Celebrate Life

WHEN ARE YOU ‘TOO OLD?’
When asked how it was that he has lived so long, one 91-year-old man replied, “I think God is testing the patience of my relatives.”When is “too old”? At what age do we give up? At 100, Grandma Moses was still painting, and Titian painted ‘Battle of Lepants’ when he was 98.At 93, George Bernard Shaw wrote ‘Farfetched Fables.’At 91, Eamon de Valera served as president of Ireland.At 90, Pablo Picasso still drew and engraved.At 89, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Pablo Casals, at 88, still performed cello concerts.At 82, Winston Churchill wrote the four-volume work, ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,’ Leo Tolstoy completed ‘I Cannot Be Silent,’ and Goethe, at the same age, finished ‘Faust.’At 81, Benjamin Franklin engineered the diplomacy, which led to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.When are you ‘too old’? Only on the day when you truly have nothing left to give. And the good news is this: that day never has to arrive!

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Add life to your years, not just years to your life!

When things go wrong

A MOUSE-TRAP
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. “What food might this contain?” The mouse wondered and he was devastated to discover it was a mouse-trap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: “There is a mouse-trap in the house! There is a mouse-trap in the house!”The chicken said, “I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.” The mouse turned to the pig and the cow. The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so very sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it.” The cow said, “Mr Mouse, I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.” So, the mouse returned to the house, dejected, to face the the mouse-trap alone. That very night a sound was heard, like the sound of a mouse-trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit her. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows that people treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer killed the chicken for soup. But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. His wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness. So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember: when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another.

Have A Nice Day

On Attitude

ON ATTITUDE
At ten minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Arkwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic stadium, the last to finish the marathon.The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost as empty as Arkwari, alone, his leg bloody and bandaged, struggled to circle the track to the finish line. The respected documentary film-maker, Bud Greenspan, watched from a distance. Then, intrigued, Bud walked over to Arkwari and asked why he had continued the gruelling struggle to the finish line even after the injury.The young man from TANZANIA answered softly, “My country did not send me nine thousand miles to start the race. They sent me nine thousand miles to finish the race.”Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just until we get tired of it"

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness,
and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.

Great Day Ahead.

Wisdom Evergreen

NEVER GIVE UP!
A man meets a guru in the road. The man asks the guru, “Which way is success?” The guru speaks not but points to a place off in the distance. The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud ‘Splat!’ Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction. The man obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening, and when the man crawls back, he is bloody, broken, tattered, and irate. “I asked you which way is success,” he screams at the guru. “I followed the direction you indicated. And all I got was splatted! No more of this pointing! Talk!” Only then does the guru speak, and what he says is this,

“Success is that way. Just a little after the splat.”Every success story is also a story of a great failure. The only difference is that the successful people never gave up. Instead, they bounced back with a much more energy and enthusiasm every time they failed. "

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Thoughts To Enrich Life

Achievement of Modern Technology

The Master was asked what he thought of the achievement of modern technology. This was his reply, “An absent-minded professor was late for his lecture. He jumped into a cab and shouted, “Hurry! At top speed!”
As the cab sped along he realized he hadn’t told the driver where to go, so he shouted, “Do you know where I want to go?”
“No, sir,” said the cabbie, “but I’m driving as fast as I can.”



At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a parent, a brother, a sister, a friend, a life partner or a child

– Barbara Bush


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Hints To Live By

HINTS TO LIVE BY

The most destructive habit: Worry

The greatest joy: Giving

The greatest loss: The loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work: Helping others.

The ugliest personality trait: Selfishness.

The most engendered species: Dedicated leaders.

Our greatest natural resource: Our youth.

The greatest ‘shot in arm’: Encouragement.

The greatest problem to overcome: Fear.

The most effective sleeping pill: Peace of mind.

The most crippling disease: Excuses.

The most powerful force in life: Love.

The most dangerous person: A gossiper.

The world’s most incredible computer: The brain.

The worst thing to be without: Hope.

The deadliest weapon: The tongue.

The two most power-filled words: I can.

