WORDLY WISDOM

In the movie Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino who plays a blind retired general asks a girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance to a magnificent tango. (Al Pacino plays the blind general so convincingly you would be amazed at his acting powers .I saw an interview in which he was asked how could he play the character so accurately and he replied that he did not focus his eyes on anything, but he just put it through his glace so as to make it look like he was blind!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in what each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".

Congratulations for getting to the end of this message. There are many who would've stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this "globalized world”.

Stumbled on this poem somewhere…… reproducing it below…

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don't give up though the pace seems slow--

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up,

When he might have captured the victor's cup,

And he learned too late when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far,

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Don't Quit --- Author Unknown

As a post script reproducing some excellent points from the book “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho……real pearls of wisdom here…..

* "When you want something, all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it."

* "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." (The Old King)

* "At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fates. That's the world's greatest lie. Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." (Melchizedek, the Old King)

* "There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness." (The Old King)

* "Don't think about what you've left behind" (The Alchemist)

* "It's not often that money saves a person's life." (The Alchemist)

* "It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."

* "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."

* "The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself."

* "If I am really part of your dream, you will come back one day." (Fatima)