A SMALL TRUTH TO MAKE LIFE 100% \n\nIF \nA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\nEQUALS\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26\n\n\nHard Work \nH+A+R+D+W+O+R+K\n8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%\n\nKnowledge\nK+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E \n11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96% \n\nLove\nL+O+V+E\n12+15+22+5 = 54%\n\nLuck\nL+U+C+K\n12+21+3+11 = 47% \n( don't most of us think this is the most important ??? ) \n\n\nThen what makes 100% ?\n\nIs it Money ? ... NO ! ! !\nM+O+N+E+Y\n13+15+14+5+25 = 72%\n\nLeadership ? ... NO ! ! !\nL+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P\n12+5+1+4+5+18+19+9+16 = 89%\n\n\nEvery problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our attitude.\nTo go to the top,\nto that 100%, \nwhat we really need to go further... a bit more... \n\nATTITUDE \nA+T+T+I+T+U+D+E \n1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%\n\nIt is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes OUR Life 100% ! ! !\n\nATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!\n\nChange Your Attitude …\nAnd You Change Your Life ! ! !\n\nNow that you know the answer…\nWHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT ?
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I thoroughly believe that attitude is 100% of any endeavour and have always lived my life around that concept. Now I have MATHEMATICAL PROOF!!! LOL!!! This is great! Besides being cute, this is very profound! Thank you for showing it to us!!
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I could never top this excellent answer that I received for a similar question (from YahooGuru4u), so I quote it here verbatim. Of course, I ruled out the answer "42."\n\n"Darn you. You sucked me in with your question, then I get here and I see 42 is already taken. Now we really have to go on a trip and I'm without a towel. Well ok, let me see what I can come up with, shooting from the hip as it were.\n\nMy best guess is that the meaning of life, the universe and everything is "MORE". The quest for more seems to be at the center of all living creatures. All organizations be they organic or manmade seem to be trying to get "more". The universe itself is expanding, so I am told. As for "everything" anything that should happen to get created instantly becomes part of everything, so even everything seems to crave more. Yes I think I'll stick with the answer "MORE". What? Wait, just a minute, my wife is yelling something from the kitchen......\n\n(long pause).....Hello I'm back again. My wife says the answer is "LESS" She says life is always moving toward death which by it's very nature is less life. The universe is made up of a limited quantity of everything and it is being used up also, so you have less now than in the past, and as for "everything" Well since everything gets used, you must have less of everything now than there was in the beginning.\n\nSo my wife and I will agree to disagree and say that the answer is: More or Less, or possibly More and Less. I guess that's pretty much the same as 42 because 4 is more and 2 is less. I'm getting a pain just behind my left eye from all of this thinking.\n\nWhat!? Just a minute, my wife is yelling again!........ I'm back. She said I'd better get off this Yahoo Answers thing and come to the table if I want any dinner. I told her that I'll never have to come back to Yahoo Answers again because I just pretty much summed up life, the universe and everything. I'd better hurry if I want more to eat and less yelling. So long and thanks for all the fishes."\n\nHappy Answering,\n~Tia~\nLive from the big, purple brain\nhttp://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html\nASK YOUR QUESTIONS, CALL THE BRAIN - 212-382-3592
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Look to this day, \nFor it is life, \nThe very life of life. \nIn its brief course lie all the varieties\nAnd realities of your existence; \nThe bliss of growths\nThe glory of action, \nThe splendor of beauty; \nFor yesterday is but a dream\nAnd tomorrow is only a vision, \nBut today well lived makes \nEvery yesterday a dream of happiness \nAnd every tomorrow a vision of hope.\n\nBhagavat Gita\n\n\nMay you have a most wonderful wedding !!!\n\nSend me some pix ;-)
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A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. \n\nThe professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."\n\nThe professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.\n\n"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.\n\nThe pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else---the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.\n\n"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."\n\nOne of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
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They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.\n\nThe real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.  \n\nWaste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.\n\n  Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills\n\n"Your money, or your life."  We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does\n\nMoney can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.  \n\nThe waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.  ~M.W. Harrison\n\n\nThey deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.  ~Kahlil Gibran\n\n\nI'm so poor I can't even pay attention.  ~Ron Kittle, 1987\n\n\nIf you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.  ~Henry Fielding\n\n\nIt frees you from doing things you dislike.  Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.  ~Groucho Marx\n\n\nWe have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.  ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present \n\n\nWe live by the Golden Rule.  Those who have the gold make the rules.  ~Buzzie Bavasi\n\n\nA man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne\n\n\nThere are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.  ~Robert Benchley\n\n\nWealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.  ~H.L. Mencken\n\n\n...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon.  In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.  ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?\n\n\nWhen I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.  ~Oscar Wilde\n\n\nThe economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.  ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann\n\n\nMoney is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.  ~Carl Sandburg\n\n\nI am having an out of money experience.  ~Author Unknown\n\n\nIf women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.  ~Aristotle Onassis\n\n\nMoney is much more exciting than anything it buys.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966\n\n\nThe only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.  ~Oscar Wilde\n\n\nEarth gets its price for what Earth gives us,\nThe beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,\nThe priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,\nWe bargain for the graves we lie in;\nAt the devil's booth are all things sold,\nEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;\nFor a cap and bells our lives we pay.\nBubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking,\n'Tis heaven alone that is given away,\n'Tis only God may be had for the asking,\nNo price is set on the lavish summer;\nJune may be had by the poorest comer.\n~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848\n\n\nMoney is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.  ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851\n\n\nMoney is the last enemy that shall never be subdued.  While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.  ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912\n\n\nMoney will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.  ~Henry Wheeler Shaw\n\n\n \nWhen you let money speak for you, it
