Love is the only force...

"Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Don't GO through Life... G R O W through Life" -Eric Butterworth

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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." - Thomas Edison

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"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see." Winston ChurchillDelete

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. -Brian Tracy

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"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." ~ Confucius

Love in my eyes



You can make up any quote, put it on a tea bag and attribute it to Chinese Proverb" - Chinese Proverb


"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"-Einstein

Miraculous
Passengers wait on the wings of US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus 320 that was safely ditched in the Hudson River after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. This photograph was taken by artist Steven Day. He recalls, "I have a freelance job on 47th street, on the 8th floor. I was working on my computer when someone passed by me and said, 'what is that?' So I instinctually grabbed my camera —I'm working on a series that involves recording the world around me — and went to the window and started shooting. My initial reaction was 'this must be an exercise.' It didn't occur to me that it was a plane until I zoomed in, because they were just moving down the river like a boat. I mean, you just don't see people standing on the wings of an airplane in the middle of the Hudson River. Alive...The river was moving so fast it was only a matter of seconds before the plane floated past us. The photo here is one of the first frames I took, there's actually a water taxi approaching that ended up being cropped out. Very quickly there were 4 or 5 ferries responding, and passengers were being taken on board. It was strangely calming. This was an incredible situation, and everyone was there and they knew what their job was and what their limitations were and they were just waiting to be rescued."



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I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." - Groucho Marx

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man." - Jimmy Lyons

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." - Martin Luther King




Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -Dale Carnegie


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Failure... teaches SUCCESS." ~Japanese Saying





"What Is Success"
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 bit 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 to have succeeded

8 dumb mistakes men make with women - CNN.com

8 dumb mistakes men make with women - CNN.com: "Men get all kinds of dating advice -- some smart, some stupid. If you're a guy, it's hard to know who to believe when it comes to us women."

Steve Jobs Dead, Apple's Co Founder and Former CEO Dies at 56 - The Economic Times

Steve Jobs Dead, Apple's Co Founder and Former CEO Dies at 56 - The Economic Times: "The death of Apple founder Steve Jobs has shaken not only technology enthusiasts but millions the world over. Steve Jobs, the creator of iconic products such as Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad died a day after Apple announced the launch of iPhone 4S. ET brings you a full wrap of Steve Jobs' work, legacy & life in the tech world after the demise of the biggest tech visionary of our time."

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The wisdom of Ravan

Workers look at effigies being prepared for the upcoming Dussehra festival in New Delhi

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. Josh Billings

Ravan abducted Lord Ram’s wife, a crime for which he was killed by Ram himself. So says the Ramayan. The epic makes Ravan the archetypical villain. And since Ram is God for most Hindus, Ravan’s actions make him the Devil incarnate. This justifies the annual burning of his effigy on the Gangetic plains during the festival of Dussehra.
But in the hills of Rishikesh or in the temple of Rameshwaram, one hears that tale of how Ram atoned for the sin of killing Ravan. Why should God atone for killing a villain? One realises that like most things Hindu, the Ramayan is not as simple an epic as some are eager to believe.
Ravan was a brahmin, the son of Rishi Vaishrava, grandson of Pulatsya. Ram, though God incarnate, was born in the family of kshatriyas. In the caste hierarchy, Ram was of lower rank. As a brahmin, Ravan was the custodian of Brahma-gyan (the knowledge of God). Killing him meant Brahma-hatya-paap, the sin of Brahminicide, that Ram had to wash away through penance and prayer. Another reason why this atonement was important was because Ravan was Ram’s guru.
The story goes that after shooting the fatal arrow on the battlefield of Lanka, Ram told his brother, Lakshman, “Go to Ravan quickly before he dies and request him to share whatever knowledge he can. A brute he may be, but he is also a great scholar”. The obedient Lakshman rushed across the battlefield to Ravan’s side and whispered in his ears, “Demon-king, do not let your knowledge die with you. Share it with us and wash away your sins”. Ravan responded by simply turning away. An angry Lakshman went back to Ram, “He is as arrogant as he always was, too proud to share anything”. Ram comforted his brother and asked him softly, “Where did you stand while asking Ravan for knowledge?” “Next to his head so that I hear what he had to say clearly”. Ram smiled, placed his bow on the ground and walked to where Ravan lay. Lakshman watched in astonishment as his divine brother knelt at Ravan’s feet. With palms joined, and with extreme humility, Ram said, “Lord of Lanka, you abducted my wife, a terrible crime for which I have been forced to punish you. Now you are no more my enemy. I bow to you and request you to share your wisdom with me. Please do that for if you die without doing so, all your wisdom will be lost forever to the world”. To Lakshman’s surprise, Ravan opened his eyes and raised his arms to salute Ram, “If only I had more time as your teacher than as your enemy. Standing at my feet as a student should, unlike your rude younger brother, you are a worthy recipient of my knowledge. I have very little time so I cannot share much but let me tell you one important lesson I have learnt in my life. Things that are bad for you seduce you easily; you run towards them impatiently. But things that are actually good for you fail to attract you; you shun them creatively, finding powerful excuses to justify your procrastination. That is why I was impatient to abduct Sita but avoided meeting you. This is the wisdom of my life, Ram. My last words. I give it to you”. After these words, Ravan died.

source: deccan chronicle

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies - CNN.com: "Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56."

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up

Careful what you set your HE♥RT upon... for it surely shall be yours. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln


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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the actions." - Confucius,

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We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. - Marshall McLuhan

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing
-- Thomas Jefferson


"School is where you go between when your parents can take you and industry can take you. " - John Updike

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. Plutarch




"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess — fear, dislike and contempt..." -Herbert Casson

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie


"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." -Kenneth Blanchard

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." -Aristotle

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow." -Chinese Proverb

"My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us..." C. Powell



"It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character..." - Queen Latifah


"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!" Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Guatama Buddha

“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” Hans Marqolius

"Heroes are men who glorify a life which they can't bear any longer. " - Jean Giraudoux



inspiring quotes

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and the burning desire to achieve it." - Napoleon Hill

Don’t let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for the high times. – David Wiemers


“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.
I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep. ” - Greg Evans

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ”
— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”
— W. Edwards Deming
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ”
— George Bernard Shaw

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ”
— Albert Einstein

The most important opinion is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.
- Zig Ziglar

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
— Orison Swett Marden

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.“
- Ella Fitzgerald
“Keep company with those who make you better.”
— English Proverb

“Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. “ — Norman Vincent Peale

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Saint Tiruvalluvar's words of wisdom:

“Two thousand years ago he set the benchmark for good governance in the following immortal words:

Generous grants, compassion, righteous rule and succour to the downtrodden are the hallmarks of good governance.”

Thomas Hobbes
"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair."

Scott Westerfeld
"Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain"

Colleen Wainwright
"Even the great get greater by doing more of it."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."

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"The most effective way to manage change is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"The will of men who are put to the test can often supersede the will of destiny." - Tristan Bernard

"Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy; that is why they retire poor."- Brian Tracy

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George W. Carver

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up." - Thomas Alva Edison

7 Habits of Highly Frugal People

7 Habits of Highly Frugal People: "The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live a happier, more successful and more satisfying life. One of the prevailing themes of the book is the fact that to change your life you need to change your attitude because no one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. Not surprisingly, this directly relates to the state of your finances."