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13:11 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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RISK
Recently I read this very inspiring poem by Janet Rand on the virtue of taking risks in one’s life To laugh is to risk appearing fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk being called naïve.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risk must me taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing,
is nothing, does nothing and becomes nothing.
They may avoid sufferings and sorrow , but they can not
learn, feel, change, grow ,love, live.
Chained by their certitude ,they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is truly free.
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13:09 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Just to laugh
Pa Won't Like It
A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon-load of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the boy, "Hey Willis, forget your troubles. Come in and visit with us. I'll help you get the wagon up later." "That's mighty nice of you," Willis answered, "but I don't think Pa would like me to." "Aw come on boy," the farmer insisted. "Well okay," the boy finally agreed, and added, "but Pa won't like it." After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his host. "I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real upset." "Don't be foolish!" the neighbor said with a smile. "By the way, where is he?" "Under the wagon."
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13:09 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Mistakes
Learning from Mistakes This is a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. He was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he thought he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far apart from others ? He responded that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor — a veritable sea of milk ! When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said, “Robert, I have rarely seen such a huge puddle of milk. Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up ?” Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that ? We could use a sponge, a towel, or a mop. Which do you prefer ?” He chose the sponge and together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said, “You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it.” The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful lesson ! This renowned scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just opportunities for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work,” we usually learn something valuable from it. Make mistakes, you learn from them . . . . but never repeat mistakes . . . . make it a great week ahead ! ! !
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13:07 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Awesome Thoughts
GREAT & AWESOME THOUGHT’S In a Day. When you don’t come across any Problems- you can be sure that you are travelling in a Wrong Path. è SWAMY VIVEKANANDA.
Three Sentences for Getting SUCCESS: a) Know more than other. b) Work more than other. c) Expect less than other. è WILLIAM SHAKESPHERE
If You WIN you need not Explain….But if you LOSS you should not be there to Explain. èADOLPH HITLER.
If we cannot LOVE the Person Whom We see…How Can We Love God Whom We Cannot See? èMOTHER TERESA If you start judging people you will be having no time to Love them… èMOTHER TERESA Winning doesn’t always mean being first, Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. è BONNIE BLAIR
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I Will say that I Discovered there are 1000 Ways that can cause failure. è THOMAS EDISON
Everyone thinks of changing the World..But no one thinks of changing Himself…. è LEO TOLSTOY Believing everybody is Dangerous, believing no body is Dangerous. è ABRAHAM LINCOLN If some one feels that they had never made a mistake in their life. Then it means they had never tried a new thing in their LIFE… èEINSTEIN Never break four things in your LIFE-Trust, Promise, and Relation & Heart. Because when they break they don’t make noise but Pains a lot…….. èCHARLES Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
è ALEN STRIKE.
You are not responsible for what people think about you.
But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.
è STANLEY FERRARD.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a Woman.
A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
è CHARLES DICKENS.
Write your sad times in Sand; Write your Good times in Stone.
è GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.
è BILL JACOBS.
Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.
è Dr. ABDUL KALAM.
Love your job but don’t love your Company because you may not know
when your company stops loving you.
è NARAYANA MURTHY. You may get DELAYED to reach your Targets.
But every step you take towards your target is EQUAL to Victory.
è KARL MARX.
It’s better to loose your Ego to the one you Love,
than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO.
è JOHN KEATS.
Don’t make promise when you are in JOY .Don’t reply when you are SAD.
Don’t take decisions when you are ANGRY. Think twice, Act wise. BE happy.
When you start caring about yourself, you start loving somebody.
But when start caring about others somebody will start loving you. Last one is awesome!!!
What is the Secret of SUCCESS... ? “RIGHT DECISIONS”
How do you make Right Decisions...? “EXPERIENCE”
How do you get Experience... ? “WRONG DECISIONS”
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13:07 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Just Smile
The Scientist and the Frog
There once was a scientist who studied frogs. One day, the scientist put the frog on the ground and told it to jump. The frog jumped four feet. So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with four feet, jumps four feet." So the scientist cut off one of one of the frogs legs. The scientist told the frog to jump. Frog jumped three feet. So the scientist wrote in his note book, "Frog with three feet, jumps three feet." So the scientist cut of another leg. He told the frog to jump. The frog jumped two feet. So the scientist wrote in his notebook "Frog with two feet, jumps two feet." The scientist cut off one more leg. He told the frog to jump. Frog jumped one foot. So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with one foot, jumps one foot." So the scientist cut off his last leg. "He said, "Frog jump. Frog jump. FROG JUMP!" So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with no feet, goes deaf." Three-Legged Race
One day a traveling salesman was driving down a back country road at about 30 mph when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour. The chicken was still keeping up. After about a mile of running the chicken ran up a farm lane and into a barn behind an old farm house. The salesman had some time to kill so he turned around and drove up the farm lane. He knocked at the door and when the farmer answered he told him what he had just seen. The farmer said that he was a geneticist and had developed this breed of chicken because he, his wife and his son each like a drumstick when they have chicken and this way they only have to kill one chicken. "That''s the most fantastic thing I've ever heard," said the salesman. "How do they taste?" "I don't know," said the farmer. "We've never caught one." The Irishman's Wish
An Irishman is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees a lamp at the end of the table. He walks down to it and rubs it. Out pops a genie. It says, "I will give you three wishes." The man thinks awhile. Finally he says, "I want a beer that never is empty." With that, the genie makes a poof sound and on the bar is a bottle of beer. The Irishman starts drinking it and right before it is gone, it starts to refill. The genie asks about his next two wishes. The man says, "I want two more of these."
