Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.


~ Parker J. Palmer

Men shout to avoid listening to one another. 


~ Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936) 

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. 


~ George Sand [pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin], novelist (1804-1876) 

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.


~ Lena Horne

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. 


~ William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962) 

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.


~ George Washington Carver

Nothing will work unless you do. 


~ John Wooden

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

~ Leo C. Rosten

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all. 


~ Booker T. Jones, musician and songwriter (b. 1944) 

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. 


~ Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

~ Steve Allen, television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer (1921-2000)

Money. You don't know where it's been, / but you put it where your mouth is. / And it talks.


~ Dana Gioia, poet, critic, and translator (b. 1950)

That action is best which accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. 

~ Francis Hutcheson, philosopher (1694-1746)

Everything is clearer when you're in love. 

~ John Lennon

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. 

~  Howard Zinn, historian, professor, author, playwright, and social activist (1922-2010)

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. 

~ Dalai Lama

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by resaon.

~ Andre Gide , author , Nobel Laureate ( 1869-1951 ) 

 

It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.

~ Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

He who has a why can endure any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. 

~ Bradley Miller, activist (b. 1956)

With respect to the number of deaths, arms manufacturers are charitable institutions compared to cigarette manufacturers.

~ Silvio Garattini, doctor, researcher, professor, and founder of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer (b. 1928)

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

~William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

~ James Miles

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

~Soren Kierkegaard

if you have a work instead of a job , everyday is a holiday.

~ Paulo Coelho

Long term strategic planning: What am I going to do with the remainder of the day to make it count.

~ Tom Peters

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give.

~ Dalai Lama

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and philanthropist (b. 1954)

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

~ A. A. Milne author (1882-1956)

Hint for Monday: The Pursuit of Excellence is a personal decision, not an institutional decision. (It's 100% up to you.)

~ Tom Peters

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect - and I don't live to be - but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean !

~ Bob Marley

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

~ Napoleon Hill, author (1883-1970 )

Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

~ Elbert Hubbard, author, editor, printer (1856-1915)

Even for people who have no spiritual beliefs, a peaceful mind is important.

~ Dalai Lama

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

~ Lin Yutang, writer and translator (1895-1976)

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

~William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

It is necessary to help others in our daily lives, merely praying for them isn't enough.

~ Dalai Lama

We can't store our fellings in a safety deposit box. Let's be open to life.

~ Paulo Coelho

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

~ Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

~ Richard Harding Davis, journalist and author (1864-1916)

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

~ Kurt Cobain

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.

~ Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887

Run your Life, Live your Life & Share your Life.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

~Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

~ Irving Babbitt

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

~ Jane Austen, novelist ( 1775-1817 )

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

~ Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

~ Ray Charles

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (1883 -1924) [while admiring fish in an aquarium]

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

Not only in doors, but in life itself: if it is written "pull", don't push.

~ Paulo Coelho

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

I was not delivered into this world in defeat-nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will not hear those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

~ Og Mandino

Love makes us weak & stronger at the same time, we can't just live without it.

~ Paulo Coelho

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (1883-1924)

We're here to put a dent in the universe.

~ Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur and Inventor

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

~ Dalai Lama

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

~John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

Only he who never plays never loses.

~ Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess Grandmaster

Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

~ Paulo Coelho

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

~ Warren Buffett

Forgive the action, forget the intent.....( as written in the fortune cookie )

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

~ Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

~Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

I needed to live and to suffer a lot to understand that love is an act of faith.

~ Paulo Coelho

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

~ Joesph Roux

Self-control is more indispensible than gunpowder.

~ Henry Morton Stanley

Every day I do something new. That way I make time my ally, not my enemy.

~ Paulo Coelho

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart ?

~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Novelist , Nobel Laureate ( 1918-2008 )

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

~ Paulo Coelho

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

~Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Everybody says I am in denial , but really , I am not.

~ As seen on a Car Bumper Sticker.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

~Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

~Mahatma Gandhi

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

~ Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

~Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)

People who love in the expectation of being loved in return are wasting their time.

~ Paulo Coelho

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

When your legs are tired, walk with your heart. But please, don't stop. 

~ Paulo Coelho

 

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

~ Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

~ Dalai Lama

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

~ Kabir , reformer , poet ( late 15th Century )

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

~Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb. You build toughness by doing.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

~ Gloria Steinem

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Today we will not just be like Gandhiji, but if the government doesn’t accept the peoples demands, we will become like Chhatrapati Shivaji !!!

~ Anna Hazare

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

~ Jean Cocteau, author and painter (1889-1963)

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

~Saadi, poet (c. 1213-1291)

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

~ Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.

~ Robert Cecil, British prime minister (1830-1903)

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

~Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

~Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875 -1965)

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)

Whatever steps, however small, one can take towards learning to reduce the influence of the negative emotions can be very helpful.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.


~Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.


~William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

~John Maxwell

If you are brave to say "good bye", life will reward you with a new "hello".

~ Paulo Coelho

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

~Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (1902-2003)

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

~ Aristotle

So we are history, the shadow covers me

The sky above, a blaze that only lovers see

~Amy Winehouse

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.

~Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

~Thomas Jefferson

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea about their sufferings.

~ Paulo Coelho

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

~Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering.

~Twyla Tharp

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We want what the top 1% have but so few of us are willing to do what the top 1% do.

~Robin Sharma

If you wait for inspiration, you're not an artist, but a waiter.

~ Paulo Coelho

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self.

~Aristotle

Whether we like it or not, we're all connected, and it is unthinkable to be happy all by oneself.

