Wisdom Quotes

We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead
of on a regret.

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The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

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Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts.

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To teach is to touch a life forever.

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Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the
rest of your life there.

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Freedom is the ability not to care what the other person thinks.

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I've learned that the more possessions I acquire, the less free
I feel.

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Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening
all at once.

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The whole process of mental, spiritual, and material riches
may be summed up in one word - gratitude.

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Prime Purpose in life

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't
help them, at least don't hurt them.
- The Dalai Lama

Chinese Proverb

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb

The Carpenter

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front-door key to the carpenter.
This is your house, he said, my gift to you.
The carpenter was shocked! What a shame!
If he had only known he was building his own, he would have done it all so differently.
We do the most of the things having such thoughts in our mind. But we only realize when it comes back to us.
So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house that we have built. If we could do it over, we'd do it much differently. But we cannot go back.
You are the carpenter. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Life is a do-it-yourself project, someone has said. Your attitudes and the choices you make today, build the house you live in tomorrow. Build wisely!

Window of Life

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap"
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?"
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.