Thursday, April 30, 2009

What does trusting someone signify?

Trust, in a practical sense, means that you place confidence in someone to be honest with you, faithful to you, keep promises, vows and confidences and not abandon you. Here are some factors to consider about trust. Trusting another person requires a realistic perspective about people and an expectation of failure. Trust needs to be combined with a willingness to forgive and grows best in an environment of acceptance and love.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Daily Thought Quotes

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell

To undertake is to achieve.
— Emily Dickinson

There’s always room for improvement, you know—it’s the biggest room in the house.
— Louise Heath Leber

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
— Sir William Van Horne

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What one relishes, nourishes.
— Benjamin Franklin

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants…to give it lovingly and well.
— Pamela Glenconner

She gives most who gives with joy.
— Mother Teresa

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
— Pierre Corneille

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.
— French proverb

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
— An Wang

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mohandas Gandhi

Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
— Henry James

A gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
— Spanish proverb

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
— Babe Ruth

Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams

A little neglect may breed mischief.
— Benjamin Franklin

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Nelson Mandela

The right road lies under your tongue. Just ask.
— Chinese proverb

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
— Anonymous

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
— Martin Buxbaum

Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
— Louis L’Amour

You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile.
— CS Lewis

When you tug at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world.
— John Muir

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
— Jill Churchill

Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.
— Tina Turner

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo

If you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
— Hilda Doolittle

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
— Danny Kaye

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
— George Bernard Shaw

Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
— Jean Cocteau

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
— George Burns

If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father.
— Beulah Louise Henry

When the sky is clear, carry an umbrella; though your stomach is full, carry provisions.
— Chinese proverb

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
— George Scialabba

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
— Aaron Rose

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Perfection is attained by slow degrees, it requires the hand of time.
— Voltaire

Don’t worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that’s creativity.
— Peter Max

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.
— Pearl Bailey

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L’Engle

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
— Japanese proverb

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is color-blind.—Albert Schweitzer

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. ―Christian Nestell Bovee

Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards. — Søren Kierkegaard T

he brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.—Wallace Stegner

Style is the perfection of a point of view.
—Richard Eberhart

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds on in its net of wonder forever.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
—attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
—Leo Buscaglia

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
—Heywood Hale Broun

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.
—Nigel Slater

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
—Juvenal

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and...the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
—Samuel Johnson

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
—Clare Boothe Luce

Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
—English proverb

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
―William Hazlitt

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it. You must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
―Arthur Miller

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
―Henry Kissinger

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
―H. Jackson Browne

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
—Mahatma Gandhi

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
—Marlene Dietrich

"There is joy in all."
– Anne Sexton

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
—Carl Jung

"Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it."
– Soren Kierkegaard

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
―Joseph Campbell

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
―A.A. Milne

It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.
―Dorothy Parker

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
―Sophia Bush

Attitude…

It is the ‘advance man’ of our true selves.
Its roots are inward but its fruit is outward.
It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
It is more honest and more consistent than our words.
It is an outward look based on past experiences.
It is a thing which draws people or repels them.
It is never content until it is expressed.
It is the librarian of our past.
It is the speaker of our present.
It is the prophet of our future.

Greed

“Be on your guard against every form of greed” (Luke 12:15)

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Appreciation And Encouragement

Bob Danzig, has an amazing story. Simple words of appreciation and encouragement changed his life. Bob was in five foster homes during his youth, and said he spent his childhood trying to find someone to love and appreciate him.

When he was nine years old, he had a new social worker. He said after she had done all the paperwork to move him to yet another foster home, she sat him down, looked him directly in the eyes, and said, "Bobby, I want you to always remember these words: YOU ARE WORTHWHILE!"

Bob says that no one had ever said anything like that to him, and each time they met, she repeated those words. They became an affirmation of appreciation that he heard over and over again in his head.

Bob graduated at sixteen, not because he was smart, he says, but because he got mixed up in the system!

He soon took a job at the Albany New York Times as a copy boy, and his very first boss was a woman named Margaret. After he had worked there about six months, Margaret called him into her office one day and asked him to sit down. He thought for sure he was going to be fired! She looked him right in the eyes and said to him, "I have been the office manager for 15 years - I have been observing you - and I believe YOU ARE FULL OF PROMISE." Those words, on that day, gave him permission to aspire.

Those two positive messages of appreciation played over and over again in his head and ultimately gave him the courage to be the very best he could be. Sixteen years later he became the Publisher of the Albany New York Times, and seven years after that, he became CEO of Hearst Newspapers, one of the largest newspaper companies in the world; and he credits it all to those simple words of appreciation and love. What a wonderful example of how little gifts of appreciation can make such a difference in a life!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

212 service

You may be thinking...What is 212 service?

Well, here's a law of science that could change your life...

At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, it boils.
And with boiling water comes steam.
And steam can power a locomotive.

The one extra degree makes all the difference.

And so many times in business and in life, it's that one extra degree of effort that separates the good from the great.

