Cute Friendship Quotes for Better Life

Friendship quotes are the best way to describe relationships in this life. Take the time to read the cute quotes about friendship and discover how lucky you are with your true cute friends.

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Here is a nice collection of cute friendship quotes that will help you to express your feelings to special people.

1. “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” — Tom Wilson

2. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” — Alexander Smith

3. As the Sun rises on your Birthday I will think of you and be reminded of how grateful I am. That of all the people in the world You chose me to spend your life with.

4. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball

5. “When love is not madness, it is not love.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

6. “Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.” — Malagasy Proverb

7. Do I love you because you’re beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

8. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

9. “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

10. “Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.” — Rollo May

11. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” — Robert Browning

12. What have you got to lose at your age? Other than hair, hearing, eyesight, flexibility, memory...

13. “The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.” — Oscar Wilde

14. There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.

15. Friend derives from a word meaning “free.” A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be.

16. If kisses were the water I would give you the sea, if hugs were the leaves I would give you a tree, but if love was time, I would give you eternity.

17. A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

18. “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?” — Khalil Gibran

19. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides

20. “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” — Henry David Thoreau

21. A boy is a magical creature, you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can’t get him out of your mind.

22. “You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater

23. Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

24. “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” — William Arthur Ward

25. I asked God for a flower, and he gave me a garden. I asked God for a tree, and he gave me a forest. I asked God for a friend, and he gave me you.

26. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf

27. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with a person, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — Billy Crystal, from the movie “When Harry Met Sally”

28. “We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.” — William James

29. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran

30. “From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.” — Hilaire Belloc

31. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali

32. “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” — Honore de Balzac

I hope those cute friendship quotes inspired you for better life!

55 Insightful Quotes To Live By

55 insightful quotes to live by, taken from famous authors, and presented on a beautiful infographic.

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How Much Time We Have?

How will you spend it?

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How Men and Women See Colors

SHE SAYS: “Honey, which shade of blue do you prefer? Aqua, cobalt or navy?”

HE SAYS: “Huh? They all look the same to me.”

It’s now a scientific fact! Men and women do not see colors the same way because the male and female brains process information about color differently.

While men are more attuned to seeing fine detail and objects that move rapidly, women are better at differentiating between colors, reports HealthDay News of a study conducted by researchers at Brooklyn College and Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Study participants, all of whom were over the age of 16, had normal color vision and perfect 20/20 vision (either natural or corrected), were asked to view and identify colors across the spectrum from red to violet.

The results:

• In order for men to see the same color hue as women, they had to view a slightly longer wavelength.
• Men had more trouble than women discerning specific colors in the center of the spectrum.
• Men were better able than women to see images that changed rapidly.

“As with other senses, such as hearing and the olfactory system, there are marked sex differences in vision between men and women,” study leader Israel Abramov said in a news release.

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10 Inspirational Quotes for Graduation

Graduation is the beginning of a new personal era. These quotes are meant to inspire and motivate you on your journey. Good luck with all you do!

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Manage Time Manage Life

Time waits for nobody. It passes without caring for anybody or anything. Managing time is managing life.

Effective time management depends upon proper understanding about the importance of time. Time is a unique resource with certain unique features. It cannot be saved or stored. If not utilised, it gets wasted. Unlike other resources, it cannot even be replaced. It is the only resource each of us have in exactly the same amount. How much a person accomplishes in, say a day, depends on how much he utilises his time. By proper time management, one may be able to achieve as much as three average persons would. Hence, it is observed that those who waste time also tend to waste money and energy.

Some of the major factors that waste our time are lack of planning, failure to delegate, interruptions, adoption of wrong values causing maladies like jealousy, hatred, anger and ego, et cetera. Friends are also known to be stealers of time. Prejudices, dependencies, leanings, attachments, worries and tensions leading to sickness of the body and mind also eat away a lot of our time.

So, do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today, do not put off till the next moment what you can do in this very moment. One must know where does one’s time go or how the time is being spent. Keeping a time log is a useful device for discovering what is wasting our time. It’s a very simple but valuable tool. One must spend a few minutes at the end of each day for this purpose. The record will give us an accurate indication of time usage, showing us where we are most effective and least effective in the use of time, giving us a vast room for improvement in saving the maximum amount of time and enhancing our inner powers to rescue ourselves from this trap.

Editor’s note: Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji is the author at www.brahmakumaris.com and can be contacted through nikunjji@brahmakumaris.in. 

