Sunday, July 20, 2008

Love and Life

"To love and win is the best thing
To love and lost, the next best "
----William M Thackeray

"The important thing was to love
Rather than to be loved"
------W.Somerset Maugham

"It is better to have loved and lost
Than to never have loved at all"
------Samuel Butler

"I love you , not for what you are
but for what i am when i am with you"
------- Roy Croft

"They may forget what you said
but they will never forget how you made them feel"
----- Carl W Buechner

"Is that love i see in you eyes
or merely a reflection of mine"
------Anonymous

"There is no such thing in anyone's life
as an unimportant day"
------Alexander Woolcott

"Adversity cause some men to break;
Others to break records"
-----William A Ward

"Deeds , not words shall speak me"
----- John Fletcher

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

"Looking back, I have this to regret
that too often when i loved i did not say so"
----David Grayson

"You are nothing short of my everything"
----Ralfh Block

"No one can make you feel inferior
with out your consent"
----Eleanor Roosvelt

"And in the end , it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years."
---Abraham Lincoln

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Swami Vivekananda's Stunning Words...!!!!!

When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in life to Solve

When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People

When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me opportunities to Work Hard

When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed
- Swami Vivekananda

Friday, June 6, 2008

Intelligence

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein


I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"


If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ~Stanley Garn


Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire


I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton


We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson


What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud


Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabra


If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh


The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
~Alexander Pope


There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold


Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce


Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel


A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters


The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand


Primitive does not mean stupid. ~Author Unknown


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein


The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering


I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire


Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley

A good wife

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night."

Common sense

"Common sense is not so common. " Voltaire

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Mother and her words

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. "

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. "

"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. "

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. "

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. "

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful
thing.
"

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. "

"Good works are links that form a chain of love. "

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. "

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. "

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. "

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. "

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. "

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? "

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "

"If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. "

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. "

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them. "

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. "

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives. "

"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. "

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. "

"It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. "

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."

"Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. "

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. "

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. "

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. "

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. "

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. "

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. "

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. "

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. "

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. "

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. "

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. "

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. "

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. "

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. "

"Peace begins with a smile. "

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. "

"Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. "

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. "

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. "

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. "

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. "

"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done. "

"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. "

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. "

"There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. "

"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. "

"We are all pencils in the hand of God. "

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love. "

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. "

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. "

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. "

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. "

"We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. "

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. "

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Great Quotes

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious" - Einstein

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" - Robert Kennedy

"What is a fiend? Asingle soul dwelling in two bodies" - Aristotle

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind" - Seneca

"The journey is the reward" - Taoist Saying

"Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace" - Marconi

"Where there is no vision, people perish"

"Every one has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in
solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." - Erica Jong

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire