At times, you must disregard the fact that others have failed in the
past at what you want to attempt on the present.
Imagine a warden who gives a key to a prisoner to help him escape.
After a few tries, the inmate gives up. The key didn't work.
Unaware of the past, a year later, another prisoner tries the key
and opens the lock.
Keep in mind that the illusion of knowing what works or doesn't
work is the only thing keeping you from liberating yourself.
"What would you attempt to do today if you didn't know what you
know about your limitations?" - Andres Lara.
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
NEVER FOLLOW A COSTUME BLINDLY
The new husband watched his wife prepare her
first ham for the oven and noticed that she cut off
a few inches from one end and asked why she did
that, she replied that her mother always did it the
same way. They called mother, and while she admitted
always cutting off a few inches, she could give no
reason except that her mother had always done it.
Finally, they called grandma, and she explained:
"Oh, i always did that because my pan was too small."
- Source: That Reminds Me, C. Publishing House.
"Never accept others' limitations as your own. For they might not apply to you."
- Andres Lara.
"From my tribe i take nothing i am the maker of my own fortune." - Tecumseh.
"Our lives begin to end the day we start becoming silent about things that matter."
- Unknown.
"People see the world not as it is, but as they are." - Al Lee.
first ham for the oven and noticed that she cut off
a few inches from one end and asked why she did
that, she replied that her mother always did it the
same way. They called mother, and while she admitted
always cutting off a few inches, she could give no
reason except that her mother had always done it.
Finally, they called grandma, and she explained:
"Oh, i always did that because my pan was too small."
- Source: That Reminds Me, C. Publishing House.
"Never accept others' limitations as your own. For they might not apply to you."
- Andres Lara.
"From my tribe i take nothing i am the maker of my own fortune." - Tecumseh.
"Our lives begin to end the day we start becoming silent about things that matter."
- Unknown.
"People see the world not as it is, but as they are." - Al Lee.
Saturday, 9 July 2011
SEE FOR YOURSELF
How would you know what's possible and what's not? You will
never know unless you venture out.
If you were to live behind bars for the rest of your life, you may
want to check that such bars actually exist. Refuse to take
someone else's word for it; perhaps such bars are no longer vertical.
At times what others have seen or thought they saw will be totally
different to what you will see. Venture out and see for yourself.
"If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it,
they are right." - Carol Burnett.
never know unless you venture out.
If you were to live behind bars for the rest of your life, you may
want to check that such bars actually exist. Refuse to take
someone else's word for it; perhaps such bars are no longer vertical.
At times what others have seen or thought they saw will be totally
different to what you will see. Venture out and see for yourself.
"If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it,
they are right." - Carol Burnett.
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
RULES OF BEING HUMAN
1. YOU WILL LEARN LESSON. You may like the lessons or think they’re irrelevant and stupid.
2. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED. Lessons will be presented to you in various forms. You can move forward only after you have learned the lesson.
3. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
4. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately ‘works.’
“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes. The rest of us are the other people.” – Unknown.
“Life is learned from our mistakes as well as our successes. The only real mistake in life is the mistake not learned from.” – Unknown.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
PISTIS Christian Bookshop: MASTER THE LESSONS
PISTIS Christian Bookshop: MASTER THE LESSONS: "There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. Resist learning these lessons and they will repeat until they are learned. Think of life as..."
Monday, 4 July 2011
MASTER THE LESSONS
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. Resist learning these lessons
and they will repeat until they are learned.
Think of life as a school. You won't move on to the next level unless
you have mastered your current one. If you want to move on, you
must learn whatever there's to be learned from your current situation,
only then can you move forward.
Life's lessons are subtle; they will teach you about appreciation
through scarcity, about discipline through temptation, and about
beauty through ugliness. What can you learn from your actual
situation?
“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a
lesson imperfectly learned.” – Harrison E. Salisburg.
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORSE
A man gets a telephone call from a doctor. The doctor says:
“About this medical test I did on you, I have some good news
and some bad news.”
The man asks for the good news first: “The good news is that
you have 24 hours to live,” says the doctor. The man,
incredulously says, “If that is the good news, then what is the
bad news??” “I couldn't reach you yesterday.”
“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”
– Indian Proverb.
“Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” – Unknown.
“It is not the situation that makes you, but it’s you who make the situation.”
– Frederick W. Robertson.
Monday, 27 June 2011
MAKE THE MOST...
If life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it;
then your reaction can make what happened look like a carnival
or a funeral.