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20 Friendship Inspirational Quotes

Here are 20 famous quotes on friendship inspiration. Some of these quotes are by famous personalities and philosophers and some from the Holy Bible.

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1. “A friend loves at all times.” — The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

2. “One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.” — Hasidic Saying

3. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle

4. “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” — Cindy Lew

5. “We got friends to make up for our relatives.” — Anonymous

6. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

7. “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” — Abraham Lincoln

8. “Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.” — Samuel Paterson

9. “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” — Jewish Saying

10. “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” — Apocrypha

11. “The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert

12. “A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.” — James Boswell (1763)

13. “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” — The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

14. “The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I’m so glad that you’re my friend. I know our friendship will never end.” — Robert Alan

15. “A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Anonymous

16. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” — Fr. Jerome Cummings

18. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” — John Evelyn

19. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” — Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

20. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell (1711)

True or False Love?

An old Chinese saying goes like this: “You have been looking for your better half everywhere, she is just very near you in the light.” If you are hearing that for the first time, you might wonder what it is supposed to mean. I think it is speaking about true love. It means, if you want to find it, you need to look to the light-that is, to the light of the inner world-rather than to the physical world.

Many people don’t even believe true love is possible. They are only familiar with another kind of love. When they fall in love, it is because they have found someone who fills the needs of their ego. They feel empty and alone by themselves, so they expect this new person to guarantee their happiness. However, it doesn’t take long before the new partner displays needs of his or her own. Suddenly the needs of the two individuals are in conflict. Before they know what hit them, the honeymoon is over. In its place is pain and emptiness, often more than they felt before the relationship began. It is false because it doesn’t involve a deep and true connection.

True love is the opposite. It is a connection at the level of the heart and souls. Instead of expecting to get something from another person, you focus on what you can give to your partner. If you truly love someone, you don’t fear he or she will hurt you. You don’t define each other on the basis of ego. Rather, you accept one another unconditionally. If any conflicts do arise, you can overcome them because at the level of the heart you recognize your oneness.

How do you find true love? Paradoxically, it can’t be found. That is because it already exists within you at the core of your inner world. It may surprise you to hear that it is not a feeling or emotion. It is not an action that you do. Whether you recognize it or not, it is the very nature of your heart. It is the essence of your inner world.

Some people discover it within themselves when they meet a partner, and get married. Others experience it emanating from their heart, even if they don’t find a partner to share it. However, I think most people long to find true love in the form of a relationship.

If this is the case for you, I suggest you learn to let your heart and intuition guide you in life in general. As the Chinese saying says, look to the light of your inner world. Trust that light will lead you to your partner because that light is not different from him or her. Know that once you are heading in the right direction, whatever you need will be come to you at the right time, including true love.

3 Secrets To a Happy Life

By Raf Adams

One of the questions I keep hearing in my workshops is, “how do I live a happy life and enjoy the journey and what does it mean?”

Living a happy life is something we all want, yet so few of us are able to live happily continuously. During the journey of our life when we look at other people and they smile, we tend to believe that they are happy because they smile. We believe laughter and smiling equals happiness, but nothing is further from the truth.

Everyone seems to be happy around us, but what about you?

Let me tell you a secret.

Most people are NOT happy. The reason I can say this is because I run workshops for 3 years for people from different cultures, backgrounds and education and I haven’t met a single person who tells me “I am happy every single day, every single moment”. In fact, one of my friends asked me, can you be happy every single day, every single moment? The answer is YES, you can, so how do we do this?

First of all we need to understand what happiness is and where it comes from. Happiness comes from the heart, it is an internal state of feeling or being. If internally you don’t feel happy and you smile (like most people do) you are still not happy within, right? This happens to most people. We don’t want to show our unhappiness so we smile.

Happiness can be developed by the following 3 areas:

1. Stay true to yourself and be who you are. By accepting yourself as who you are, you allow your heart to flourish. You allow yourself to express as who you really are. Are you currently hiding things from yourself to live up to others expectations? If the answer is yes, try to reduce this part and stand up for yourself.


2. Find out what your purpose is, in life. By following your life purpose your heart can express itself through its purpose which brings joy and happiness.


3. Letting go of negative emotions you carry with you, breaking up from a relationship, an argument with a colleague are emotions you carry with you. By accepting these experiences and letting go you will reduce suffering. When you reduce suffering, happiness will arise.

Happiness is a journey towards self-discovery. Happiness is not something to be achieved, it’s not something you can have today and tomorrow it disappears. Happiness is every lasting. The more you are true to yourself, love what you do and let go of negative emotions and feelings the more inner happiness you will cultivate.

