What life is all about!!!!

LIFE

Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many friends you have
Or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, 
or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who you have kissed, 
It's not about sex. 
It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have.
Or what kind of car you drive.
Or where you are sent to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to. 
It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown 
Or if your skin is too light or too dark. 
Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, 
or how smart standardized tests say you are.
It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you." 

LIFE JUST ISN'T.

But, life is about who you love and who you hurt. 
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. 
It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon. 
It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. 
It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to. 
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. 
It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way 
that could have never occurred alone. 
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about.

What life is all about!!!!

LIFE

Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many friends you have
Or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, 
or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who you have kissed, 
It's not about sex. 
It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have.
Or what kind of car you drive.
Or where you are sent to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to. 
It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown 
Or if your skin is too light or too dark. 
Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, 
or how smart standardized tests say you are.
It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you." 

LIFE JUST ISN'T.

But, life is about who you love and who you hurt. 
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. 
It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon. 
It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. 
It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to. 
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. 
It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way 
that could have never occurred alone. 
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about.

Luckier Than You Think

If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining - what would this tiny, diverse village look like? That's exactly what Philip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found.

57 would be Asian 
21 would be European 
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere 
8 would be African 
52 would be female 
48 would be male 
70 would be non-white 
30 would be white 
70 would be non-Christian 
30 would be Christian 
89 would be heterosexual 
11 would be homosexual 
6 people would possess 59 percent of the entire world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States. 
50 would live in sub-standard housing 
70 would be unable to read 
50 would suffer from malnutrition 
1 would be near death 
1 would be pregnant 
1 would have a college education 
1 would own a computer

Haaa this is Value of Time

There is a bank that credits your account with $86,400 each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening, whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day will be deleted. What would you do? Draw out all of it, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost whatever of this you have failed to put to good use. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow." You must live in the present, on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!

The clock is running. Make the most of today.

 

To realize the value of TEN YEARS, ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of FOUR YEARS, ask two, now single, high school sweethearts.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of NINE MONTHS, ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

 

Treasure every moment that you have! You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

And remember that time waits for no one. As the saying goes, "Time and tide wait for no man." Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

 

Live The Present

Many of us spend most of our time thinking of the past, brooding on the bad experiences, dwelling on past laurels, or planning, looking forward to and worrying about the future.

That was bad, I wish it didn't happen. I shouldn't have done that. That was good, wish I could have it again. Wow it was wonderful, let me live through it in my mind again and again. Something good is coming, can't wait. Once it comes, life would be better. Oh dear something bad is approaching, what should I do, how should I handle it. Things are fine now, will something go wrong soon? The list goes on.

In doing all that, we are making the big mistake of losing what is the most important of them all - the present.

What's past is over. We can't change it. Enjoy the sweet memories. Let the bad experiences be a valuable lesson to us. Learn from them.

Plan for the future. But don't dwell too much on it. Life is unpredictable, and we have no idea what is going to happen next. When it comes, it comes - the future will take care of itself.

What really matters is the present, because we are living it RIGHT NOW. Make the fullest use of it. As some people say, the past is history, the future is a mystery. And now? Well, it's a gift, that's why it's called the present.

Living Life

Never welcome something you cannot entertain.
Never open your doors if you mean to close your heart.
Never accept love if you can't give yourself in return.
Never start a relationship you know you want to end.
Two of the shortest words in the English language are "YES" and "NO" and yet they are often the ones that require the most thought before they are said.
Some thoughts are better left unsaid, some feelings are better left kept to yourself, but love has its way of expressing itself despite the silence.
Always say you are sorry to people you have wronged.
Remember, it is not always what you say that hurts, but the words that you don't.
Never abandon an old friend.
You will never find one who can take his place.
Friendship is like wine, it gets better as it grows older.
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but, He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
Disappointments are like road humps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards. Don't stay on the humps too long. Move on!
When you feel down because you didn't get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because God is thinking of something better to give you.
When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means.
There's a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard.
You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.
Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.
Five rules to be happy.
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
What the heart gives away is never gone........
It is kept in the hearts of others.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.
Secure a special place in your heart. A certain place only you can enter.
For there will come a time when you need to find yourself and only your heart will show you the way.
The measure of love is when you love without measure.
In life there are very rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and loves you in return.
So once you have it don't ever let go, the chance might never come your way again.
People are made to be loved and things are made to be used.
That's why there's so much chaos in the world........people are being used and things are being loved.
You cannot finish a book without closing its chapters.
If you want to go on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages of life. Every commitment is a choice.
Non-choosers and half-choosers are a puzzle to themselves and to others. They live in the immature condition of wanting to "play everything by ear."
Every once in a while ask yourself the question: If money weren't a consideration, what would I like to be doing?
It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride.
We spend so much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.
When you truly care for someone, you don't look for faults, you don't look for answers, you don't look for mistakes.
Instead, you fight the mistakes, you accept the faults, and you overlook excuses.