The greatest asset: Faith.

The most worthless emotion: Self-pity.

The most beautiful attire: Smile.

The most priced possession: Integrity.

The most powerful channel of communication: Prayer.

The most important thing in life: God.
– Courtesy: MCDS Newsletter



Let Go

To let go means not to care for,but to care about,

To let go means not to fix,but to nurture.

To let go means not to meddle in arranging every outcome,but to allow other to affecttheir own destinies.

To let go means not to deny but to accept.

To let go means not to regret the past,but to live in the present andlook forward to the furture.

to let go is to fear less and love more.

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Handling ourselves to God

HANDING OURSELVES TO GOD
When the Standard Oil Company began to refine petroleum, there was a black substance, a byproduct, that no one knew what to do with. It was black, sticky, stinking, it could be buried, not burned, and everyone complained of the all but endurable stench. If it were run into a stream, it would certainly kill all the fish in it. Therefore, the company offered a reward to anyone able to solve the problem.A great many chemists, attracted by the promised reward occupied themselves with the task of coming up with a solution. Finally, one chemist walked into the office of Mr Rockefeller with a white shining substance, free from every offensive quality and in fact extremely useful. It was what we know of today as paraffin, used for candles and hundreds of other useful purposes! Like the chemist in this incident,

often God takes the dirty, sticky, stinking parts of our lives and he renews and makes us whole and useful. All that is required of us is, like the Standard Oil Company, to hand over ourselves to God with all our weaknesses and failures!


Do you Know why are there only 60 seconds in a minute?A minute is a unit used to measure both time and angles. A circle was divided into 360 degrees by ancient civilizations, probably first, by the Babylonians who figured everything in units of 10’s and 60’s instead of 10’s and 100’s as we do. The degree was divided into 60 parts and each of these parts was divided into 60 parts. The Romans called the first division of the degree ‘the partes minutae primal’ or the first. The second division they called ‘the partes minutae secundaes’ or second small parts. These terms were finally shortened to minutes and seconds.
Courtesy to iquote.in magazine for above messages:

Smooth roads never make good drivers.. Smooth sea never make good sailors.Clear skies never make good pilots.Problem-free life never makes a strong & good person.Have a tough, but winning day ahead.Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life.



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WHY WAIT?

WHY WAIT?
Sociologist Tony Campolo told about a study in which fifty people over the age of 90 were asked to reflect upon their lives. “If you had it to do over again,” they were asked, “what would you do differently?” Though there were many answers, three responses dominated. Here they are: First, many respondents answered, “I would reflect more.” Do you ever feel that too much time is spent in “doing” and not enough spent thinking about what you are doing and why you are doing it? Second, they said, “I would risk more.” Do you think that important opportunities either have been or might be forfeited because of your fear to take a necessary risk? Finally, they said, “I would do more things that would live on after I died.” Do you feel that you are immersed in something bigger and more enduring than your own existence?

Reflect more. Risk more. Leave a legacy. These are what our elders say they would do the second time around. But why wait for a second time around? Every new day is a second chance

Life survives on change. So instead of avoiding it, take every change as challenge, either it will give you success or teach you how to succeed

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WHAT TO GIVE UP…
Give up complaining — focus on gratitude.

Give up pessimism — become an optimist.Give up harsh judgments — think kindly thoughts.

Give up worry — trust Divine Providence.Give up discouragement — be full of hope.

Give up bitterness — turn to forgiveness.

Give up hatred — return good for evil.Give up negativism — be positive.

Give up anger — be more patient.Give up pettiness — become mature.

Give up gloom — enjoy the beauty that is all around you.Give up jealousy — pray for trust.

Give up gossiping — control your tongue.

Give up sin — turn to virtue.Give up giving up — hang in there!
Remorse over yesterday’s failures.
Anxiety over today’s problems.
Worry over tomorrow’s uncertainty.
Waste of the moment’s opportunity.
Impatience with youth’s immaturity.
Resentment of another’s success.
Procrastination with one’s present duty.
Criticism of a neighbour’s imperfection.
Skepticism of our nation’s future.
Unbelief in God’s providence.
– William Arthur Ward
The adventure of life is to learn.The purpose of life is to grow.The nature of life is to change.The challenge of life is to overcome.The essence of life is to care.The opportunity of life is to serve.The secret of life is to dare.The spice of life is to befriend.The beauty of life is to give.The joy of life is to love.

