LIFE ………………………

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life." How?

* Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

* Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.
* Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
* Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

* Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
* Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.
* Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
* Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time.
* The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
* Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.
* Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
* Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
* Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way.


Life, life is a dream -The dream of our existence,Sweet ecstasy or bitter visions.We breathe and think –In consequence we liveBut what is lifeWithout death’s lugubrious being?Is death the end of the dreamWe call “life”And the beginning of our trueNature?The bridge betweenLaughter and tears,Paradise and hell,Existence and non-existence.

This is our life:An endless row of voicesRepeating Hamlet’s obsessive question:To be or not to be?Where is the end andHow far is the beginning?


If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disasterAnd treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you have spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
And if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are goneAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will, which says to them: “Hold on!”If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more- you will be a Man, my son!

- Rudyard Kipling