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Unique Traits of Successful People….

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 Abraham Lincoln phrased the secret of success as “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other”. The phrase is undeniably true which suggests that success comes with strong determination. But in this cut throat era one should possess many attributes which will not appear in any balance sheet but will definitely help make a difference in the lives of their employees, industries, and communities. Read on to know some of the things which remarkable entrepreneurs and leaders do.
1. They Don’t Draw Back-Up Plans
It is considered that a dream is not a dream until it blows off your sleep. Back up plans let you sleep at night putting you passion on the back seat. You will be more concerned with your current plan if you know this is all you got.  A back up plan makes you think that if the current plan doesn’t workout, you have an alternative ready. Thus unknowingly one puts less effort than actually they might have if there were no other plans ready as a support system.
2. Get It Done!
Take up the example of any successful person and you will find each had a passion to chase their dreams and could think of nothing else until they finally achieve the set goal. You will find that they have spent days and nights to get the work done. A “will do it tomorrow” thought can never make one cross the finish line. And in this ruthless competitive era you never know when some one else will surpass you even with a brisk of a minute.

3.   …And They Work A Lot More

Remarkably successful entrepreneurs never stuck at particular set of works, their things to do list goes on. They have long lists of getting things done for which they have to put heart and soul and forget look at the watch ever 5 minutes. If you are happy with a nine – five job, your dreams will get stuck at nine to five too.
You can never judge your work and the effort you should make according to others. Your dream is yours and not their.
4. They avoid the crowds
Remarkably successful entrepreneurs never join the crowd, they pave their own way. It not always necessary that you come up with a new idea, but executing an idea in the correct direction is all it needs. You do not have to follow the set of rules set by others as others didn’t come up with your plan. You know your plan better than any one does and should go for what ever feels correct to make it work.

5. They Start From The Finish Line…
Never get relaxed after achieving an individual goal. Always remember this is just the beginning and you have to set numerous goals from your finish line itself. Success always depends on the level of your goals, an average goal will only fetch you average results. Only if you aim for 110, you will score 100. Your goals are the key to achieve the desired results and never compromise when it comes to standards.
6. Forget About Stopping


Highly successful people don’t consider finish lines; they keep starting over and over again. Look at your achievements as the steps of your success stair case leading you to another achievement. Once you start achieving your goals and make your base strong, that will open up new opportunities to yield skills and network in many other fields to take your business at the top.

7. They sell
Often selling is misunderstood with manipulating or pressurizing. Selling is nothing but explaining an idea and convince others to believe in it. It is making other people to trust you and work with you. Selling is overcoming objections and roadblocks. One successful entrepreneur will know how to make others believe in the idea and make the base of the business strong. One should know to deal with rejection and turn “no” into “yes”. They should take the feedbacks positively and work on it to make the idea better. All you need to do is to communicate.
8. They Never Tap Their Own Shoulder
If you commit a mistake, admit it! This will never let you repeat that mistake and only take you one step ahead to chase your dream. Committing mistake is human nature, accepting and rectifying it is wise nature. They are never judgmental and blame others for solely. They always share the burden and take corrective steps without creating any barrier within co workers.

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காதில் விழுந்ததே !!!….பதில் கொடுத்த மகாபெரியவர் !!!!

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காஞ்சி மகானின் கருணைக்கு எல்லையே இல்லை. தனது அத்யந்த பக்தர்கள் தன்னை எந்த நேரத்தில் அழைத்தாலும் அவர்களுக்கு அருளாசி வழங்காமல் இருந்ததே இல்லை.

திரு ராஜகோபாலின் மனைவி கீதா பலவருடங்களுக்கு முன்பு சென்னையில் வசித்துகொண்டிருந்& #2980; சமயம். மகானிடம் பெரும் பக்தி. அவருக்கு மட்டுமல்ல, அவரது குடும்பமே மகானை கண்கண்ட தெய்வமாக வணங்கி வந்தனர் .

