Thursday, March 5, 2015

Statements


Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ========== J.J. Rousseau.
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. ==== Philips Brooks,

In those days, Dr. Jeevrau Mehta was the finance minister of Bombay Presidency and was also the personal physician of Mahatma Gandhi. Once he visited Baroda for some work. When he got down the train, he was surrounded by officers and workers who were standing on the station to welcome him.
Everybody had to cross a bridge to exit the station. While crossing the bridge he noticed a woman who was carrying a big trunk in on hand, her infant son in the other and also had a large bag which she was trying to carry but was having a hard time at managing.
Dr. Mehta immediately reached out to help her. He said "Sister let me handle this trunk and take it back when you get to the other side of the bridge".  The officers who were accompanying him were amazed by his kind heartedness and simplicity of his nature.
The qualities of great men are displayed in their day to day life and work. It is up to us whether we choose to simply applaud them or to imbibe those qualities which will eventually also leading us to the path of greatness.

Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves. ======== Raymond Massey.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affair as well as a tree does. ======= G. Bernard Shaw.
Why will thou defer thyt good purpose from day to day? Arise and in this very instant begin, and say; now is the time to be amending myself. ========= Thomas Kempis.
All have not gold to give, but all may yet be kind. ======= Robert Herrick.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ========= Lord Brougham

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