Season's Greetings
On the shoulders
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (25 Dec 1642-1727)
Here for something
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
-Eric Sevareid
Christmas in his heart
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
-Roy L. Smith
Meet with success
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau
CAN control
Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.
-unknown
Key to...
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
~ Arthur Ashe
Silent decisions
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-Agnes De Mille (1905-1993)
Favourable conditions
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
-William Feather
God exists..
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
-Woody Allen, author, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1 Dec 1935)
Current comfort zone
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-Denis Waitley
if it can awake
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people.
-Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (27 Nov 1942-1970)
....Anyway
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
- Mother Teresa
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
- Mother Teresa
Think and act like..
"Training managers to think and act like coaches is the single most important talent initiative that all organizations should be working on."
– Gallup's State of the American Workplace report.
More on desire...
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
-Marcia Wieder
Best you can do
"If you want to be successful, don't seek success – seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do."
- Sadhguru
Words are...
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other -- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
-Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and director (b. 11 Nov 1974)
Hard and EASY
"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life."
- Jerzy Gregorek
Take a minute to soak that in. This is so true.
Hard choices are forcing yourself to act. Take risk. To sacrifice television for studying.
Hard choices are learning how to do something rather than just waiting for someone else to do it for you.
One reason...
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
~ Willis Whitney
Finding Contentment
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
What we have
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
-Frederick Keonig
November Kindness
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Sense of Obligation
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane, writer (1 Nov 1871-1900)
Good cheer...
Be of good cheer. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)
An artist...
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
-Pablo Picasso, artist and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973)
Nothing is impossible...
If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible… abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
-Dr. C.E. Welch
More potential
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
-James T. Mccay
Can Do
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
-Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
One at a time
If you chase two hares at the same time, you will catch neither of them.
-Ukrainian Proverb
Where & why??
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-Eddie Cantor (1892-1964)
Living a life...
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life.
-Greg Anderson
Opportunity Vs Temptation
| Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. |
| - Anonymous |
Let everyone...
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First thing first...
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
-Chinese Proverb
Growth of Progressive Societies
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
-Henry George, economist, journalist, and philosopher (2 Sep 1839-1897)
Stop to help...
The first question that the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
With & without hope
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
-Charles Sawyer
Everywhere v/s Nowhere
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
-Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592)
...strong as purpose
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous and eternal.
-Barry Munro
Gladness & Need
"Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need."
- Frederick Buechner
- Frederick Buechner
New goals...
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
-Les Brown
Only way...
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
-Alan W. Watts (1915-1973)
Exhaustion rather than
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
-Thomas Carlyle
2nd worst crime
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
-Sir Cecil Beaton
No excuse for...
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
-Viggo Mortensen
Not meant for mediocre...
"Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!"
- Steve Maraboli
- Steve Maraboli
Unless...change
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
-Les Brown
Power of mistakes
"Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before."
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Value & You
| Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. |
| – M. Scott Peck |
Something positive...
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.
-Robert A. Cook
Hesitation Vs. Busy
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
-Henry C. Link
Live with precept
This is the precept by which I have lived:
Prepare for the worst;
expect the best;
and take what comes.
- Hannah Arendt
Mistake is an evidence
The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.
-Unknown
Time to
"The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done."
~ Karen Kakascik
Greatest shot of
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly.
-Charles Lindbergh
Wordyevidence
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Passenger in
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
-Margareth II, Queen of Denmark
R E S P E C T
Act of Kindness
We all want to be respected. But respect is something we earn. How?Remember basic kindness.
Encourage others.
Stand firm in your convictions.
Play fair and smart.
Extend a helping hand.
Cause no harm.
Think before you speak.
Most in the least...
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space
- Orson Scott Card
within me
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus
Goals & actions
If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.
-Thomas J. Vilord
Untapped possibilities
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
-Dale E. Turner
BiG Mistake...
If you do not make mistakes, you are not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Outlast life...
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -William James (1842-1910)
Same Person? Right to grow...
"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, month, or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right to grow. No apologies."
- Alan Watts
- Alan Watts
Quarrel with..
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)
Real soldiers
Ethics, decency, and morality are the real soldiers.
-Kiran Bedi, police officer and social activist (b. 9 Jun 1949)
Sign of strength
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." ~ Kahlil Gibran |
See possibilities
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
-John Scully
Happens naturally
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
-Denis Waitley
Change Change
| Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat. |
| – Prince Phillip of England |
Love & Live
"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."
– Alan Cohen
Rather on...
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
-B. C. Forbes
Highest salaried
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
Life and Mathematics
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
- John von Neumann
Keep your .... Positive
Mahatma Gandhi said the following:
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviour.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Awakening power
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
-Edgar F. Roberts
Can grow without???
If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
-David Viscott
Ink it...!
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it…ink it!
-unknown(possibly Michael Korda)
Let’s celebrate Earth Day
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