Be at war with your vices; at peace with
your neighbors, and let every new year
find you a better man.

A loud voice of a man threatens a woman, but the silence of a woman shakes the consciousness of a man.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

बच्चे ऊँगली पकड़कर चलना सीखतें हैं,
माँ-बाप की,
बड़े होकर दुःख से भर देतें हैं,झोली उन्ही,
माँ-बाप की,
अलग सपने,अलग सोच,अलग होते हैं,
अरमान उनके,
उन्हें पता ही नहीं चलता,कितने आंसू भर देतें हैं,
आँखों में उनके,
नन्हे पौधे भी वृक्ष बनकर,देते हैं,छाया अपनी,
पर औलाद तो,करती है,हरपाल मनमानी अपनी,
और दिन-रात रौंदती है,सपने उनके,
भगवान से दुआएं मांगतें थकते नहीं,हाथ जिनके|

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Small minds talk about win, average minds talk about position, great minds talk about growth, but champions never talk, they just perform and the world talk.

Speech is silver but silence is gold.

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

The easiest way to change any situation is to change your point of view surrounding the situation. When you change your point of view, the situation around you

literally changes to match your new point of view.

Your point of view creates your reality, reality does not create your point of view.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Only those who treat happiness and sorrow alike can experience peace. Both sorrow and happiness are temporary and transient like day and night.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

  While you're hating your life just because you can't get what you want, remember that someone is praying to have a life like yours.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Apne gam ki numaish na kar
Apne naseeb ki azmaish na kar
Jo tera hai tere pas khud ayega
Roz usey paney ki khwaish na kar

Taqdir badal jayegi Apne aap hi ai dost
Muskurana seekh le wajeh ki talash na kar

A nice relation is not how long we been together, not how much we give or take, not how many times we talk. It's all about how we value each other.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Ritu Jain shared Lessons Learned In Life's photo.

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Take things always by the smooth handle.

Count your blessings instead of your crosses; Count your gains instead of your losses; Count your joys instead of your woes; ... Count your friends instead of your foes; Count your smiles instead of your tears; Count your courage instead of your fears; Count your full years instead of your lean; Count your kind deeds instead of your mean; Count your health instead of your wealth; Count on God instead of yourself.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. 

“Hope is the thing with feathers 
That perches in the soul 
And sings the tune without the words 
And never stops at all.” 

One cannot change the direction of the wind, but can always adjust his/her sail to reach destination. So we must try to adjust to the given situation to reach our goal.

Happiness is a decision,not a dependency.

A strong and positive attitude creates more miracles than any other thing because life is 10% how we make it and 90% how we take it. 

Laugh and the world laughs with you,cry and you cry alone.

Company of good people is like walking in a shop of perfumes. Whether you buy or not, you are bound to receive fragrance.

  There's no perfect life, but we can fill it with perfect moments. Stay happy.

. No one is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will always be alone in this world.

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."-

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Solve the problem or leave the problem. But do not live with the problem. 

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Give one grain to a poor man and God will give the mounds of his mercy.

Forgive others and God will forgive you.

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Forgive and forget all the ills of the world.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Time and smile are two critical things in life. Sometimes `time’ makes you forget how to smile and sometimes someone's `smile’ makes you forget time.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Fight with your strength, not with other’s weakness because true success lies in your efforts, not in other’s defeat.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

People will choose to blame their circumstances on fate or bad luck. Very few will admit its mainly the choices they have made.

Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you. So be yourself, you are the best!

किसी को कैसे दिखाऊ,
दुःख अपना,
उसकें चले जाने से,
जो टूटा सपना,
निर्मोही की तरह छोड़ गया,
रिश्ते-नाते सब तोड़ गया,
खेल-तमाशे सब खत्म हो गए,
रह गयी,बस यादें उसकी,
रुलाती हैं,सताती हैं,
वो अनकही बातें,
जो मुझसे करती थी,आँखें उसकी|

No bonds are as strong, or conversations as true,
as the ones that you have with your spirit and you.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Well wishers are like beautiful street lamps. They cannot make the distance shorter but they can lighten your path and make the journey easier.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only to be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.

When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wing, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives his master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when that last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there, by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true, even in death."

  Work for a Cause... not for Applause. Live life to Express...not to Impress. Don't strive to make your Presence noticed...just make your Absence felt...

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

While having a brain check up…
Doctor : I regret to tell you that you have a brain tumor.
Sardar : Yesss!!! (jumps in joy)

Doctor : Did you understand what I just told you?
Sardar : Yes of course, do you think I’m dumb?
Doctor : Then why are you so happy?
Sardar : Because that proves that I have a brain!

Love is beautiful because it's a feeling controlled by heart. But friendship is even more beautiful since it's a feeling that controls the heart.

  Live with no excuses, live with no regrets. When life gives you hundreds reason to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A drop of lemon juice can spoil gallons of milk. Similarly, a drop of ego can destroy the beauty of our virtues.

Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don't will find an excuse.

meethe lafz boliye, kyonki lafzo me jaan hoti hai: inhee se aartee, inhee se pooja, inhee se ajaan hoti hai:

If you miss an opportunity don't fill your eyes with tears. It may hide yet another opportunity lying in front of you.

The road to success is not straight. There is a curb called Failure, a loop called Confusion; speed bumps called Friends; red lights called Enemies;caution lights called Family. You will have flats called jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination; an engine called Perseverance; insurance called Faith, and a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success!!

कितना जानता होगा वो,
शक्स ,मेरे बारे में,
जो मेरे मुस्कुराने पर भी,
मेरी उदासी का कारण पूछता है,
मुझसे दूर होने पर भी,
जो सिर्फ,
मेरे बारे में ही सोचता है,
जिसका दिल,उसका होकर भी,
बस,मेरे लिए ही धरकता है|

To know when to make your point is important. And, to know when not to, makes good communication sense.

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Most of the things we desire are expensive. But the truth is, the things that really satisfy us are free. True love, joy, laughter and good relations.

Friendship is like the relation between hands and eyes.
When the hand gets hurt, the eye cries, and when the eye cries the hand wipes its tears.
Be careful when you do something…
U never know when it hurts someone with a broken heart…
Everyone hears what you say…
Friends listen to what you say….
But Best friends listen to what you don’t say ..

Two gifts of life:  `chance’ and `choice’. Chance to meet many people in life. Choice to select the best ones for life.

  Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Every second, minute, hour, day the thoughts which crosses your mind, with or without any awareness, gives shape to your life.

Anger is a negative emotion that hampers growth in life.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Courage isn’t always a Lion’s roar…It’s also the silence of an ant working patiently, persistently and never giving up.

LIFE is an `art of drawing’ without `eraser’. Be careful while taking any decision about valuable pages of life.

Nothing can beat a peaceful mind.

Sign of maturity is not when we start speaking big things but when we start understanding small things.

Relationships are like birds. if you hold tightly they DIE. If you hold Loosely, they FLY. But if you hold with care, they remain with you forever.

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Where there is love,there is life.

Greed is the inventor of injustice.

    Life gives two gifts…First is "Chance" and second is "Choice". Chance to meet many people in life. Choice to select the best ones for life.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“To carry his load without resting, not to be bothered by heat or cold and always be content: these three things we can learn from a donkey”

Every king was once a crying baby and every great building was once a map. It's not important where you are today, but where you will reach tomorrow.

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”

Smile is a source to win a heart, smile is a name of lovely mood, smile create greatness in personality.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Keeping someone in our heart is very easy,
but,
to be in the someone’s heart is very difficult.
So “RESPECT” the heart which “CARES” abt U

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Speech is silver,but silence is golden.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

   If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, there will be peace and growth.

Happiness is a misaddressed emotion. When you seek it for yourself, it is not easily found, but when you give it to others, it finds its way back to you.

No Matter How Many Times
The Teeth Bite the Tongue,
They Still Stay Together
In One Mouth.
Thats The Spirit Of
FORGIVENESS!!

1 Tree makes 1 Lack matchsticks,
1 Matchstick can burn 1 Lack trees.

Similarly 1 Negative thought or doubt can burn thousands of dreams.

So, be positive Always.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. A wise person knows how to do both.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

   Once Buddha was asked as what he gained through meditation?  He replied - nothing at all, but I lost impatience, anger, depression, insecurity and greed.

