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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on January 29, 2013 at 7:01am

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances --- Herodotus ( A pessimist)

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter". -- Benjamin Disraeli (An Optimist)

Abraham Lincoln phrased the secret of success as “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other”

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service by Henry Ford

George Bernard Shaw, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities by Jean Houston

'Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present'
Jim Rohn

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on January 25, 2013 at 6:31am

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you are always walking on tiptoe - Marion Blakey

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly - Francis Bacon

You will worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do - David Foster Wallace

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect -Benjamin Franklin

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

Thomas A. Edison

 

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on January 12, 2013 at 8:03am

Be grateful for whomever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond - Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want to think out of the box, you need to ask different questions.

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature"
Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

"Do or do not. There is no try."

"Don't try...DO!"

Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul - Terri Guillemets

Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either - Helen Keller

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time - Voltair

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 29, 2012 at 6:55am

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky - Rabindranath Tagore

What is the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? - Henry D Thoreau

"What Comes Easy Won't Last Long, And What Lasts Long Won't Come Easy"

Design is intelligence made visible - Alina Wheeler

Tough times never last, tough people do.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 13, 2012 at 7:35am

"You're different. Stay different."

"Never ever keep your eye away from your goals. If you always keep getting distracted, imagine yourself winning the accolade which provided you the motivation to fight in the first place. Cover your surroundings with people who always bring you closer to your goals."

"Always act as if you own the place."

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India! - Max Mueller 

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form.

"Hands that help are holier than mouths to pray."

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

When you travel towards your objective, be sure to pay attention to the path. The path teaches us the best way to arrive and enriches us while we are traveling along it - Paulo Coelho

It's only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can hear the whisper of truth that life reveals to us - K T Jong

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 13, 2012 at 7:18am

"Life gives you what you settle for."

There are times when you will only make the problem worse with your continued presence.

"Your thoughts are limited by your vocabulary."

'It is more honorable to catch and hold onto a Tiger's tail than a Fox's head.'

Do not be afraid to take advice from those that have tried something and failed. Do not take it from those who have never tried anything.

When you get married, you are marrying into the whole family.

"you will never regret a kindness" ( Somebody said this but i did regret my kindness once when the person I helped took me for granted thinking that was foolish and started to pestering me again and again for money!)

"You only really own what you can hold under your left arm at a dead run."

Don't take abuse at work.  And don't get so dependent on a job that you have to suffer abuse.  If you have a boss that screams yells and insults you, quit.  And always be able to be able to quit.

Don't wait for something to happen. Or suddenly you're 40 and nothing has happened.

 

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 6, 2012 at 7:06am

J.L.Liebman:
''Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.''

If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it, how will the environmentalists react ? - Anonymous

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

 

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 15, 2012 at 9:56am

Courage is grace under pressure - Ernest Hemingway

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak - Epictetus

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself by Gautama Buddha

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby - Langston Hughes

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety - Rene Daumal                                                                                                                         "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" - "Mae West" 

 You are what you believe yourself to be - Paulo Coelho

Humans are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason - Ashley Montagu

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant - Henry David Thoreau

 

 

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 25, 2012 at 6:44am

What is true creativity and how is it different from that which is so considered in popular culture?

What is generally called creativity is manmade -- painting, music, literature, romantic and factual, all the architecture and the marvels of technology. And the painters, writers, poets, probably consider themselves creative. We all seem to agree with that popular idea of a creative person. Many manmade things are most beautiful, the great cathedrals, temples and mosques; some of them are extraordinarily beautiful and we know nothing of the people who built them.

However, now, with us, anonymity is almost gone. With anonymity there is a different kind of creativity, not based on success, money -- twenty-eight million books sold in ten years! Anonymity has great importance; in it there is a different quality; the personal motive, personal attitude and personal opinion do not exist; there is a feeling of freedom from which there is action.

Yet most manmade creativity, as we call it, takes place from the known. The great musicians, Beethoven, Bach and others, acted from the known. Writers and philosophers have read and accumulated; although they developed their own style they were always moving, acting or writing, from that which they had accumulated -- the known. And this we generally call creativity.

Is that really creative? Or is there a different kind of creativity which is born out of the freedom from the known? Because when we paint, write, or create a marvellous structure out of stone, it is based on the accumulated knowledge carried from the past to the present. Now, is there a creativity totally different from the activity that we generally call creativity?

Is there a living, is there a movement, which is not from the known? That is, is there a creation from a mind that is not burdened with all the turmoils of life, with all the social and economic pressures? Is there a creation out of a mind that has freed itself from the known?

Generally we start with the known and from that we create, but is there a creative impulse or movement taking place that can use the known, but not the other way round? In that state of mind, creation, as we know it, may not be necessary.

Is creativity something totally different, something which we can all have - not only the specialist, the professional, the talented and gifted? I think we can all have this extraordinary mind that is really free from burdens which man has imposed upon himself.

Out of that sane, rational, healthy mind, something totally different comes which may not necessarily be expressed as painting, literature or architecture. Why should it? If you go into this fairly deeply, you will find that there is a state of mind which actually has no experience whatsoever. Experience implies a mind that is still groping, asking, seeking and therefore struggling in darkness and wanting to go beyond itself.

There is a complete and total answer to the question if we apply our minds and our hearts to it; there is a creativity which is not manmade. If the mind is extraordinarily clear without a shadow of conflict, then it is really in a state of creation; it needs no expression, no fulfillment, no publicity and such nonsense. Courtesy: KFI

From:

What We Mean By Creativity

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 16, 2012 at 8:04am

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you really are -Felix Baumgartner

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes possible in a very narrow field - Niels Bohr

In politics stupidity is not a handicap - Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to find your-self is to lose yourself in the service of others... All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy by M K Gandhi

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy by Ralph W Emerson

 

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