INSPIRATIONAL WORDS OF WISDOM

A stitch in  time  saves nine.  A rolling stone gathers no moss.  Learning is there for every man.  Beauty , unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  Friends  are lost by calling often and calling seldom.  An apple a day keeps the doctor away.  He is rich enough who owes nothing.  A fault once denied, is twice committed.  A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.  Don't find fault with what you don't understand.  Adversity  makes a man wise.  It is not enough to run, one must start in time.  Better to be seen alone than in bad company.  Better to wear out than rust out.  No news is good news.  Easy to say is hard to do.  Gentleness does more than violence.  If  wishes  were horses, beggars would ride. 

It’s hard to be happy when we long for things others have or are.  Rita Chester, Complaining: A Life Free from Complaining  Happy   |    Wisdom    |    We cannot overcome fear if we allow fear to overcome us.  Theo Gold, Confidence: Become Unstoppable!  Fear    |    Words of Encouragement    |    Optimists always tend to see the positive things and believe that adverse outcomes are temporary in nature.  Lenny Olsen, Confidence Hacks  Optimistic   |    Positive    |    Forgiveness is the spirit of forgiving others and let their mistakes go.  Ilene Prat, The Secrets of Forgiveness  Forgiveness    |    Mistakes    |  

My mom only had one eye. I hated her… she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell… anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school. I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school… “Your mom only has one eye?!” and they taunted me. I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, “Mom, why don’t you have the other eye?! You’re only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don’t you just die?” My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I’d wanted to say all this time. Maybe it was because my mom hadn’t punished me, but I didn’t think that I had hurt her feelings very badly. That night… I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something. A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.  If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.  It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.  A chattering bird builds no nest.  When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.  For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.  To try and to  fail  is not laziness.  If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended  forgive .  A good deed is something one returns.  A  family  is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has it's place.  He who learns,  teaches .  Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.  It is not  work  that kills, but  worry .  Seeing is different than being told.  There is no medicine to cure hatred.  If you're not part of the solution, you're part of

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.  Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?  I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her! With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.  She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  Martin Luther King Jr.   Life    |    Attitude    |  "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."  Martin Luther King Jr.   Dream    |    Diversity    |  "Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."  Martin Luther King Jr.   Happiness    |    Helping Others    |  "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."  Martin Luther King Jr.   Honesty A Core Value    |    Faith    |  "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.&q

A little impatience will spoil great plans.  A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  If you bow at all, bow low.  A smile will gain you ten more years of  life .  A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.  A  book  holds a house of gold.  Talk does not cook rice.  Experience  is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.  Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.  Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.  A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.  Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.  He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.  An inch of  time  is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.  A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood  Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.  A needle is not sharp at both ends.  Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

Once upon a time, there lived a herd of eighty thousand elephants at the bottom of the majestic Himalayas. Their leader was a magnificent and rare white elephant who was an extremely kind-hearten soul. He greatly loved his mother who had grown blind and feeble and could not look out for herself. Each day this white elephant would go deep into the forest in search of food. He would look for the best of wild fruit to send to his mother. But alas, his mother never received any. This was because his messengers would always eat them up themselves. Each night, when he returned home he would be surprised to hear that his mother had been starving all day. He was absolutely disgusted with his herd. Then one day, he decided to leave them all behind and disappeared in the middle of the night along with his dear mother. He took her to Mount Candorana to live in a cave beside a beautiful lake that was covered by gorgeous pink lotuses. It so happened that one day, when the white elephant was

A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a priest were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed engine trouble. In spite of the best efforts of the pilot, the plane started to go down. Finally, the pilot grabbed a parachute and yelled to the passengers that they better jump, and he himself bailed out. Unfortunately, there were only three parachutes remaining. The doctor grabbed one and said “I’m a doctor, I save lives, so I must live,” and jumped out. The lawyer then said, “I’m a lawyer and lawyers are the smartest people in the world. I deserve to live.” He also grabbed a parachute and jumped. The priest looked at the little boy and said, “My son, I’ve lived a long and full life. You are young and have your whole life ahead of you. Take the last parachute and live in peace.” The little boy handed the parachute back to the priest and said, “Not to worry Father. The smartest man in the world just took off with my back pack.” MOR

Once upon a time, there was a man who was very helpful, kindhearted, and generous. He was a man who will help someone without asking anything to pay him back. He will help someone because he wants to and he loves to.  One day while walking into a dusty road, this man saw a purse, so he picked it up and noticed that the purse was empty. Suddenly a woman with a policeman shows up and gets him arrested. The woman kept on asking where did he hide her money but the man replied, “It was empty when I found it, Ma.” The woman yelled at him, “Please give it back, It’s for my son’s school fees.”  The man noticed that the woman really felt sad, so he handed all his money.  He could say that the woman was a single mother.  The man said, “Take these, sorry for the inconvenience.”  The woman left and policeman held he man for further questioning. The woman was very happy but when she counted her money later on, it was doubled, she was shocked.  One day while woman was going to pay her son’s sc

Let what is past flow away downstream.  Adversity  is the foundation of virtue.  You can know ten things by learning one.  Ten men, ten minds.  When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.  Fall down seven times, get up eight.  When the  character  of a man is not clear to you,look at his friends.  Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop.  One kind word can warm three winter months.  Gossip  about a person and his shadow will appear.  There are no national frontiers to learning.  Everyone makes  mistakes . That's why there is an eraser on every pencil.  A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.  If you wait, there will come nectar - like fair weather.  Wisdom  and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.  The reverse side also has a reverse side.  Proof rather than argument.  An ant hole may collapse an embankment.  Time  flies like an arrow. 

“A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master’s house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. “Why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?” “I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and begin to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that fell on his back, the donkey was doing some thing amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and totted off! MORAL LESSON :  Life is going to shovel di

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied. “Look closer”, he said, “and

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call asap, changed his clothes &  went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On seeing him, the dad yelled:  “Why did you take all this time to  come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have  any sense of responsibility?” The doctor smiled & said:  “I am sorry, I wasn't in the  hospital & I came as fast as I could after receiving the call…… And  now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work” “Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do??”  said the father angrily The doctor smiled again & replied:  “I  will say what Job said in the Holy Book  “From dust we came & to  dust we return, blessed be the name of God”. Doctors cannot prolong  lives. Go & intercede for your son, we will do our best by G

There was once a guy who suffered from cancer... a cancer that can't be treated. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home and wanted to go out for once. So he asked his mother and she gave him permission. He walked down his block and found a lot of stores. He passed a CD store and looked through the front door for a second as he walked. He stopped and went back to look into the store. He saw a young girl about his age and he knew it was love at first sight. He opened the door and walked in, not looking at anything else but her. He walked closer and closer until he was finally at the front desk where she sat. She looked up and asked "Can I help you?" She smiled and he thought it was the most beautiful smile he has ever seen before and wanted to kiss her right there. He said "Uh... Yeah... Umm... I would like to buy a CD." He picked

There was once this guy who was very much in love with his girl.  This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a  gift to his girl.  Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his  future didn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day,  his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told  him that she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so they went their own ways  there and then...  Heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regained his confidence, he  worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of  himself.  Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy had  set up his own company ..  You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guy was  driving, he saw an elderly   couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even  with the umbrella, they  were still drenched. It didn't take him lo

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his  way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.   He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.  However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.  Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water.   She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large  glass of milk He drank it slowly, and then asked,   "How much do I owe you?"  "You don't owe me anything," she replied "Mother has taught us never to  accept payment for a kindness."  He said...   "Then I thank you from my heart."  As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt; stronger physically,  but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.  Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors  were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare  disease