Friday, January 28, 2011

Love

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to...


Mistake

Learn to admit your mistakes before someone exaggerates the story..

Success Mantra

This is the Biggest success Mantra --- I am Always Greater than my difficulties

" Willingness + readiness + ability = destination."

Success With Positive Attitude

" Success is waiting for those who are ready to persist and face the obstacles in the path with positive attitude."

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Between the lines

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines that they don't read the lines..

Unhappiness

Most of the times unhappiness is due to wrong expectations..

Life is too short

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly, and forgive quickly..

Impossible

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion..

Road

The road to a fiend's house is never long...

Silent

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter..

Success

There is only one definition of success..
To be able to spend your life in your own way...

Peace

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it...

सत्य और झूठ

आलोचना में रहे सत्य और प्रशंषा में रहे झूठ  को यदि मानव समझ पाता तो हमारा  इतिहास ही कुछ और होता.....

I

"I" is one of the simplest letter in the Alphabet and smallest word in the Dictionary.
Don't make it the biggest and heaviest word in your vocabulary...

Beuatiful Heart!!

Search for a beautiful heart but not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good but good things are always beautiful...

Listen

Hearing is merely picking up sound vibrations, listening is making sense out of it...

Experience

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes..

Friday, January 21, 2011

जिंदगी

सैकड़ों बहाने थे और ठिकाने थे डूबने के जिंदगी में मेरी ,
तैर कर बाहर निकल आने का बहाना तो बस' एक तू ही था' ......मधु

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Give Love Be Love

The Words Of Mother Teresa

The common theme of Mother Teresa words reflect her work with the lonely, the sick, the dying and the destitute. Her unending love came through in her work and in her words.

She was forever compassionate towards the loneliness felt by “wealthy” people, who on the surface had it all. She was also very concerned about the breakdown of families.

Here is a collection of her words which say it all:


  • Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  • I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  • If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  • Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

  • Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents, parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

  • It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

  • If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  • Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

  • Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

  • Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  • Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

  • Peace begins with a smile.

  • Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  • The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

  • The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

  • The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  • The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

  • There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

  • Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  • Good works are links that form a chain of love.

  • In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa’s message of love and hope lives on - it is now up to all of us to continue her work and make the world a better place. 

by George Wachirah --- Kenya  

INNER SELF (Demanding More From One's Self)

INNER SELF (Demanding More From One's Self)
By Miles Patrick Yohnke

In my life I've met many a person, many an artist. Unfortunately most never reach their goals. I asked myself why? Over the years I have been watching, studying, and analyzing how it is that some people make it and others don't.

One of the reasons I believe some achieve their goals is their inner self.

The people I've been privileged to watch succeed have an intensity about them. They demand everything from themselves. They show up everyday, in fact every moment, and they are accountable to themselves. Everything they do has a hard statement, and they know when to stop. Very impressive.

I asked an artist recently why he wasn't where he wanted to be. His reply was, "It seems I want to learn, maybe you might say that learning was what I really wanted to do, more than achieve."

We have to stop telling people what we are going to do, what we have not yet accomplished, and tell them instead what we have accomplished. Only in this way can we be accountable for our actions. I am not accountable for achievements I have not yet reached, but I am what I have accomplished.

What steps are you going to take today to achieve?

Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Mike Murphy

Think, Rethink, Challenge Yourself

Between 2006 and 2009 Canadian writer Miles Patrick Yohnke wrote many pieces and among them were these three. For the first time now you'll find them together here at MotivateUs.com with a foreword by Mike Murphy.


"Drawing from his own personal challenges in life, Miles Patrick Yohnke has been teaching others along his journey to not accept second best and demand more of themselves in the way they live their lives and treat their fellow man. By speaking to others about his many inner struggles, Miles has been nurturing changes in attitudes and accountability. By demonstrating and teaching his many adaptation and coping mechanisms, to countless people throughout the years, he has been trying to change mainstream mindsets one mind at a time.

He is a tireless advocate for truth and excellence in the arts, film, music, sport, and human interaction. One may ask themselves why would he do this and be so dedicated to these and all their causes? Miles is a very deep thinker and a very spiritual person.

The answers are numerous but the one underlying common thread that weaves his life together is he never wants another to endure the abuse he went through as a child with learning challenges whom was ridiculed. To come to grips with this, he dove deep into human emotion and discovered many of the reasons others ridicule.

Through this learning process, he also uncovered why people act negatively towards themselves and others and began to challenge others and inspire them to look deep into their souls and get in touch with the real person they are, not the person whom media, corporate hypnotics, and greed are trying to keep under control to be spoon-fed worthless values and thus buying into illusional euphoria.

Miles wants people to dig deep into their being. To question who they are and what is their purpose in life. By doing so they will be on the road to true self-worth which will help to shape the world into a better place. This in turn will help them achieve their goals both personally and professionally. This covers love, family, career, and most of all hope. Hope for so many lost souls who are so much in need of self-discovery.

