37. ONCE IN A WHILE

Once in a while we meet someone who always knows how to make us feel good, who understands us as few others do, who's is glad for us when things are going well, who is there to listen when we have something to share. Once in a while we find someone we can really depend upon!!!!!!!!

36. NOTORIETY AND FAME AND GREATNESS

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. Many of the titled in today's world obtained their fame and fortune outside their own merit. On the other hand, you must have met great people, in the most obscure roles, in life. For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs. Nobody, least of all mere humans, confers greatness upon another, for it is not a prize but an achievement. And greatness can crown the head of a janitor just as readily as it can come to someone of high rank.

35. NATURE

Take time off each day to commune with Nature and to silently witness the Intelligence within every living being that exists. Sit silently and watch the Sunrise or the Sunset, or listen to the sound of the Ocean, or a Stream or the music of a bird, or simply smell the scent of a Flower. Practice non-judgement!
Begin each new day with the Statement "today I shall judge nothing that occurs".

34. MY SYMPHONY

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not responsible and wealthy not rich; to study hard, think quietly and talk frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart; to hear all cheerfully, to act bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in brief to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common; this I desire to be my symphony.

33. MURDERERS

A murderous type of person does not exist outside the pages of the cheaper kind of thrillers. You and I, my dear fellows, are potential murderers restrained so far, partly by lack of a sufficiently strong motive, and partly, by a healthy fear of what is represented by the policeman at the corner of the street?

32. MISERY, CONFUSION AND CLARITY

To understand the misery and confusion that exist within ourselves, and so in the world, we must first find clarity within ourselves and that clarity comes about through right thinking. This clarity is not to be organized, for it cannot be exchanged with another. Organized group thought is merely repetitive. Clarity is not the result of verbal assertion, but of intense self-awareness and right thinking. Right thinking is not the outcome of or mere cultivation of the intellect, nor is it conformity to pattern, however worthy and noble. Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself - you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge, what you think is not necessarily true. There is hope in man, not in society, not in systems, not in organized religious groups, but in you and me.

31. MIND

A part of the human body, which, like the parachute, works best when open. However, like the richest jewels that are sooner or later found to wear out their settings, a great many of the so-called open minds should be closed for repairs, at the proper time, lest they consume the body to which they are attached.

30. MANNERS

Manners are like the cipher in arithmetic, they may not be much value in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.

29. LOYALTY

The word Loyalty, according to me, is so black and white, so often misapplied, so double-faced and hard to recognize from one side to the other, that, perhaps, it would be better to leave it altogether out of use? Its presence is assumed, its absence blamed with a partial and unreasonable passion. Rarely the same for him who speaks and him who hears from even the least divergent angle: and the fact is that the word is a collective, whose use with a singular meaning is almost, without exception, a mistake. By its very nature it provides ground for conflict between truth and faithfulness.

28. LOVE

Love is sharing all the wonderful things of life with someone you care about. By caring for each other, our lives get entwined. By sharing our Hopes, our Thoughts, our Dreams our lives will become joyous as never before.
Working with each other to build our lives together, we will glow in love. Your love, having brought you closer together, will create a HOME. That Home will still express your individuality and yet your love for one another will make that Home an abode for Peace, rich in Happiness and filled with Love for ALL.
This Love will then offer only good things in life to be enjoyed with that person, come what may!!!!!

27.LOST

Lost yesterday, between sunrise and sunset three golden hours, each set with sixty silver minutes and sixty golden seconds. No reward for the finder, if any, as, for me, they are lost forever.

26. LIFE

Life is no brief candle to me. It is, instead, a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before it is no longer capable of sustaining itself.

