Patience really works as time goes by.
Patience is not losing but being more understanding.
Patience is not cowardice but being more rational.
Patience is not anger but being more mature.
Patience could lead you to think deeper to a clearer solution.
So, be patient..
The fact is..You Cannot Change Your PartnerIf the situation is not right, change yourself by changing the way you think, your way or your attitude. Accept your partner in any shape.Remember: you cannot change him/her, you can only change yourself.It's true that every good and perfect gift is from above..you were presented to me as a beautifully packaged gift full of humor, talent, intelligence, beauty and love..It isn't finding the perfect person but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly ....we all have our flaws but when I view you through my eyes, perfection is all I see
Appreciate each other while you can.Assume that you might die tomorrow.Treat your loved ones with all your heart, so that you won't have regrets in the future.Let's treasure our moments together!
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling 5 balls in the air.
They are: WORK, FAMILY, HEALTH, FRIENDS and SPIRIT. You are trying to keep all 5 balls in the air and not let them fall down. Imagine WORK is a rubber ball. Never mind if you drop it because it will bounce back.
But the other 4 balls: WORK, FAMILY, HEALTH, FRIENDS and SPIRIT are made of glass. If you dropped one of them, they might get scuffed,damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same balls again. That is what you must understand.
Thus..work efficiently during office hours and leave the office on time. Spend those precious hours with your family, friends and take good care of yourself. Rest properly and be happy
Almost anything that a family does together -whether it is eating in a restaurant or camping, or going to church or hiking or bicycling- is worthwhile, because it promotes a family spirit. Children may resent at times that they cannot do what every other child on the block is doing. But, they gain the security of a family membership.
The civilizing of a child began when they know the meaning of restraints. If a child is to learn to be an adult, he has to begin by respecting the adults he knows best : his parents and grandparents. By learning to obey his father and mother, a child has the freedom within the boundaries they set for him to discover his own identity. By learning to respect other people's rights, a child gains his self confidence to claim as his own.
Home ground is the place where you have known the smells, the seasons, the birds and the beasts, the human voices, the buildings, the houses and the weather. It is the first landscape that you know before you became what you are today.
You may love the place if you flourished there. Or you may hate the place if you had suffered there. But love it or hate it, you cannot shake free from it.
Even if you have moved to the other side of the world, even if you have become familiar with new landscapes, you will still have the picture of the old home ground etched in memory.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters
of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
--Kahlil Gibran-
A speech from Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios to Stanford graduates.. on love and loss in life.
"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than THREE to SIX months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
"I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
"This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
"When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
"Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off... Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
This life is yours.
Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.
Each year, actress Whoopi Goldberg, co-hosts 'Comic Relief' to aid her country's homeless people. This is one among the many projects that she is involved in.
She says :
I fear waking up one morning and finding out that my life was all for nothing.
We are here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to reach people through the darkness.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope that they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon, it will be like a wildfire and spread itself around.
Listening is..
knowing when to close your mouth and open your ears.
Looking into a friend's eyes, leaning forward or nodding your head can help someone to open up. The unspoken message is:
You are important
What you say is important
And I want to hear any and every secret
That you are willing to share with me..