If there is one thing that Miles would be proud of as an accomplishment or as a legacy, it would be that he inspired people to think and that he made his parents proud by leading a useful life by serving others. Please enjoy these three pieces he has written and let these challenge you to be a better person. Thank you!"

Stand Up For Positive Change And Do Something For Others

Author:Miles Patrick Yohnke

Excess And Excuses: Lest We Forget

It hurts me to write this article. But I must write it.

I live in Canada, which is seen as a rich country. The country to the south of us, the United States, also falls into this category.

As a writer, I've been blessed that my work has touched so many lives in so many corners of the world. I receive many letters. An enormous amount of them come from places where it isn't as good as we have it here. Yet these letters are filled with hope and optimism.

Terror and fear are daily occurrences in countries like India and [PNG] Papua New Guinea j or in many numerous countries on the continent of Africa. Yet when I read the letters from people living in these and many more places, their passion is overwhelming. You also learn a great respect for their rich, individual heritages.

You look at Papua New Guinea and discover it has over 800 languages. Each province has more than 20 different languages. Not all of them have the same dialect and the only language that they all can speak and understand is called "Pidgin English."

800 languages means that they also have this number of different customs and traditions. All just loaded with culture and character.

North America is the richest of nations, yet, for the most part, our culture is one of excess and excuses.

Excess: We eat too much. We drink too much. We spend far too much.

Excuses: We point fingers. We blame others. We dwell in dysfunction.

We are rich with excess and excuses.

For so many, we have a hard time speaking one language. We have bigger houses and bigger broken homes. Divorce is the norm. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We've learned how to make a living but not a life.

It's time that we stop our spoiled, self-centered ways. Time we look in the mirror at our fat selves. Weak with character, high with cholesterol.


  • Time we wake up.

  • Time we learn that life isn't about 'things'.

  • Time that we use our rich resources for positive change.

  • Time we give back.

  • Help others.

  • Time our lives are filled with purpose.
We often take for granted our Canadian and American values and institutions, our freedom to participate in cultural and political events, and our right to live under a government of our choice. The Canadians and Americans who went off to war in distant lands went in the belief that the values and beliefs enjoyed by us were being threatened. They truly believed that "Without freedom, there can be no ensuring peace and without peace no enduring freedom."

We must remember what they fought for. If we do not, the sacrifice of those lives will be meaningless. They died for us. For their homes and families and friends. For a collection of traditions they cherished. And a future they believed in. They died for us.

They died for this?

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Now this is something to tweet about. This is something to post on Facebook.

The Secrets To A Joyful Life

Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. Success is failure turned inside out.

We need to find a deeper meaning in life. Our duty, as artists, is to tap into those notes that resonate in us all. Not to sleep walk through life, like an outpatient program; but to strike a chord. We can't catch kindness in a net or a gun. When kindness is given to you, it's by choice. One must adopt an attitude of gratitude.

We can become prisoners of self. One must dig tunnels; escape one's own mind. We get just this one life. We have to stop doing time but live lives like we planned in our youth. No matter where we are, how old, we can always reach our dreams. All your life you're going to be judged, what matters is keeping your soul intact and making work that matters. We have to stop telling people what we are going to do, what we have not yet accomplished, and tell them instead what we have accomplished. Only in this way can we be accountable for our actions. I am not accountable for achievements I have not yet reached, but I am what I have accomplished.

It's when we stop forcing it ... trying to impress, that we really shine through; we start having strong people like us, just fall into our laps - and those that are weak are empowered by the tone of our voice. Get off your knees and do. Words without action is death. One has to stop sitting in the back, waiting. Come to the front. The front row of life.

A joyful life. My mother told me at a very young age, "Miles, we are placed on this planet to help others. Go out and help others." So, it is by her words that I try to shape and reshape my life. Yes, each day we will be challenged by indifferent people and for the most part it isn't their fault.

We are just so conditioned by life (media, society) to live like caveman or barbarians (non-contemplating spoon-fed society). To live like the subjects in mindless beer commercials. Their ideals perhaps "you deserve better, more than another, you are the most important." After a while we believe it.

Brainwashed. Let's have "fun." Fun? Fun is a limiting word. Why would one limit their existence to only this? Is that all we appreciate for the life we've been given?

Life is a 24/7 celebration of the word itself (existence). So maybe one needs to replace the word "fun" (a word created by media to keep you down, to bait you, to sell you things, tell you what you need) to the word "joyful." Maybe we could be way happier if we lived a life that from each waking day till sleep time is joyful.

You get but one life. We are each only given one shot at getting it right in the long run. Find a job you love and you'll start to bring joy to yourself and all others in your life. Words are either negative or positive.

Could it be that all this time "fun" is really a negative word and "joy" a positive one? Perhaps a little rethinking is in order. 



Copyright© 2010 Miles Patrick Yohnke - All Rights Reserved.

Finding Love Again

How many times when going through a hard time do we hear someone say, "When the time is right this will change, that will happen, you'll meet Mrs. Right etc... ?"

I've heard it all my life, along with "when the student is ready the teacher will show up." Ya, that's a good one.

I've listened to all these catch phrases and have even used them on occasion with a slight belief in them but now let's rewind ten years.

