After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward and her two hands were supporting an object. The [...]
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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. [...]
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may [...]
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” “Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” “Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you [...]
Lessons from 9/11, the annoying little things: As you might know, the head of a major company survived the tragedy of “9/11” in New York because his son started kindergarten. Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts. One woman was late because her alarm clock didn’t go off in time. [...]
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” E. Joseph Cossman “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” Charles R. Swindoll “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. [...]
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig “People love others not for who they are [...]
It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi “If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” Tom Krause “Reach high, for stars lie [...]
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.” T.S. Eliot “If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, [...]
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Albert Einstein “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” Dr. Brothers “Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” [...]