JIGYASA

People who do not learn lessons from history are doomed. Failure is a teacher if we have the right attitude. Failure is a detour, not a dead end. It is a delay, not a defeat. Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Some people live and learn, and some only live. Wise people learn from their mistakes wiser people learn from other people's mistakes. Our lives are not long enough to learn only from our own mistakes.

Monkey-hunters use a jar with an opening at the top, big enough for the monkey to slide its hand in. Inside the jar are nuts. The monkey grabs the nuts and now its hand becomes a fist.                              The monkey tries to get its hand out but the opening is big enough for the hand to slide in, but too small for the fist to come out. Now the monkey has a choice, either to let go off the nuts and be free forever or hang on to the nuts and get caught. Guess what it picks every time? You guessed it. He hangs on to the nuts and gets caught.

Start by doing what  is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.                          --St. Francis of Assisi

Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

A man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.                                                                                               -Ralph  Waldo Emerson