InspireYourself

Thomas Edison once said “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration”. But, still that 1% of inspiration is sole requirement for converting that 99% to success.

Have you ever wondered that a pencil, a small pencil which you thought was just writing instrument can teach so many things?

1. It tells us that everything you do leaves a mark, weather you do good or bad it will surely leave a positive or a negative impression on others.

2. It tells us that important thing is how we are from inside not outside which means that our quality and virtues leave a lasting impression on others and not our outside beauty.

3. Moreover it tells us that in life we will go painful sharpening which will make us better. The difficult times are always there to make us stronger.

4. It tells us that we can always correct our mistakes, so never be afraid to take risk, we should take challenges, accept difficulties because even if we fall there’s always a next time.

5. Last and the best it says “Allow yourself to be guided and held by the hand which holds you”, so if we allow ourselves to be guided and held by God’s hand we can surely achieve success in life.

Have you heard the story of the ugly elephant, well if not I tell you. In a forest there was a very ugly baby elephant called “Jumbo”. No other animal in the jungle used to play with him and he was always downtrodden and embarrassed by other animals.

The duck used to say to him “Look at you elephant you are so ugly and black, with a long pipe like trunk hanging, I am so white and beautiful.

The monkey used to tease him by saying “Look at me I can jump from one tree to another can you do so?

Poor little elephant would have nothing to say in these matters.

On a hot summer afternoon when all the animals were sleeping the whole jungle was caught in a mighty fire. All animals began to panic, but our brave little elephant shouted on top of his voice and called all other elephants and they all filled their trunks with water and within minutes the whole fire was extinguished.

Jumbo became a hero and every other animal felt ashamed that they used to tease him and now he has saved their life.

Thorough this story I just want you people to understand that we should never underestimate others. We all have this habit of passing comments on people on fat people, on thin people, on short, on dark and physically deformed and so on.

Even if we not pass comments many of us just think something ill about them. We should understand that God has created each of us equal and we should learn to respect each other and do not laugh or tease others.

Blacks were always ill treated in America!! Now can you think how much foolish it is to just discriminate on basis of colour of a person Are we civilized or not.......But now even they have set an example by choosing a black president Obama.

Be at your best,

And leave the rest,

Joys and sorrows come and go,

And surely you have to pass thorough,

Life is a struggle but,

Crossing all barriers,

You make your way,

Think you can do it,

Don’t be idle and sit,

Because,

In the end the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

There was once a man who had four wives.

He loved his fourth wife the most, fed her with delicacies and gave her the most beautiful clothes.

He loved his third wife too as she was very beautiful, He always feared that she might run away with someone.

Whenever he had problems he went for help to his second wife and she took good care of him and sorted out his problems.

But he always neglected his first wife although she loved him.

When one fateful day arrived he was diagnosed with cancer and doctor fold that he would die soon.

He got very sad as he thought he would be alone now. So he asked his fourth wife if she would die with him, she clearly replied no. His third wife had already run away with someone else on hearing about his cancer. He then went to his second wife, she said that she always helped him but now she cannot die with him. Disappointed, he went to his wife first wife but to his surprise she readily agreed to die with him. The man was deeply moved and thought only one thing that if would have been much better if he had taken good care of her. Now like the man we all have four wives.

Our fourth wife is our body whom we love the most feed it with good dishes, decorate with beautiful clothes but when we die it doesn’t goes with us.

Our third wife is the possession, property that we have which always to go to someone else when we die and we do not take it with us.

Our second wife is our friends and family. However they might solve our problems during our lives they will not go with us.

Our first wife is our soul whom we neglect throughout our lives never caring about it but our soul always goes with us when we die. So we should do some soul seeking in our lives and care for it and not just run after materialistic pleasures. This is the only way to become better persons and thus we would have no unsettled issues when we die.

When you were born you cried and everyone rejoiced, live your life in such a way that when you die you rejoice and the whole world cries.

Because life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away.