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Positive Thoughts for Today
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LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Live as if you were to die tomorrow
Learn as if you were to live forever
--Mahatma Gandhi
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
The older I get, the less I pay attention
To what people say or think or hope.
I notice what they do,
How they Live,
And what they work for.
--Robert Fulghum "Words I Wish I Wrote"
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Positive News Weekly Story
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Enjoy The Coffee
A group of alumni, 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 coffee, the Professor went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic,
glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -
telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee 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.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously
went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position
in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life,
and do not change the quality of Life.
Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the
coffee God has provided."
So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.
Marilyn L. Ali
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