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of August 2003 at 07:40 p.m. IST by Chirayu Joseph Campbell Quotes Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else. When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Confucious Quotes A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. You cannot open a book without learning something. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. I will not be concerned at other men not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost. High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. When I must leave you for a little while Please do not grieve and shed wild tears And hug your sorrow to you through the years But start out bravely with a gallant smile; Reach out your hand in comfort and in cheer And I in turn will comfort you and hold you near; And never, never be afraid to die, For I am waiting for you in the sky! ~ John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life." "But it's not always that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life." Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business: left the back door of his restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three armed men.While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor,I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or choose to die. I choose to live." "Weren't you scared?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me. I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I need to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything." 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'." Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from you - is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier. Here are the names of some sites from where you can submit your site to various search engines for free. Submit Express Submit Corner Site Add Submit Shop Search Free Pint UK Site Owner Jayde Submit Free Url (Give your Secondary Email id for the above URL) Submit Plus Submit It Add Me Bjorgul For Submitting your site to Google |