Thoughts Of The Day. - Page 55

[AndreRet]

"In all things perserverance is the key. Dripping water hollows out a rock not by the force of its action, but by its constancy."

By Thandi

[david osborn]

sometimes life does things to you that you don't do for life

[efmesch]

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" (Will Rogers)

[debasisdas]

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person." --Vi Putnam

[david osborn]

life goes on no matter what happens

[efmesch]

Even after physical death--there's no escaping it. Make the best of it now so that later you won't miss out on the best that's yet to come.

[alan145]

While there is life there is hope !

[iamthwee]

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

[GrimJack]

Question/answer

[Skyli]

the cheapest gift you can give others is friendship

[Ezzaral]

> the cheapest gift you can give others is friendship

No, the cheapest gift would be a handful of dirt - assuming that you didn't have to ship it or wrap it. Friendship can sometimes cost you quite a lot.

[purple21]

Time will NEVER heal. It only allows us to DEAL

[efmesch]

Infect others---- with a smile--it's contageous

[echovme]

“It is curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.”

~ Mark Twain

[Elihu5991]

Wow, the biggest thread I've seen. KEEP IT UP XD

[debasisdas]

Do you like me as I am ?
Or do I have to request God to Improve your Taste !!!

[david osborn]

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948)

[nepalsites]

either lead, or follow or get out of the way.

[ana12]

life is full of exotic thing.

[Shanti C]

Not everything that is faced can be changed , But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin.

[Shanti C]

Long range goals keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.- James Cash Penny.

[debasisdas]

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." - Abraham Lincoln

[woooee]

He who hesitates is lost

All good things come to he who waits

[iamthwee]

"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone."

[woooee]

'Blessings are not received twice, calamities do not occur alone.

Zen Master Wuzu

[samarthk]

Any business cannot flourish with money but with a great idea .

[vegaseat]

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

[iamthwee]

One day a young man was standing in the middle
of the town proclaiming that he had the most
beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large
crowd gathered and they all admired his heart
for it was perfect.
There was not a mark or a flaw in it.
Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most
beautiful heart they had ever seen.
The young man was very proud and boasted
more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of
the crowd and said, "Why your heart is not
nearly as beautiful as mine."

The crowd and the young man looked at the
old man's heart. It was beating strongly,
but full of scars, it had places where pieces
had been removed and other pieces put in, but
they didn't fit quite right and there were
several jagged edges. In fact, in some places
there were deep gouges where whole pieces
were missing.

The people stared -- how can he say his heart
is more beautiful, they thought?
The young man looked at the old man's heart
and saw its state and laughed.

"You must be joking," he said.
"Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect
and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect
looking but I would never trade with you.
You see, every scar represents a person to
whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece
of my heart and give it to them, and often
they give me a piece of their heart which fits
into the empty place in my heart, but because
the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges,
which I cherish, because they remind me of the
love we shared. "Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart
away, and the other person hasn't returned
a piece of his heart to me. These are the
empty gouges -- giving love is taking a chance.

Although these gouges are painful, they stay open,
reminding me of the love I have for these people too,
and I hope someday they may return and fill the
space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running
down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man,
reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart,
and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old
man with trembling hands

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart
and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and
placed it in the wound in the young man's heart.
It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect
anymore but more beautiful than ever,
since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side.

~ The End~

[jacktb]

I was looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

[vegaseat]

Life is what happens to you while your making other plans.