Ponder a While...

"What the heart gives away is never gone...It is kept in the hearts of others." - Robin St. John.

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey

"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great." - Havelock Ellis

"There is no relation in this world that is unselfish." - Chanakya

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Arrow goes forward only after pulling in backward. Bullet goes forward only after pressing the trigger backward. Every human being will get happy only after facing the difficulties in their life path. So, don't be afraid to face your difficulties. They will push you forward." - Anonymous

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"If you fall, fall like a seed to germinate but not like a leaf to die." - Anon

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes

"If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?" - Eric Allenbaugh

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young

"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions." - Holly Lisle

"We seldom think of what we have, but always think of what we miss." - Anon

"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." - St. Augustine

"Opportunity...often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity." - Christopher Morley

"And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others". - Professor Marvel in 'Wizard of Oz.'

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James

"A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections." - Chinese Proverb

"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow." - Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - Anon

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good to check up once in a while to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George Claude Lorimer

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi

"You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts." - 'The Secret'

"If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders." - Robert Townsend

"The most important relationship you can have, is the one you have with yourself." - Anon

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain." - Kahlil Gibran

Compilation Courtesy: P. Mohan Chandran (India)