Success is Simple

What is Success?

Success is accomplishing our goals and aims.Success is the virtual doorway opened for all.Anyone can enter it with hard work and continuous efforts. 

Success

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7 Best Success Quotes


1.Jonathon Winters - I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

2.Arnold H. Glasgow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

3.We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

4.If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, it gives him virtues; if it wishes to make him esteemed, it gives him success.

5.Malcolm S Forbes - Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

6.As someone wise said, "To move ahead in life you need to believe in yourself..Have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute the beliefs."

7.There is no greater pleasure than being successful,Everybody wants to achieve success in everything they do.It enhances our personality and builds our confidence,and we learn to keep giving our best in everything we do."

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10 Most Popular Life Quotes

What is Life?

Life has no definition..It is what we see ,what we think and what we do.For someone it is simple for others it is complex.

Most Popular Song

"Life Is A Highway"

Whooo umm yeah...
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today


Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

Life 

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Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah

There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye

Ooooo...Yeah!

There ain't no load that I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors


Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah



10 Most Popular Life Quotes

1.Stephen Kaggwa - “Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”


2.Mary Anne Radmacher - “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”


3.You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime you find. You get what you need.

 4.Dale Carnegie - Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.


5.Doing your best means never stop trying. - Helen Keller.


 6.Tom Hopkins -“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.”


7.“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs

8.“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

9.“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” Jonathan Winters

10.“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” Socrates

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10 Best Life Quotes / Risk Quotes

Risk is the probability of an unwanted event which may or may not occur.Risk may be a danger or financial risk or any other type of hazard.Risk is the part of life which we have to face and overcome boldly with positive attitude.

10 Best Life Quotes / Risk Quotes

Risk! Risk Anything!

1.Denis Waitley - Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

2.Andre Gide - "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

3.T.S. Eliot -  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

4.Paul Tillich -  He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

5.Andre Malraux  “Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

6.Jim Rohn -  You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

 Risk

7.It's a great experience to take risk as a challenge,And the greater feeling is to overcome the results of the risk taken.

8.If we take challenges in life,we will learn to win,So be a sport to experiment with situations in life and you will see how easily you can become a winner.

9.Jim Rohn - If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

10.Albert Einstein  - The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. 

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7 Best Motivational Quotes

1.The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King

2."Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results." Brian Tracy.


3.The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.
-- Tyron Edwards

4."The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray

Motivation

5.Determine what's most important to you in life.Put them down on paper and in your heart.Do them daily.

6.Untrained hands in the use of tools destroy what they want to build.It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired,whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one.

Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes.But it must be used by a trained mind,a mind capable of disciplined thinking.Discipline is remembering what you want.

7.People Don't Plan To Fail, They Fail To Plan

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Best Team Work Quotes

What is Team Work?

Team Work is a work performed by a group of members(team) with a common goal or vision.

TEAM 

T- Together 
E- Everyone
A- Achieves 
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Best Team Work Quotes

The nice thing about TEAM WORK is that you always have others on your side.

Coming together is beginning,keeping together is progress.Working together is Success.

Teamwork is the ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organisational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon objectives.

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence,excellence becomes a reality".

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Every team needs a hero, every hero needs a team.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller


“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
― Phil Jackson

Team Work

In Organisations, home, everywhere team work is essential for miraculous achievements.


So be a part of a great team,contribute your potential,Give the best of what you have and you will see the results for yourself.

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Significance of Margazhi(Tamil) Month

Margazhi month is considered auspicious because in Bhagavat Geetha(Holy book of Hindus), Lord Krishna says that he will be as the "Margazhi" in that month.

Among the 12 months ,God resides in the Margazhi month.Hindus dedicate the whole margazhi  month of 30 days only to God's worship and avoids keeping marriages and other functions in their home.

It is the best month to worship and get God's Blessings.

In the early morning,special poojas,prayers and bhajans will take place in temples throughout this month.

Lord Vishnu

What I can do this Margazhi month to get God's Blessings?

Early morning(Brahma Muhurtha 4AM - 6AM)) wake up, &

Visiting to the near-by temple

Reciting Thirupavai and Thiruvempaavai

Offering Naivedhya

This is the best month to make God hear our prayers.

It has been proven scientifically that the OZONE layer will be closest to the earth during the month of Marghazi,so breathing the fresh early morning air is very good for health in the margazhi month.