ஒரு சமயம் கீதாவின் தந்தைக்கு உடல் நலம் சரியில்லை. எல்லா விதமான மருத்துவ சிகிச்சையும் கிடைக்கசெய்து மசியாத அந்த நோய் அவரை படுத்த படுக்கையாக்கி விட்டது.

மருத்துவ சிகிச்சை தொடர்ந்தாலும் கீதா மகானிடம் வேண்டாத நாளில்லை, இருப்பினும் தந்தையின் உடல் நாளுக்கு நாள் மோசமாகிகொண்டு வர, ஒரு நாள் அவர் மூச்சு விடவே மிகவும் சிரமப்பட்டார். அந்த நிலை நீடித்தால் சில மணி நேரங்களில் அவர் உயிர் பிரிய நேரும்.

பூஜை அறைக்கு போய் மகானின் படத்தின் முன் விழுந்து நமஸ்கரித்துவிட்டு ” இத்தனை நாளாக என் குறையை தீர்த்து வையுங்கள்” என்று கதறிக்கொண்டு இருக்கின்றேனே பெரியவா, உங்கள் காதில் விழவே இல்லையா, என்று கடைசியாக வாய் விட்டு கதறிய போது, வீட்டின் அழைப்பு மணி ஒலித்தது. அங்கே சென்று கதவை திறந்தபோது ” காஞ்சி மடத்தில் இருந்து வருகின்றோம், மகா பெரியவா இந்த பிரசாதத்தை உங்களன்ண்டே கொடுக்க சொன்னார்” என்றனர் வந்தவர்கள்.

காதில் விழவே இல்லையா என்ற குரல் கேட்காமலா இந்த பிரசாதங்களை அனுப்பி இருக்கின்றார்? கண்களில் நீர் பெருக கீதா அவசர அவசரமாக ஸ்ரீ மடத்தில் இருந்து வந்த தீர்த்தத்தை தந்தையின் வாயில் ஊற்ற, அவரது மூச்சு திணறல் நின்றது. அதன் பிறகு அவர் தந்தை நீண்டநாள் சுகமாக வாழ்ந்தார் என்பது தான் வியப்பிற்குரிய விஷயம்.

மகான் தன் பக்தர்களை பற்றி அல்லும் பகலும் நினைக்காமலா இருகின்றார்? “காதில் விழவில்லையா? என்று கேட்டவுடன் காலிங் பெல் சப்தம் கேட்டது எப்படி?

Jaya Jaya Shankara, Hara Hara Shankara!
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Mahaperiavar”s Words Are Words Of God …..

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Once in the year 1959 Kanchi Mahaan camped at Nazarathpet near Chennai. As he needed sandal paste for his puja, he called a man named Ramamurthy and asked him to grind the paste.

The same day he ground sandal paste and gave for puja, Ramamurthy felt some uneasiness in his heart in the evening. He rushed to a doctor and got his health checked.

The doctor said after his tests, “Your heart is weak. You should not carry heavy weights or do strenuous work, especially something like grinding sandal paste.”

Ramamurthy came back to the Mahaan. As the sandal paste was needed on the next day too, the Mahaan called him and gave the work. He said, “ChandraMauleesvara would take care of everything. You grind and give me the sandal paste.”

Unable to disobey the Mahaan’s words, Ramamurthy ground and gave the sandal paste. Again he felt uneasy at heart and told PeriyavaaL what the doctor had said.

“It would be dangerous only if it is a heart attack. If the heart is weak some people might live even up to a hundred years. You do your work, don’t be afraid”, said the Mahaan. Were those not the words of God?

Thereafter Ramamurthy had the bhAgyam of grinding sandal paste for the Mahaan’s puja for a long time. No such uneasiness of heart ever raised its head on those occasions!

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Find The Rose Within ….

