Food for Thought

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SHANKARAM SHIVA SHANKARAM!!!!!!!

 

dear friends,

please find below mail which has greater value!!!!

 

regards,

venkataraman.

 

 

"An carpenter was ready to retire. The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials.

 

When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you." The carpenter was shocked! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.

 

So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, we'd do it much differently. But we cannot go back. "Life is a do-it-yourself project," someone has said. Your attitudes and the choices you make today, go into building the "house" you live in tomorrow."

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- Tell yoruself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, if you do

not believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.

 

- Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big

worthwhile things. It is not the mountain ahead that wears you out -- it is the

grain of sand in your shoe.

 

- When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I

won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears,

I found a shoulder to cry on. When I mastered the skill of hating, somebody

started loving me. When after waiting for dawn, I fell asleep, then sun came

out.

 

- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging

their prejudices.

 

- Force can make everything possible in the world, but it cannot create a single

drop of love in anybody's heart ... !!!

 

- Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

 

- The depth of a soul is not measured by what appears on the surface.

 

- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in, are different from the

things we do ...

 

- To be kind is more important than to be right. Sometimes what a person needs

is not a brilliant mind that speaks, BUT A patient heart that listens ....

 

(Taken from Ideas Exchange, July 2009)