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= = = = =__**The Story Of A Generous Business Partner**__= One day, a very wealthy man was walking on the road. Along the way, he saw a beggar on the sidewalk. The rich man looks kindly on the beggar and asked, “How did you become a beggar?” The beggar said, “Sir, I’ve been applying for a job for a year now but haven’t found any. You look like a rich man. Sir, if you’ll give me a job, I’ll stop begging.” The rich man smiled and said, “I want to help you. But I won’t give you a job. I’ll do something better. I want you to be my business partner. Let’s start a business together.” The beggar blinked hard. He didn’t understand what the older man was saying. “What do you mean, Sir?” “I own a rice plantation. You could sell my rice in the market. I’ll provide you the sacks of rice. I’ll pay the rent for the market stall. I’ll even give you food allowance everyday for the next 30 days. All you’ll have to do is sell my rice. And at the end of the month, as Business Partners, we’ll share in the profits.” Tears of joy rolled down his cheeks. “Oh Sir,” he said, “you’re a gift from Heaven. You’re the answer to my prayers. Thank you, thank you, thank you!” He then paused and said, “Sir, how will we divide the profits? Do I keep 10% and you get the 90%? Do I keep 5% and you get the 95%? I’ll be happy with any arrangement.” The rich man shook his head and chuckled. “No, I want you to give me the 10%. And you keep the 90%.” For a moment, the beggar couldn’t speak. When he tried to speak, it was gibberish. “Uh, gee, uh, wow, I mean, huh?” He couldn’t believe his ears. The deal was too preposterous. The rich man laughed more loudly. He explained, “I don’t need the money, my friend. I’m already wealthy beyond what you can ever imagine. I want you to give me 10% of your profits so you grow in faithfulness and gratitude.” The beggar knelt down before his benefactor and said, “Yes Sir, I will do as you say. Even now, I’m so grateful for what you’ve done for me!” And so that was what happened… He Forgets Where The Blessings Came From Each day, the beggar—now dressed a little bit better—operated a store selling rice in the market. He worked very hard. He woke up early in the morning and slept late at night. And sales were brisk, also because the rice was of good quality. And after 30 days, the profits were astounding. At the end of the month, as the ex-beggar was counting the money, and liking very much the feeling of money in his hands, an idea grew in his mind. He told himself, “Gee, why should I give 10% to my Business Partner? I didn’t see him the whole month! I was the one who was working day and night for this business. I did all this work! I deserve the 100% profits!” A few minutes later, the rich man was knocking on the door to collect his 10% of the profits. The ex-beggar opened the door and said, “You don’t deserve the 10%. I worked hard for this. I deserve all of it!” And he slammed the door. If you were his Business Partner, how would you feel? Friend, this is exactly what happens to us… God Gave Us Everything, God is Our Business Partner God gave us life—every single moment, every single breath, every single second… God gave us talents—ability to talk, to create, to earn money… God gave us body—eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet, heart… God gave us mind— imagination, emotions, reasoning, language… So need to give back Our Business Partner something in back by helping the Needy People.
 * __ Thought for the day __**

//The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."//

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." - // B. B. King // “Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.” - // Robert A. Heinlein // "I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time." // - Brian Andreas // "Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." - // Abraham Lincoln // "It is important to ask our children the question "Why?" While their younger years are filled with this pondering question, we ourselves need to make the time to understand their perspective, too." "Offering a young child solace in your embrace is one of the most comforting feelings in the world---for you, too." “Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.” - // Mary Kay Ash // “Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.” // -Garrison Keillor // “Children are our most valuable natural resource.” - // Herbert Hoover // "True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force." - // Dorothy Day // "Happy will the house be in which relations are formed from character." - // Ralph Waldo Emerson // "Concentrate on: What you can do, not what you cannot do // ." - Unknown // "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - // Maya Angelou // "I am your student. Care for me, teach me, help me to be a good person. I will remember you forever." - // Pat Kushen, student poet // "Diving in with enthusiasm helps us make a bigger splash." "Our job is to join our children in discovering who they are." - // Stephanie Marston // “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” - // Abigail Van Buren // “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” - // Virginia Satir // "Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart." - // Basil Rathbone // If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside // ." - Faith Hill // "There is a difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is a changing emotion. Joy is a choice you make each day." "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - // John Fitzgerald Kennedy // "Why is it so easy to fight for your principles and yet so difficult to live up to them?"  "Until you know yourself there is little point in trying to know others."  "Don't be influenced by external pressures. Start to value yourself for who you are and what you are. No more. No less." "There is an ocean, and a forest, and a lane within us all. Places of shade, and light fantastic, and all the time we were seeking to be taken out of ourselves there is a paradise waiting within "Don't blame the past for making you unhappy, nor set conditions for future happiness. Stop and look around you. This is your life. Now. Enjoy." To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands."- // Anne-Sophie Swetchine //

"The advantage goes to those who keep their eyes open."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - // Malcom Forbes //

"Quality doesn't just happen. It requires intention, effort and skill."

"A child's self-esteem grows when a mother offers her honest appreciation and approval of a child's help."

"The right attitude turns obstacles into opportunities to shine."

