Golden Rules for Living

If you open it, close it

If you turn it on, turn it off

If you unlock it, lock it up

If you break it, admit it

If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can

If you borrow it, return it

If you value it, take care of it

If you make a mess, clean it up

If you move it, put it back

If it belongs to someone else and you want to use it, get permission

If  you don’t know how to operate it, leave it alone

If it’s none of your business, don’t ask questions

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

If it will brighten someone’s day, say it

If it will tarnish someone’s reputation, keep it to yourself.





: Anonymous

How to Make People Shun You

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anybody for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.


Do you know people like that? I do unfortunately; and the astonishing part of it is that some of them are prominent! Bores, that is all they are- bores intoxicated with their own egos, drunk with a sense of their own importance.


People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves. And “those people who think only of themselves, “Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, longtime president of Columbia University, said, “are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated,” said Dr Butler, “no matter how instructed they may be.”


So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems. A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.





:How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong,
As they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit –
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.


Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out,
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow –
You may succeed with another blow.


Success is failure turned inside out –
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit…!




: Anonymous

Don’t Tell Them They Are Wrong

I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.

Similarly, letting the other person feel that the idea is his or hers not only works in business and politics, it works in the family life as well.

The next time we are tempted to tell someone he or she is wrong, let’s remember old Socrates and ask a gentle question – a question that will get the ‘yes’ – ‘yes’ response.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient : “He, who treads softly, goes far….”

Don’t argue with your customer or your spouse or your adversary. Don’t tell them they are wrong, don’t get them stirred up. By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. Two thousand years ago, Jesus said : “Agree with thine adversary quickly.” Use a little diplomacy. Show respect for the other person’s opinion. Never say, “You are wrong.”

Who Is Successful

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons and
the affection of children;

To earn the approval of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give off one’s self without the slightest thought of return;

To have accomplished a task,
whether by a healthy child, a rescued soul,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with
Enthusiasm and sung with exaltations;

To know that even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded...




: Anonymous