Quotes for a day(30-Mar-2010)

Remember that life’s treasures are people, not things.

Personal Worth

PERSONAL WORTH

A great violinist stood before an audience and enraptured it with his playing. Suddenly he paused took the violin from beneath his chin, raised it in the air, and smashed it into a thousand pieces upon the floor. The audience sat aghast. In the silence the violinist walked to the front of the stage and said quietly, “Don’t be alarmed. The violin I smashed was one I purchased for a few dollars in a department store. I shall now play upon the Stradivarius.”
He took the valuable instrument from the case, tuned it for a moment and began to play. The music was magnificent, but to the majority of those present it was indistinguishable from the earlier selection. When he had concluded, the violinist spoke again, “Friends,” he said, “so much had been said about the value of this violin in my hands that I wanted to impress upon you the fact that the music is not in the instrument. It is in the one who plays upon it.”
Each one of us must always remember that each one of us as a person is more important than anything that we say or do. All that we say or do carries less than 10 per cent weight as compared to what we are. What we are carries the remaining 90 per cent weight!

Great Day and Great Week Ahead..

Quotes for a day(22-Mar-10)

"Be ready when opportunity comes.

Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

~ Roy D. Chapin Jr.

Wisdom Evergreen

The first law of success is concentration-
to bend all energies to one point,
and to go directly to that point,
looking neither to the right nor to the left...

Sometimes your existence gives hope to few persons,
your smile may be a pearl for some people, and
your presence might be the desire of the one who loves you dearly.
So value yourself!

Great Day and Great Week Ahead,,,

Be A Happiness Manufacturer

UNHAPPINESS MANUFACTURER

In his bestselling book The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale describes an experience of his in a railway dining car. He was seated across from a husband and wife, who were strangers to him. The lady was expensively dressed in furs and diamonds. But she was having a most unpleasant time with herself. She openly criticized everything: the car as being dingy and drafty, the service as being abominable, and the food as being unpalatable. Her husband, who seemed to know his wife rather well, in contrast, was a genial, affable, easy-going and adaptable person. He seemed a bit embarrassed by his wife’s critical attitude and somewhat disappointed too, because they were on a pleasure trip. In order to change the conversation, the man turned to Peale. Asked what business he was in, he informed him that he was a lawyer. And with a grain, he added, “My wife is in the manufacturing business.” Peale was surprised because she did not in the least look the type, so he asked, “What does she manufacture?” “Unhappiness,” the man replied, “she manufactures her own unhappiness!’ Are we any different?

Don’t get upset with little jerks in life because life’s like a road and problems are like speed breakers.

They save us from big accidents so enjoy the jerks and move on..

Good Morning. Have A Nice Day and weekend Ahead..

Know God Within U

KNOW THE GOD WITHIN

God is always seen as a protector, because we have images of Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva with weapons in their hands. So, we think that God being with us means, God being with us with all his weapons and ammunitions to give us all the protection, and then we can fight with anyone. If this is your definition of God, then you are still in the kindergarten class of spirituality. The kindergarten schools are meant for small children to play. They are not taught, they are not educated, they just play and enjoy. Everything evolves. One day, a seed evolves into a flower, similarly, the mind too has to evolve; it really needs to go into deep, to know, to understand, to experience who God is. This cannot be understood theoretically, because when theories are used to make point, there will always be other theories to counter those points, to oppose those points. To know ‘what God is’ you will have to move within, you will have to take out time for yourself. Before you start your office job or before you indulge in your worldly activities, schedule a time slot when you can be with yourself. The best way to be with oneself is meditation. A good meditation will help you to find God. Of course, you cannot see God. You cannot make him an object of your appreciation. But you can be one with God. The more meditative you become, the more you feel closer to God. And then this closeness one day will end into merging with God. Being one with God and not being a person who is just viewing God. – Courtesy: Soul Curry Magazine

Attitude Matters

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 per cent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.

-DPublish Postr Viktor E. Frankl

I view my life in a way… I’ll explain it to you, OK? The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that’s how I look at my life. I will be better as a golfer, I will be better as a person, I will be better as a father, I will be a better husband, I will be better as a friend. That’s the beauty of tomorrow. There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.”

– Tiger Woods

Have A Wonderful Day.

It Matters in Life

IT PAYS TO BE KIND
A young man and a young lady were seated at a table in a small and little-known restaurant in Paris. It was evident that they were on their honeymoon, from the loving glances they gave each other. When the time came to lock the door, the groom discovered to his despair that he had been pick-pocketed of his purse. He described his plight to the waiter, who in turn called the proprietor. The owner was struck with something in the appearance of the young man that made him say, “Young man, it is all right. Do you have money to get home?” The young groom’s embarrassment grew as he confessed he had not a single coin with him. The owner reached in his pocket and gave the grateful groom some money, as he stammered words of appreciation, and said, “Sir, you will not regret this. Someday I will make you and your café world famous!” “I want nothing but my money back,” declared the proprietor of the café.Some years later the recipient of this charity wrote an operetta, the famous MERRY WINDOW. In it is a song called the CAFÉ MAXIM. It made that obscure Paris restaurant world famous. Certainly the proprietor, Eugene Cornuche, never regretted that he had helped Franz Lehar, the composer and his bride!

If only each one of us realized that a drop of water given to a thirsty person is worthy of unimaginable reward! Genuine charity does not evaluate an action by its bigness or smallness. It evaluates it as an act of love, an act that makes us discover the greatest good: God himself