Cleverness is when you believe only a half of what you hear. Brilliance is when you know which half to believe - Unknown
Friday, October 19, 2007
A Thought for Today-115: October 17, 2007
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage - they force us to THINK - Unknown
A Thought for Today-114: October 16, 2007
Pay attention to your future, because you are going to spend a lot of time there - Unknown
A Thought for Today-112: October 14, 2007
If there is success without hard work or without trying, it is hardly worth anything. Only that success carries respectability which is achieved through hard work. The most desirable success is always the most difficult one - Unknown
A Thought for Today-111: October 13, 2007
Good and Evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances, misery is a great teacher than happiness - Swami Vivekananda
A Thought for Today-110: October 12, 2007
Both pleasure and pain are great teachers and man learns as much from evil as from good.... The result of these combined impressions is what is called man's character - Swami Vivekananda
A Thought for Today-109: October 11, 2007
All the great systems of ethics preach ABSOLUTE UNSELFISHNESS as the goal - Swami Vivekananda.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
'Self-Improvement-2: "Why We All Need a Personality Prop' by J.J.Dorairaj in The Mirror
Various are the methods adopted by human beings to infuse pep into their personality. Some adorn the walls of their dwellings with choice quotations taken from the holy scriptures or lines composed by their pet poets. Looking at these from time to time, their falling spirits have a chance to renew their strength.
This technique is by no means a novel one. In fact, it is followed by almost all religious people in the world. Through this, countless people have obtained victory in their lives.
Every great man has had his own favourite formula, motto or prop to help him rise higher up on the ladder of life.
Gladstone was the son of a merchant. He steadily rose to the position of the Prime Minister of England. His activities were so many and of such a varied nature that the people wondered how he could possibly cope with them. The secret was in his bed-room. There, on the wall right against his eyes as he lay on his bed, were found framed the following words: "underneath are the everlasting arms of God". During his strenuous career, he often went to bed in the small hours of the night, but as his eyes closed in slumber, he did not fail to read these memorable words, and as he awoke in the morning, they were the first words that he noticed. And this gave him the courage and the confidence to live another day.
One of the protestant leaders of England, John Wesley, began his career as a staunch Church of England man. After his conversion on May 24th 1730, he became an ardent evangelist. He traveled on horseback throughout the length and breadth of England, and stirred the people to a type of religion founded on real sincerity and not upon cant and hypocrisy. He is said to have traveled a total distance of 850,000 miles and preached more than 40,000 sermons!
At the same time, his literary output was prodigious. To guide him throughout his days, John Wesley kept a fly-leaf in his Bible which he never failed to read. On this fly-leaf were written the simple words. "Live today"; this inspired him to make every day a perfect day.
Mahatma Gandhi kept in his study room three porcelain dolls representing three monkeys in action. They reminded him to be ever careful of what he saw, heard and spoke.
The society that is responsible for redeeming addicts from alcohol asks its clients to keep on their office desk, dressing table or window sill some choice sentence to remind them of the evils of drink, chosen for them from famous writers. Perhaps we are not addicted to drink, but still we need personality props. Have you chosen the right one for yourself?
Excerpt from ‘WHY WE ALL NEED A PERSONALITY PROP’ by J.J.Dorairaj published in January 1974 issue of The Mirror.
This technique is by no means a novel one. In fact, it is followed by almost all religious people in the world. Through this, countless people have obtained victory in their lives.
Every great man has had his own favourite formula, motto or prop to help him rise higher up on the ladder of life.
Gladstone was the son of a merchant. He steadily rose to the position of the Prime Minister of England. His activities were so many and of such a varied nature that the people wondered how he could possibly cope with them. The secret was in his bed-room. There, on the wall right against his eyes as he lay on his bed, were found framed the following words: "underneath are the everlasting arms of God". During his strenuous career, he often went to bed in the small hours of the night, but as his eyes closed in slumber, he did not fail to read these memorable words, and as he awoke in the morning, they were the first words that he noticed. And this gave him the courage and the confidence to live another day.
One of the protestant leaders of England, John Wesley, began his career as a staunch Church of England man. After his conversion on May 24th 1730, he became an ardent evangelist. He traveled on horseback throughout the length and breadth of England, and stirred the people to a type of religion founded on real sincerity and not upon cant and hypocrisy. He is said to have traveled a total distance of 850,000 miles and preached more than 40,000 sermons!
At the same time, his literary output was prodigious. To guide him throughout his days, John Wesley kept a fly-leaf in his Bible which he never failed to read. On this fly-leaf were written the simple words. "Live today"; this inspired him to make every day a perfect day.
Mahatma Gandhi kept in his study room three porcelain dolls representing three monkeys in action. They reminded him to be ever careful of what he saw, heard and spoke.
The society that is responsible for redeeming addicts from alcohol asks its clients to keep on their office desk, dressing table or window sill some choice sentence to remind them of the evils of drink, chosen for them from famous writers. Perhaps we are not addicted to drink, but still we need personality props. Have you chosen the right one for yourself?
Excerpt from ‘WHY WE ALL NEED A PERSONALITY PROP’ by J.J.Dorairaj published in January 1974 issue of The Mirror.
Grateful thanks to Mr J J Dorairaj and The Mirror.
Facts and Figures-10: New Gandhiji Stamps, The Week, Oct.14, 2007
Four new 5-rupee stamps commemorating Mahatma Gandhi was released on October 2, 2007, his 138th birthday.
Courtesy: The Week, October 14, 2007.
Grateful thanks to The Week.
A Thought for Today-108: October 11, 2007
If you start judging people, you will not have time to love them - Mother Teresa
A Thought for Today-107: October 10, 2007
Never break four things in your life: TRUST, PROMISE, RELATIONSHIP and HEART. Because when they break, they don't make any noise but pain a lot - Unknown
A Thought for Today-106: October 9, 2007
If someone feels that they had never done any mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried anything new in their life - Albert Einstein
A Thought for Today-105: October 8, 2007
Believing nobody is dangerous; believing everybody is very dangerous - Abraham Lincoln
A Thought for Today-104: October 7, 2007
Everyone thinks of changing the world but nobody thinks of changing himself - Leo Tolstoy
A Thought for Today-103: October 6, 2007
I will not say I failed 1000 times; I will say that I discovered that there are 1000 ways that can cause failure - Thomas Alva Edison
A Thought for Today-102: October 5, 2007
Winning does not always mean being first; winning means you are doing better than you have done before - Bonnie Blair
A Thought for Today-101: October 4, 2007
If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love god whom we can't see - Mother Teresa
A Thought for Today-100: October 3, 2007
Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself - Allen Strike
A Thought for Today-99: October 2, 2007
The hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray - Mahatma Gandhi
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