There's no one like a Sister!!

Of course our mother's role in our life cannot be replaced by anyone else but a sister is more easy-to-approach kind of person because of her proximity to us and lesser generation gap.

What joy you feel when you fight with your sister or even talk to her for a while!It is said that girls develop more quickly in maturity than boys.No doubt that's why even a little sister can give you a lot of good advice.

Some quotes that stress on the importance of respecting and caring for your sisters:
(Source:quotegarden.com)

• Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.--Amy Li

• Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.--Alice Walker

• You can kid the world. But not your sister.--Charlotte Gray

• Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.--Vietnamese Proverb

• A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.--Toni Morrison

• My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. --Linda Sunshine

• When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will.--Author Unknown

• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. --Linda Sunshine

• The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.--Clara Ortega

• An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.--Pam Brown

• Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.--Jane Mersky Leder

• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. --Pam Brown

This quote reflects my state although I have awesome cousin sisters and brothers:

• I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. --James Boswell

That's why in India,we have special festivals that make the bonding between brothers and sisters even more stronger like Raksha Bandhan where a sister ties a knot of protection on her brother's wrist and prays for his well-being and prosperity while the brother takes a vow to protect his sister in turn, from all kinds of adversities.

So friends like many of those in the society who have already accepted the girl child go ahead and change your views about the girl child.For there's no one like a Sister!

Love all!!

The feeling that is inherent;that innate emotion dwelling in all of us and making us what we basically are(human)-Love 

Millions of pages have been written based on this in the form of poetry,novels,short stories,quotes,cinema and what not.It is worth all the efforts,isn't it?I haven't been in love with someone yet but I still know that whatever your family does for you is out of love,when you get scolded for your little mistakes or maybe blunders that is out of love,when you feel hurt to see someone less fortunate than you it is yet again compassion arising out of love.

Mother Teresa is a great and well-known example of a person who had love for mankind.It is not only her but all of us who possess this ability but somewhere we get lost and forget to listen to the voice of our heart thereby ending up hurting both ourselves and others.

Love is not possessiveness as some people tend to do with their loved ones.This instead creates resentment.

As rightly said by Paulo Coelho,"If you Love someone,you must be prepared to set them free."  

• Love cannot be felt by a person who is selfish or egocentric.It has to come out of selflessness,for selflessness is the essence of love--Me(This is my first ever quote!) 

Some wonderful quotes for you all:

• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.--Rumi

• And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.--Les Miserables

• The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller 

• The most important gifts you can give are your love,time and attention.Slow down,take time to smile and enjoy loved ones...life goes by way too fast.--Carla White

• Two of the most important things a person should bear in mind:Use things,not people;Love people,not things.--Unknown

• Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships--Jodie Foster

• Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.--Bryce Courtney

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.--Lao Tzu

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.--Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

• When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.--Leo Tolstoy

• Everyone says that loves hurts, but that’s not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuse these things with love but reality, love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.--James Baldwin

• The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.-- Henry Miller

And here's the final one for today:

• We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.-- Orson Welles

Lovely lessons from life...

Well no amount of words or posts can be sufficient to describe the importance of the most precious Life that we have got!Just think of the nine crucial months that your mother went through and the pains that she took to bring you into this world.

Here comes the first lesson:
Respect your Mother and Father more than anything else in the world!

What to do with our lives?I would just say Live It For the Experience.Take everything that you encounter as an addition to the already gained lessons..What better way to understand these lessons than from the quotes of people who have realized them?Some lessons that I would like to share with you all today:

• Often those who aren't the easiest to love are the ones who need it the most.(source: http://paidtoexist.com/33-of-lifes-most-powerful-lessons/)

• A life without cause is a life without effect.--Barbarella

• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.--Dennis Wholey

• There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.--Deepak Chopra

• To know the road ahead, ask those who are coming back.--Chinese proverb

• Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.--Goethe

• The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.--Ben Stein

• The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.--Theodore Roosevelt

• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.--Theodore Roosevelt

• Dreams don’t work unless you do.--John C. Maxwell

• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.--Marquis De Condorcet

And the final one for today:

• Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.--Unknown

I will be coming with more sometime later :)

Read on...

(Today I have formed a link between all my quotes;something new for you all.So read them one after another and my message will be clear)

There might be many of us who just tend to pass on their lives waiting for a miracle to happen and make their lives more meaningful,more productive and worth-living.Most of us just exist,we do not live.In fact,I observed that in my 20 years of life,I have hardly achieved what I had dreamed of achieving in my past.In my case,it is lack of pro-activity that is doing the harm.

People speak highly but when it comes to putting their thoughts into actions many of us lack behind.So friends,next time you do any thing BE PROACTIVE and not REACTIVE.Your life is in your hands,make it happen.

And yes do not forget yourself in the process of running behind success because:

• Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.--Austin O'Malley 

• How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.--Charles Caleb Colton 

• That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.--Paulo Coelho,The Zahir