Greed!!...Where does it ends

There is a story about a wealthy farmer who was once offered all the land he could walk
on in a day, provided he came back by sundown to the point where he started. To get a
new start, early the next morning the farmer started covering ground quickly because he
wanted to get as much land as he could. Even though he was tired, he kept going all
afternoon because he didn't want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to gain more
wealth.

Late in the afternoon he realized the condition he had to fulfil to get the land was to get
back to the starting point by sundown. His greed had gotten him far enough. He started
his return journey, keeping an eye on how close he was to sundown. The closer it got to
sundown, the faster he ran. He was exhausted, out of breath and pushed himself beyond
the point of endurance. He collapsed upon reaching the starting point and died. He did
make it before sundown. He was buried and all the land he needed was a small plot.
There is a lot of truth in this story and a lesson to be learned. Whether the farmer was
wealthy or not, any greedy person would have ended the same way.

Timeless Quotes Part-4

ATTITUDE
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call fourth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. - Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitude of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

BEGINNINGS
Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. - Horace

Omnium rerum principia parva sunt." [Everything has a small beginning.] - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. - James Allen

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain

BEHAVIOR
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" - Victor E. Frankl

BELIEF
Whether you think you can or think you can't—you are right. - Henry Ford

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

Belief that a problem can be solved is essential to its solution. - Nicholas Pratt

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. - Robert Collier

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you would like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain that you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger woman or man,
But sooner or later, those who win
Are those who think they can.

Choices

If live gives us rocks, don't sit back and blame life for that.
At every turn of our life, it gives us choices which we fail to recognise.

So when life gives you rocks,
It's still your choice whether to build a wall or to build a bridge.

Timeless Quotes Part-3

ANSWERING
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?" Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

ANXIETY
Do not . . . hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. - Samuel Johnson

APPEARANCE
Keep up appearances; The world will give the credit for the rest. - Charles Churchill

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. - English proverb

APPRAISAL
It's no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. - Virginia Woolf

Let us take men as they are, not as they ought to be. - Franz Schubert

If you want to judge a man, take a look at his enemies. - Harry Golden

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I rarely change it. - Margaret Thatcher

ARGUMENT
Audi partem alterum.[Hear the other side] - Saint Augustine

ASKING/SEEKING
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb

Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you;
For every one that asketh receiveth;
And he that seeketh findeth;
And to him that knocketh it shall be opened. - Jesus of Nazareth