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“A person should not be too honest.

Straight trees are cut first

and Honest people are victimized first.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)

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“Even if a snake is not poisonous,

it should pretend to be venomous.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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“There is some self-interest behind every friendship.

There is no Friendship without self-interests.

This is a bitter truth.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply

and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

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“Once you start working on something,

don’t be afraid of failure and

don’t abandon it.

People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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“The fragrance of flowers spreads

only in the direction of the wind.

But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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“Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.

For the next five years, scold them.

By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.

Your grown up children are your best friends.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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“Books are as useful to a stupid person

as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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“Education is the best friend.

An educated person is respected everywhere.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

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God makes a place for all… This one is a really remarkable story in pictures… Its not morphed.. its a true story. Cheers to the Girls for their courage and spirit… specially in these days.. when we cant stand someone even as close as family.. withing our our lives..

What Are Your Goals, Dreams and Visions?

So many people just exist; they have no goals, desires or aspirations. They may have been ambitious at one time in their life but ran into disappointments, detours and failures. After awhile they chose not to reach for the stars and settled for the mundane.  

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Painter, sculptor, architect and poet once said: “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

In most instances, that which lies within each of us is much more than we ever come to know. We give in to mediocre and find ourselves settling for less than we are capable of. 

We dared to dream as children and then meet up with real life as adults and relinquish our visions as unreal possibilities. It is a shame we often cease living, learning and achieving and meet a premature demise. We become comfortable in less and determine the work to become more is not worth the effort. The possibility of attaining greatness becomes an unattainable desire of our own decision. We give up on ourselves and our dreams and possibilities. Oh, what greatness goes undiscovered, what possibilities lay covered with fear and lack of ambition.

Perhaps you have run into people who lacked faith in you, and your abilities, putting doubt on any dreams or visions you shared with them. You are not the observation others have of you; you are the thoughts you have, the actions you take. Others are not in control of your dreams and visions; they can not diminish your desires. You alone are in charge of what you do with your life.

Some dreams and visions may be selfish ambition and you’ll run into other people’s resentments. Some of your achievements may be growth, and others may demonstrate jealousy. Some desires may include a few other people, but benefit many. We should choose our aspirations carefully and determine their merit before we bring them into fruition. For dreams that see mountaintops benefit others, are seen by many, and last through the years. 

Many of our achievements are the legacy we leave behind when we depart this earth. But many people never live the legacy they want to leave. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once said, “Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

We should always sit goals, and we should desire to continue to achieve and pursue dreams and visions no matter our age. Dreams are not just for the young. Achievements in life should continue until life has ended.

We need to learn to live life to the fullest until our last breath. We should live while we are alive, leaving our demise filled with so many meaningful breaths of living, others will envy the life that we lead, not the things that we accumulated. 

No one would attempt to go on a trip without directions or a map, following the roads leading to their destination. So we should not live our life without sitting goals and following our dreams. 

Remember you have not reached your destination until you have drawn your last breath. And remember today’s actions are the ingredients of which dreams are made. So make your dreams come true by sitting goals and acting on your passions and visions, making them a part of your life and future legacy that will live on. “Things” will be forgotten but you through your achievements can live on forever.

The Boy with the Low I.Q.

‘Some day you will find what your special gift is and when you do, you will make your parents very proud of you’

One of the worst evils of today is the exaggerated importance given to so-called intelligence tests. Many other qualities besides agility in answering trick questions go into the making of human personality. A man can fail all the tests and make a wonderful life. Let me tell you what happened to a young Canadian boy.

Call him Johnnie Martin. He was the son of a carpenter, and his mother worked as a housekeeper. They lived frugal lives, saving their money for the day when they could send their son to college. Johnnie had reached the second year in high school when the blow fell. A psychologist attached to the school called the young man, just reached sixteen, into his private office and this is what he said.

‘Johnnie, I’ve been studying your marks and I’ve gone over your various tests in motor and sensory impressions – your physical examination.  I’ve made a very careful study of you and your achievements.’

‘I’ve been trying hard,’ put in Johnnie.

‘That’s just the trouble.’ said the psychologist.

‘You have worked very hard indeed – but it has not helped. You just don’t seem able to get ahead in your studies. You’re just not cut out for it, and for you to remain in high school would, in my opinion, be a waste of time.’

The boy buried his face in his hands.

‘This will be hard on my mother and father,’ he said. ‘Their one idea is for me to be a college man.’

The psychologist laid his hand on the boy’s shoulder. ‘People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie,’ he said.’

‘There are painters who were never able to learn the multiplication table, and engineers who can’t sing on key. But every one of us has something special – and you are no exception. Some day you will find what your special gift is and when you do, you will make your parents very proud of you.’

Johnnie never went back to school. Jobs were scarce in town, but he managed to keep busy mowing the lawns of the householders and puttering in their flower-beds. And then a curious thing happened.  Before long his customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called a ‘green thumb’. The plants he tended grew and blossomed, and the rose trees blossomed. He fell into the habit of making suggestions for re-arranging the tiny front-yard landscapes. He had an eye for colour and could make surprising combinations that pleased the eye.

One day while he was down town he happened to notice a stretch of unused land behind the city hall. Chance or fate or whatever you may like to call it brought one of the town’s alderman round the corner just at that moment. Impetuously the boy said, ‘I can make a garden out of this dump, if you’ll let me.’

‘The town’s got no money for frills,’ said the alderman.

‘I don’t want any money for it,’ said the boy – ‘I just want to do it.’

The alderman, being a politician, was astounded to find anyone who did not want money, under any and all circumstances. He took Johnnie into an office, and when the young man came out he had the authority to clean up the public eyesore. That very afternoon he borrowed extra tools and seeds and soil. Someone gave him a few young trees to plant.  When others heard of it they offered rose-bushes and even a hedge. Then the town’s leading manufacturer heard of it, and volunteered to supply some benches.

Before long the dreary old dump had become a little park. There were grassy lawns and little curving walks and restful seats and little house for birds. All the towns people were talking about what a lovely improvement the young man had made.

But it was also a kind of show window for Johnnie. People saw the result of his skill and knew him for a natural landscape gardener.

That was twenty five years ago. Today Johnnie is the head of a prosperous business in landscape gardening. His customers extend into neighbouring provinces.

Johnnie still cannot speak French or translate Latin, trigonometry is unknown to him. But colour and light and lovely prospects are his bread and butter. His aging parents are proud of Johnnie, for he is not only a success – a man of affairs and a member of the best clubs in town – he has also made his part of the world a lovelier place to live in. Where ever he and his men go, they spread beauty before the eyes of people.

Source – Modern Parables by Fulton Oursler.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course , the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

“I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.” The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?” “That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.”"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

So, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!