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A man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom, but noticed thorns upon the stem and he thought, “How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns? Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and just before it was ready to bloom… it died.

So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose. The God-like qualities planted in us at birth, grow amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects.

We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential.

Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns of another, and find the rose within them.

This is one of the characteristic of love… to look at a person, know their true faults and accepting that person into your life… all the while recognizing the nobility in their soul. Help others to realize they can overcome their faults. If we show them the “rose” within themselves, they will conquer their thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over.

source::::: From SAI Devotee…
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பசுமை நிறைந்த நினைவுகளே !!!!

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அந்த நாட்கள் மீண்டும் வந்திடாதோ?

1930- 1980 வரை பிறந்த நம்மை போன்றவர்களை இந்த கால குழந்தைகள் அல்லது இந்த ஜெனரேஷன் மக்கள நம்மைபற்றி என்ன நினைத்தாலும் கேலி செய்தாலும் நாம் மிக மிக அதிர்ஷ்டகாரர்களே!!!!!

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS A LIVING PROOF!!!!!

· தனி படுக்கையில் அல்ல!!! அம்மா அப்பாக்கூட படுத்து உறங்கியவர்கள் நாம் தான்!!!

· எந்த வித உணவுப் பொருட்களும் நமக்கு அலர்ஜியாக இருந்ததில்லை.

· கிச்சன் அலமாரிகளில் சைல்டு புருஃப் லாக் போட்டு இருந்ததில்லை.

· புத்தகங்களை சுமக்கும்பொதிமாடுகளா இருந்ததில்லை.

· சைக்கிள் ஒட்டும் போது ஹெல்மேட் மாட்டி ஒட்டி விளையாண்டது இல்லை.

· பள்ளியில் இருந்து வீட்டிற்கு வந்தது முதல் இருட்டும் வரை ஒரே விளையாட்டுதான்!!!! ரூமிற்குள் அடைந்து உலகத்தை பார்ப்பதில்லை.

· நாங்கள் விளையாடியது நிஜ நண்பர்களிடம் தான்!!!! நெட் நண்பர்களிடம் இல்லை!!!!!

· தாகம் எடுத்தால் தெரு குழாய்க்களில் தண்ணிர் குடிப்போம்!!!! பாட்டில் வாட்டர் தேடியதில்லை!!!!

· ஒரே ஜூஸை வாங்கி நாலு நண்பர்களும் மாறி மாறி குடித்தாலும் நோய்கள் எங்களை வந்தடைந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· அதிக அளவு இனிப்பு பண்டங்களையும் தட்டு நிறைய சாதம் சாப்பிட்டுவந்த போதிலும் ஒவர் குண்டாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!

· காலில் ஏதும் அணியாமல் இருந்து நாள் முழுவதும் சுற்றி வந்தாலும் காலுக்கு ஏதும் நேர்ந்ததில்லை.!!!!

· சிறு விளக்கு வெளிச்சத்தில் படித்து வந்தாலும் கண்ணாடி அணிந்ததில்லை!!!

· உடல் வலிமை பெறஊட்டசத்து பானங்கள்அருந்தியதில்லை .மிஞ்சிய சாதத்தில் ஊற்றி வைத்த நீரைச் சாப்பிட்டே உடல் வலிமை பெற்றவர்கள்!!!!

· எங்களுக்கு வேண்டிய வீளையாட்டு பொருட்களை நாங்களே உருவாக்கி விளையாடி மகிழ்வோம்!!!!

· எங்கள் பெற்றோர்கள் பண வசதி மிக்க லட்சாதிபதிகள் அல்ல!!!! ஆனாலும் அவர்கள் பணம் பணம் என்று அதன் பின்னால் ஒடுபவர்கள் அல்லர். அவர்கள் தேடுவதும் கொடுப்பதும் அன்பை மட்டுமே!!! பொருட்களை அல்ல!!!!