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[aside: try not to judge me by what i'm gonna say-- because everything I say is gonna be from my point of view and what I believe.]\n\nfirstly, it's awesome that you're seeking help-- because in a sense-- that's you fighting back.\n\n... i wish i was smarter or more eloquent in the things i say. but i'll give it a shot.\n\nyou said you've become so used to thinking about this everyday that you don't know what you'd be like without it. how are you with it? like-- do you feel a peace when you think of death?\n\nand if so-- is that because you'd be in a better place? or because you just wouldnt be here in this place.\n\nhonestly-- i just wanna say: i dont know why you feel this way. i'm sorry that you do. but you were meant for more than this. in everything I believe inside, you were made with a purpose by a good God who loved you. but there's also satan, whose main goal is just to steal from this good God the very thing He loves-- His creation.\n\nso to me-- the fact that you've struggled with this since you were so young means to me that you were made for something amazing. just because--why else would satan work so hard to take your life and very purpose away if he didn't feel like you'd be something great in life.\n\ni really am grateful you're still here. and that you've been so strong. and i'm sorry if i trivialized anything or offended you in any way.\n\nim not trying to say "oh. you feel this way? ok-- just means you'll grow more and be better off in the end" >> no not at all. \n\nim so sorry that THIS was the hand you were given. but i really do believe that your life is something to be celebrated. that you have a purpose. i believe that for all of us. \n\ni too struggled with something since i was so so young.and it really did become my identity. i struggled with it for about 15 years, until it was like one day-- God just gave me an answer i didnt even know i was looking for.\n\nfor some reason i asked myself that day-- 'why me? why have i struggled with this since i was... so SO young?' \n\nand i felt so strongly on the inside for the first time in my life God saying-- 'because-- satan knew your potential. and what you could be if you got it right'\n\nand it was actually in that moment that i was freed. i really was. it just-- angered me that the devil cost me 15 years of my life-- but i realized that day that the rest of my life was meant for something. that what the freakin devil meant for evil-- God can use for good.\n\nand so that's what He did in me. i teach kids now... and im pretty much trying to help them deal with what i had to. \n\nwhat im trying to say with all this rambling (sorry about that by the by)... is that your life. matters so much. please-- don't end it. and keep up the good fight. because you were meant for something more than what death has to offer.
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I Made A Difference in the Life of A Child\n"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what\nmy bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the\nkind of clothes I wore. But the world may be a different place\nbecause I made a difference in the life of a child."\n\nI searched various sites, but it appears to be by "Anonymous" since everyone seems at liberty to use it anywhere.
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Part 1: Nothing\nPart 2: I don't automatically believe everything that is written.\nPart 3: Agreed and  not only is it nonsense, it's not going to happen and the less-aware amongst us perpetuate the myth as they cannot face the reality of life and death without believing in false promises. They may not ever learn the truth, which is a great pity.
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A poem on LIFE! (just for u!)\n\nA Life Poem \nLife can seem ungrateful and not always kind. \nLife can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind... \nLife can be blissful and happy and free... \nLife can put beauty in the things that you see... \nLife can place challenges right at your feet... \nLife can make good of the hardships we meet... \nLife can overwhelm you and make your head spin... \nLife can reward those determined to win... \nLife can be hurtful and not always fair... \nLife can surround you with people who care... \nLife clearly does offer its Up and its Downs... \nLife's days can bring you both smiles and frowns... \nLife teaches us to take the good with the bad... \nLife is a mixture of happy and sad... \n\nSo...  \n\nTake the Life that you have and give it your best... \nThink positive, be happy let God do the rest... \nTake the challenges that life has laid at your feet... \nTake pride and be thankful for each one you meet... \nTo yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall... \nTake each day that is dealt you and give it your all... \nTake the love that you're given and return it with care... \nHave faith that when needed it will always be there... \nTake time to find the beauty in the things that you see... \nTake life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free... \nThe idea here is simply to even the score... \nAs you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush\n\nA penny saved is a penny earned\n\nA stich in time save nine\n\nWatch your pennies anf the dollars will take care of themselves\n\nA watched pot never boils\n\nAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure\n\nBetter to remain silent than open your mouth and remove all doubt\n\nI won't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent\n\nYou can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey\n\nThe ship is safer in the harbour, but it is not meant for that\n\nYou can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you pick your friends nose
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"Don't buy your death, buying life is hard enough"\ni suggest this one, but out of yours, i think a, but still, consider mine...good luck on your project...
