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[From_Alamut]

Carry A Heart that Never Hates…
Carry a Smile that Never Fades…
Carry a Touch that never Hurts…
Carry a Friendship that Never Fails.

[From_Alamut]

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themself.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

[prince_visram]

Hope this isn't a double post, got it in my email again, but it always puts a smile on my face..

Imagine what it would be like living in a world of no diversity,
a world where we were all the same colour, shape and size,
ate the same biryani, told the same jokes and combed our hair identically.
Aside from the fact that my comb, sadly, serves less purpose these days, I would find a world like that quite boring!

~ Aga Khan
in his speech at the Ninth Award for Architecture Ceremony
New Delhi , Saturday, November 27, 2004

[From_Alamut]

"TIME NEVER DIES
THE CIRCLE IS NOT ROUND"

This quote been token from the movie calls "BEFORE THE RAIN'

[From_Alamut]

Let us always meet each other
with smile, for the smile is the
beginning of love.

~Mother Tersea

[tret]

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Patience ensures victory.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Backbiting is the attempt of one who is incapable of doing better himself.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Take Care Of Your Tongue Like The Way You Take Care Of Gold & Silver.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest [forms of] worship.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“You should have hope in God alone and should fear nothing but your sins.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and faith in the Mercy of Allah and not to be too sure and over-confident of immunity from His Wrath and Punishment.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S


“You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserve your tongue as you do your gold and money. One word could bring disgrace and the termination of a bliss.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

[kmaherali]

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue of anyone or anything is solely in our perspective.
See gold, and there is gold; see lead and there is lead.
If you see this thistle as a thorny nuisance, then it is a weed.
If you appreciate its bright pink bloom, then it is a flower.
It becomes what you name it.
The power is in your choice, your perspective, your speaking.

[kmaherali]

Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance, as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds
are listened to by all that is.
- Serge Kahili King

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

[kmaherali]

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Sadly, it is human nature to measure success by comparison with our neighbors.
A consequence of this tendency is the instinct to wish for others to fail
and our own status to therefore appear higher by comparison.
Strive to cheer whenever others succeed
and to avoid viewing your own achievements in comparison to others.

The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

[kmaherali]

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Do you know someone who will not be with their family this holiday season?
Consider inviting them to your home and welcoming them into your family.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state...
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
- Osho

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

[kmaherali]

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi

Idealism detached from action is just a dream.
But idealism allied with pragmatism,
with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit,
is very exciting.
It's very real.
It's very strong.
- Bono

Imagine what you could accomplish if you enrolled others into your dream.
The world changes when people of vision and commitment
create an infectious enthusiasm for their ideas.
What is your great idea whose time has come?

[kmaherali]

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen
but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

This is the day which the Lord has made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24

Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
Some great things are happening today
that bear no resemblance to what you planned.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me:
I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
...
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25:35-40

If you are healthy, support those who are sick.
If you have a job, support those who have lost theirs.
If you are strong, support those who are feeble of body or mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- the Buddha

I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles

Once you recognize that greed, jealousy, and aggression
are symptoms of fear, you can begin to respond to negative people
with compassion, rather than with anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anaïs Nin

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The quality of life is in how we view it.
We see a miserable, evil, and threatening world
when we look through unhappy eyes.
We see a vibrant, exciting, and hopeful world through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Who says we don't exercise?

We 'jump' to conclusions
We 'throw' our weight around.
We 'twist' the truth.
We 'stretch' the lies.
We 'bend' the rules.
We 'push' our luck.
We 'lift' our egos.
We 'run' from tough situations...

We are absolutely fit!!

[kmaherali]

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,0000 ways that won’t work!" ~ Thomas Edison

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." ~ Mark Twain


"When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you." ~ Lolly Daskal

[kmaherali]

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...
The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

[kmaherali]

Same Creation, Many Views

Loving people live in a loving world.
Hostile people live in a hostile world.
Same world.
- Wayne Dyer

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
- William Arthur Ward

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

*****
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." - Novelist Alex Haley

"Correction does much, but encouragement does much more." - writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." - Author Tom Bodett

[kmaherali]

Your Thoughts Reveal Your Character

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous

[kmaherali]

Life lessons: 25 inspirational movie quotes

Slide show:

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/ ... li=AAggNb9

[kmaherali]

Arguments Create Unhappiness

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

You prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington

What we have to do...
is to find a way to celebrate our diversity
and debate our differences
without fracturing our communities.
- Hillary Clinton

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Meaning and Attitude

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Delicious, fattening, heavenly, evil, works of art, gluttonous -- same pastries.

The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

[kmaherali]

In the Darkest of Times

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- J.K. Rowling

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Daily Inspiration - Illusions

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions;
reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- Simone Weil

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

How strange; when an illusion dies,
it's as though you've lost a child.
- Judy Garland

Growing up is best measured in terms of illusions lost.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Seeing Beauty (or not)

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

*******
Returning Home

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
- George A. Moore

A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

Home is where the heart is.
- Pliny the Elder

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Where we love is home -
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Comfort for the Past and Courage for the Future

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll

If you can't fly then run,
if you can't run then walk,
if you can't walk then crawl,
but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

In the face of unthinkable catastrophe,
hold on to your courage, your moral values,
and your vision for a brighter tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I shine my Light of God wherever I see darkness.

[kmaherali]

Your sense of humor makes you more human

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

[kmaherali]

Daily Inspiration - No Walls

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Love recognizes no barriers.
It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls
to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- Maya Angelou

The walls we build around us
to keep sadness out
also keep out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton

Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho

[kmaherali]

Contentment in Ourselves

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus

It is not our circumstances
that create our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene

True humility is contentment.
- Henri Frederic Amiel