Remember, you cannot change others but you can change yourself.

Editor’s note: My name is Raf Adams, I am a workshop facilitator, professional speaker and book author of The Suited Monk an Empowering New Book on Life Purpose, Happiness and Self-Discovery.

7 Day Plan to Stay Productive [INFOGRAPHIC]

After much research, we’ve come across the same theme. It seems that creating habits comes down to organization and planning for a period of 21 days or more.

In this infographic, we’ve broken thisdown into 7 days. Each day has an inspiring quote and a reminder of what should be done.

Just create the following prior to starting:
1 Definite Monthly Goal
1 Weekly Stepping Stone
2–3 Daily Tasks

Do this only 3x (21 days) to make your habits long-term and achieve your goals like you never imagined.

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Dare to Dream!

A dreamer is a person who is not afraid to challenge society’s norms and not afraid to tread their own path rather than following the well–trodden path. A dreamer is someone who is always willing to take a chance and always asks why before doing something that others are doing blindly. A dreamer is a person who has a great futuristic picture which they work to achieve at all costs. Dreamers are world changers.

Do you have a deep desire to achieve something great? Do you want to live a more satisfying life? Can you see yourself being happy and successful in every way? Do you believe in your own potential and that there is much more to you than meets the eye?

If so, you are a dreamer. This article is dedicated to you. Right now you are the most important person around. If you had been the only person to ever read this article, I would still have written it, just for you. You are that special.

But before we go any further, let me qualify what a dreamer is because people often don’t appreciate being called dreamers. In fact, it’s almost an insult to call someone a dreamer these days. It’s associated with having your head in the clouds and not being realistic. So let me explain.

Dreamers chart their own course and destiny. Dreamers are always striving to be the person they were meant to be and are not afraid to be different. I believe every on of us is born unique in every way, but over the years we work very hard to become like everybody else.

Societies common sense tells us that this is the way to go. Unfortunately, commonsense is not always good–sense. It’s just common. If you are a dreamer you cannot afford to work on societies assumptions and standards. You have to be unique.

For instance, a lot of people have spent anywhere from 15–20 years getting an education so they can have that perfect job and the huge salary. Unfortunately for most, the perfect job and the huge earnings never materialize. They only have the long hard years of work and loads of papers to show for it!

I am here to tell you there is another way. It’s not for everyone. It’s not the only way. It’s not the easier way. Actually, it is more likely to be the harder way. But I guarantee you it is the best way. Brian Tracy states that “all successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” 

If you are not a dreamer I urge you to watch this space every week. It may shed light into the darkness in your life. Together, we can find answers to some of life’s questions, but YOU have to do the searching...

We all deal with life’s struggles but they have led me to some startling and amazing discoveries about human potential, achievement, motivation, success and living your dreams!

I hope your dream will come to life and make a positive contribution to the lives of the people of this world. You can make all the difference and, if you are a dreamer, I know you are not waiting for someone else to do it.

Seize the moment, Be bold and live your dream!

Editor’s note: Bryan Mock is a motivational coach as well as a health and wellness consultant.

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The Sky Is Not The Limit, Reach For The Stars

In the immortal words of Napoleon Hill a man who truly understood that, “there are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge”, has also powerfully expressed, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

What exactly are you capable of achieving? What is a realistic expectation for your life and what constitutes sheer madness? Is there a limit to how high you should aim?

The simple answer to these questions is simply that you are capable of achieving anything you set your mind to; if you can think it, then it’s a realistic expectation; and you can aim as high as you want.

We have probably all heard the old saying: “the sky is the limit.” This would seem to have a lot of wisdom in it at first glance. However, it implies that man’s potential has a limit when in actual fact, man’s potential is limitless. Let’s examine what exactly your potential as a human being is.

Firstly, let’s define potential. Potential is all that you can be, but have not yet become. It is all you can accomplish, but have not yet accomplished. It is unexposed or dormant ability.

This means that the ability to become and to do is already there. It just hasn’t been brought out and utilized.

Consider a fertilized human egg (zygote). That single cell has the ability to form every part of the human body. Everything from your brain to your toenails can be formed by that single cell. It has unlimited potential.

Similarly, the human mind has unlimited potential. It has the limitless ability to create. We have been on earth for thousands of years, yet we are still making new discoveries today and creating new things everyday. We cannot exhaust the creative power of our minds.

The functioning of our minds remains, for the most part, a mystery even to modern day science. But even though we do not understand it’s functioning, we cannot deny its power.