· அவர்கள் தொடர்பு கொள்ளும் அருகாமையில்தான் நாங்கள் இருந்து வந்தோம் அவர்கள் எங்களை தொடர்பு கொள்ள “ஏலேய்ய்ய்” என்ற ஒரு வார்த்தை போதுமானதாக இருந்தது. அதனால் தொடர்பு கொள்ள செல்போனை தேட அவசியமில்லை!!!!

· உடல் நலம் சரியில்லை என்றால் டாக்டர் வீடு தேடி வருவார் >>>டாக்டரை தேடி ஒடியதில்லை!!!!!
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· எங்களது உணர்வுகளை போலியான உதட்டசைப்பினால் செல்போன் மூலம் பறிமாறவில்லை!!!!!

உள்ளத்தில் இருந்து வரும் உண்மைகளை எழுத்தில் கொட்டி கடிதமாக எழுதி தெரிவித்து வந்தோம். அதனால் சொன்ன சொல்லில் இருந்து என்றும் மாறியதில்லை.

· எங்களிடம் செல்போன் டிவிடி, ப்ளை ஸ்டேஷன், எக்ஸ்பாக்ஸ், வீடியோ கேம் பெர்சனல் கம்பியூட்டர், நெட், சாட் போன்றவகள் இல்.லை ஆனால் நிறைய நிஜமான நண்பர்கள் இருந்தனர்!!!!!

· வேண்டும் பொழுது நினைத்த நண்பர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு சென்று உணவுண்டு உரையாடி மகிழந்து வந்தோம். அவர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு போவதற்கு போனில் அனுமதி பெற தேவையில்லை!!!!!

· எங்கள் காலங்களில் திறமை மிக்க தலைவர்கள் இருந்தனர். அவர்கள் சமுகத்திற்காக தங்கள் செல்வங்களை செலவிட்டனர் இந்த காலம் போல சமுக செல்வங்களை கொள்ளை அடித்தவர்கள் அல்லர்!!!!!

· உறவுகள் அருகில் இருந்தது உள்ளம் நன்றாக இருந்ததால் உடல் நலம் காக்க இன்சூரன்ஸ் எடுத்தத்தில்லை

· நாங்கள் எடுத்த புகைபடங்கள் கருப்பு வெள்ளையாக இருந்தாலும் அதில் உள்ளவர்களிடம் வண்ணமயமான நல்ல எண்ணங்கள் இருப்பதை உணரலாம். ஆனால் இப்போது எடுக்கப்படும் படங்கள் கலராக இருக்கலாம் ஆனால் அதில் உள்ளவ்ர்களின் எண்ணங்கள் வெள்ளையா இல்லையா என்று சொல்ல முடியவில்லையே !!!!

· இலவசம் பெறும் பிச்சைகாரர்களாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· சொல்லுங்க நீங்க இப்போ …. அந்த பொன்னான காலங்களில் பிறந்து வளர்ந்த வந்த நாங்கள் அதிர்ஷ்ட சாலிகளா இல்லையா என்பதை !!!!!!!!!!!!

source:::::input from a friend of mine …
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Winner Never Quits !!!….Quitter Never Wins !!!!!

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Here are few stories of some personalities who never quit in their first attempt !!!

1. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 1000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 1000-step process.”

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic Gold Medals!!!

3. In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don’t like their round. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” The group was called The Beatles.

4. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.” She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

5. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere….son. You ought to go back to driving’ a truck.” He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

6. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing Invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”

7. In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 – after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Moral:

Character cannot be developed in ease and comfort.Only through experiences of trial and suffering, one’s mental capacity can be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength and confidence in every experience where you really learn to handle fear and tension and learn to take failure as learning opportunity.You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel comes to shape through the hottest furnace. And even the precious gold is tested against fire.

We have no right to ask when suffering or sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?”
unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

Be like steel,not glass! Tests of life are to make us,not to break us!

Winner never quits! Quitter never wins!

