Hope in men, no society

" There is hope in men,
Not in society, not in systems,
Not in organized religious systems,
But in you and in me". - Jiddu Krishnamurti

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Miracle

"Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, something has gone wrong." - Helen Schulman

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View from the top

“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” - Dag Hammarskjold

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Encouragement

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.” - William Arthur

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Slow Down

When you run so fast to get somewhere,
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is no a race, so take it slower,
Hear the music before the song is over.

- David L Weatherford

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Little things of Life

"Your life is in trouble when all the little things no longer have meaning." - Graeme Browne

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Book reading

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, As a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." ~Robertson Davie

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Don't Compare

" Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world.
If you do so, you are insulting yourself " - Alen Strike

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Life is Relationship

"Life is Relationship. In relationship you see your self as you are, whatever you are, ugly or beautiful, subtle or gross; in the mirror of relationship you see precisely every new problem, the whole structure of yourself as you are." - Jiddu Krishnamurthi

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Beyond Horizons

“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed ... It feels an impulsion ... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”
- Richard Bach

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Continuous Improvement

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” - James All

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Laughter

"Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Open Mind

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Little Things

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Time to give back

“I believe that we have all at some time eaten the fruit from trees that we did not plant. In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, it behooves us in turn to plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will largely benefit generations to come. I believe this is our sacred responsibility, one that I hope you will shoulder in time."
- Narayan Murthy, Infosys Chief Mentor, Lecture at NewYork University

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Children and Society

"What's done to children, they will do to society." - Karl Menninger

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Doing Good`

"The good you do today may be quickly forgotten,
but the impact of what you do will never disappear." - Anonymous

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Security

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Being Perfect

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." -- George Eliot

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Reality "As-Is"

"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." ~George Orwell

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Long range planning

“Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” ~ Peter Drucker

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Gratitude

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

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Imagination

“There are no days in life so measurable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

The waiting game

"The things that come to those who wait may just be the things left behind by those who got there first." - Anonymous

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Do something never done

"If you want something you never had,
Do something you have never done." - Anonymous

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Worrying

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep." - Dale Carnegie

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Goal

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history.
Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk." - James Cash Penney

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Judgement

"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken." - Rousseau

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Smile

"One call invites one hundred comrades;
One smile beckons ten thousand admirers." - Zen saying

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Before you ...

"Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give." - William A. Ward

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Rejection and Acceptance

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." - Ray Bradbury

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Marriage

" To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right shut up. " - Ogden Nash

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Kind words

"One kind word can warm three winter months" - Japaneese saying

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Improvement

"There's always room for improvement, you know - it's the biggest room in the house." - Louise Heath Leber

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Why not

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. - Mason Cooley

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First rate Mind

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A.Milne

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Open Mind

"I think there is a world market for about five computers" — Thomas Watson , IBM Chairman (quoted in 1943)

Guess the only way to future is with an "open mind".

Humility

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Judgement and Beliefs

" I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons." - Buddha

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Start today

"What is not started today is not finished tomorrow." - Johanh Wolfgang van Groethe

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Trouble

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met." - Dwight L. Moody

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Character

"The best test of a man’s character is to give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Adventure

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." - G. K. Chesterton

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Eating and Worrying

"To aviod sickness, eat less.
To prolong life, worry less" - Chi Hui Weng

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Giver and Receiver

"The giver should be thankful, not the receiver" - Zen saying

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

To know, To Speak

"They who tell do not know; they who know do not tell." - Lao Tzu

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Always and Never

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." -Wendell Johnson

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Wise

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday" - Abraham Lincoln

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Three words about Life

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: “It goes on.” —Robert Frost

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Comfort Zone

"If you remain in your comfort zone you will not go any further." - Catherine Pulsifer

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Free

"Free man is he who does not fear to go the end of his thought." - Leon Blum

Happy Independence Day !!!!

Attitude

"People laugh because I am different. And I laugh because they are all the same. That's called Attitude" - Swami Vivekananda

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Do It yourself

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself" - Thomas Jefferson

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Know yourself

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Winning

"Winning is not a sometime thing,
It is an all-time thing." - Vince Lombardi

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Free at Last

A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning

A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine

So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything

The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird You're free at last.

- Charlie Daniels, on en route to funeral of his friend

Walk, Stand, Sit & Lie

"Walk like the wind.
Stand like a pine.
Sit like a bell.
Lie like a bow." - Four Great Deportments, Buddhist percept


All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Life

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Tell a story

"To be a person is to have a story to tell" - Isak Dinesen

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Seeking Truth

"Do not seek for the truth;
Only cease to cherish opinions." - Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on Faith Mind

Enthusiasm

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph W Emerson

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

To reason

"He that cannot reason is a fool,
He that will not reason is a bigot,
He that dare not is a slave." - Andrew Carnegie

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Success

"Nothing fails like success." - Gerald Nachman


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Ship in harbour

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - Anonymous

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Tradition

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." -- Kirt Herbert Adler

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Do more

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid" - Albert Schweitzer

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Crossing Bridges

"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." - Anon

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Quality

"Quality has to be caused, not controlled." - Philip Crosby


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Every Act

You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does." - Gottfried Müller

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Choice

The chooser is in confusion, therefore he chooses;
If he is not in confusion, there is no choice" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

“Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.” - Satchel Paige

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Fool's Gold

"Fool's gold is at the end of the rainbow, the real stuff's along the way." - Graeme A.S. Browne

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Life

"The name of the bow is life, but its work is death." - Heraclitus (Greek Philosopher)

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

To Preach

"Preach the gospel at all times... and when necessary, use words" - Saint Francis of Assisi

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Judgement

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Mind over Matter

"Be who you want to be when you want to be, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Anonymous

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Greatness

"Some people are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them" - Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Perspectives

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." - Robert McCloskey

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Being Wise

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Generating Interest

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Live a Dream

Row, row, row your boats
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.
-- round song sung to Canadian babies

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Patience

"Genius is eternal patience" - Michaelangelo

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Somebody

"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do anything about that. Then I realized I was somebody." - Lily Tomlin

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Imaginations

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." - Mark Twain

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Communication

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place". - George Bernard Shaw

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Progress

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him...
The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself...
All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw


All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

You are what you eat

"Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

To Act

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." - George Bernard Shaw


All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Religion

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." - HH Dalai Lama

I had the opportunity to attend the sessions of HH Dalai Lama over last three days, on occasion of his visit to Australia. The experience was nothing less than life changing. Folks who want to know more about him can go to http://dalailama.com/ .

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Live better

"Every generation should live better than the last" - Westpac Bank

Today is "World Environment Day", and the theme for today is 'melting ice'.

Spare a moment to think of how to make our planet a better place to live. And, spread the message.

Adventure

"Life is an adventure, dare it." - Mother Teresa


All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

To Understand

Teach me and I'll forget,
Show me and I may remember,
Involve me and I'll understand.
- Chinese Proverb

Motivation

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” - Lee Iacocca

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.

Stop Worrying

Don't worry about things which you can change,
And, what is the use of worrying about things you cannot change."
- Acharya Geshe-la (Tibetan Buddhist Monk)

All thoughts / reflections are welcome.