A boy went to the pet store to buy a puppy. Four of them were sitting together, priced at Rs. 5000 each. Then there was one sitting alone in a corner. The boy asked if that was from the same litter, if it was for sale, and why it was sitting alone. The store owner replied that it was from the same litter, it was a deformed one, and not for sale. The boy asked what the deformity was. The store owner replied that the puppy was born without a hip socket and had a leg missing. The boy asked, "What will you do with this one?" The reply was it would be put to sleep. The boy asked if he could play with that puppy. The store owner said, "Sure." The boy picked the puppy up and the puppy licked him on the ear. Instantly the boy decided that was the puppy he wanted to buy. The store owner said "That is not for sale!" The boy insisted. The store owner agreed. The boy pulled out RS. 200 from his pocket and ran to get RS. 4800 from his mother. As he reached the door the store owner shouted after him, "I don't understand why you would pay full money for this one when you could buy a good one for the same price." The boy didn't say a word. He just lifted his left trouser leg and he was wearing a brace. The pet store owner said, "I understand. Go ahead, take this one." This is empathy.
Practice Humility
Many years ago, a rider came across some soldiers who were trying to move a heavy log without success. The corporal was standing by as the men struggled. The rider asked the corporal why he wasn't helping. The corporal replied, "I am the corporal; i give orders." The rider dismounted, went up and stood by the soldiers and as they were lifting the log, he helped them. With his help, the log got moved. The rider quietly mounted his horse and went to the corporal and said, "The next time your men need help, send for the Commander-in-Chief." After he left, the corporal and his men found out that the rider was George Washington.
The message is pretty clear. Success and humility go hand in hand. When others blow your horn, the sound goes further. Just think about it? Simplicity and humility are two hallmarks of greatness. Humility does not mean self-demeaning behavior.
* In The Book of Virtues, edited by William J. Bennett,
BEWARE OF HALF-TRUTHS OR MISREPRESENTATION OF TRUTHS
There was a sailor who worked on the same boat for three years. One night he got drunk. This was the first time it ever happened. The captain recorded it in the log, "The sailor was drunk tonight." The sailor read it, and he knew this comment would affect his career, so he went to the captain, apologized and asked the captain to add that it only happened once in three years which was the complete truth. The captain refused and said, "What I have written in the log is the truth." The next day it was the sailor's turn to fill in the log. He wrote, "The captain was sober tonight." The captain read the comment and asked the sailor to change or add to it explaining the complete truth because this implied that the captain was drunk every other night. The sailor told the captain that what he had written in the log was the truth.
Both statements were true but they conveyed misleading messages;
Motivational Quotes for the day (Enjoyment)
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
~Earl Nightingale
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
~Ben Hogan
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
~Gerry Sikorski
t is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
~Marcia Wieder
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
~Matt Biondi
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
~Glenn Buck
Credibility
We all know the story of the shepherd boy who cried wolf. The boy decided to have some fun at the expense of the villagers. He shouted, "Help, help, the wolf is here." The villagers heard him and came to his rescue. But when they got there, they saw no wolf and the boy laughed at them. They went away. The next day, the boy played the same trick and the same thing happened. Then one day, while the boy was taking care of his sheep he actually saw a wolf and shouted for help. The people in the village heard him but this time nobody came to his rescue. They thought it was another trick and didn't trust him anymore. He lost his sheep to the wolf.
Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world. --Thomas Carlyle
Motivational quotes for the day (Intuition)
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
~Billy Wilder
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~Benjamin Spock
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
~Joyce Brothers
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
~Florence Scovel Shinn
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
~Madame De Girardin
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~Oprah
For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.
~Wayne Dyer
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational quotes for the day (Nature)
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out,
I found, was really going in.
~John Muir
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~Hal Borland
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~Galileo
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
A POUND OF BUTTER
There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, amour Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."
What is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give to others. Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question: Am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make? Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie with a straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the truth is anymore. But who are they deceiving? Themselves
Motivational quotes for the day (Creativity)
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
~Marcus Aurelius
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
~James Broughton
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
~Victor Hugo
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
~Pablo Picasso
An avalanche begins with a snowflake.
~Joseph Compton
Motivational quotes for the day (Wise Proverbs)
Chinese Proverbs:
A man grows most tired while standing still.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
German Proverbs:
Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
Japanese Proverbs:
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
Swedish Proverbs:
God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Worry (often) gives a small thing a big shadow.
Forgive and Forget
When a person refuses to forgive, he is locking doors that some day he might need to open. When we hold grudges and harbor resentment, who are we hurting the most? Ourselves.
Jim and Jerry were childhood friends but for whatever reasons, the relationship fell apart and they hadn't spoken for 25 years. Jerry was on his deathbed and didn't want to enter eternity with a heavy heart. So he called Jim, apologized and said, "Let's forgive each other and be done for the past." Jim thought it was a good idea and decided to visit Jerry at the hospital. They caught up on 25 years, patched up their differences and spent a couple of hours together. As Jim was leaving, Jerry shouted from behind, "Jim, just in case I don't die; remember, this forgiveness doesn't count." Life is too short to hold grudges. It is not worth it.
While it is not worth holding grudges, it doesn't make sense to be bitten time and again. It is well said, "You cheat me once, shame on you; you cheat me twice, shame on me."
John Kennedy once said, "Forgive the other person but don't forget their name." I am sure that his message was that one should not get cheated twice.
Motivational quotes for the day (Anger)
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~Sydney J. Harris
He who angers you conquers you.
~Elizabeth Kenny
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~Malachy McCourt
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
~Robert G. Ingersoll
