thought provoking

[DocW]

I owe all my of my success to all of my failures.
-- Kerry Salesman

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Dar al Harb]

Success has many fathers; but failure is an orphan

Unknown

[Clarity]

"If there wwas a like button here I would be clicking it furiously right now."
- By Clarity, UI member.

(:

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

[DocW]

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
-- Giovanni Ruffini

[DocW]

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.
-- Source Unknown

[DocW]

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
-- Solomon Short

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time
-- Source Unknown

[DocW]

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa

[DocW]

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades
not away in time.
-- Frank Norris


The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
-- Doug Larson


What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four
essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in
you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
-- Benjamin F. Fairless

[DocW]

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
-- Francis Bacon


To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Siren Kierkegaard


You have forgotten who you are and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself. You
are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the circle of
life.
-- Lion King,

[DocW]

We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the
reason for the journey.
-- Source Unknown



You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.
-- Macherbal



Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
-- Richard Hooker

[DocW]

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling... It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.... Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.'

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied..

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee.. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 'What does it mean, mother?'

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?'

Which one are we? Are we the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do we wilt and become soft and lose our strength?

Are we the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did we have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have we become hardened and stiff? Does our shell look the same, but on the inside are we bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or are we like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. Are we are like the bean, when things are at their worst, we get better and change the situation around us. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do we elevate ourselves to another level? How do we handle adversity? Are we a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May we have enough happiness to make us sweet, enough trials to make us strong, enough sorrow to keep us human and enough hope to make us happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; we can't go forward in life until we let go of our past failures and heartaches. When we were born, we were crying and everyone around us was smiling.. We need to live our life so at the end, we are the one who is smiling and everyone around us is crying.

May we all be the COFFEE!!!!!! !


Mrs Iffat Hassan

[DocW]

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Things do not change we do. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

[DocW]

Yesterday I was clever and I wanted to change the world, today I am wise so I am changing myself

Rumi

[Clarity]

oh so so love that story and this thread... its pure therapy. *sigh*

[DocW]

Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “Whoever does not argue when he is in the wrong will have a home built for him on the edge of Paradise. Whoever avoids it when he in the right will have a home built for him in the middle of Paradise. And whoever improves his own character, a home will be built for him in the highest part of Paradise.” [Tirmidhi]



Arguing with people is strongly discouraged in Islam. We are to state our point of view and then leave it at that. Nor are we to involve ourselves in matters that do not affect a person’s deen. Note that a person is to shun argument whether he is in the right or whether his stand is wrong. Both get houses built for them in Paradise. But since the person who knows that he is right finds it more difficult to leave the argument and let things be, he/she is promised a greater reward.

Arguing with people rarely gets anyone to change their minds. It usually only produces defensiveness and creates ill feelings between people. The issue becomes a matter of one’s ego and makes it more difficult for a person to change their stance. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) loves to have Muslims live harmoniously with each other. When we try this hadith out in practice -- we will see that our relations improve with people and that we have greater peace of mind.



Mrs Iffat Hassan