In my coaching practice I find that an apt quote or a short story with a moral can make a point much more powerfully than a discursive discourse. I often visit different sites for inspirational quotes and use those quotes that I do not need to memorize, because they are so poignant and timeless. I recently came across a few and would like to share them with my readers. I do not know who their respective authors are. Do not just read them, but reflect on them and translate them into your own thoughts, actions, and habits. They will change how you live your life!
- Never share your secrets with anyone. This can be self-destructive. Never tell your problems to anyone; 20% don’t care and 80% are glad you have them.
- Life is similar to a boxing match. Defeat is not declared when you fall down; it is declared when you refuse to ‘Get Up’!
- Sometimes wrong persons teach right lessons.
- We pick our joys and sorrows long before we experience them!
- Everything is valuable only twice: Before getting it, and After losing it.
- Empty pockets teach millions of things in life, but full pockets spoil us in a million ways!
- Two things bring happiness and success in life: The way you manage when you have nothing; and the way you behave when you have everything.
- Two places most valuable in the world: The nicest place is to be in someone’s thoughts, and safest place to be in someone’s prayers.
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat them at politeness.
- Keep your face to the sun, and you will not see the shadow!
- To show someone their shadow, you must first show them their light!
- A deaf child says: “For all of you, I am deaf—But for me, all of you are dumb.” Moral: Life differs in each perspective. Live the way you want to.
- Attitude at its best: My back is not a voice mail. Kindly say it to my face.
- Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. Be a bigger person: Skip the “E” and let it “go”!
- One good thing about egotists: They don’t talk about other people!
- Do you know why God did not give us the gift to read others’ minds? So that we could have the chance to trust and the privilege to be trusted.
- As along as we don’t forgive people who hurt us, they occupy a rent-free space in our mind.
- We have solutions to all problems when they are not ours!
- Getting angry is punishing yourself for the mistakes of others!
- Trust is like a sticker. Once it is removed, it may stick again, but not as strong as it holds when first applied. Always take care of relationships.
- Never win people with arguments, rather defeat them with your smile! Because people, who always wish to argue with you, cannot bear your silence.
- The search for happiness is one of the main sources of unhappiness.
- If a drop of water falls on a lake, its identity is lost. If it falls on a lotus leaf, it shines like a pearl. The drop is the same, but it’s the company that matters.
- Our hopes should be like hair and nails. No matter how many times they get cut, they never stop growing.
- Memories are always special: Sometimes we laugh by remembering the days we cried and we cry by remembering the days we laughed!
- The sea is common for all: Some take pearls, Some take fishes, some come out with just wet legs! What we get is what we try for.
- All communication problems are because we don’t listen to understand; we listen to reply.
- If you keep worrying about the future, you are wasting your imaginative energies on something that may not even happen!
- You become what you fear.
- For you to be your authentic self your thoughts, words, and actions must be in complete alignment.