September 2011 - Positive Thinking - Inspirational Quotes - Motivational Quotes

Inspiring Quotes

Life holds a specific purpose for you..;and the most important thing you CAN DO this... Find it first.....!!!
-Will Edwards.

In the middle of every difficulty lies Oppourtunity....
-Albert Einstein.

Dare to be Remarkable.-Jane Gentry.

Every mistake you make,
Every failure,Every disappointment,
To keep going on this journey of life is
Sometimes the hardest thing...
But remember,
Every great person,
Who has beaten adversity,
Whether from within or without themselves,
Has fallen and stumbled a thousand times.
But they pick themselves up,
Dust themselves down
And carry on......
-Dylon Jacobs.

You have to believe in yourself,that's the secret.Even when I was in the Orphanage, when I was roaming the street, trying to find enough to eat,even then I thought of myself as the Greatest actor in the world.
-Charlie Chaplin.

Some inspirational quotes by Yanni, a famous singer, from his book, "Yanni In Words"
"My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy'."

"The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be."

"My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well."

"The most important battle is one to conquer yourself."

Always remember to forget

Forget about the days when its been cloudy,
but don't forget your hours in the sun

Forget about the times you've been defeated,
but don't forget the victories you've won

Forget about mistakes that you can't change now,
but don't forget the lessons that you've learnt

Forget about misfortunes you encounter,
but don't forget the times your luck has turned

Forget about the days when you've been lonely,
but don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen

Forget about the plans that didn't seem to work out right,
but don't forget to Always Have A Dream!!!!

Value your near and dear ones!

A man stopped at a flower shop for ordering some flowers to be sent as a gift to his mother who lived two hundred miles away.

As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars."

The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers.

As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother."

She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the gifting order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.

At times we take many such relationships with our family and friends for granted. Learn to value them.

FOCUSING on PROBLEMS Vs FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS

The Difference between FOCUSING on PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS

Case : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface).

Solution # 1 : To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

Solution # 2 : And what did the Russians do...?????? They used a pencil.

Always focus on solutions & not on problems

30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, Friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.

Childhood - Inspiring lines

My childhood was the time when i was innocent
when the world seemed to be fair
when my universe was around my toys.

My childhood was the time when I lived in dreams
when everyone was selfless
when everyone appeared to be a friend.

My childhood was the time when my life was full of colours
when sorrows never knocked my door
when smile was gift presented to everyone.

My childhood was the time when love was pure
when there were no obligations
when tenderness prevailed.

My childhood was the time which is long gone
tears flow from my eyes when i go back in my childhood.
My childhood will never come back but
the child in me will never go.

Change yourself - True lines

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted so
many physicians and was getting his treatment done. He did not stop
consulting galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and
underwent hundreds of injections.
But the ache persisted with great vigour than before. At last a monk who has
supposed to be an expert in treating such patients was called for by
the millionaire. The monk understood his problem and said that for
sometime he should concentrate only on green colours and not to fall his
eyes on any other colours. The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased
barrels of green color and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall
to be painted in green colour just as the monk had
directed.
When the monk came to visit him after few days, the
millionaire' s servants ran with buckets of green paints and poured on him
since he was in red dress, lest their master not see any other colour and
his eye ache would come back.
Hearing this monk laughed said "If only you had purchased a pair of green
spectacles, worth just a few rupees, you could have saved these walls
and trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large
share of his fortune.

You cannot paint the world green. Let us change our vision and the world
will appear accordingly........

Golf Balls - Very Inspirational

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough;
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class
And had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
And start to fill it with golf balls .

He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
It into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again
If the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand
And poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
With an unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
And poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
Filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things - God, family,
Children, health, friends, and favorite passions
Things that if everything else was lost
And only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --
The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued,
'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
Important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time
To clean the house and fix the dripping tap.

'Take care of the golf balls first --
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand
And inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.

'I'm glad ! You asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

Please share this with other "Golf Balls"

I just did......

Inspiring Message by George Carlin

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. An embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

The two drops of tears I had in less than a minute paid for my entire pain in the past

The following lines were written on the 183rd page of my diary this year. I am posting it here because i think it is worth sharing.

I was holding on to something which I never want to let go for the past six months that gave me lot of pain. Due to the problem I had for the past 6 months I literally lost many of my relationships, friendships, the silly talk on the mobile, the casual meeting at theater, family functions & many more.

The problem came to an end today in a fruitful way and in the way I never imagined.

It was half past nine at night. There was no one at my home so I went out for the dinner. But It was raining for the past one hour. So I wait till the rain stopped and driven to the hotel nearby in my bike and finished my dinner. When I came out, the rain just stopped, it might take just 2 minutes to drive back to home from the hotel. But I didn't do it.

I took an opposite road and driven somewhere else, I'm not sure where I am going…But still I want to drive for some time…so I did. Within a minute or two I reached a road which was silent, no pollution and it was traffic less road. The heavy rain just stopped. The road was washed away by the heavy rain. It was clean and silent. I can very rarely see the opposite head lights. I was traveling alone. Pleasant music was playing through headphones in my ears. It was "Rose theme from Titanic". I made It repeat forever. I felt the beautiful smell of streets after rain, the air was faintly moist against my skin, the road was empty, I am driving at very low speed, I can see only the name boards glittering on my headlights reflection. At the dead end of the road I can see very frequent lightening, I can see the rain clouds on the light of lightening. Also I can see the trees in the distant in every lightening.

I traveled in the same road at least some hundred times in the past few years, But what I felt on that day was different, I heard the same music some thousand times in the past few years, But what I felt on that day was different. I came across similar rainy nights some thousand times in my life, But what I felt on that day was different. I felt something more beautiful deep inside the heart. The problems I am holding on for the past six months came to an end. I just thought

There will be no need to be in invisible mode in Gtalk thereafter…
There will be no need to ignore the calls I love to attend….
There will be no more family functions to avoid even if I am free…
There will be no one to say that what I did was wrong…

While I am thinking all this, I never noticed that my eyes are filling up with tears. I asked myself, why tears at this time? You had solved all your problems. I was trying hard not a tear drop to escape from the eye and succeeded without realizing those were the tears bought due to the happiness. I had faced pain in large quotient in the past few months, I literally asked "Why God?" at least some thousand times, I had been going through very hard times in the past months but I never got even a single tear in all those hard times. I just realized my heart was trained to receive pain in large quotient, But it wasn't trained to receive happiness. My heart was reacting to the happiness I am feeling right now, for solving all my problems, for the climate, for the music I hear. The two drops of tears I had in less than a minute paid for the entire pain in the past. Yes it paid for the pain I felt for the continuous six months.

And believe me, For the single minute, You can feel the same pain again for another six months.

A minute's success pays for the failure of years. There can never be a problem that cannot be solved. Now I believe everything in life happens for a reason and the reason will always be good, if we are strong enough to trust.
How the same road can seems so beautiful to me?
How the same music can sounds more pleasurable to me?
How can an ordinary rainy night, seems this much beautiful to me?
How ordinary lightening can seems more beautiful to me?

It was all because the way I look is different. I'm happy from the inside and so everything seems beautiful to me. I loved this day. What a day it is………

And whatever problems you are going through in your life, it is going to be solved one day or another. Wait for the day. Just hold on. Have faith. Even if there are million people insist you to give up, Just don't give up, you'll eventually solve your problems one day, and all those million people who cursed you will say what it is you did was right. Be yourself, Trust God, Follow your own bliss……DON'T MISS THE DAY I FELT IN MY LIFE.

And now what?? I am ready to face my next problem. :)

If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.

This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the China Earthquake.
After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.
He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “
The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.
The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

Two Monks and a Pretty lady

Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were traveling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river.

There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn't cross the river.

The big monk offered to carry her across the river on his back to which the lady accepted.

The little monk was shocked by the move of the big monk and was thinking "How can big brother carry a lady when we are supposed to avoid all intimacy with females?" But he kept quiet.

The big monk carried the lady across the river and the small monk followed unhappily. When they crossed the river, the big monk let the lady down and they parted ways with her.

All along the way for several miles, the little monk was very unhappy with the act of the big monk. He was making up all kinds of accusations about big monk in his head. This got him madder and madder. But he still kept quiet. And the big monk had no inclination to explain his situation.

Finally, at a rest point many hours later, the little monk could not stand it any further, he burst out angrily at the big monk. "How can you claim yourself a devout monk, when you seize the first opportunity to touch a female, especially when she is very pretty?"

All your teachings to me make you a big hypocrite.

The big monk looked surprised and said, "I had put down the pretty lady at the river bank many hours ago, how come you are still carrying her along?"

Moral: This very old Chinese Zen story reflects the thinking of many people today. We encounter many unpleasant things in our life, they irritate us and they make us angry. But like the little monk, we are not willing to let them go away. There is no point in remaining hurt by the unpleasant event after it is over. Learn to move on in life!

Charles Schultz’ Philosophy

You don’t actually have to take the quiz. Just read the email straight
through, and you’ll get the point, an awesome one, that it is trying to
make!
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and
actress.
6. Name the last decade’s worth of World Cup winners.How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.
These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies.
Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.Here’s another quiz.

See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you. Easier? The lesson:

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the
most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones who really care.

When You Were 15 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
You Blushed.. You Looked Down And Smile..

When You Were 20 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
You Put Your Head On My Shoulder And Hold My Hand...
Afraid That I Might Disappear...

When You Were 25 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
U Prepare Breakfast And Serve It In Front Of Me,
And Kiss My Forehead
N Said :"U Better Be Quick, It's Gonna Be Late.."

When You Were 30 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
You Said: "If You Really Love Me, Please Come Back Early After Work.."

When You Were 40 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
U Were Cleaning The Dining Table And Said: "OK Dear,
But It's Time For You To Help Our Child With His/Her Revision.."

When You Were 50 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You..
You Were Knitting And You Laughed At Me...

When You Were 60 Yrs Old, I Said I Love You...
You Smiled At Me..

When You Were 70 Yrs Old. I Said I Love You...
We Sitting On The Rocking Chair With Our Glasses On..
I'M Reading Your Love Letter That You Sent To Me 50 Yrs Ago..
With Our Hand Crossing Together..

When You Were 80 Yrs Old, You Said You Love Me!
I Didn't Say Anything But Cried...
That Day Was The Happiest Day Of My Life!
Because You Said You Love Me !!!

Please Appreciate Your Loved Ones.. Say "I Love You"
To Them When You Have The Chance Now !!!

Self-limiting beliefs are based on fears and doubts that hold
You back from doing things you want or need to do. These
Negative thoughts dwell on your lack of ability, limited smarts
Inferior looks, or, substandard skills and creativity. In other
Words, they see your potential as a glass half empty.

When you doubt yourself, you give power to these beliefs.
The more you repeat those beliefs in your head the more
Powerful they become.

One of the most important decisions you can make is to
Challenge those self-limiting beliefs, to refuse to accept them
As the truth. Self-limiting beliefs exist only in your mind. The
Reality is that you have talent, intelligence and the creativity
To do great things.

Believe that as truth, and your life will change forever!