Mindset makes all the difference

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I've heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

By Emily Dickinson

Keep Sweet

 

Don't be foolish and get sour when things don't just come your way--
Don't you be a pampered baby and declare, "Now I won't play!"
Just go grinning on and bear it;
Have you heartache? Millions share it,
If you earn a crown, you'll wear it--
Keep sweet.

Don't go handing out your troubles to your busy fellow-men--
If you whine around they'll try to keep from meeting you again;
Don't declare the world's "agin" you,
Don't let pessimism win you,
Prove there's lots of good stuff in you--
Keep sweet.

If your dearest hopes seem blighted and despair looms into view,
Set your jaw and whisper grimly, "Though they're false, yet I'll be true."
Never let your heart grow bitter;
With your lips to Hope's transmitter,
Hear Love's songbirds bravely twitter,
"Keep sweet."

Bless your heart, this world's a good one, and will always help a man;
Hate, misanthropy, and malice have no place in Nature's plan.
Help your brother there who's sighing.
Keep his flag of courage flying;
Help him try--'twill keep you trying--
Keep sweet.

by Strickland W. Gillilan

Follow your Heart

Never compromise on your believes. If you think something your conscious doesn't allow, then just don't do it. Instead stand up with your believes, courage and fight for your dreams.

It Couldn’t Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

by Edgar A. Guest

Still I Rise By Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you? 

Why are you beset with gloom? 

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken? 

Bowed head and lowered eyes? 

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you? 

Don't you take it awful hard

'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you? 

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs? 

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

A - Z of Quotes

A - "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz 

B - "Believing in yourself is not for you; it's for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now." Jaye Miller 

C - "Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance." Benjamin Disraeli 

D - "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." Anais Nin 

E - "Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do." Norman Vincent Peale 

F - "Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works." Yanni 

G - "Goals are like a map. They help us determine where we want to end up, and give us personal direction on which to focus our energy." Catherine Pulsifer 

H - "Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle 

I - "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them." Alfred North Whitehead 

J - "Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner 

K - "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." Samuel Johnson 

L - "Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." Arnold Glasow 

M - "Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups." Peter Davies 

N - "Nature does nothing uselessly." Aristotle 

O - "Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor." H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

P - "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams 

Q - "Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." Anthony Robbins 

R - "Results! Why, man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." Thomas A. Edison 

S - "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo DaVinci 

T - "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." Diogenes Laetius 

U - "Use your unique abilities to shake the world." Wendy Hearn 

V - "Victory belongs to the most persevering." Napoleon Bonaparte 

W - "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." Leonardo da Vinci 

X - "X-ray your life, are you where you want to be, if not set your goals, take action." Catherine Pulsifer 

Y - "Youth teaches, age puts what we have learned into practice, teaching us wisdom." Catherine Pulsifer 

Z - "Zone into your comfort zone, and, then zone into where you want to be. Be all that you can be." Catherine Pulsifer 
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Rise for yourself

Its upto you.. What you believe..

There may be lot of things thrown at you- good or bad or may be worst. It's upto you what you believe. Things may be bad but they will not be same forever, its upto you, how you are gonna change them.

Why do we fall???

Angels Are Always There

Did you ever feel a tiny raindrop

trickle down from the sky

and land upon your cheek

when there is no rain in sight,

and wonder where it came from

when the day is sunny and bright?

Did you ever hear someone

clearly call out your name,

and when you turned to look

there’s not a familiar face

anywhere around

and wonder where it came from,

when the voice was there

without an ounce of doubt?

The answer is quite simple you see,

Angels are everywhere

watching over you and me.

Though at times we don’t feel

a presence at our side;

Angels are always there

morning, noon and night

in the most mysterious of ways

looking after us with much love

forever and always.

The Sun Will Shine

The sun will shine tomorrow

The rain will somehow end

This is not only a promise

It’s just the way it is

Bad times don’t last forever

The tough times they never stay

The heartache and the let down

Will soon go away

In times of deep sadness

The pain is all too real

And it’s hard to believe

That with time the hurt will heal

The dark clouds that hang above

Will eventually move on

And the storms that dance around

Will soon be gone

Stay strong and keep in mind

That again, the sun will shine

If

If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 

But make allowance for their doubting too: 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, 

Or being hated don't give way to hating, 

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; 

If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, 

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 

And treat those two impostors just the same:. 

