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Mukunthan · at 12:09 AM

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to achieve it."

-Dalai Lama

Mukunthan · at 11:35 PM

The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them!

Mukunthan · at 11:20 PM

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.

-Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (1900-1948)

Mukunthan · at 2:59 PM

God is not responsible for right conduct, we are. Why? Because God has given us the intelligence and the will. One to decide what we should do and the other to permit us to do it.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "In His Footsteps", pg. 234, by Revered Chariji

Mukunthan · at 2:42 PM

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mukunthan · at 1:45 PM

Depression and loneliness are symptoms of our doing something which our heart clearly does not want to do.

Taken from the book "The Spider's Web, Vol. 3", Chapter "The Essential Relationship",

Mukunthan · at 9:44 PM

My friends are my estate.

-Emily Dickinson

Mukunthan · at 3:11 PM

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

-Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)

Mukunthan · at 7:21 PM

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

~Henry David Thoreau

Mukunthan · at 6:40 PM

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

-Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763)

Mukunthan · at 5:06 PM

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

-Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, and composer (1889-1977)

Mukunthan · at 9:48 PM

Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey

Mukunthan · at 8:48 PM

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
– Henry David Thoreau

Mukunthan · at 6:26 PM

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Mukunthan · at 6:25 PM

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

– Nelson Mandela

Mukunthan · at 6:17 PM

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Mukunthan · at 4:42 PM

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

Mukunthan · at 4:14 PM

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

– Anonymous

Mukunthan · at 12:39 AM

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

~Brian Tracy

Mukunthan · at 11:55 PM

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

~Brian Tracy

Mukunthan · at 11:27 PM

"The world always looks brighter from behind a smile."

Mukunthan · at 7:32 PM

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

-Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

Mukunthan · at 5:42 PM

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Mukunthan · at 12:43 AM

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."

Horace Friess

Mukunthan · at 12:27 AM

To lead a great Life:

Dream,

Take Action, and

Repeat!

-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mukunthan · at 12:20 AM

"Every choice you make has an end result."

Zig Ziglar

Mukunthan · at 11:30 PM

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

-Stan Smith

Mukunthan · at 2:52 PM

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Mukunthan · at 4:51 PM

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David Thoreau

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." -G. K. Chesterton

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." --Thomas A. Edison

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" --Robert Schuller

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

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." --Norman Vincent Peale

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him." --Henry David Thoreau

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." --John Maxwell

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

Mukunthan · at 4:38 PM

The main barriers to happiness are the past and the future:Learn to live in the present

Mukunthan · at 4:17 PM

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me.

It's because of them I did it myself.

~Albert Einstein

Mukunthan · at 2:53 PM

"We can learn a lot from a calendar. It plans its work a year ahead and always finishes on time."

– Geoffrey Moss

Mukunthan · at 3:37 PM

‎"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize

them."

- Ann Landers

Mukunthan · at 2:05 PM

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Mukunthan · at 1:34 PM

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

Mukunthan · at 3:43 PM

There is much less competition going after big goals.
- Anonymous

Mukunthan · at 1:56 AM

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

~The Dalai Lama

Mukunthan · at 1:53 AM

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

~Theodore Roosevelt 

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