~ Dalai Lama

Leonardo da Vinci said: "For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

~Kenneth Tynan, critic and writer (1927-1980)

“What we want to focus on is advanced manufacturing that combines new technology, so research and development to figure out how are we going to create the next Twitter, how are we going to create the next Google, how are we going to create the next big thing — but make sure that production is here. So it’s great that we have an Apple that’s creating iPods, iPads and designing them and creating the software, but it would be nice if we’re also making the iPads and the iPods here in the United States, because that’s some more jobs that people can work at.”

~ President Obama, in more than 140 characters, in response to a question about why the “jobs discussion always centers on manufacturing” amid a thriving tech industry, during the Twitter town hall — a first for a U.S. president — Wednesday

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

~Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

~Laurence Sterne, novelist and clergyman (1713-1768)

The goal of a goal is the progress it provokes, not the goal.

~ Robin Sharma

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

~William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

~ Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist ( 1645-1696)

I long to accomplish a great & noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great & noble.

~Helen Keller

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

~Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

"I don’t fear the man who practiced 10,000 kicks one time. I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times”

~ Bruce Lee

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter -- who was a child at the time -- asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!"

~ Louis L'Amour, novelist (1908-1988)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

~ Hermann Hesse

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

~Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)

“Technology millionaires don’t hobnob with celebrities or buy a fancy car. They travel to Thailand or they fund an incubator. These things are just as expensive, but that’s the classic hacker ethos that prizes the mind, not materials. … Being concerned with appearance, shopping for clothes and decorating your house are feminine values. Tech millionaires see that type of spending as silly and frivolous.”

~ Generalities-laden insight from Alice Marwick

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

~-Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

~T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

~ E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

Life is a long lesson in humility.

~James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel Prize in literature (1861-1941)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

~ Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

~William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist (1821-1881)

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

~ A.J.P. Taylor, historian (1906-1990)

The hands that help are better far
Than lips that pray.
Love is the ever gleaming star
That leads the way,
That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss,
But on a paradise in this.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

~Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

~ George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

~ Mark Twain

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~ Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

~ Walker Percy, author (1916-1990)

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.

~ Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer (1849-1914)

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.

~Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

~ William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

Only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.

~Paul Auster, novelist and poet (b. 1947)

It never hurts to ask. Assumptions destroy more lives than disease.

~ Robin Sharma

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

~Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859)

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

~ Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health.

~George Wharton James, journalist, author, and speaker (1858-1923)

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

~ Arthur Helps, writer (1813-1875)

The reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become.

From the book - (Aleph) - Paulo Coelho

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

~ Indian proverb

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

~ Rodney Dangerfield, comedian (1921-2004)

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.


~Rodney Dangerfield, comedian (1921-2004)

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.


~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)

Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.

~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, novelist and journalist (1808-1890)

You'll never change the world if you care what people think of you.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

~Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

If you commute 30 min/day, after 1 year that 6 weeks of 8 hour days! Use it to plan+learn+win vs. complain.

~ Robin Sharma

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.

~ Oscar Wilde

Words they'll try to shake you
Don't let them break you
Or stop your world from turning
When words keep you from feeling good
Use them as firewood and let them burn

Train: Words Lyrics
Songwriters: Luis Maldonado;Jerry Becker;Patrick Monahan

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~ Steve Jobs

“If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much.”

~ Tom Krause

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him.

~Hansie Cronje

No matter what our situation, we all share the same aspiration for happiness.

~ Dalai Lama

I was once like you are now
and I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not


From : Father and Son Lyrics
Artist(Band):Ronan Keating

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.


~ Mahatma Gandhi

Solitude and Leadership....

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

I was in Navy. And am proud I was. But I don't believe that "served my country" is limited to the military. That's absurd narrow mindedness.

~ Tom Peters

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits, and parents, "why?"

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible.

~ Dalai Lama

G.K Chesterton once wrote, "The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his mother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man." It's the qualifier "necessarily" that shows Chesterton possessed a truly philosophical mind.

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits, and parents, "why?"

No one can lose anyone, because no one owns anyone.

~ Paulo Coelho

Tendulkar said: "We batted, fielded and bowled well. You saw the effort from all the players, from senior-most to junior- most. Performance no one can guarantee, but effort you can guarantee."

Capacity, audacity and tenacity will take you to your mountaintop.


~ Robin Sharma

A few simple tips: Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and Don't decide when you're sad.

~ Khalifa

Love is an ocean with invisible shores. Even if you don't know how to swim, don't be afraid.

~ Paulo Coelho

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

~ Jesse Owens

Business is about problem-solving......

Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure out how to solve problems I see in front of me. That's why I looked at the poverty issue. I got involved in lots of things to address it, and one of them was money lending with loans and credits and savings accounts, and in the process I created Grameen Bank. So you can also have social objectives. Ask yourself these questions: Who are you? What kind of world do you want?

~ Muhammad Yunus

Tiny Scrap Pile

Friends & Well Wishers....Welcome to Tiny Scrap Pile

I have been clogging your email boxes with this "Good Morning & Thought of the Day" email..everyday ( only my working days.. )...for so many years.

Things change....as I am....instead of sending an email everyday...I will be updating this blog...a quote..( or thought..all sounds similar )......for every week day. I will continuing this email thingy for some more time...and I will stop it...some point of time...( not sure when...)

One good thing...you can comment on this........( P.S don't be harsh )

Well...as usual..looking forward for your support.

Cheers ~ Siva

Do not to others what ye do not wish done to yourself....This is the whole Dharma. Heed it well.

- The Mahabharata