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." - // Marian Wright Edelman //

"In every child is the ability to accomplish something great. All they need is a loving push." "Today is a gift and tomorrow is uncertain. Make today--not tomorrow--a day to start working toward what your heart truly desires." "Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate "Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?" // - César Chávez // "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." - // Dan Rather // "What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become." - // Joseph Chilton Pearce // "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - // Napoleon Hill, Pioneer of Personal Achievement Philosophy // "The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people." - // K. Patricia Cross // "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else". - // Judy Garland // "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - // Anais Nin // Thought for the day: "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear." - // Jawaharlal Nehru // "Life is a constant cycle of destruction and healing. Always has been and always will be. The wisest of us are patient whatever the situation and happy in the knowledge that healing or calm will follow." "Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous." - // Confucius // "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - // George Washington Carver // "A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet." - // Lao-Tzu //

"Children learn to smile from their parents." - // Shinichi Suzuki //

"It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong." - // Martin H. Fischer //

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." - // Eartha Kitt // "If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men // ." - M. Montessori // "Treat your belief as your guide. Then, it will be yours and become part of your life." Thought for the day: "Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others." - // Martin Luther King Jr. // "Small things, done with great love, bring joy and peace." - // Mother Teresa // "Our chances for success grow when we refuse to stop trying." "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - // Melody Beattie // "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage." - // Henry Ward Beecher // "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable."- // Pat Riley // Thought for the day: "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - // Joseph Addison // "The possibilities are unlimited when we allow ideas to flow freely." "You must pay in the past to receive in the future." - // Taylor Simpson // "What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become." - // Joseph Chilton Pearce // "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." - // Frances Willard // "Good thought and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettle (weeds)." - // As a Man Thinketh // "Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. - // Unknown // "When you put faith, hope, and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world." - // Zig Ziglar // "There isn't a ruler, a yardstick, or a measuring tape in the world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you." "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."- // Oliver Wendell Holmes // "Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." -- // Anthony Trollope // "The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." - // Ralph Waldo Emerson // "Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."- // Henry Ford // "Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them."- // Henry S. Haskins // "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - // Thomas Jefferson // "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others." - // Audrey Hepburn // "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." "There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential" - // Rusty Berkus // "Students come to us each year with dreams of what they will become. Our challenge--our sacred task--is to keep these dreams alive and to make them ever more real and attainable. Though the dreams to us may seem too lofty or too far from reality, it is not for us to judge. We must encourage students, support their quest, and lift them to touch and grasp their dreams. Who is to know which will be the next peacekeeper, inventor, or world leader? Only if we keep the dreams alive and build hope and aspiration will they be preserved. After all, our miracle is to make the impossible possible for each of those we teach." - // The MASTER Teacher // "Reading requires no special talent or unique brain development. Any child who can see well enough to distinguish one face from another in a photograph and who can understand the familiar language of family and friends has the ability to learn to read." - // Frank Smith // "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - // Ralph Waldo Emerson // "There are wide-eyed little people who believe you're always right; and their eyes are always opened, and they watch you day and night. You are setting an example every day in all you do, for the little ones are waiting to grow up like you." - // Author Unknown // "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - // Ralph Waldo Emerson // "He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death." - // Mark J. Ottaviani // "We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us." // - Billy Graham // "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." - // Lao Tsu // "You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" - // Zig Ziglar // "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."- // Abraham Lincoln // "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."- // Patricia Neal // "If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" - // Mark Houlahan // "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." "No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself." // - Conrado I. Generoso // "You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" - // Zig Ziglar // "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."- // Sir James Barrier // "A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. BE A CARRIER." - // Tom Stoppard // "Life must be lived moment by moment. Each moment carries a message, a lesson for us." - // Dr. David Reynolds // "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form." - // Eric Jung // "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." - // B. F. Skinner // "Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." - // Goethe //

"All the wonders of the world are within us yet we remain determined to seek them without."

Practice isn't the thing you do once you are good. It is the thing that makes you good. "Sometimes I wonder--what kind of example am I leaving my children? What will they write on my tombstone or say about me after I'm gone...Hopefully my epitaph will read something like this: "She hated folding laundry but liked to fold us in her arms." - // Dena Dyer //

“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” - // Jim Rohn //

“Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.” --- // Pamela Glenconner //

"Love droops; youth fades. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's love outlives them all." -- // Oliver Wendell Holmes //

"Do not under estimate the Power Of Thoughts. Just as water has the power to shift and mold earths landscape,  your thoughts have the power to shift and mold the landscape  of your life" - // Chuck Danes // "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other causes combined." // John Abbott // “The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern — will never be enough.”- // Lyndon Baines Johnson // “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” - // Charles R. Swindoll // “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” - // Confucius // "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." - // Albert Schweitzer // “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” - // James Thurber // “Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.” // -Marian Wright Edelman // Thought for the day: "When you are looking in the mirror, you are looking at the problem. But, remember, you are also looking at the solution." – // Anonymous // "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." // [|Maya Angelou] // "Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this: You are the only one responsible for your own actions." - // Holly Lisle // Teaching is likened to a conversation in which you listen carefully to the speaker before you reply. - // Marie Clay, 1985 // "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." - // George Washington Carver // "Each of us has different talents, different dreams, and different destinations. Yet we all have the power to make a new tomorrow." - // Unknown // "Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have." - // Unknown // Challenge of the day: Find something good in everyone. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." – // Albert Schweitzer // “Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.” - // Stephen Covey // Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness. The happiest people don't have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have

Three things in life that, once gone, never come back: • Time • Words • Opportunity

Three things in life that are most valuable: • Love • Self-confidence • Friends

Three things in life that are never certain: • Dreams • Success • Fortune

Three things that make a man/woman: • Hard work • Sincerity • Commitment

Three things in life that can destroy a man/woman: • Substance (Drugs/Alcohol) • Pride • Anger

Three things in life that, once lost, are difficult to build back: • Respect • Trust • Friendship

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