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, 

And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

And lose, and start again at your beginnings, 

And never breathe a word about your loss: 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 

To serve your turn long after they are gone, 

And so hold on when there is nothing in you 

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, 

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 

If all men count with you, but none too much: 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, 

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 

And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

by

Rudyard KiplingIf

Positive Thinking

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.

“Yes it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply… I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz

When the wind blows!

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands, however, most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops.

As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received a steady stream of refusals. Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached the farmer. 'Are you a good farm hand?' the farmer asked him.

'Well, I can sleep when the wind blows,' answered the little man. Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help decided to hired him.

The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt well satisfied with the his work. Then one night the wind howled in loudly from offshore. Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He shook the little man and yelled, 'Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!'

The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, 'No sir, told you, I can sleep when the wind blows.'

Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coop and the doors were barred. The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew.

Moral: When you're prepared spiritually, mentally and physically, you have nothing to fear. Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life?

DREAM BIG AND DARE TO FAIL

Conquer mountains tall and oceans deep,

Overcome every hill and dale,

Reach for the stars in the universe,

Dream big and dare to fail.

You'r neve too old or never to young

To reach places no one else has been,

Do the things that stir your soul,

And keep doing them over again.

Jump off mountains or out of airplanes,

Start living, if you have never fought

To live a life that will stir your heart,

It makes no difference if you succeed or not.

What matters most is the challenge

By doing things that make others pale,

Statt doing the deeds that some dare not.

Dream big and dare to fail.

What does it matter if you don't succeed,

It only matters that you feel the pride

Of putting some excitement into your life

And of knowing that at least you tried.

Don't be afraid to to lose or fail,

Just give it all you've got,

You will find your life more rewarding

If in its enthusiasm you get caught.

Aim for theose stars high in the sky

And never settle for anything less,

Don't even ask how far they are

And don't even try to guess.

Just reach out as far as you can,

For that is all you need to do

To fufill all your wishes and dreams,

And to find the real you.

So try living a life of excitement,

Go on a search for the Holy Grail,

Do things that will stir your soul,

Dream big and dare to fail.

by

William C. Glessing, USA

Dare to Dream

Some people only look at life through eyes that seldom gleam 

while others look beyond today as they're guided by a dream 

And the dreamers can't be sidetracked by dissenters who may laugh 

for only they alone can know how special is their path 

But dreams aren't captured easily; 

there's much work before you're through 

but the time and efforts are all worthwhile 

when the impossible comes true 

And dreams have strength in numbers 

for when a common goal is shared 

the once impossible comes true because of all who cared 

And once it's seen as reality a dream has just begun 

for magically from dreams come dreams 

And a walk becomes a run 

But with growth of course comes obstacles 

and with obstacles come fear 

but the dream that is worth dreaming 

finds its way to the dear 

And the dream continues growing 

Reaching heights before unseen 

And it's all because of the courage of the dreamers 

and their dream.

by

John Turnipseed

Director of People Services at Southwest Airlines

"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers" by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul - 

And sings the tune without the words - 

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - 

And sore must be the storm - 

That could abash the little Bird 

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land - 

And on the strangest Sea - 

Yet - never - in Extremity, 

It asked a crumb - of me.

"It Couldn't Be Done" by Edgar A. Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, 

But, he with a chuckle replied 

That "maybe it couldn’t," but he would be one 

Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin 

On his face. If he worried he hid it. 

He started to sing as he tackled the thing 

That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that; 

At least no one has done it"; 

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, 

And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, 

Without any doubting or quiddit, 

He started to sing as he tackled the thing 

That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failure;

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,

Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing

That "couldn't be done" and you'll do it.

"Start Where You Stand" by Berton Braley

Start where you stand and never mind the past; 

The past won't help you in beginning new, 

If you have left it all behind at last 

Why that's enough, you're done with it, you're through;

This is another chapter in the book, 

This is another race that you have planned, 

Don't give the vanished days a backwards look, 

Start where you stand.

The world won't care about your old defeats 

If you can start anew and win success; 

The future is your time, and time is fleet 

And there is much of work and strain and stress;

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs, 

Here is a brand-new trial right at hand, 

The future is for him who does and dares, 

Start where you stand.

Old failures will not hald, old triumphs aid, 

To-day's the thing, tomorrow will soon be; 

Get in the fight, and face it unafraid, 

And leave the past to ancient history.

What has been has been; yesterday is dead 

And by it, you are neither blessed or banned; 

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, 

Start where you stand.