Life is an opportunity ...

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.
Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.
Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.