Life’s good and stay alive all your life!

SOURCE:::input from a friend of mine…
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Say “Yes ” To Vegetarian Food !!!

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Vegetarians ‘cut heart risk by 32%’

By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News

Vegetables

Ditching meat and fish in favour of a vegetarian diet can have a dramatic effect on the health of your heart, research suggests.

A study of 44,500 people in England and Scotland showed vegetarians were 32% less likely to die or need hospital treatment as a result of heart disease.

Differences in cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body weight are thought to be behind the health boost.

The findings were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Heart disease is a major blight in Western countries. It kills 94,000 people in the UK each year – more than any other disease, and 2.6 million people live with the condition.

The heart’s own blood supply becomes blocked up by fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart muscle. It can cause angina or even lead to a heart attack if the blood vessels become completely blocked.

Scientists at the University of Oxford analysed data from 15,100 vegetarians and 29,400 people who ate meat and fish.

Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1,066 needed hospital treatment – and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.

“Choosing the veggie option on the menu is not a shortcut to a healthy heart”

Tracy ParkerBritish Heart Foundation

Dr Francesca Crowe said: “The main message is that diet is an important determinant of heart health, I’m not advocating that everyone eats a vegetarian diet.

“The diets are quite different. Vegetarians probably have a lower intake of saturated fat so it makes senses there is a lower risk of heart disease.”

The results showed the vegetarians had lower blood pressure, lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and were more likely to have a healthy weight.

Tracy Parker, from the British Heart Foundation, said: “This research reminds us that we should try to eat a balanced and varied diet – whether this includes meat or not.

“But remember, choosing the veggie option on the menu is not a shortcut to a healthy heart. After all, there are still plenty of foods suitable for vegetarians that are high in saturated fat and salt.

“If you’re thinking of switching to a vegetarian diet, make sure you plan your meals carefully so that you replace any lost vitamins and minerals, such as iron, that you would normally get from meat.”

source:::BBC News net..

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The Picture of Son….

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A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art..

When the Vietnamconflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.

About a month later, just before Christmas,

There was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands..

He said, ‘Sir, you don’t know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly… He often talked about you, and your love for art.’ The young man held out this package. ‘I know this isn’t much. I’m not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.’

The father

Opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture.. ‘Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It’s a gift.’

The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.

The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.

On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. ‘We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?’

There was silence…

Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, ‘We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.’

But the auctioneer persisted. ‘Will somebody bid for this painting? Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?’

Another voice angrily. ‘We didn’t come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh’s, the Rembrandts. Get on with the Real bids!’

But still the auctioneer continued. ‘The son! The son! Who’ll take the son?’

Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. ‘I’ll give $10 for the painting…’ Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.

‘We have $10, who will bid $20?’

‘Give it to him for $10. Let’s see the masters.’

The crowd was becoming angry. They didn’t want the picture of the son.

They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.

The auctioneer pounded the gavel.. ‘Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!’

A man sitting on the second row shouted, ‘Now let’s get on with the collection!’

The auctioneer laid down his gavel. ‘I’m sorry, the auction is over.’

‘What about the paintings?’

‘I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will… I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.

The man who took the son gets everything!’

Money is not EVERYTHING.

source:::::input from a friend of mine….
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Words of Wisdom….Worth Keeping in Our Heart !!!!

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A man with one watch knows what time it is.. A man with two watches is never quite sure of the time !!!

D’ont look where you fall, but where you slipped!!!

Look at life through the windshield…not the rearview mirror!!!

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do !!!

Be nice to people on your way up..because you will need them on your way down!!!

Never explain…your friends do not need it… your enemies will not believe it !!!

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted!!!

Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear !!!

If you are heading in the wrong direction, you are allowed to do a U turn!!!

You have got to do your own growing..no matter how tall your father was !!!

The best way to predict your future is to create it !!!!!

source::::unknown….input from my friend…

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