Wisdom

(Last Updated April 2004)

This page will contain quotations, pieces that are worth reading many times and learn from them. Do send me any wisdom you want posted here.

Share any good thing with others. A good thing is a terrible thing to waste!

Managing Anger: Collection of tips about managing anger. This was forwarded to me by someone. I don't know the source. 
Slow down Therapy: Useful tips to slowdown your life
Letter from God : God is waiting for your attention
A Birthday Message
Motivational Posters
On happiness and Self Responsibility
Man in the Glass
Is anyone Happy all the time?

Quotations:

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality,
order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one
subject at a time." Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British Novelist

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves
to the task at hand. -Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach

  

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time
you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well,
the big ones tend to take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American
Author, Trainer

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and
growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and
honest development of one's potential. -Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American
Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step
forward. -Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder
of GE

June 2000

"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order." -- Henry Miller

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -- Maya Angelou

"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger." -- William James

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." Jim Rohn

"Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." -- Brendan Francis

"The biggest block to any man's success is in his head. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." -- Jim Rohn

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." -- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged." -- Connie Chung

"Pay more attention to what is, to enter the depths of feeling and sensing. From these depths, the future will be revealed, and the energy to move into the future will surface." -- Andrew Schneider

"A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300,000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself." -- Source Unknown

Quotations

"Some people who yearn for endless life don't even know what to do with a rainy afternoon." --Harvey H. Potthoff

"If you don't take yourself and your purpose in life seriously, how can you expect that anybody else will?" -- Author unknown

"Fear knocked at the door, and faith answered, and no one was there." --   Old saying, source unknown.

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: Try to please everybody." --Herbert B. Swope

"You can have no inner peace as long as the controls of your life are located outside yourself." --Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!"  --Tom Brewer

 "Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge; wish for more wisdom" - Jim Rohn

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. -Og Mandino

 "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them"  - Jim Rohn

"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Don't talk the way they talk. Don't watch what they watch. Take charge of your own unique life." Jim Rohn

"Learn to hide your need and show your skill." -- Jim Rohn

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.- Jim Rohn

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."  --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number." -- Edith Armstrong

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." --Henri L. Bergson

"If you never change your mind, why have one?" --Edward De Bono

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't." --Lyall Watson

" The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else." E. E. Cummings

"Most people suffer from a lot of obstacle illusions."  (anonymous)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that  makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy."  - Albert Clarke

"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay." Jim Rohn

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd

Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life. Chinese proverb

At age 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. Ann Landers

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people

He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Friends, you and me....
You brought another friend....
And then there were 3....
We started our group....
Our circle of friends....
And like that circle...
There is no beginning or end....

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.