Love Your Life...

Image by Faves as Selfportraits via Flickr                       Loss and gain, disrepute and fame, Praise and blame, pleasure and pain – These things are transient in human life , Inconstant and bound to change. The mindful wise one discerns them well, Observant of their alterations. Pleasant things do not stir his mind And those unpleasant do not annoy him. Eliminated and abolished. Aware now of the stainless, griefless state, He fully knows, having gone beyond. Extract From Book: Numerical Discourses of the Buddha . An Anthology of the Suttas from the Aήottara Nikāya Translated and edited by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikku Bodhi Related articles Phenomenal Woman Don't Live In Darkness; Move Toward the Light Five Bodies and Eight Vargnas Coming Together to Make Difference with the Networking Love Will Find Out The Way Share |

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.  ~Robert Schuller 

  “Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it.  We learn only from failure.” - Kenneth Boulding

  Do not think of what you do not have; Instead, appreciate what you have and can still have. Do not think of things lost; Instead, value what you still have and may yet find. Do not cry over spilled milk; Instead, rejoice in what was left. Do not think of what you are not; Instead, be humble with what you are and can still become. Do not think of what others say you are; Instead, concern yourself with what you affirm to be. Do not think of the hours and days past; Instead, look eagerly to times that are yet to come. Do not think of what you failed to do; Instead, think of those that you were able to do and can still best do. Do not think of mistakes committed; Instead, count the things you did right. Do not think much of the pain you have caused; Instead, plan for ways to make amends. Do not think of the sufferings you now bear; Instead, look to the comfort when relief draws near. Do not consu