Vivekananda -- simply awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

When I Asked God for Strength ,
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face.
When I Asked God for Brain & Brown ,
  He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve.
When I Asked God for Happiness ,
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People.
When I Asked God for Wealth ,
He Showed Me How to Work Hard.
When I Asked God for Favors ,
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard.
When I Asked God for Peace ,
He Showed Me How to Help Others.

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed
- Swami Vivekananda

Mother Teresa- nice

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite. The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves. When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups." "Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."
-Mother Teresa

Few good ones.....

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -George S. Patton

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. -Elmer G. Letterman.

* If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley


Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. -Groucho Marx


There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.


Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren Buffett

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays


Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. -Bill Vaughan


Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison