Hope...

Am discovering hope - a belief in a positive outcome. Here are a few lines helping the cause :)......

Barack Obama:

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today -- with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. [January 3, 2008]

Kalidasa:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Robert Fulghum:

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

MARATHON :)

"The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon."
.......Rob de Castella

The marathon analogy has been oft mentioned to me in recent times by friends. Sure enough in the present scenario in my life , its nothing but the truth.
Along the way there are a lot of good things I have picked up...

• Just start walking on the path and watch it unfold
• Have faith...its dark but there is a hand thats guiding you through it..feel it and acknowledge it :)
  
• God's plan is always the best!
  
• Keep on pushing and the wall will move
• If the road seems too tough and u want to crib always remember that its ur choice ...u r running out of choice
  
• Do simple things well, all difficult things will sort themselves out
• Dream big dreams and watch them come true...all of them :)- no compromises!
  
• Visualization and hope ....always work :)

Its said that God speaks to us through our friends...must be true after all :)

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