Sunday, January 13, 2008

Happiness is all a state of mind

We always want to be happy in our life. In the name of search for happiness we read various books, tips and consult with experts as if they give us happiness they already have with them. Definitely, these helps us little. But, actually happiness is a state of mind.

Most people believe that happiness develops automatically itself. However, in fact this is not correct psychologically and according to the researchs and most psychologists believe

that you will be happy if you feel you are happy. It is you who should make you happy and you can as well. By birth, some people are always happy and positive. They manage to turn any uneasy if happened in their life into happiness quickly and easily. Here, fortunately others can also practice at it like our daily exercise.

We take various medicine to kill the unhappy moments which gives us only short term relieve and cause many side effects in after long period of time. Rather, psychologically developed happiness remains for long period of time. You can do some practice or adopt some habits which helps you to be happy.


  • Most people become unhappy when they are not able to do what they wanted to do. In such situation, we can remain happy if we are satisfied with what we get and where we reach. Everything in the past happened for certain reason. If we become unsatisfied and depressed , this brings us to even more mental and physical difficulties.

  • Be satisfied with who you are and what you have got.Understand the reality of this world in everything.

  • Whatever you may doing, do with your full focus and attention. If you can do interestingly and happily, nothing is boring to do.

  • Do not make unnecessary and negative comparison with others. Such comparison will create feeling of unsatisfaction with your achievements and your life.

  • Always think positive and feel that you will be happy tomorrow and your life will be interesting if only you are happy today.

How to choose rose of different color for different occasion

Roses is the obvious answer when it comes to the question of gifts in most cases. Roses make great idea, may it be a small or big occasion. It is necessary to know the meaning of different colors of rose. But unfortunately, many people don't have this knowledge. In some case, if the receiver know the meaning of the flower s/he is getting and sender gives the wrong flower, it may give bad impression of the sender on receiver.

The month of love, February; more accurately Valentine's day is coming soon. So, it is important to choose the right rose for that particular occasion. Here are some tips:


  1. give red roses to show Love and respect.


  2. Show appreciation or gratitude with pink roses.


  3. share joy with yellow roses.




  1. to say you understand, you're sympathetic or you are sorry if someone is ill, disappointed or bereaved, send light pink roses.


  2. send a dozen white roses when you want to connote secrecy, innocence and/or purity.


  3. to convey friendship, give pale roses of any color.


  4. announce a new engagement by wiring two roses together to create a single stem ans use it as decoration for an engagement party or send it to the couple.


  5. choose rose buds to recognise beauty, youth and innocence.


  6. convey desire with coral and orange rose.

If the recipient doesn't know the significance of the roses' color, the sentiment expressed in an accompanying card will convey the color's meaning. If you remove the thorns, it means you care but remember that leaves are symbol of hope.


At last, choose carefully and enclose a note describing how and why you made your selection. Make your gift the most memorable they received by using appropriate color of rose.

Motivational Sayings - Great Ones


















Why read motivational sayings? For motivation! You might need a bit, if you can use last year's list of goals this year because it's as good as new. All of us can benefit from inspirational thoughts, so here are ten great ones.

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - Napoleon Hill

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

"A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life." - Celia Luce

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it" - Art Williams

Motivational Sayings - Attitude

Attitude "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone

"Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson

"A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances." - James Allen

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

These are quotes that mean something to me. Hopefully one or two of them are also inspiring to you. If not, maybe they will motivate you to create your own motivational sayings.

Steve Gillman has been studying brainpower and related topics for years. For more on a Better Life Through Brain Power, and to get the Brain Power Newsletter and other free gifts, visit: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com

Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure

James Dale Davidson: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

Red Sanders: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Sandra Bartky: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Mickey Rooney: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Napoleon: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Beverly Sills: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Mary Pickford: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

George S. Patton: Motivational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
You're never beaten until you admit it.

The above list of quotations is page 18 of a collection of motivational and inspirational quotes on Overcoming Failure.

Motivational Sayings-2

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank


The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle


No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin


If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers


Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes


The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana


It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth


Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing


Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown


Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford


It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein


To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka


Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland


For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa


Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving


A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson


Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden


The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.


Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb


It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi


Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale


You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail


The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale


There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome


You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker


The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris


Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis

Inspirational Quotes

Hopefully, these inspirational quotes will inspire you and those around you to achieve to the highest degree. Many of them provide an excellent basis for graduation and other speeches.

  1. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~Thomas Edison
  2. "Hitch your wagon to a star." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. "If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." ~Michelangelo
  4. "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." ~Mother Teresa
  5. "If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." ~Thomas Edison
  6. "All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." ~Walt Disney
  7. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss
  8. "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." ~Winston Churchill
  9. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau
  10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
  11. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." ~Goethe
  12. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
  13. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." ~Eddie Rickenbacker
  14. "Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there." ~David Zucker
  15. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein