“Happiness is the state of acceptance, Happiness doesn’t come ONLY by winning or earning the things, but it exists where you satisfy yourself with the things you win”
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Enjoy your tea

A group of alumni (graduate students), highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests tea: the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the tea. All the students had a cup of tea in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the tea in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...and then began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this:
“Life is the tea, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the tea God has provided us."

God brews the tea, not the cups..........enjoy your tea.

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बीते हुए वर्ष की, दिल में उठे हर्ष की,

चिर पुराने बंधुओं की, खट्टे-मींठे अनुभवों की,

अविष्मरणीय यादों की, नव मिले आगंतुकों की,

पूरे वर्ष मन में न जाने, जन्मीं कितनी भावनाएं?

आपको नव-वर्ष की शुभकामनायें.

गत सर्दियों की ठिठुरन की,

शर्माते सूरज और ठंडी हवाओं की,

गर्म-गर्म चाय और कॉफी के बुलबुलों की,

धूप और बादलों में मची होड़ की,

खिचड़ी में पतंगों के आपस के दौड़ की,

सुनसान सड़कों और खामोश रातों की,

कितनी ऐसी यादें हैं जो भूली न जाए.

आपको नव-वर्ष की शुभकामनायें.

जाड़े के संग-संग आये ऋतुराज की,

मदमाते मंज़र और सुलगते पलाश की,

मलयांचल से मदमाती बहती-बहती हवाओं की,

मदहोश नव-यौवन और होली के रंगों की,

मत्त हुए महुओं और पीपल के पल्लव की,

कोयल की कूह्कों और कौवों के वाचन की,

कवियों की, जिन्होंने रची ऐसी कवितायें.

आपको नव-वर्ष की शुभकामनायें.

रंगों को करके फीका, आये ग्रीष्म की,

क्रोधित हुए सूरज और गरमाती हवाओं की,

दहकते हुए शहर और तपते हुए गावों की,

पिघलता हुआ आसमान और पेड़ों के छाँव की,

बढ़ते हुए दिन और छोटी हुई रातों की,

झुलसती हुई धरती और सूखते हुए तालों की,

ठन्डे कोल्ड्रिंक्स और लस्सी के मिठास की,

ग्रीष्म अवकाश की, जिसमें जहाँ चाहें घूम आयें.

आपको नव-वर्ष की शुभकामनायें.

ग्रीष्म की विदाई पर आई वर्षा रानी की,

सावन के झूले संग झूलती नवयवना की,

कड़कती हुई बिजलियाँ, गरजते हुए मेघों की,

चमकते हुए इन्द्रधनुष, छमकती हुई बूंदों की,

टर्राते मेंढक और कूदते हुए मोरों की,

झूमते किसान और धान के खेतों की,

भीगते हुए पेड़ और टपकते हुए छप्पर की,

हरे-भरे मन की, जो लगता है अभी झूमें गाये.

आपको नव-वर्ष की शुभकामनाएं.

~ नवनीत नीरव

My wishes for you in year 2011
Great start for Jan,
Love for Feb,
Peace for march,
No worries for April
Fun for May,
Joy for June to Nov,
Happiness for Dec,
Have a lucky and wonderful 2011.

WISH U A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

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One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm

Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her - generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to be in a big hurry! She wrote down his address, thanked him and drove away.

Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached. It read: "Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes but my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others."

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“Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours.”

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There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death.

~From a movie

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When Are You Too Old?

When asked how it was that she has lived so long, one 91-year-old woman replied, "I think God is testing the patience of my relatives."

When is "too old"? At what age do we give up? At 100, Grandma Moses was still painting, and Titian painted "Battle of Lepants" when he was 98.

At 93, George Bernard Shaw wrote "Farfetched Fables."

At 91, Eamon de Valera served as president of Ireland.

At 90, Pablo Picasso still drew and engraved.

At 89, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall, and Pablo Casals, at 88, still performed cello concerts.

At 82, Winston Churchill wrote the four-volume work, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples," Leo Tolstoy completed "I Cannot Be Silent," and Goethe, at the same age, finished "Faust."

At 81, Benjamin Franklin engineered the diplomacy, which led to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.

When are you "too old"? Only on the day when you truly have nothing left to give. And the good news is this: that day never has to arrive!

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“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value”

Jim Rohn quotes

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Time offers opportunity:

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today. Today is yesterday's tomorrow. The question is what did we do with its opportunity? All too often we will waste tomorrow as we wasted yesterday, and as we are wasting today. All that could have been accomplished can easily elude us, despite our intentions, until we inevitably discover that the things that might have been have slipped from our embrace a single, unused day at a time.

…Time offers opportunity but demands a sense of urgency.

Regardless of a person's current age, there is a sense of urgency that should drive them into action now—this very moment. We should be constantly aware of the value of each and every moment of our lives—moments that seem so insignificant that their loss often goes unnoticed.

…For most of us, there will be a tomorrow, a next week, a next month, and a next year. But unless we develop a sense of urgency, those brief windows of time will be sadly wasted, as were the weeks and months and years before them. There isn't an endless supply!

~Jim Rohn

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