My Daily Drill

July 20, 2011

Quotes

Filed under: Daily things,General,Note to Self — thisiskris18 @ 12:57 pm

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. – Mother Teresa

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. – Kahlil Gibran

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. – Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. – Steven Javan Jones

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you Courage. – Lao Tzu

Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born. – Donna A. Favors

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. – Grenville Kleiser

reality. – Anwar Sadat

We are what we think. All that we are arises within our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. – Gautam Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. – Buddha

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – Buddha

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Allen

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition. – John Eliot

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind. – Eric Butterworth

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. – Oscar Wilde

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds. – Jameson Frank

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind. – Buddha

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott

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

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements. – Joseph P. Wirthlin

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. – John Maxwell

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.- William Feather

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.  – Dale Carnegie

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. – Helen Keller

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. – Mark Twain

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.  – B. C. Forbes

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard

The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. – Paul Watzlawick

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can’t have it. – Dr. Robert Anthony

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. – William Arthur Ward

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. – Mahatma Gandhi

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. – Abraham Lincoln

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. – Mary Lou Retton

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. – Helen Keller

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. – Albert Einstein

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.  – Mark Twain

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. – Henry Miller

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny. – Mahatma Gandhi

The giving of Love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.  – Katharine Hepburn

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Kahlil Gibran

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.  – Jennifer Jones

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. – Mark Twain

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. – Vanna Bonta

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. – Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.  – Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game. – Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? – Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack. – Winston Churchill

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, they make them. – George Bernard Shaw.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.

“An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.”…. -  Mahatma Gandhi.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

The key to success is to control what you think about, for you always get what you keep telling your mind you want. – Walter Staples.

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

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha

It is better to take days or weeks to make a wise decision, than to make a quick decision that will cause you a lifetime of regrets. – Edmond Mbiaka.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – Samuel Johnson

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockefeller

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life’s Little Instruction Book

Filed under: Daily things,General,Note to Self — thisiskris18 @ 10:46 am

Have a firm handshake.
Look people in the eye.
Sing in the shower.
Own a great stereo system.If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
Keep secrets.
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
Always accept an outstretched hand.Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.
Avoid sarcastic remarks.
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 per cent of all your happiness or misery.

Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.
Lend only those books you never care to see again.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.

When playing games with children, let them win.
Give people a second chance, but not a third.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
Don’t allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It’s there for your convenience, not the caller’s.

Be a good loser.
Be a good winner.
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.

Keep it simple. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the one’s you did.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.

Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.
Begin each day with some of your favorite music.
Once in a while, take the scenic route.
Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, ‘Someone who thinks you’re terrific.’

Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table,
Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.
Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.
Make someone’s day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.
Become someone’s hero.
Marry only for love.

Count your blessings.
Compliment the meal when you’re a guest in someone’s home.
Wave at the children on a school bus.
Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on our ability to deal with people.

 

Don’t expect life to be fair !!

 

July 19,2007 – July 19, 2011 - End of a Phase

New Phase: I will work on changing myself back beginning this year from now.

 

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

 

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