 Now that you understand that your potential is limitless, your next challenge is to answer the question: what do you want out of life?

 If money, education, social status and so on, were no hindrance what would you want out of life? If all the knowledge and wealth in the world were at your disposal what would you want to be and to do?

Even with all the resources at your disposal, it is very likely that you would still struggle to come up with 3 goals that you are absolutely passionate about and to which you would dedicate every waking hour. Therein lies the problem — it is not your possibilities that are limited, it is your thinking!

Your vision is limited only by you. The problem is that you don’t know what you should be. It’s not your fault, really: your education has messed you up. It has taken your boundless potential and shrunk it and shaped it into a narrow title. You are a “nurse”, or “accountant” or “driver”.

It doesn’t matter what title has been placed on you, you need to break free from it. You are not what you do. See yourself as the truly capable human being that you are.

This requires that you look deep within and examine your mindset. Are there things you have accepted simply because everyone else seems to accept them? Have you accepted society’s standards as your own?

A word of caution: society celebrates mediocrity. Ordinary people do not like it when others get ahead. It only exposes their lack of vision and motivation. That is why mediocrity is often embraced and excellence is shunned. Being ordinary is acceptable.

If you want more, there is something wrong with you.If something is widely accepted and everyone is doing it, it is probably better for you as a dreamer not to do it. If you want to get what everyone else is getting, do what everyone else is doing.

It is not difficult to see the results others are getting from what they are doing. The good news is you don’t have to do what they are doing. Find your own way. Utilize the potential within you.

Dig out your potential like a prospector digs for oil. The oil has always been there just waiting to be tapped. But if no one bothered to search for it and bring it to the surface it would just remain there dormant, wasting and useless.

So it is with your potential. If you do not challenge yourself to grow beyond your present circumstances, it will just wasted and unfulfilled for you and the rest of humanity. It’s up to you to help expand the collective consciousness!
Do not rob this country of such a great resource as yourself. Utilize your potential. Be all that you can be so that when you die, you will have utilized every single drop of your being.

Marianne Williamson said — “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”

Editor’s note: Bryan Mock is a motivational speaker and author in the field of soulful dynamics. Raise your vibration and maximize human potential.

Be Realistic‚ Be Honest

World is an illusion and we are all surrounded by the people who are unrealistic and impractical. How many of us today live in a realistic manner? I am sure not many do! This is because all of us have a bad habit to fake or to exaggerate. Be it telling story of a movie, or telling someone about our achievements, or sharing secrets about someone’s personal life. It’s so easy to multiply and magnify facts and we are all experts at doing it and with time often it happens naturally by habit.

One might wonder — why is it so tempting to stretch the facts? Is the reality not interesting enough? Or does it help to get your message across if you fake? Or does the exaggeration reflect realities that we had liked to create? Well, the reality is that when we stretch things bigger than they are, it makes things more complicated and difficult in our as well as other’s minds. Hence, every time we fake, we’re distorting reality. It’s seen as a form of lying, which creates mistrust in our lives and we end up losing respect from others. There is also a saying that ‘With One Lie, One Needs A Support From 100 Lies’.

So what’s the solution to cure this habit which some might term as a harmless habit. Well, it’s okay to exaggerate sometimes to make people laugh or to lighten up the atmosphere, but don’t overdo it, because sometimes it may become lethal for us as well as for others. Remember, we don’t need to exaggerate at every moment to prove our point. It’s not needed. Instead we must learn to be realistic.

Stay focused on the the facts, and do not allow our emotions to get the better out of us. So, be honest and trustworthy and you will be respected more.

Editor’s note: Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji is the author at www.brahmakumaris.com and can be contacted at nikunjji@brahmakumaris.in. 

Restart the Game of Life

Written by Bryce Christiansen

The movie Wreck–It Ralph is about Ralph a ‘bad guy’ and his journey of self–discovery who is in search of happiness. Here are some Wreck–It Ralph’s inspirational tips to restart the game of life.

Mistakes are a part of the game

The character Vanellope happens to be a ‘glitch’ in her game. As such, she’s treated poorly by the other characters. They break her belongings, shun her from competing, and leave her homeless. She understandably feels like her whole life is one big mistake. But after every mistake comes the lesson. And Vanellope sure delivers on that promise as the movie develops. Mistakes are just as common in our game of life. But the question is, do you learn and improve from them, or do you get frustrated and rage quit?