 

Great Thoughts

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

You can only go as far as you push.

Actions speak louder than words.

Your childhood may not have been perfect but, remember, nobody's was.

Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.

Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it. 

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.

Some people make the world special just by being in it.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

True friendship never ends. Friends are forever.

Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Most people walk in and out of you life, but only friends leave prints in your heart.

Every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.

To the world, you may be one person but to one person, you may be the world.

Instructions For Life

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorise your favourite poem.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want.
4. When you say, "I love you," mean it.
5. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives, or by the life they were born into.
12. Teach yourself to speak slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
14. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Call your mother.
16. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
18. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
22. Marry a person you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be even more important.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books. Television is no substitute.
27. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
28. Trust in God but lock your car.
29. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
31. Don't just listen to what someone is saying. Listen to why they are saying it.
32. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
33. Be gentle with the earth.
34. Pray or meditate. There's immeasurable power in it.
35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
36. Mind your own business.
37. Don't trust anyone who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss.
38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. It is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
41. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
42. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
44. Live with the knowledge that your character is your destiny.
45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Food For Thought

Never welcome something you cannot entertain.

Never open your doors if you mean to close your heart.

Never accept love if you can't give yourself in return.

Never start a relationship you know you want to end.

Two of the shortest words in the English language are "YES" and "NO" and yet they are often the ones that require the most thought before they are said.

Some thoughts are better left unsaid, some feelings are better left kept to yourself, but love has its way of expressing itself despite the silence. Always say you are  sorry to people you have wronged. Remember, it is not always what  you say that hurts, but the words that you don't.

Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his place.

Friendship is like wine, it gets better as it grows older.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for  the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Disappointments are like road humps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards. Don't stay on the humps too long.  
Move on!

When you  feel down because you didn't get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because God is thinking of something better to give you.

When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means.

There's a purpose to life's events, to teach you  how to laugh more or not to cry too hard.

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest  is up to the person to realize your worth.

Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.

Five rules to be happy.

1. Free your heart from hatred. 
2. Free your mind from worries. 
3. Live simply. 
4. Give more. 
5. Expect less.

What the heart gives away is never gone... It is kept in the hearts of others. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks. Secure a special place in your heart. A certain place only you can enter. For there will come a time when you need to find yourself and only your heart will show you the way.

The measure of love is when you love without measure. In life there are very rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and loves you in  return. So once you have it don't ever let go, the chance might never come your way again.

People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. That's why there's so much chaos in the world... people are being used and things are beingloved.

You cannot finish a book without closing its chapters. If you want to go on, then you have to leave the  past as you turn the pages of life.

Every commitment is a choice. Non-choosers and half-choosers are a puzzle to themselves and to others. They live in the immature condition of wanting to"play everything by ear."

Every once in a while ask yourself  the question: If money weren't a consideration, what would I like to be doing?

It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend so much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.

When you truly care for someone, you don't  look for faults, you don't look for answers, you don't look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes, excuses.

A Reason, A Season Or A Lifetime

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a god-send, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, your desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered, and now it is time to move on.

When people come into your life for a season, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Regardless of whether the people in your life are here for a reason, a season or a lifetime, go show them that you love them!