Keeping yourself with Right Friends and Positive Environment

Interesting talk on choosing the right people and environment to influence our life, decisions.

"Whether you believe you can or you can't, you are right!"

Yep, very powerful note from book "Zen and the Art of Happiness". Good reads from the book.


Power of mind influences our thoughts and to make any two of us see the same thing differently. A famous zen story about two monks looking at a Flag. One monk observed that flag is moving. The other disagreed and said it was the wind that was moving. Sixth patriarch on hearng the argument said "Not the wind, not the flag, mind is moving".

 

One more excellent story to read Is That So?

• Public criticism is a means for those who do not know themselves well. But for well self-understanding people, it means nothing
• People saying something does not make it true...Knowing yourself is the most important thing 

Happy reading!!!

 

Notable Quotes

• "Change your thoughts and you change your world" – Norman Vincent Peale
• "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step" – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" – Thomas Alva Edison
• “Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching" – Mark Twain
• "Dream as if you'll live forever…live as if you'll die today" – James Dean
• "If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results" – Jack Dixon
• "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right" – Henry Ford
• "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop" – Confucius
• "Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness" - Mark Twain
• "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you" -Zig Ziglar
• "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are" -Norman Vincent Peale
• "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind" -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
• "To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad" -Denis Waitley
• “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it" -Lou Holtz
• "Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill" Charles Swindoll
• "You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise" -Zig Ziglar
• "It's not the situation. . . . It's your reaction to the situation"? -Robert Conklin
• "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair" -Paul H. Duhn
• "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us" -Earl Nightingale
• "Feeling happy and feeling good is a choice that we make.."

Think about it

I am not as lucky as others -
"A paper flying in air is due to luck…… But, a bird flying in air is its effort. So, be a bird and struggle with hurdles to become successful person.."
 
How can I become more optimistic -
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have..."
 
How to get better in your life -
"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday" — Eleanor Roosevelt 

Who is happy -
"Feeling happy and feeling good is a choice that we make.."
 
Do you need to bother about criticism -
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway." — Eleanor Roosevelt

Money can make your happy ?
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory" - Albert Schweitzer
 
I want to be best ?
"There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself." - Osho
 
Can I start my work anytime in my day or only during specific time of day
"There's never a wrong time to do the right thing.."

What is Fate -
"You will find meaning in life only if you create it.
It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes,
so you can go and you search a little bit and find it.
It is not there like a rock that you will find.
It is a poetry to be composed,
it is a song to be sung,
it is a dance to be danced". - Osho

"You cannot walk on a way made by others for you. You have to walk, and make your road by walking.."-Osho

Success is elusive -
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life..." - Muhammad Ali