Jumping to conclusions seldom leads to happy landings. Steve Siporin As humans, our instinctive response to tricky situations is to trust our senses. We form our judgments based on what our eyes see and our ears hear. We regard our senses as infallible. However, things are rarely so straightforward.
Greed enables a person to buy things money can buy while losing the things money cannot buy. Laurence J. Peter A person can stake their claim to any material possession so long as they have the financial firepower to acquire it. However, money and, by extension, all the material possessions it can buy are but Read more…
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann A difference of opinions isn’t necessarily something negative. In fact, it can actually be a positive thing where this difference is borne out of constructive criticism rather than a compulsive propensity to contradict someone.
Many of the greatest men of history earned their fame outside of their regular occupations in odd bits of time which most people squander. Orison Swett Marden Jobs have been synonymous with compulsion from time immemorial. Most of us would picture a job as a gloomy guy working mechanically from nine to five.
In the blackest soils grow the fairest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks. J. G. Holland Adversity is not just part and parcel of human life, but also an essential ingredient thereof, for a life without hardships is an insipid life. In fact, our problems help us in more Read more…
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde There is hardly a human being who has not faced any struggles or problems in life. However, what ultimately sets two people apart is how they react to those adversities. In fact, it would be fair to say Read more…
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. It is often believed that happiness is directly proportional to the amount of stuff we get and accumulate. However, this is a very material and rudimentary way of looking at things. And while this may hold true Read more…
Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. Robin Sharma Many cultures around the world see the real world as nothing but the mirror image of our thoughts; they regard reality as nothing but an extension of our psyche. As ironical as it might sound to some people, this is actually Read more…
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.’ Most of us are familiar with this golden line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam A.H.H. However, is Read more…
It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. Paula Scher Failure is mostly equated with disappointment and all types of negative emotions. It is looked at as something ignominious; something that must be avoided at all costs. Sure, failure hurts – it is, after all, a sign that all our hard work was in vain, Read more…