Good Morning. Have A Great Day.

- Jaison

AT THE END OF OUR LIVES
At the end of our lives we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by: “I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.”Hungry not only for bread, but hungry for love.Naked not only for clothing, but naked of human dignity and respect.Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks, but homeless because of rejection.This is God in distressing disguise.
– Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find.

The quickest way to receive love is to give love.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly.

In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO TODAY?
A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: “What you wish to experience, provide for another.”Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience in your own life, and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of that.If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.If you wish to know that you are safe, cause others to know that they are safe.If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand.If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
– Dalai Lama

Do more than belong: participate.

Do more than care: help.Do more than believe: practice.Do more than fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget.Do more than dream: work.

– William Arthur Ward

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Your Best Foot Forward

Which sounds longer to you, 569,400 hours or 65 years? They are exactly the same in length of time. The average man spends his first eighteen years — 157,000 hours — getting an education. That leaves him 412,000 hours from age 18 to 65. Eight hours of every day are spent in sleeping; eight hours in eating and recreation. So there is left eight hours to work each day. One third of 412,000 hours is 134,000 hours — the number of hours a man has in which to work between the age of 18 and 65. Expressed in hours it doesn’t seem a very long time, does it? Now I am not recommending that you tick off the hours that you worked, 134,000, 133,999,133,998, etc., but I do suggest that whatever you do, you do it with all that you have in you.

If you are sleeping, sleep well. If you are playing, play well.If you are working, give the best that is in you, remembering that in the last analysis the real satisfaction in life comes not from money and things, but from the realization of a thing well done. Therein lies the difference between the worker and a real craftsman.

- H. W. Prentis, Jr.

Life gives answers in three ways.

It says yes and gives whatever you want.

It says no and gives you something better.

It says wait and gives you the best.

If you’re committed to your dream, you will win anyway. Don’t just dream. Live your dream. Keep moving towards it.

Have A Wonderful Day

Reform Yourself!
“You sweat too much blood for the world,” Leo Tolstoy told a zealous reformer one day, “Sweat some for yourself first, if you want to make the world better, you have to be the best you can. You cannot bring the kingdom of God into the world until you bring it first in your heart.”

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. To that end, each of us must work for his/her own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity.
– Marie Curie

LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE
A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and apprehensive. Late in the afternoon she summoned the courage to approach her employer. To her delight, the boss agreed to a raise. The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home early and prepared a festive meal. She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off. Or did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down? She found him in the kitchen and told him the good news. They embraced and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It read: “Congratulations, darling! I knew you’d get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you.” Following the supper, her husband went into the kitchen to clean up. She noticed that a second card had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read: “Don’t worry about not getting the raise! You deserve it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you.” Someone has said that the measure of love is when you love without measure.

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

Life is only travelled once. Today’s moment becomes tomorrow’s memory. Enjoy every moment, good or bad, because the gift of life is life itself

Have A Wonderful Day and Weekend

‘YOU ARE MY LIFE’
There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school. Before being sent away this boy was the brightest student in his class. He was at the top in every competition. He was a champion. However the boy changed a lot after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started dropping. He hated being in a group. He was lonely all the time. And there were especially dark times when he felt like committing suicide. All of this because he felt worthless and that no one loved him.His parents started worrying about the boy. But even they did not know what was wrong with him. So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him casual questions about his classes, teachers and sports. After some time his dad asked, “Do you know son, why I am here today?”The boy answered back, “To check my grades?”“No, no,” his dad replied, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”These words caused the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He hugged his dad. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around,” says Leo Buscaglia

Courtesy: iquote.in magazine

Never judge a person by his/her status or appearance because time has the great power to change a useless coal into a valuable diamond.

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