Oct 17, 2006
Self Appraisal
A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits.
The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation: The boy asked, "Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn? The woman replied, "I already have someone to cut my lawn." "Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now." replied boy.
The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn. The little boy found more perseverance and offered, "Lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of North Palm beach,Florida."
Again the woman answered in the negative. With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver. The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy and said, "Son... I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job."
The little boy replied, "No thanks, I was just checking my performance with the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to!"
Oct 16, 2006
12 ways to be happy....
1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
2. Make the best of your circumstances.No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4. You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
5. Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9. Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
10. Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your timebrooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.This is True, and
LIFE IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL IF WE MAKE IT ,so LIVE ENJOY N CELEBRATE!!
2. Make the best of your circumstances.No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4. You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
5. Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9. Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
10. Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your timebrooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.This is True, and
LIFE IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL IF WE MAKE IT ,so LIVE ENJOY N CELEBRATE!!
Oct 15, 2006
Women gather at a party in Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910, a sign that women were very much part of the social scene in many respects.
The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s. This picture and the others in this series appear in a new book, ' India Then and Now', by Vir Sanghvi and Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Roli Books, India . Pictures courtesy: Roli Books.
Oct 11, 2006
SECRET OF LIFE
- The secret of life is to make the best of whatever comes along,Make every day fresh and new,Go in search of knowledge and experience.
- Let your questions and your answers reconcile.
- Do your best to remember that the best kind of learning curve is an educated smile.
- Share your magic with the people who share your memories.Let your feelings run deep.
- Be in touch with the people who live in your heart.
- To really know what success means, earn it.
- Don't rely on some elevator to get you there.
- The higher the floor you want to reach,the more important it is to take the stairs.
- The easiest lessons to remember are the ones you learn the hard way!
- Appreciate the little things that make each day unique and special.
Oct 10, 2006
Good quotes
Famous Quote #1
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Famous Quote #2
Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.
Unknown
Famous Quote #3
If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Famous Quote #4
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
Famous Quote #5
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hahn
Famous Quote #6
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Famous Quote #7
Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.
Jon dyer
Famous Quote #8
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous Quote #9
Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.
Unknown
Famous Quote #10
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Famous Quote #11
Learn from the mistakes of others.You can't live long enough to make them all yourself
Unknown
Famous Quote #12
The tongue weighs practically nothing,But so few people can hold it.
Famous Quote #13
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Famous Quote #14
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
Famous Quote #15
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Famous Quote #16
Many people will walk in and out or your life,But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Famous Quote #17
To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.
Famous Quote #18
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Famous Quote #19
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault.If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
Famous Quote #20
God Gives every bird it's food,But he does not throw it into it's nest.
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Famous Quote #2
Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.
Unknown
Famous Quote #3
If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Famous Quote #4
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
Famous Quote #5
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hahn
Famous Quote #6
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Famous Quote #7
Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.
Jon dyer
Famous Quote #8
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous Quote #9
Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.
Unknown
Famous Quote #10
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Famous Quote #11
Learn from the mistakes of others.You can't live long enough to make them all yourself
Unknown
Famous Quote #12
The tongue weighs practically nothing,But so few people can hold it.
Famous Quote #13
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Famous Quote #14
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
Famous Quote #15
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Famous Quote #16
Many people will walk in and out or your life,But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Famous Quote #17
To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.
Famous Quote #18
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Famous Quote #19
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault.If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
Famous Quote #20
God Gives every bird it's food,But he does not throw it into it's nest.
Oct 9, 2006
Common sense
A farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The Moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer's beautiful
Daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
He said he would forgo the farmer's debt if he could marry his
Daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the
Proposal.
So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let
Providence decide the matter. He told them that he would put a black
Pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would
Have to pick one pebble from the bag.
1) If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her
father's debt would be forgiven.
2) If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her
father's debt would still be forgiven.
3) But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into
Jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer's field. As
They talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he
Picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two
Black pebbles and put them into the bag.
He then asked the girl to pick
A pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine that you were standing in the field. What would you have
Done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you
Have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag
And expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order
To save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
Take a moment to ponder over the story. The above story is used with
The hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral
And logical thinking.
The girl's dilemma cannot be solved with
Traditional logical thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses
The above logical answers.
What would you recommend to the Girl to do?
Well, here is what she did ....
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without
Looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path
Where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never mind, if you look into the
Bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I
Picked."
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had
Picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his
Dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into
An extremely advantageous one.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Most complex problems do have a solution. It is only that we don't
Attempt to think.
Daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
He said he would forgo the farmer's debt if he could marry his
Daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the
Proposal.
So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let
Providence decide the matter. He told them that he would put a black
Pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would
Have to pick one pebble from the bag.
1) If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her
father's debt would be forgiven.
2) If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her
father's debt would still be forgiven.
3) But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into
Jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer's field. As
They talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he
Picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two
Black pebbles and put them into the bag.
He then asked the girl to pick
A pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine that you were standing in the field. What would you have
Done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you
Have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag
And expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order
To save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
Take a moment to ponder over the story. The above story is used with
The hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral
And logical thinking.
The girl's dilemma cannot be solved with
Traditional logical thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses
The above logical answers.
What would you recommend to the Girl to do?
Well, here is what she did ....
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without
Looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path
Where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never mind, if you look into the
Bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I
Picked."
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had
Picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his
Dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into
An extremely advantageous one.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Most complex problems do have a solution. It is only that we don't
Attempt to think.
INTELLIGENCE
A naughty student was made to write 500 times on the board that he will not throw paper airplanes guess what he did....
Oct 6, 2006
BELIEF IN GOD
There was a young man who went overseas to study for quite a long time. When he returned, he asked his parents to find him a religious scholar or any expert who could answer his 3 Questions.
Finally, his parents were able to find a scholar.
Young man: Who are you? Can you answer my questions?
Scholar: I am one of God willing, I will be able to answer your questions.
Young man: Are you sure? A lot of Professors and experts were not able to answer my questions.
Scholar: I will try my best, with the help of God .
Young Man: I have 3 questions:
1. Does God exist? If so, show me His shape.
2. What is fate?
3. If Devil was created from the fire, why at the end he will be thrown to hell that is also created from fire. It certainly will not hurt him at all, since Devil and the hell were created from fire. Did God not think of it this far?
Suddenly, the Scholar slapped the young man's face very hard.
Young Man(feeling pain): Why do you get angry at me?
Scholar: I am not angry. The slap is my answer to your three questions.
Young Man: I really don't understand.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: Of course, I felt the pain.
Scholar: So do you believe that pain exists?
Young Man: Yes.
Scholar: Show me the shape of the pain!
Young Man: I cannot.
Scholar: That is my first answer. All of us feel God's existence without being able to see His shape... Last night, did you dream that you will be slapped by me?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: Did you ever think that you will get a slap from me, today?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: That is fate my second answer........ My hand that I used to slap you, what is it created from?
Young Man: It is created from flesh.
Scholar: How about your face, what is it created from?
Young Man: Flesh.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: In pain.
Scholar: Thats it. this is my third answer, Even though Devil and also the hell were created from the fire, if God wants,God willing , the hell will become a very painful place for devil.
God said: "If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you."
"Yes, I love God .He is my fountain of Life and My Savior.He keeps me going day & night. Without GOD , I am no one. But with GOD , I can do everything. GOD is my strength."
Finally, his parents were able to find a scholar.
Young man: Who are you? Can you answer my questions?
Scholar: I am one of God willing, I will be able to answer your questions.
Young man: Are you sure? A lot of Professors and experts were not able to answer my questions.
Scholar: I will try my best, with the help of God .
Young Man: I have 3 questions:
1. Does God exist? If so, show me His shape.
2. What is fate?
3. If Devil was created from the fire, why at the end he will be thrown to hell that is also created from fire. It certainly will not hurt him at all, since Devil and the hell were created from fire. Did God not think of it this far?
Suddenly, the Scholar slapped the young man's face very hard.
Young Man(feeling pain): Why do you get angry at me?
Scholar: I am not angry. The slap is my answer to your three questions.
Young Man: I really don't understand.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: Of course, I felt the pain.
Scholar: So do you believe that pain exists?
Young Man: Yes.
Scholar: Show me the shape of the pain!
Young Man: I cannot.
Scholar: That is my first answer. All of us feel God's existence without being able to see His shape... Last night, did you dream that you will be slapped by me?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: Did you ever think that you will get a slap from me, today?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: That is fate my second answer........ My hand that I used to slap you, what is it created from?
Young Man: It is created from flesh.
Scholar: How about your face, what is it created from?
Young Man: Flesh.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: In pain.
Scholar: Thats it. this is my third answer, Even though Devil and also the hell were created from the fire, if God wants,God willing , the hell will become a very painful place for devil.
God said: "If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you."
"Yes, I love God .He is my fountain of Life and My Savior.He keeps me going day & night. Without GOD , I am no one. But with GOD , I can do everything. GOD is my strength."
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