Here is Bill sitting in front of his computer, just buried his wife, logged onto widow-net.com and dreading the approaching Christmas, with tears flooding his face as he stares across the room at his 3 year old daughter, wondering how he will be able to do it all with no help. Despair is all I can say my friends, utter and total despair.

I was told I could do it. My friend Jesse backed me up, yelled at me, did juggling acts and square dances to get me to see things clearly and understand what all the great ones have said before him.

And I remember hearing these catch phrases I talked about earlier and thinking maybe for you but this is ME and this is different. You don't understand, this is MY world crashing down; it's different than theirs.

Now let's fast-forward ten years. The child is now 13. I'm still here, still in business, and even back to my high school weight, well close.

And then when I least expected it, on November 7th meeting an old friend for breakfast, she showed up! They were right. All of them I had called nuts were correct and when the time was right she was sitting there and I was sitting there, and I looked at her and felt something I haven't felt in a very long time.

The date was set and we got together and things started falling in place. Mind you, we've hit some speed bumps but the time was right, and she showed up, and two people started falling in love, and we go forward and slowly melt our lives together looking after one another and caring.

I don't know where it's going from here and I wont even try to figure it out. I'm not a person who likes to look years down the road. No, I've found years down the road don't often work out and we might not be here tomorrow let alone years away so for right now, I look at today. I look at this morning and say how can I make her smile, what can I do to let her know at least for today she's the only woman in my life?

And then I do magic and try to make her day; I'll worry about tomorrow when it gets here.

So now it's Christmas and for the first time in ten years I'm not so heavy, not so sad. I'm actually looking forward to what lays ahead in my new found life as it slowly unfolds, this year, after a wonderful woman picked up the broken pieces of my heart and lovingly put it back together.

I will start my life's next chapter and do my best the do it with grace, honor and much love. God has blessed me a second time; I'm a lucky man.

The C.E.O. Story



A successful businessman was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.

Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next C.E.O..
I have decided to choose one of you."

The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued.

"I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next C.E.O.."

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.

Everyday he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however, he just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - he so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the C.E.O. for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened.

Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right.

He took his empty pot to the boardroom. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the C.E.O. arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back.

"My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown," said the C.E.O.. "Today one of you will be appointed the next C.E.O.!"

All of a sudden, the C.E.O. spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The C.E.O. knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"

When Jim got to the front, the C.E.O. asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story.

The C.E.O. asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is Jim!"

Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed.

"How could he be the new C.E.O.?" the others said.

Then the C.E.O. said,

"One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends

* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness

* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective

* If you plant hard work, you will reap success

* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation


So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"

--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ravichandran Bellie

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Rich

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing...

Good Person

Be a good person, but don't try to prove it..

Friday, January 14, 2011

लब-ए-खामोशी

 
हम तो वोह हैं जो सन्नाटों के सीनों को भी चीरकर मारते हैं किलकारियां -
हम भी तो देखें कि लब-ए-खामोशी आखिर कबतक सिले रहेंगे।

Thursday, January 13, 2011

रात गुजर जाती है

कितनी जल्दी ये मुलाकात गुजर जाती है
प्यास बुझती  नहीं बरसात गुजर जाती है
अपनी यादों से कहो इस कदर ना आया करें
नींद आती नहीं और रात  गुजर जाती है

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

कभी सोचा ना था

ख़ुद की निग़ाह में कोई कमीं ना थी अपनी वफ़ा में
बस यही ख़ता है उसकी नज़र से कभी सोचा ना था






Tuesday, January 11, 2011

जिंदगी

जिंदगी तो कब  कि हो चुकी खामोश
दिल तो बस आदतन धड़कता  है ...

जिंदगी

ये जिंदगी भी ना जाने कितने मोड़ लेती है, हर मोड़ पे नए सवाल देती है.
ढूँढते रहते हैं हम जवाब जिंदगी भर, जब जवाब मिल जाते हैं तो सवाल बदल देती है.

Peace

When you find peace within yourself, you can llive at peace with others..

Saturday, January 8, 2011

जनाज़ा

वक्त - ए- जनाज़ा उस की आँखों में नमी क्या देख ली हमने
कफ़न फाड़ कर एक बार फिर से जीने को दिल मचल उठा .....मधु

हमारा साथ

थाम लेते हम तो आकाश को भी अपनी इन हथेलियों पर ,
तुम ने एक बार जमीं पर हमारा साथ तो निभाया होता .....मधु

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Leadership

A group of sheep led by a lion will always defeat a group of lions led by a sheep....

Time

The greatest gift u can give someone is ur TIME, coz when u give someone ur TIME,u give them a portion of ur life that u will never get back.

Sermon

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible...

Extra mile

There is no traffic jams when you go the etra mile...

Happiness

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.....

Eyes

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see....

Life

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships..

Life

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.....

प्यार

प्यार पर बस तो नहीं है मेरा लेकिन फिर भी,
तू बता दे कि तुझे प्यार करूँ या ना करूँ ?