"Grandchildren are loving reminders of what we're really here for."

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Wife: Aap bahut mote ho gaye ho.
Santa: Tum bhi toh kitni moti ho gayi ho,

Wife: Main toh maa banne wali hoon!
Santa: Main bhi toh baap banne wala hoon.z

"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”

Reality is one dividable whole.

Happiness keeps you sweet, trial keeps you strong; Sorrow keeps you human, failure keeps you humble; Success keeps you glowing but only faith keeps you going.

“Every person has the power to make others happy.

Some do it simply by entering a room --

others by leaving the room.

Some individuals leave trails of gloom;

others, trails of joy.

Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;

others, trails of love and harmony.

Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;

others trails of faith and optimism.

Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;

others trails of gratitude and hope.

What kind of trails do you leave?”

   All fingers are not same in length, but when they bend all stand equal. Life becomes easy when we bend & adjust to all situations.

An old friend is like a mirror.

A plant blooms daily after shedding the flowers of yesterday. Let our happiness bloom daily shedding the sorrows of yesterday.

Life will always put stones in your way. It depends on you, what you build from them… a wall around yourself or a bridge to your dreams and destination.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend.

Successful people do not relax on chair. They feel relaxed with their work as worship. They sleep with their plans & dreams and wake up with a commitment.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

Don't think too much about your problems in life. These are just test papers set by nature, to see how much you learnt in his subject called 'LIFE'.

 Half the sorrows we earn by expecting good things from wrong people, and rest half we earn by detecting wrong things in good people.

Although water falls from a hill it never feels it has fallen, it rises to run as a river. Our glory in life is not to fall but to rise at every fall.

Prosperity rests upon a moral foundation.

रुको  और सुनो,

चिडियाँ  की चहचहाट,

कोयल की कूक,

किसी  के दुखी मन से उठती हूक,

महसूस  करो,

दर्द किसी का,

अपनों का अपनापन,

किसी सूने मन का सूनापन|

Having a smile on your face is good,but being the cause of other's smile is the best.

The greatest wealth in life is health.

You live only once,but if you do it right,once is enough.

सुख में तेरा शुक्र करू ,

दुःख में करू फ़रियाद,

जिस हाल में रखे तू,

हर पल करू तुझे,याद|

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

Blessed is the thought, which causes a contented smile.

Don't be happy for specific reason because that happiness ends with that reason; try to be happy without reason and you will be happy forever. 

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

Agar raasta khubsurat hai, to pata kijiye kis manzil tak jaata hai, lekin agar manzil khubsurat hai, to raaste ki parvah mat kijiye… bas chalte rahiye.

We work for making better tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes instead of enjoying it, we start thinking of better tomorrow. Happy today happier tomorrow.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

A knowledgeable person makes you realize how wonderful the world is but only a loving person makes you realize how wonderful you are in the world.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder. 

Negative thoughts and tensions are like birds. We can't stop them from flying around us but we can certainly stop them from making a nest in our mind.

Every little smile can touch somebody's heart. No one born happy but all of us are born with ability to create happiness.

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Normality is essence of life. If we become too emotional it’s hard to lead life & if we become too practical it’s tough to respect relations.

God is goodness.

If there is problem welcome it. Because problems give you dual advice: one you can know how to solve that and other how to avoid it in future.

रेत पर लिखकर ,अपनी ख्व्हहिशें 

खुद ही मिटाते रहे,

तुम्हे पता भी न चला,

की हम,अपने अनमोल आँसू ,

तुमपर जीवन भर लुटाते रहे|

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative indifficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

 Hope is one of greatest motivation to all of us because it's the magic that inspires us to keep trying, learning, loving and living.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

माता-पिता  ही श्रेष्ठ मित्र होते हैं|

That thorny path, those stormy skies,
Have drawn our spirits nearer;
And rendered us, by sorrow's ties,
Each to the other dearer.

Everything need steadiness to survive. That’s why negativity never stays around for long.

If you keep thinking of all the way in which others cheated you, fought with you, degraded you or angered you, your heart will forever be full of hatred. Learn to let go, and be happy.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Money says earn me.
Calendar says turn me.
Time says plan me.
Future says win me.
Beauty says love me.
But GOD, simply says, TRUST ME

 Two things define success in life –   The way you manage when you have nothing; and the way you behave when you have everything.

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." 

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The best inspiring music in the world is your own heartbeat. It gives an assurance that you will survive even when the whole world leaves you alone.

Crawling is acceptable. Falling is acceptable. Puking is acceptable. Tears are acceptable. Pain is acceptable. Injury is acceptable. Quitting is unacceptable

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

दिल के कितना करीब था,

वो,

दुनिया से जल्द ही विदा हो गया,

वो,

भोली  सी सूरत वाला वो ,नन्हा  सा प्राणी 

फुदकता रहता था ,दिन-रात 

ढेर सी खुशी  और सुकून देती थी,
उसकी  हर बात,

असमय आ गया था,काल का बुलावा,

उसे,

लाख  यत्न किये,पर कोई भी,न बचा पाया,

उसे|

Never let someone who adds very little to a relationship, control so much of it.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  `MISTAKE’ is most easy & difficult in life. It's easy to judge when others do it & difficult to realize when we do it.

“God is no faultfinder, always looking for things to condemn in us. He estimates us at our best, not our worst.”

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."

Like branches on a tree,
We may grow in different directions,
yet our roots remain as one.
Each of our lives will always be
a special part of the other.

Adjustment with right people is always better than argument with wrong people.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

माँ-बाप,
अपने बच्चों पर कर देतें हैं,
क्यों अपना जीवन न्योछावर,
न दिन देखते हैं न रात,
हर वक्त,उनके सुख के लिए,
रहते हैं,
कुछ भी करने को तैयार,
पर कुछ होनहार बच्चे,
अपने ही माँ-बाप को,
बूढ़े हो जाने पर,
लाचार होने पर,छोड़ देतें हैं मझधार|

If you can bring a smile on the face that makes you cry
You have embraced your true nature

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

“Stop living for other people & their opinions. Learn to value yourself & what you stand for."

 Strength grows when we dare, unity grows when we cheer, love grows when we share and relation grows when we care.

The glow of one warm thought is  worth more than money.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues.

The most successful person is not the one who has maximum wealth but the one who has most smiles and laughs in his life.....:)

Running away from a problem only increases the distance from the solution.

लब  खामोश थे,

पर रो रही थी आखें,

दर्द तो मौन था,पर 

चुभ रही थी,अपनों की आहें|

Happy Holi to all!

1.     Four looks of life:
(a)    Look back to get experience.
(b)    Look forward and see hope.
(c)    Look around and see reality.
(d)    Look within and feel confidence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Those we love do not go away, they walk beside us everyday.
Unseen , unheard , but always near.Sill loved , Still missed.

Carry A Heart that Never Hates,
    Carry a Smile that Never Fades.
    Carry a Touch that never hurts.
    Carry a Friendship that Never Fails.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

रातभर दर्द से कराहते रहे आप,

और दिल रोता रहा हमारा,

आंसू निकलते रहे आपके,

और दुःख बढ़ता गया हमारा,

यह कैसी बेबसी है,हमारी 

जो कम न कर पाए,दर्द आपका 

आप ही तो हो,हमारे जीने का सहारा|

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.  

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

If you are right,never be angry,

If you are wrong,let others be angry.

"The Key to Love"


"The key to love is understanding ...
The ability to comprehend not only the spoken word,
but those unspoken gestures,
the little things that say so much by themselves.

The key to love is forgiveness ....
to accept each others faults and pardon mistakes,
without forgetting, but with remembering
what you learn from them.

The key to love is sharing ...
Facing your good fortunes as well as the bad, together;
both conquering problems, forever searching for ways
to intensify your happiness.

The key to love is giving ...
without thought of return,
but with the hope of just a simple smile,
and by giving in but never giving up.

The key to love is respect ...
realising that you are two separate people, with different ideas;
that you don't belong to each other,
that you belong with each other, and share a mutual bond.

The key to love is inside us all ...
It takes time and patience to unlock all the ingredients
that will take you to its threshold;
it is the continual learning process that demands a lot of work ...
but the rewards are more than worth the effort ...
and that is the key to love."

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.