The game jump

In the Wreck–It Ralph world, characters don’t move from one game to another. It’s unheard of and only ‘evil’ has come from anyone who has jumped games in the past. But sometimes it takes a change in pace or environment to discover your passions and what you really want from life. We game jump by changing out with different sets of friends. The transition isn’t always smooth, but you almost always come away feeling good about your decision. The game jump may look scary, but the rewards can be priceless.

Every role is important

In the game world, villains are taken for granted. The ‘good guys’ are celebrated, appreciated, and held on a pedestal, while the villains slunk off to their shabby homes every night. But it’s funny how quickly the perspective changes once you take the villain out of the game. The children show up to play and now there’s nothing for them ‘to fix’ actually was, and they’ll do anything to get him back. You might not feel your role in life is important … neither did George Bailey. Even small impacts leave large ripples. You never know who is depending on you despite the lack of appreciation and support.

Don’t chase shiny medals

Ralph wanted respect and appreciation from his peers. He thought maybe other people would treat him as an equal if he had a medal like Felix. So he goes off looking for one. Do you think getting a medal solves his problems? Not really. But we do the same thing. We think if only I get that raise, promotion, or new job … then life will be better. We hang onto the hope of a new future for ourselves, only realising once we arrive there, we still have the same problems. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs makes it pretty clear. Shiny medals don’t get you the needs at the top of your pyramid; things like friends, family, your full potential. Those things come from character, your heart, your personality. Shiny medals will make you feel special for a moment, but the kind of person you are will make you feel special for a lifetime.

You are more than a job

The characters in the movie have a hard time recognising they’re more than two dimensional programming. Ralph has several opportunities to make a difference, but he constantly remarks, “All I’m good at doing is wrecking stuff.” What do you expect when all people tell him is , “You’re just bad guy who wrecks the building?” He eventually finds that’s not the case, but we often do the same things. We introduce ourselves to new people by our careers. “I’m a carpenter, a banker, a receptionist.” Like that’s what makes us who we are. But unlike the characters in the movie, we are three dimensional. We have talents, personalities and dozens of other traits that make us unique and remarkable. Resetting the game of life might mean new career path or lifestyle, but it doesn’t change who you are. Like Zangief says, “Ralph you may be a bad guy … but that doesn’t make you a bad guy.”

40 Great Quotes about Friendship, Life, Success & Love

Words of Wisdom — 40 Greatest Quotes from world’s most brilliant, famous, and successful people about all stuff that really matters: Friendship, Life, Success & Love. Share this quotes with your family and friends.

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Four-legged Angel

Written by Loseph J Mazzella

As a boy I was always small for my age. I was also five years younger than one of my brothers and seven years younger than the other. As a result I often felt left out when their friends came over to play. I was either too small or too young for whatever they were doing and they didn’t want their younger brother listening in on their conversations either. Often I was outside playing alone and feeling forgotten.

I remember one spring afternoon feeling especially lonely as I sat in the yard behind our house. We lived miles from town and I rarely saw my own friends outside of school. I heard my brothers laughing from inside the house and felt a single tear coming down my cheek. At that moment I saw a large, shaggy, brown dog walking over to me. His face was panting happily and his tail was wagging as well. Even though he didn’t know me he greeted me like a long lost friend, licking my chin and sitting beside me on the spring grass. It must have been at least an hour that I petted and talking to this four-legged angel. He let me pour out all my troubles and share my deepest thoughts before he kissed my cheek goodbye and ambled off either to heaven or his home. I went back inside feeling happy, knowing that no matter what life may hold I was loved. Now over 40 years later I still remember that furry angel with a smile. I believe that God sent him in that moment of sadness to remind me just how much he loved me.

In truth, nothing brings us greater joy than knowing we are loved. Knowing we are loved gives us the strength to love others as well. Knowing we are loved helps us to be the people God meant for us to be. Knowing we are loved aids us in making Earth more like heaven. Remember then just how much God loves you. Embrace that love. Take joy in it. Welcome it into your heart. And then go out and share your own with the world.

The Joy of Giving

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Written by Joseph J Mazzella

Growing up in my grandmother’s house as a boy was an experience that would shape me for the rest of my life. We were poor in everything but spirit, yet I learned so much about life there. My mum, dad, two brothers, and I were crowded into a small old house. I always knew what my next set of clothes would look like because I had seen my older brother wearing them the year before. I always knew what we were going to be eating in the winter, because I had weeded it in the garden during the summer. Still, I never felt poor. No king ever ate as good as we did on Sundays after church when mum cooked her homemade meatballs, spaghetti, and freshly baked bread.

