QUOTES

1. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

2. Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win. - Vince Lombardi

3. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be OUR doubts of today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. 

- Henry C. Link

5. You have a choice in life. You can either pay the price of discipline or regret. - Tim Connor

6. Great minds have purposes, other have wishes. 

-Washington Irving

7. Good things come to those who wait but only those things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln

8. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook which eventually leads to success. -Brain Adams

9. Work as though you may live for ever, and live as though you may die today. -St. Edmund of Canterbury

10. Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

SMILES

SMILES

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that s/he can get along without it and none is so poor that s/he cannot be made rich by it. 

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business and is the counter sign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature's best antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen; for it is something that is of no value to anyone unless it is given away from within. 

Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has none to give. 

-Frederick William Faber

Tonic for the heart in 1000 bottles

Vol. 1 -Frank Mihalic, SVD

Dear friends have ever come across a person who did not smile at you when you gave a beautiful smile of yours? Just recollect your experiences in a mall, market, grocery or other places whom did you approach, was it a person with a smile who welcomed you are a person with a angry face? I am sure you went to the person who had a smile on his or her face. The latest trend in the business field is that they train sales girls and boys to attract customers with their smiles. So smile plays a great role in business life. So does it in one's life. A child, youth, old aged person loves to approach a person who gives a smile and is cheerful. You might have noticed in your communities, parish, offices that many do not approach a person with gloomy and angry face. 

So let's not be a person of that sort. Let's give a smile to all we meet because our smile can bring life and hope in other person's life. Remember a smile brings back a smile to you. It reflects back the same effect you cause to a person when you give it to him or her. So let's spread joy and peace with our smiles. 

- Smile and you will get dimples otherwise you will get wrinkles.

QUOTES

QUOTES

1. What a man thinks of himself: that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

-Henry David Thoreau

2. Associate yourself with people of good quality if you esteem your reputation, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company. 

-George Washington

3. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens that pain of stupidity. 

-Knute Rockne

5. Jealousy is ...a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart. 

-Michael Beer

6. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run..

-Nietzsche

7. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and wrong. Because some time in our lives we would have been all of these ourselves. 

-Lloyd Shearer, 1986

8. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. 

-Eric Hoffer

9. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. 

-Aristotle

10. Our thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to habits, and habits form character. 

QUOTES

Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea

Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea

I am sure you might have heard the old comparison between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Anyway both the seas have the same source that is River Jordan. 

Galilee is a lake full of life and people around are happy and lots of vegetation is found along the bank of Sea Galilee. It is because it takes in water but also gives it out. 
In contrast nothing lives in the Dead Sea, because with no outflow, the sea remains stagnated. It only receives and does not give out.

Dear friends which sea would like to become? Do you want to be the Sea of Galilee, who not only receives but is willing to share one's talents and resources with others. Remember happiness consists in giving than in receiving. Or do you want be a Dead Sea who only receives and is unwilling to share one's time, thoughts and ideas with others. If so you will be stagnated.


Now let's try to analyze our own lives and see which sea do I represent. Am I Sea of Galilee or Dead Sea? If Dead Sea let's start sharing our talents and time with others.


I am sure you might have come across people who represents either of the Seas in your community, class, offices, schools, clubs and other areas. Whom did you liked most and with whom did you mingled around? I am sure you liked the person who was always ready to give a helping hand and whose presence brought joy, laughter and smiles on the faces of many. 


Even Jesus represents the Sea of Galilee. He was always bringing joy and peace among the people. He gave Himself totally and served  people till His death. He told that He came not to be served but to serve. So which Sea do  you like to be? If Sea of Galilee start sharing your time, resources, ideas and joy with people around you. Give out to others what you have and outflow rather than remaining stagnated and lifeless.


-Let us serve the Lord in gladness.
-It is giving that I receive. 

THE GECKO

THE GECKO 

(You yourself are the problem)

A student with great interest in an enthusiasm for the Third World came to India and soon suffered a cultural shock. Suddenly everything annoyed him: the climate, the food, the living conditions, the strange mysterious faces around him. But what really made him lose his temper was actually a trifle. They assigned a room to him and moving in, he examined every nook and cranny, only to find to his disgust that he was sharing it with a thick, fat ugly lizard.

He became aggressive, "I refuse to live with that creature." So he tried to catch the intruder in a half a dozen ways, but to no avail. Finally, the lizard hid behind a cupboard. The guest was too proud to ask someone's help. But then in the middle of all this senseless commotion, he suddenly got the bright idea of making friends with the lizard. It was not easy at first.

But now the first thing he does when he enters his room, is too look for his lizard. Soon he even gave him a name. In a short time it  became almost a conversation partner. And he also began to note the good qualities that the lizard had. For one thing it controlled the mosquitoes population in the room.

After a while, this enthusiast began to realise that his problem did not come form his environment but form within himself. 

-Willi Hoffsuemmer

Tonic for the Heart in 1000 bottles 

Vol. 1 

Frank Mihalic, SVD

Dear friends the above story can be an eye-opener to many of us. I am sure many of us do behave like the man who forget to see the problem within himself but blamed the environment. This story can be very well applicable to our community life, our class, offices, schools and colleges. We may want to have the ambient which is of our like and when it is not so we try to find problem with the environment and others.

We begin to find differences with other people and try to avoid them. Like the man in the story we try to get rid of the lizards from our groups and communities who does not fit into our ideas and ideals. Then those people try to hid form us and feel uncomfortable with us. At times we are to proud to introspect ourselves and we demean others. 

But there is another point to be noticed. The person in the story tried to relate with the lizard gradually and became so intimate that he began to learn the good qualities of that lizard. He appreciated the good thing it was doing. Now is the point we need to reflect on. Have we ever tried out to get acquainted with those person's whom we have seen as a lizard or have we ever tried to get accommodated with the new environment? I am sure there are many such lizards of whom we are not aware of. We are not aware of their talents and qualities that they posses. In fact the problem in not able to relate and get along with some of those lizards in our community and other place is not the problem of theirs but the problem is within us our attitude, pride, and ego. 

So dear friends let's get rid of the problems that is within us and let's  appreciate and relate with all in an equal way.Let out inner problem not be a tool of problem in our communities, offices and working places. So let us be aware of the Gecko and appreciate where ever we are and with whom we live with, because we learn many things form them. Let's learn that we ourselves are the problem.

MAKING PEOPLE PRAY

MAKING PEOPLE PRAY

A bus driver and a priest died at the same time. Although the driver was sent directly to heaven, the priest's case was apparently harder to decide. 

"I don't mind that you sent a bus driver to heaven," the priest was heard complaining. "But after all, I was a priest. So why should I be kept waiting?"

He was answered thus from on high, "Father, when you were preaching, everyone was falling asleep. But when the bus driver was driving, everyone was praying."

Saturday Evening Post 

Tonic for the Heart in 1000 bottles Vol. 1

Frank Mihalic, SVD

Dear friends the above story make look funny but there is a point to be pondered upon. As Christians we are supposed to be people of prayer, enabling others to pray well through our life style.  

I am sure many of us are preparing for priesthood and religious life. 

So let's ask ourselves, "Will I be helping people to pray or will I not? What ways will I use to help them pray? Will the congregation pray and listen to God's word when I will be preach to them?"