her kindness it made Kathy's birthday even more special. I truly believe that dear lady at the very least is one of God's earthly angels and who is to say that she wasn't a real angel. How often is it said that we entertain angels unaware.

- Author Unknown

Life Is A Theater

Invite Your Audience Carefully

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a DISTANCE.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of, or at least minimize your time with, draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships.

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.

Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of Your Life.

"If you cannot change the people around you, CHANGE the people you are around."

Remember that the people we hang with will have an impact on both our lives and our income. And so we must be careful to choose the people we hang out with, as well as the information with which we feed our minds.

We should not share our dreams with negative people, Nor feed our dreams with negative thoughts.
It's your choice and your life..... It's up to you who and what you let in it......

- Author Unknown

Special Love Quotes

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

~ Mother Teresa

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

~ Albert Einstein

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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love;
the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure
they won't laugh if you trip.

~ Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

~ Ovid
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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When love is not madness, it is not love.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

~ Malagasy Proverb
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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.

~ Author Unknown

Trust Did Not Come Easy

Trust did not come easy
Was 'my' way I did go
No one could change me
Not any one that I know.

Trust did not come easy
Most my nights were sleepless
So I looked around me
And saw my life was a mess.

Trust did not come easy
All things I did were wrong
No one really loved me
I wanted to be so strong.

Trust did not come easy
The storms of life did come
Hitting and hurting me
I could not help but feel dumb.

When I saw light, trust came
I gave my strife away
All the storms God did tame,
For I accepted His way.

- Unknown

Something On Life

Life can seem ungrateful ~ and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings ~ and play with your mind.
Life can be blissful ~ and happy and free.
Life can put beauty ~ in the things that you see.

Life can place challenges ~ right at your feet.
Life can make good ~ of the hardships that we meet.
Life can overwhelm you ~ and make your head spin.
Life can reward those ~ determined to win.

Life can be hurtful ~ and not always fair.
Life can surround you ~ with people who care.
Life clearly does offer ~ its ups and its downs.
Life's days can bring you ~ both smiles and frowns.

Life teaches us to take ~ the good with the bad.
Life is a mixture ~ of happy and sad.

So...

Take the life that you have ~ and give it your best.
Think positive, be happy ~ let God do the rest.
Take the challenges ~ that life has laid at your feet.
Take pride and be thankful ~ for each one you meet.

To yourself give forgiveness ~ if you stumble and fall.
Take each day that is dealt you ~ and give it your all.
Take the love that you're given ~ and return it with care.
Have faith that when needed ~ it will always be there.

Take time to find the beauty ~ in the things that you see.
Take life's simple pleasures ~ let them set your heart free.
The idea here is simply ~ to even the score.
As you are met and faced with ~ Life's Tug Of War.

- Author Unknown