10 Principles Of Life

Stop and ask yourself today, "How do I really feel about myself? " Before you answer read these ten principles.
(1) Never think or speak negatively about yourself; that puts you in disagreement with God.
(2) Meditate on your God-given strengths and learn to encourage yourself, for much of the time nobody else will.
(3) Don't compare yourself to anybody else. You're unique, one of a kind, an original. So don't settle for being a copy.
(4) Focus on your potential, not your limitations. Remember, God lives in you!
(5) Find what you like to do, do well, and strive to do it with excellence.
(6) Havethe courage to be different. Be a God pleasure, not a people pleasure.
(7) Learn to handle criticism. Let it develop you instead of discourage you.
(8) Determine your own worth instead of letting others do it for you. They'll short-change you!
(9) Keep your shortcomings in perspective - you're still a work in progress.
(10) Focus daily on your greatest source of confidence - the God Who lives in you !

Inspirational Thoughts

1. Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all people gathered & only one boy came with an umbrella THAT'S FAITH
2. Example of the feeling of a one year old baby. When you throw him in the air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him THAT'S TRUST
3. Every night we go to bed, without any of assurance of being alive the next morning but still we set the alarms in our watch to wake up. THAT'S HOPE.
© Athar Kash

Standing Up

Baby giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson rather early in life. A lesson that all of us would do well to remember. The birth of a baby giraffe is quite an earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its mother's womb, some eight feet above the ground. It shrivels up and lies still, too weak to move. The mother giraffe lovingly lowers her neck to smooch the baby giraffe. And then something unbelievable happens. She lifts her long leg and kicks the baby giraffe,
sending it flying up in the air and tumbling down on the ground. As the baby lies curled up, the mother kicks the baby again and again until the baby giraffe, still trembling and tired, pushes its limbs and for the first time learns to stand on its feet. Happy to see the baby standing on its own feet, the mother giraffe comes over and gives it yet another kick. The baby giraffe falls one more time, but now quickly recovers and stands up.
Mama Giraffe is delighted. She knows that her baby has learnt an important lesson: Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on your feet.
Why does the mother giraffe do this? She knows that lions and leopards love giraffe meat. So unless the baby giraffe quickly learns to stand and run with the pack ? it will have no chance of survival.
Most of us though are not quite as lucky as baby giraffes. No one teaches us to stand up every time we fall. When we fail, when we are down, we just give up. No one kicks us out of our comfort zone to remind us that to survive and succeed, we need to learn to get back on our feet.

A Beautiful Way Of Looking At Things

A Father was reading a magazine and his little daughter every now and then distracted him. To keep her busy, he tore one page on which was printed the map of the world. He tore it into pieces and asked her to go to her room and put them together to make the map again.
He was sure she would take the whole day to get it done. But the little one came back within minutes with perfect map……When he asked how she could do it so quickly, she said, “Oh…. Dad, there is a man’s face on the other side of the paper….. I made the face perfect to get the map right." She ran outside to play leaving the father surprised.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
There is always the other side to whatever you experience in this world. Whenever we come across a challenge or a puzzling situation, look at the other side…. You will be surprised to see an easy way to tackle the problem.
  © Athar Kash

Bitterest Enemy

"Verily, your bitterest enemy is your self which is contained by your flanks, having been created an enjoiner to evil, inclined to mischief, and a dodger of good; and you are under orders to fight it and make it worship your Lord by force, chasten it by worship and by leaving desires. And if you neglect it, it strays and rears up and takes control of you, not giving you the reins after that. If you persist in chastising and admonishing it, it might respond and rise to the rank of the accusing (reproaching) self; then if promoted from the accusing self, it becomes the contented, and joins the servants of God, satisfied and fulfilled."
- Imam al-Ghazali
  © Athar Kash

The Heart Of A Teacher

A young man, a student was taking a walk with a professor who was known for his kindness. As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day’s work.
The student turned to the professor, saying: “Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind bushes, and wait to see his confusion when he cannot find them.”
“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are rich and can give yourself much greater pleasure this way . Put a coin into each shoe, and We watch to see how the discovery affects him.”
The student did so and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. He was absolutely astonished . He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around him on all sides but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin. His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving thanking some unknown hand which would save his sick wife and his children who were without bread.
The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears.
“Now,” said the professor, “are you not much better pleased than if you had played your wicked trick?”
The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before:
‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
 © Athar Kash

A call

A call came to the soul…from a higher realm, saying: Come up! Do not sit below like dregs!...No one on this journey, remains so long apart, from his home and former friends!... Why do you not adorn your soul with wisdom? Every breath of wisdom worths more than hundred journeys afar…not a kind of wisdom that is a filler of conversations, a kind of wisdom which turns the soul into God-seeing soul!...
(Rumi Ghazal 1898)
© Athar Kash

20 Very Best Motivational Quotes

1. Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
2. Michael Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
3. Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
4. Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
5. Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
6. Luigi Pirandello
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
7. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
9. Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
10. Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
11. T. S. Elliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
12. Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
13. Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
15. Peter F. Drucker
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
16. Norman Vaughan
Dream big and dare to fail.
17. Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
18. Elbert Hubbard
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
19. Nora Roberts
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
20. Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
© Athar Kash

Love

When you love others without any materialistic mindset,
you will find the whole world flowing in Love towards you.
 © Athar Kash