"These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth! Therefore Keep your horses and chariots, dancing And music, for yourself. Never can mortals Be made happy by wealth." - Katha Upanishad

"Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying." - Harry Anderson

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." - Theophrastus

"Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts." - Ted W. Engstrom

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Shri. P. Rajagopalachari, President, Shri Ram Chandra Mission -http://www.sahajmarg.org 

At bedtime in the burrow, Moz was squished and squashed by sleepy rabbits. “Oh no!” he tutted. “Crumplings! Move over, Tam.” Tam squeezed over, then folded her arms around Moz using him as a hot water bottle.

“Too hot!” muttered Moz. “Too many rabbits!” So out into the night he went. “What are you doing out here, Smallest Bun?” asked Albatross, swooping down.

“There’s no room,” snuffled Moz. “And Tam is always squashing me.” “But she’s your favourite sister!” “It doesn’t stop her squashing me,” said Moz.

So, to cheer him up, Albatross told Moz about the land of the North Star, where there was sky space and snow space. “No rabbits there!” sighed Moz. “I wish I would come with you to the frozen North.”

“Hop on, then, Smallest Bun,” Albatross said. Moz squeaked as Albatross lifted into the air. Under the moon and over the wind she flew. As she soared high, high, higher, Moz held out his paws like wings.

“I’m flying!” he cried. “Hold tight! It’s the North Star!” Albatross shouted. From the North Star came a wild tornado of snow and before Moz could take hold of Albatross, he had toppled into the storm. Swept on the wind he tumbled and rolled... down... and down... to land puff! In a snowdrift.

Moz was all alone and for a moment he was afraid. Then he looked around at the empty white space and shook himself with excitement. “No squish!” he cried. “No squash!”

Moz danced solo in the snow. He skated and skimmed and threw snowballs, but then whoosh! He was slipping down an ice slide, going faster and faster. Moz skidded to a stop. Oh no! There were rabbits everywhere! As he opened his mouth to protest, as the other rabbits did to – but the only sound was Moz’s tiny squeak.

“Mirror rabbits!” he gasped. These weren’t real rabbits, just reflections in the ice. Moz was in an ice cave, an ice hall, an ice palace! It was as big as space and as quiet as silence. And there was no one there but him.

In the mirror walls Moz saw himself like a king, his fluffy grand with ice crystals. Moz made a cool, roomy snow-nest.

“No nest-sharings!” he pronounced and lay royally down to sleep. When Moz woke, his fluff was frozen and he was cold to the bone. Shivering in his lonely bed, he thought about his snugly sister Tam, squeezed into the nest with all the cosy night-snufflings of his family. Even his tears froze. How he longed to go home!

So, out of the palace he crawled, slipping and slithering up the ice slide until he came out under the open sky where the stony moon shone.

“Albatross!” shouted Moz. “Where are you?”

There was no answer, only the empty creaking of the ice. But there! A feathery whisper on the wind. Moz looked up and saw wide wings. It was Albatross!

“Smallest Bun!” she said, relieved. “I’ve been looking for you everywhere!”

She swung Moz on to her back and gratefully he nestled into her warm down, thinking only of home. Back in the nest, Tam rolled over.

Moz was wonderfully squished and squashed; he was gorgeously crumpled and crammed.

He was Tam’s hot water bottle. He snuggled into her fluff and, with a sigh, he fell to sleep.

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen." - Ted W. Engstrom

"Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top - that is what quotes are...the cream of our learning!" - Zig Ziglar

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren G. Bennis

"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasgow

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

"If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek." - Ken Blanchard

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality, the last is to say "Thank you." In between the two, the leaders must become a servant." - Max De Pree

"They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest management principle in the world is: the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done." - Michael LeBoeuf

"Excellence is...caring more than others think is wise; Risking more than others think is safe; Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expecting more than others think is possible." - Winston Churchill

"You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within." - Bob Nelson

"Quality is never an accident: It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - William A. Foster

"Values are critical guides for making decisions. When in doubt, they cut through the fog like a beacon in the night." - Robert Townsend

"A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it should be." - Jack Welch

"Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect." - Robert Half

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." - Zig Ziglar

"To lead the people, walk behind them." - Lao Tzu

Life is Like That

A Prayer Upon Waking

Dear God, so far today, I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, and I haven't lost my temper.

I haven't been grumpy, nasty or selfish, and I'm really glad of that!

But in a few minutes, God, I'm going to get out of bed, and from then on, I'm probably going to need a lot of help.

Thank you! Amen.