25. LAUGHTER

Spontaneous laughter is produced by the coordinated contraction of 15 facial muscles in a stereotype pattern and accompanied by altered breathing. The following is a description abridged from Sally's classic essay on the subject:
"Smiling involves a complex group of facial movement. It may suffice to remind the reader of such characteristic changes as the drawing back and slight lifting of the corners of the mouth, the raising of the upper lip, which partially uncovers the teeth and the curving of the furrows betwixt the corners the mouth and the nostrils (the naso-labials furrows). To these must be added the formation of wrinkles under the eye, which is a further result of the first movement, and the increased brightness of the EYES.

24. KNOWLEDGE

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to admit that you do not know it : this is knowledge in truth!
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above the other. But remember that knowledge must be adorned, it must have luster as well as weight, or it will be often taken for Lead than Gold.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgement, giving assent to that which is not true.

23. IDLENESS

It is a theory of mine that we owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to 'idleness' - either forced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

22. I

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself - I not events have the power to make me happy or unhappy! I can choose what it shall be! Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day - today - and I'm going to be happy in it and I can be!

21. HUMOUR

Humour - like mathematics - may be pure or applied. Pure humour, which has no other end than to amuse is an excellent remedy for tired minds. Applied humour, to my way of thinking, is the more important branch of the subject. It is a tool by the use of which injustice; hypocrisy, tyranny, and foolishness can be laughed into disrepute. It is a tool to whose use writers like Voltaire dedicated some of the comic writing in literature.

20. HABIT

Let me tell you about the most obstinate word I have come across,
maybe you will agree too. It is HABIT. You see if we remove the first
letter H, "a bit" still remains. When we remove both H and A, "bit"
still remains. O.K. if we remove the first 3 letters "it" still
remains. If we go a step further and remove T also, the egoistic "I"
still remains. The only way to get rid of HABIT is to get rid of it
at one go!!!!

19. GREAT STAGE

Look carefully and you will notice that, just such a comedy as we see played on the stage of a theatre is played on the great stage of the world. We are all actors in a play. To some it is allotted to play kings or prelates, to others - merchants, soldiers, workers or husbandmen and each should see that he/she acts the part given, but to select it belongs to a greater power?

18. GOD AND FREE WILL

There is an old argument: if God is all-powerful, why did He not force all persons to His will. This ignores the limited Free Will granted to human beings, which is the whole basis of Ethics. God gives us every opportunity of knowing and understanding things, but He does not force us, for that would be against the 'whole plan' on which our present life is constituted. Even though God's signs are everywhere in Nature and in men's own conscience, yet in addition God has sent human Messengers to different group of People to call their attention to the 'Good' and turn them away from 'Evil'. So one is not right in saying that God has abandoned them or that He does care for them. His Divine Grace always invites their will to choose the right course. While some people accept the guidance of the Divine Grace, others so surrender themselves to Evil that it must necessarily follow that Evil obtains a grip over them.

17. GENTLEMAN

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. He makes light of favours while he does them and seems to be receiving when he is conferring them and observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy, as if he were, one day to be our friend.

16. FIRST THINGS

In everything you do consider what comes first and what follows and thereafter approach it. Otherwise you will come to it with a good heart at first, because you have not reflected on any of the consequences, and afterwards, when difficulties come in sight, you will shamefully desist.

15. FINEST HOURS

The finest hours of life are those spent not among large groups, but in conversation with just a few people, in reading great books, in listening to melodious music, wandering in a forest of great trees, unraveling nature's secrets in a laboratory. The persons who have had the most to give their fellow beings are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a person to be alone to spend time with himself/herself.

14.FAMILY

What saying that the regulation of the family depends on the cultivation of the personal life means is this. Men are partial towards those for whom they have affection and whom they love, partial towards those whom they despise and dislike. Partial towards those whom they fear and revere; those whom they pity; and for whom they have compassion; and those whom they do not respect. Therefore there are few people in the world who know what is unacceptable in those whom they love, and what is good in those whom they dislike. Hence it is said, people do not know faults of their children and also do not know (or are not satisfied with) the bigness of their seedlings. This is what is meant, by saying that if the personal life is not cultivated, one cannot regulate his family.