some quotes

The less you respond to rude,critical,argumentative people.

the more peaceful your life would be.

Mandy Hale

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children.; 

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

 to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; 

whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; 

to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. 

This is the meaning of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever we perceive in the world around us 

tends to reflect who we are 

and what we care about most deeply, 

as in the old saying,

 "When a thief sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets."

Robert Frager

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We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, 

We have only borrowed it from our children. 

unknown.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. 

George Sand

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't

Earl Wilson

In what you say of another, 

apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth,

 and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. 

Liz Armbruster

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. 

In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Robert Hall

Another way of looking at this: Don't feel bad if

people remember you only when they need you.

Feel privileged that you are like a candle that

comes to their mind when there is darkness.

 Unknown

POT POURI

The more time you spend as a caregiver,
the less time you will spend as the cared for.

The more you provide, the less you will be in need.

Science bears this out with hard facts. Those that do volunteer work to help those in need stay healthier than those who don'tdo volunteer work.

If you do not like something, then change it. If you can not change it, then change the way you think about it."

Distances does not matter when the memories are
and Special People are not forgotten when they remain in Heart Beats"..........

You do not choose your destiny,It chooses you.

मैं खुद को कुछ इस तरह पाता हूँ ...
चेहरे बदलने का हुनर मुझमैं नहीं ,
दर्द दिल में हो तो हसँने का हुनर मुझमें नहीं,
मैं तो आईना हुँ तुझसे तुझ जैसी ही मैं बात करू,
टूट कर सँवरने का हुनर मुझमैं नहीं ।
चलते चलते थम जाने का हुनर मुझमैं नहीं,
एक बार मिल के छोड जाने का हुनर मुझमैं नहीं ,
मैं तो दरिया हुँ ,
बहता ही रहा ,तूफान से डर जाने का हुनर मुझमैं नही


Always ask God to give you what you Deserve,
Not what you desire,
Because your desires may be few,
But YOU deserve A LOT !!!

Life never turns the way we want,
But we live it the best way we can,
There is no perfect life,
But we can fill it with perfect moments.

An arrow can be sent only by dragging it back,
So when life is dragging you back with difficulties,
it means that it is going to launch you into victory.

Alexander's beautiful last words....
Bury my body, dont build any monuments,
Keep my hand outside, so the world knows-
Who won the world had nothing in hand,
when he died.

Never design your character like a garden,
Where anyone can walk.
design it like the sky where
everyone aspires to reach.

A mentor is not a person who gives you advice.A mentor is a person whose advice you follow.~Mike Murdoch~

Learn to write your pains on the sand,
Where waves of forgiveness can erase it.
carve your joys in stone,
where even rain cant erase it.

Source..all collected either from newspaper, or sent by Rahul

Few lovely quotes ,ending with a Joke

People often say that motivation doesn't last.Well, neither does bathing,that's why we recommend it daily.~Zig Ziglar~

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving forourselves." Gautam Buddha

Difficulties dont come into ur life to destroy u but to help u realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know you are more difficult.

So many options...poison,sleeping pillss,hanging, jumping from building,lying on train track, but i chose plastics...slow and sure.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn,although I do not always like being taught.~Sir Winston Churchill~

Good relationship are like trees, they demand attention and care in the beginning but once they blossom, they provide you shade in all the situations of life.

If you are feeling depressed , if you are feeling sick then i know what is wrong with you, you are suffering form the defficiency of Vitamin ME.

As a child we always wanted to grow up fast.......Now we realise that incomplete homework and broken toys were far better than unfulfilled dreams and broken emotions.

A joke...
parents to a college watch man... Is this college good?
Watchmen........ Probably the best, i did my MBA here and got immediate placement.

children, parents and god

This is about children. I am not sure who is the writer, may be Kahlil Gibran, But its worth reading
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts;
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies,but not their souls;
For their souls dwell in the house of TOMORROW,
Which you can not visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them; but seek not to make them like you,
For life does not go backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children;
As living arrows are sent forth.
The archer (god ) sees the mark upon the path of the infinite ;
And he bends you with his might,
That his arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for goodness;
For even as he love the arrow that flies;
So he loves also the bow that is stable.
This is my favourite verse, so I think it must be by Gibran only as he is my favourite poet. here the emphasis on 2 moro and god written in bracket are my additions, just for the sake of explanation. Such a profound knowledge on parenting in so few words !

marriage

marriage is not about giving up or giving in ; its about going the distance together

do what is right

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’
But Conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’And there comes a time when one must take a position thatis neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right
.~Martin Luther King~

learn life

SOME PEOPLE LIVE AND LEARN;OTHERS JUST LIVE!!!

Happiness often sneaks in.....through a door you didn't know you left open.

few excerpts from the speech of JK Rowling at Harward

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life.

Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

inspiration

Motivation is what gets you started. habit is what keeps you going.--by Jim Ryun

Problems can either make you or break you.
The hammer that can break glass can shape steel.
Its upto you to be a glass or a steel.
Have the will power of steel and vision of glass

Making the decision to have a child is momentous,as it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking beside you.

coincidence is where God chooses to remain anonymous.

The short road, the easy path, the light load, all lead to lower grades in the school of life.The most important things in your home are the people