Joy of life

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service. 
I acted and behold,
SERVICE WAS JOY.

- Rabindranath Tagore.

spirit...

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchil

lovely work

 "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work".

- Kahlil Gibran

One at a time

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."
-- Edward Everett Hale

Look alike

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You
can't have two sets of manners, two social codes -- one for
those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom
you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."
-- Lillian Eichler Watson

alike and unlike

"Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds
that they are different."

-- Jean Baptiste Moliere

Handle with care

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

~ Tommy Lasorda

Thus spake Buddha...

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~ Buddha

Respecting self

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to
respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you
compel others to respect you."

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Within.........

‎"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up."

- Marcus Aurelius (121-180

Your Best

Freedom to be your best means nothing
unless you're willing to do your best.

- Colin Powell in Priorities.

Are there stock market experts?

If stock market experts were so expert,
they would be buying stock,
not selling advice.

- Norman Augustine

using the brain(s)......

I not only use all the brains that I have,
but all that I can borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson

Life isn't serious

NoT a shred of evidence
exists in favour of the idea that
LIFE is serious.

- Berndam Gill.

Right choices

Remebering that I would be dead soon is the most important
tool I have encountered to help me make the right choices in life.

- Steve Jobs,
ex CEO, Apple

Work, work and work not..........

WORK is a slice of your life.
It is not the entire PIZZA.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Live well

People who cannot find time for recreation
are obliged to find time for illness.

- John Wanamaker.

A watchdog

Conscience warns as a friend
before it punishes as a judge.

- King Stanislas I

Cause of war

These (political & ideological) thoughts are the very factors
that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war.

- JK

No room for hostile tendencies

In the vicinity of unified awareness,
hostile tendencies disappear.

- Yoga Sutras compiled by sage Patanjali