Don't allow what happened to bring you down; instead use it as a
wake up call, as a realization, as a reminder of what it's really
important.
Just remember that what happened is not as important as how you
react to it. You certainly cannot reverse the past, nor predict the
future, but you can always make the most out of the present by
how you react to it.
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."
- Barbara Pletcher.
then your reaction can make what happened look like a carnival
or a funeral.
Don't allow what happened to bring you down; instead use it as a
wake up call, as a realization, as a reminder of what it's really
important.
Just remember that what happened is not as important as how you
react to it. You certainly cannot reverse the past, nor predict the
future, but you can always make the most out of the present by
how you react to it.
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."
- Barbara Pletcher.
Saturday, 25 June 2011
SLOW DOWN
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? Or listened to the
rain slapping on the ground? Even followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head? You better
slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow"? And in your haste, not
see his/her sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die,
'Cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"? You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
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 not a race. Do take it slower.
Hear the music before the song is over.
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them while they're alive." - O. Battista.
"Don't forget that the business of life is not business, but living." - B. C. Forbes.
"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow
won't wait while you do the work." - Unknown.
rain slapping on the ground? Even followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head? You better
slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow"? And in your haste, not
see his/her sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die,
'Cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"? You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last.
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 not a race. Do take it slower.
Hear the music before the song is over.
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them while they're alive." - O. Battista.
"Don't forget that the business of life is not business, but living." - B. C. Forbes.
"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow
won't wait while you do the work." - Unknown.
Friday, 24 June 2011
JUST IN CASE
What would you do if you knew that today was the last day that
you were going to see your significant others?
Would you give them an extra hug? Would you forgive them for
yesterday's annoyance? What about running to the door before
they leave and saying one more"I love you"?
The fact is that you would never know when the last day might be.
But Just in case, do those little things anyway for you will forever
regret not doing them if the unexpected happens.
"Tomorrow is promised to no one" - Unknown.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
HOPE: QUOTES
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no
hope at all." - Dale Carnegie.
"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it." - George Weinberg.
"Those who do not hope to win have already lost." - Jose Joaquin Olmedo.
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for those who
strongly have within them the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Anon.
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no
hope at all." - Dale Carnegie.
"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it." - George Weinberg.
"Those who do not hope to win have already lost." - Jose Joaquin Olmedo.
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for those who
strongly have within them the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Anon.
Monday, 20 June 2011
HOPE
There is a sure way to not despair...do not hope. Yet what is life
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
HOPE
There is a sure way to not despair...do not hope. Yet what is life
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
HOPE
There is a sure way to not despair...do not hope. Yet what is life
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
without hope?
To hope for a better tomorrow is to risk despair. To hope for light
when there is nothing but darkness is to risk disappointment.
To hope for success when there is nothing but failure is to
risk disillusionment.
You can afford to lose your patience, your youth, and even your
possessions. Yet there is only one thing that you cannot afford
to lose...and that is hope.
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope." - Marcus T. Cicero.
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BALLAD SINGER
A dramatic ballad singer studied under a strict teacher who
insisted that he rehearse day after day, month after month
the same passage from the same song, without being
permitted to go any further. Finally, overwhelmed by
frustration and despair, the young man ran off to find
another profession. One night, stopping at an inn, he
stumbled upon a recitation contest.
Having nothing to lose, he entered the competition and,
of course, sang the one passage that he knew so well.
When he had finished, the sponsor of the contest highly
praised his performance. Despite the student's embarrassed
objections, the sponsor refused to believe that he had just
heard a beginner perform. "Tell me," the sponsor said,
"who is your instructor? He must be a great master."
The student later become know as the performer Koshiji.
"Life is similar to a good book. The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense." - Harold S. Kushner.
insisted that he rehearse day after day, month after month
the same passage from the same song, without being
permitted to go any further. Finally, overwhelmed by
frustration and despair, the young man ran off to find
another profession. One night, stopping at an inn, he
stumbled upon a recitation contest.
Having nothing to lose, he entered the competition and,
of course, sang the one passage that he knew so well.
When he had finished, the sponsor of the contest highly
praised his performance. Despite the student's embarrassed
objections, the sponsor refused to believe that he had just
heard a beginner perform. "Tell me," the sponsor said,
"who is your instructor? He must be a great master."
The student later become know as the performer Koshiji.
"Life is similar to a good book. The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense." - Harold S. Kushner.
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