Wisdom

Thought is a language that has no sound, while words are the symbols of a language.
When language and thinking are excessive, they become a hindrance to wisdom.

Sun flower

A flower doesn't turn toward the sun because it needs to, but because it wants to, and so the process is effortless and joyful.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Quotes by Women

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. (Catherine)

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. (Jane Sellman)

When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! (Kathy Buckley)

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb .. and I'm also not blonde. (Dolly Parton)

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. (Elayne Boosler)

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. (Cora Harvey Armstrong)

Thirty five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. (Caryn Leschen)

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. (Maryon Pearson)

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man) if you want anything done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher)

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career… (Gloria Steinem)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the b*tch up with cookies. (unknown)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. (Helen Hayes)

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. (Janette Barber)

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. (Lily Tomlin)

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. (Jennifer Unlimited)

Friday, April 3, 2009

让小孩子告诉我们爱是什么

一组专业人员向一群四到八岁的孩子问了这样一个问题:“爱是什么意思?”结果答案的广度和深度却出乎所有人意料之外。看看你是怎么想的……

1. "我奶奶得了关节炎,再也不能弯下来涂脚趾甲。于是我爷爷总是给她涂,甚至当他自己的手得了关节炎也是这样。这就是爱。"
丽贝卡- 八岁
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2. "当有人爱上你,他说你名字的方式是不一样的。你就知道你的名字在他嘴里说出来感觉棒极了。"
比利 - 四岁
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3. "爱就是女孩抹香水男孩涂古龙水,然后他们出去,互相闻着。"
卡尔 - 五岁
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4. "爱就是当你出去吃饭时,你把自己大部分薯条给某个人,而却并不在意他是不是也给你。"
克里希- 六岁
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5. "爱就是在你累的时候让你笑起来的东西。"
特里- 四岁
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6. "爱就是当我妈咪给爹地泡咖啡,在给他之前先尝一口,看看味道是不是还可以。"
丹尼 - 七岁
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7. "爱就是你们一直接吻的时候。然后你们厌烦了接吻,但你们仍然想呆在一起,而且你们聊得更多。妈咪和爹地就是这样的。他们接吻的时候,看上去很下流。"
艾蜜俐 - 八岁
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8. "爱就是圣诞节当你在房间里拆开礼物时,让你停下来去听的东西。"
鲍比 - 七岁 (哇!)
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9. "如果你想学着爱得更好,就应该从爱你所恨的人开始。"
妮卡 - 六岁(在这个星球上我们需要千千万万更多的小妮卡们)
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10. "爱就是当你告诉一个男孩你喜欢他的衬衫,他就每天都穿着它。"
诺艾尔 - 七岁
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11. "爱就像一个小老太婆和一个小老头儿,尽管他们彼此很了解,但却仍然是朋友。"
汤米 - 六岁
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12. "在钢琴独奏会上,我在台上,很紧张。望着台下,所有人都在看我。我看到爹地冲我挥手微笑,只有他一个人这么做。我就不再感到紧张了。"
辛迪 - 八岁
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13. "妈咪爱我胜过所有人。没有人像她那样在晚上吻着我入睡。"
克莱尔 - 六岁
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14. "爱就是在妈咪把最好的鸡块给爹地的时候。"
伊莱恩 -五岁
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15. "爱就是妈咪看到爹地一身臭汗的样子却仍然说他比劳勃·瑞福还帅。"
克莉丝 - 七岁
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16. "爱就是你一整天扔下你的小狗狗不管,而它却仍然舔你的脸的时候。"
玛丽·安 - 四岁
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17. "我知道我姐姐爱我,因为她把她所有的旧衣服都给了我,而她却不得不出去买新的。"
劳伦 - 四岁
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18. "当你爱上某个人,你的睫毛忽上忽下的,小星星从里面出来。"
(这会是什么样子)卡伦 - 七岁
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19. "爱就是当妈咪进卫生间看到爹地在里面,而她却并不觉得恶心的时候。"
马克 - 六岁
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20. "你真的不能说出‘我爱你’,除非你是来真的。但是一旦你是来真的,你就应该经常说。人们总是忘记。"
杰西卡 - 八岁
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21. 最后一个 --- 作家兼讲师里欧·布斯加利亚曾经谈到一次比赛,当时他被邀去当评委。那次比赛是要评出最有爱心的小孩。获胜者是一个四岁的孩子,他的邻居是一位新近丧妻的老者。这个小男孩看到那个老人哭泣,便走进他的院子,爬到他的膝上,然后就坐在那儿。后来他妈妈问他对那个邻居说了什么,小男孩说:“什么也没说,我只是帮着他哭。”

Meditation

Meditation does not belong to any religion, and meditation is not a belief.

It is a pure science of the inner.

Learning to be silent,
learning to be watchful,
learning to be a witness;
learning that you are not the mind, but something beyond
-- the consciousness -- will prepare you to receive truth.
Osho