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13:06 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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APJ
Don't miss even a single word... Every second is worth reading this mail... Too good
An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.
He asks one of his new students to stand and.....
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof : Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
(Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you.
Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student:No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student:Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat
We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive.
NB: I believe you have enjoyed the conversation...and if so...you'll probably want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same...won't you?....
this is a true story, and the
student was none other than.........
APJ Abdul Kalam , the former president of India.
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13:05 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Jokes
Hamburger Restaurant
A rather attractive woman goes up to the register in an upscale hamburger establishment. She gestures alluringly to a large man who comes over immediately. When he arrives, she seductively signals that he should bring his face close to hers. When he does so, she begins to gently caress is cheek, which is slowly turning a crimson red. "Are you the owner?" she asks, now softly stroking his face with both hands. "No" he replies, "I'm just the manager." "Can you get him for me? I need to speak to him," she asks, running her hands up beyond his ears and into his hair. "I''m afraid I can't," breathes the manager clearly aroused. "He's in the back doing taxes right now. Is there anything I can do?" "Yes, there is. I need you to give him a message." She continues huskily, popping a couple of fingers into his mouth and allowing him to suck them gently. "Tell him" she says "that there is no toilet paper or hand soap in the ladies room."
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13:03 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Crazy Letter
Dear Monisha, Thanks for being my love for one and half years, when you receive this letter I believe you might have selected a new boy friend and started enjoying your dating. Every lovers needs to struggle a bit to get a boy friend or girl friend. Monisha … In order to recover your missing, I got another girl from next street & as you know this is my forth love, from all my past experiences I have learned a lot. When the love blossoms everyone starts writing love letters, you know very well… I have written many love letter to you , and writing a love letter in poetic way is not so easy nowadays MONISHA , and it's a time consuming work, In order to avoid all this I need all my lover letters back so that I can put corrector and send to my new girl friend , please send it back to me , I don't have poetic references or any photocopy of these letters. Another thing MONISHA, I have given you one cute photo of mine , can you send it to me please , you know better that this is the only photo I look very cute & handsome and this photo I have taken when I was in my very first love. And also, during my 1 ½ years of love days I have spend lot of monies for impressing you , I am attaching a list of expenses which I request you to clear it at the earliest. The expenses are as follows: Lunch / Dinner ; 895, Cool Drinks 2938 Rs, Snacks 5645 Rs. , Juice 3845 Rs. Cinema 1235Rs. Internet Chatting 1499 Rs. , Mobile 2546 Rs. Petrol 4255 Rs. Gift Items 7850 Rs, - Grand Total : 30,708 rs (in Words : Thrity Thousand Seven Hundred and Eight Rupees). Please try to clear the above amount so that I can spend these monies on my new girl friend, and more over if you have any of my gift lying with you, am ready to take these packs in half prices. Please calculate the value of packs left over and deduct it from the above statement of account. I am enclosing herewith your love letters (Weigh around 4 Kg) so that you no need to write again to your boy friend and your photo so that you can give to your new BF.
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13:02 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Life teaches you to be the tortoise
§I'm impatient by nature. I move fast and love to get things done now. I have a dream and wish it came true last weekend. I get an idea and want it realized tomorrow. But life's not like that, is it? So, through my inner work, I am trying to slow down and accept the fact that Good Things Take Time. §
We live in a world that adores speed. But the nature of business and life is more organic. A gorgeous wine takes time to mature. A precious garden takes time to bloom. A breathtaking mountain needed time to form. And - great businesses and world-class lives take years to build. Good parenting requires considerable investment of time and the results show over time. Life is more about evolution than revolution. Those small daily improvements daily, over time, lead to stunning results. It's the small steps that matter most.
In a world of instant gratification...we at times tend to forget this reality. Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hardwork, personal sacrifice, ongoing effort and dedication to a process that is maintained over years §So today, I invite you to be patient. Focus more on consistent and steady improvements in the way you work and in the way you live. In Life it pays to be the tortoise as slow and steady does win the race
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13:02 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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Happiness and Success, the yin and yang of life
There are only two things in life worth striving for. One is happiness; the other is success There are lot of happy people who aren't very successful. And there are a lot of successful people who aren't very happy. To be happy, you need to create a positive attitude in your own mind. A powerful sense of self, so to speak. To be successful, you need to create a positive attitude in the minds of other people. Success is what others do for you not what you do for yourself Wish to challenge the conventional wisdom that hard work, total dedication and constant improvement deliver you success in life. Positive thinking might make you happy (the yin) and its a terrific approach to life in general but it won't bring you success. Happiness and success, the yin and yang of life. The chinese symbols for all principles one finds in the universe, the yin and yang are diametrically opposed concepts. How can we achieve both at the same time - comments welcome ?
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