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I don't know who said it, or the actual quote but it went along the lines of, "If you have 1 true friend, then you have succeeded in life".  I have plenty of true friends and I already feel like my life has mattered (whether for the better or worst I cannot say).  I remember a discussion we had in a class once in which a teacher said, no matter what we do, we will not matter in the large scale of things.  I disagreed of course and stated of course we change history.  For example, what if the man who invented the atom bomb were never born?  What if the people who researched penicillian had different paths and what if certain events, such as a teacher telling a student to get back in line and the student following through never occured?  Had that teacher not been there, the students' world could be very different.\n\nSo, I think everyone's life does matter in some way shape or form, unless you have no interaction with anyone at anytime your life does matter.  And even if you don't, in some way you are still a part of the earth, even when you die and become the ground again.
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Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham \n\nA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ---Winston Churchill\n\nA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ---Francis Bacon\n\nAbility is nothing without opportunity.   ---Napoleon Bonaparte\n\nAging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ---Betty Friedan\n\nAll’s grist that comes to the mill.  ---Proverb\n\nAny ritual is an opportunity for transformation.   ---Starhawk\n\nBe an opener of doors.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson\n\nBe cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too.   ---Al Batt\n\nCircumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. ---Mario Andretti\n\nCivil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ---Mary Frances Berry\n\nCruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. \n---George Eliot\n\nCultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.  ---Robert Millikan\n\nDemocracy does not guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity. ---Irving Kristol\n\nDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. ---William Butler Yeats\n\nDon’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.    ---Lily Tomlin
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Hello happylife22842.. :)\n\nJesus said this:\n\nMatthew 5\n\n3  ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n \n4  ¶ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Is. 61.2 \n \n5  ¶ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Ps. 37.11 \n \n6  ¶ Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Is. 55.1, 2 \n \n7  ¶ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.\n \n8  ¶ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Ps. 24.4, 5 \n \n9  ¶ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.\n \n10  ¶ Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: 1 Pet. 3.14 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n \n11  ¶ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 1 Pet. 4.14 \n \n12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets 2 Chr. 36.16 · Acts 7.52 which were before you.\n \n\nThe Salt of the Earth \n13  ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Mk. 9.50 · Lk. 14.34, 35 \n \n\nThe Light of the World \n14  ¶ Ye are the light of the world. Joh. 8.12 ; 9.5 A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.\n \n15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; Mk. 4.21 · Lk. 8.16 ; 11.33 and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.\n \n16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 1 Pet. 2.12 \n \n\nJesus' Attitude toward the Law \n17  ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.\n \n18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Lk. 16.17 \n \n19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.\n \n20  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n \n\nJesus' Attitude toward Anger \nLk. 12.57-59  \n21  ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; Ex. 20.13 · Deut. 5.17 and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:\n \n22  but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.\n \n23  Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee;\n \n24  leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.\n \n25  Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.\n \n26  Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.\n \n===========================================================\n\nMatthew 5\n\nLove for Enemies \nLk. 6.27-36  \n38  ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: Ex. 21.24 · Lev. 24.20 · Deut. 19.21 \n \n39  but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.\n \n40  And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take aw
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The quote is that "The unexamined life is not worth living". What he meant was that we should all question our lives and things in it. If you do not question things, you just go along with everybody else..nothing advances. If you do not question things..there would be no advances in science or anything else......if someone didn't ask how you could improve  writing your report, and figure it all out, we'd still be writing on caves. If you stop asking how, or why etc. you remain the same..nothing changes or gets better...
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oh now this one i love\n\na quote from Conversations with God\nthe author starts by saying\n\n "wow you inspire me " \nGod replies .... well if God cant inspire you , who in the hell can ?\n\nauthor " are you always so flippant ? "\n\nGod " I meant that not as flipancy ... read it again "\n\nauthor " oh i see ! "\n\nGod " however it would be ok if i were being flip though wouldnt it ? "\nauthor " i dont know , i am used to my God being a little more serious "\nGod " well do me a favour and dont try to contain me .. by the way , do yourself the same favour "\n\nthere is more to this but i loved this part ..... this is what God is to me xx
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realize that anyone can change for any given reason\n\nrealize that there is good in all of us if we will only let it shine\n\nrealize that life is too short to continue to waste time hating or berating\n\nrealize that you are blessed with all kinds of people in your life who only help you become stronger in some form\n\nrealize that God has a purpose for each of our lives\n\nrealize that you could gain a really good friend from a former bad enemy\n\nrealize but for the grace of God - there go I!