Even though we had so little I can still remember dad, mum giving so much. We were always sharing with others. Everyone who visited us could expect a plate of spaghetti, or a mason jar of canned vegetables, or a flower pot full of fresh blossoms to be given to them. I can still remember the sparkle in mum and dad’s eyes whenever they passed something on to others. We never felt richer or more blessed than when we shared what God had given us.

I learned early on that the greatest joy comes from giving rather than getting. Giving fills your heart with love. Giving fills your soul with God. Giving brings your spirit closer to Heaven.

Don’t be afraid to pass on your blessings, riches, gifts, and talents to others. That is why God gave then to you in the first place.

Share everything you have. If you have a beautiful smile then pass it on. If you have a lovely laugh then pass it on. If you have a few extra dollars then pass them on. If you give great hugs then pass them on. If you have a special talent then share it with others. If you have a heart full of love then give it to the everyone. No life is ever truly lived until it becomes a gift in itself, so make your whole life a gift to the world.

Stir Up Some Loving

Before celebrating this year’s Valentine’s Day here are some famous quotations about love that might help you stir up some goodness about love, giving or receiving.

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” — Judy Garland

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A A Milne

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” — Maya Angelou

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” — Michel de Montaigne

“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” — Rupert Brooke

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M Schulz

“The heart has its reasons of which reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” — Albert Camus

“When you love someone, all your saved up wished start coming out.” — Elizabeth Bowen

“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” — Frank Morgan

“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.” — John Keats

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.” — Christina Rossetti

Food for Our Spirit

Everyone needs encouragement sometimes. Just like we need food for our body, we also need food for our spirit that comes as touching and motivational stories. They can gives us power and make us feel better. Hope that these stories will help you become inspired!

Make that jump

You train fleas by putting them in a jar with a top on it. Fleas jump, so they will jump up and hit the top over and over again. As you watch them jump and hit the top, you will notice something interesting. The fleas continue to jump, but they are no longer jumping high enough to hit the top.

Then, and it’s a matter of record, you can take the top off and though the fleas continue to jump, they won’t jump out of the jar. I repeat, they won’t jump out because they can’t. The reason is simple. They have conditioned themselves to jump just so high. Once they have conditioned themselves to jump just so high, that’s all they can do.

Many times, people do the same thing. They restrict themselves and never reach their potential. Just like the fleas, they fail to jump higher, thinking they are doing all they can do.

Get it yourself

A friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told a friend. “Life’s a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.

You can even get success, but you’ll never get it you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

Secret of success

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue.

Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret.”

The motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose. Napoleon Hill wrote, “Whenever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishment. Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.

Dream your dreams

The question was asked to a highly successful businessman, “How have you done so much in your lifetime?”

He replied, “I grow great by dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams. And when I wake up in the morning, I see the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that, it is impossible,’ I was on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”

Sometimes of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they brings them to the sunshine which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are too impossible. “Sing your songs, and your hope and pray your prayer.”

In Touch with Rhythm of Life

By Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji

We all love our mother a lot, there is no doubt in it. There is hardly any human being who doesn’t love his/her mother, and vice versa. But we all forget a very pivotal role that ‘mother nature’ plays in our lives.

Nature and its seasons teach us that there is an inherent balance and harmony to everything in this universe. However, when we disturb that balance, we fall out of sync with life’s rhythm. Just as there are laws of nature to which even the smallest physical particle is subjected, in the same way there are spiritual laws by which the human spirit is governed.

The human spirit becomes restless and peaceless when those laws are violated. Hence, if we recognise that our own true nature is of peace and love, and yet we continue to pollute our minds with negative thoughts and feelings, then what will be the result?

We all know it!

As independent human beings, we are all entitled to have our own choices. We can either go with the flow of others who choose to criticise and complain in life, or we can decide to make a different choice to have the courage to align with our true nature, and take responsibility for our own happiness because at the end of the day, it is our own choices that reflect what we truly are.

Remember, happy people see their shortcomings but they choose to focus on their strengths instead. Similarly they can see the loss, but they choose to focus on the profit instead. Hence, we need to recognise the wisdom of cyclical ups and down or pulsating laws of our own lives in order to get in touch with the rhythm of life, and to respect and work in harmony with the highest nature to become joyful and stress-free beings that we all aspire to be.

So, be with the normal rhythm of life to remain unaffected by natural turmoil of life.

About The Author: The author is a writer at www.brahmakumaris.com. He can be reached at nikunjji@brahmakumaris.in.