Author Unknown The years passed. I finished college and took a job in another town. Once,while visiting my parents, I used the phone in their bedroom. Sadly, I noticed that the pickle jar was gone. It had served its purpose and now had been removed. A lump rose in my throat as I stared at …
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Throughout each day you’re constantly talking to yourself. It’s completely normal. We all do it. In fact we do it so Much that our subconscious mind accepts what we say as Truth. This acceptance forms the beliefs that we have of Ourselves, and how we perceive that others see us. If your talk is negative, …
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this Rupee 500 note?”Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the …
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: “When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with …
Once upon a time, there was a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn’t seemed too bright, they were very happy together. …
There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was …
Easy is to get a place is someone’s address book.Difficult is to get a place in someone’s heart. Easy is to judge the mistakes of othersDifficult is to recognize our own mistakes Easy is to talk without thinkingDifficult is to refrain the tongue Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.Difficult is to heal the …
It has been said before but it’s worth repeating here. John Arlott had written about it in 1948 at the end of a successful tour of Englandby Don Bradman’s men. “”Australianism,” wrote Arlott, “means single-mindeddetermination to win – to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the lastlimit within them. It means where the …
1. When NASA began launching astronauts into space, they found out that the astronauts’ pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink wouldn’t flow down to the writing surface). It took them one decade and $12 million to solve this problem. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on practically any …
You just don’t win arguments; you can only try to walk away from one with as few scars as possible. A heated argument leaves both parties worse for wear, and it seldom settles anything. But isn’t democracy itself supposed to be based on differences of opinion and the right to speak freely? In school we …