The Journey Of Life(Motivational Handbook)....Complete.....

Delusion

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal.

Be the Change that you wish to see in the world.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of life as a champion.'

The magnetic needle always points to the North, and hence it is that the vessel does not lose its direction. So long as the heart of the man/woman is directed towards God, he/she cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

It doesn't matter what actually happened, the only thing that matters is what people think happened.

If you can't dazzle them with your intelligence, baffle them with your bullshit.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the ocean, says the persevering soul; at my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

The only true wisdom is in knowing, you know nothing.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Sensual passions are your first enemy.

Tomorrow the sun will rise. You don't know what the tides will bring.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Food should always be worshipped and taken with the utmost reverence. The sight of food should delight one’s heart and fill it with joy.  It should always be  cherished  whatever the situation. Food thus honoured  gives one strength and energy.  Food taken irreverently destroys both strength and energy.

Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle.

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

Build something that's foolproof, and only a fool will use it.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an E C G means we are not alive.

Fear can hold you prisoner.....

It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable – one just has to try harder and harder.

Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

All I need to make a comedy is - a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.

Why do children fear mathematics? - Because of the wrong approach, because it is looked at as a subject.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that takes our breath away.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.