*Tiruppavai is a part of Divya Prabandham, comprising 4,000 verses. It composed by the Andal Nachiyar. Andal is also one among twelve azhwars. The lyrics of the  Tiruppavai are considered sacred.  Tiruppavai is considered equivalent to Vedas and it consist of Thirty pasurams. 

Tiruppavai was composed and sung by Andal in margazhi month with an aim to attain Lord Vishnu.She also observed  Pavai nombhu. Many thousands of years ago, Gopikas observed fasting to attain Lord Krishna. They meditated upon Goddess Kathyayani and observed fasting . Andal followed the same principle while she took birth in bhooloka as the daughter of Periyazhwar to attain Lord Vishnu.

Reciting Thirupavai is good in general.Particularly to get good husband Thirupavai is the best composition to recite.

*Thiruvempaavai on Lord Shiva was composed and sung by Manickavasagar. In these verses, the saint visualized himself  as a Women and sung in the praise of  Lord Shiva during the early hours in the Margazhi month.

Like these great people we too can get God's blessings if we follow them.

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Peepal Tree

Scientific Facts and its Religious Significance

 Peepal Tree is considered sacred by the followers of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.It is a very large tree with long life span and it can grows upto 30 metres (98 ft) tall.  Its bark is light grey, smooth and peels in patches. Its heart-shaped leaves have long, tapering tips. The slightest breeze makes them rustle. The fruit is purple when ripe. The Peepal is the earliest-known depicted tree in India: a seal discovered at Mohenjodaro, one of the cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation (c. 3000 BC - 1700 BC), shows the Peepal being worshipped. During the Vedic period, its wood was used to make fire by friction.


Common name: Peepal, Bo tree, bodhi tree, holy tree, scared fig

 • Hindi: पीपल pipal • Manipuri: সনা খোঙনাঙ Sana khongnang • Marathi: पिंपळ pimpal • Tamil: அரசு aracu • Malayalam: arayal • Telugu: బోధిద్రుమము bodhi-drumamu, రావి raavi • Kannada: ಅರಳಿ arali, ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥ ashvattha • Bengali: অশ্বত্থ asbattha •Oriya: aswattha, jari • Konkani: पिंपळ pimpal • Urdu: peepal پیپل • Gujarati: પિપળો piplo • Sanskrit: अश्वत्थ ashwattha, बोधिवृक्ष bodhivriksha, प्लक्ष plaksha 

Botanical name: Ficus religiosa    Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)


Peepal tree is considered as  Aswatha(the tree of life).The twigs of peepal tree is used for homams.It provokes the functions of the brain, giving peace of mind.The leaves of Peepal tree is very rich in protein and the bark of the tree is used in several native medicinal drugs.

As religious belief many people circle around peepal tree for in need of children.But it is scientifically proved that the air comes from peepal trees cures uterus problems,menstrual cycle related problems.

Ashwatha literally means "Where horses stood" (ashwa + tha).Sage Shankaracharya interprets this tree as representing the the entire cosmos. 'Shwa' in Sanskrit means tomorrow. 'a' indicates negation, and 'tha' means one that stands or remains. He interprets Ashwatha to indicate "One which does not remain the same tomorrow", or the universe itself. 

Ashwatha tree is quite remarkable because it grows both upwards as well as top to bottom. The branches themselves morph into roots, so even if the original tree decays and perishes, its branches underneath are young and continue to enclose the parent. 

This eternal life of the the Peepal tree has inspired many Indian philosophers and Hindu thought. 

Great Stories behind Peepal Tree

The Brahma Purana and the Padma Purana, relate how once, when the demons defeated the gods, Vishnu hid in the peepal. Therefore spontaneous worship to Vishnu can be offered to a peepal without needing his image or temple. The Skanda Purana Peepal Tree also considers the peepal a symbol of Vishnu. He is believed to have been born under this tree. 

Some believe that the tree houses the Trimurti, the roots being Brahma, the trunk Vishnu and the leaves Shiva and worship the tree as Ashvatha virutcham. The gods are said to hold their councils under this tree and so it is associated with spiritual understanding. Ashvatha means "hORSE".Once Agnidev turned as horse and hid in the peepal.And so the tree got its name Ashwatha.

The peepal is also closely linked to Krishna. In the Bhagavad Gita, he says: "Among trees, I am the ashvatha." Krishna is believed to have died under this tree, after which the present Kali Yuga is said to have begun. According to the Skanda Purana, if one does not have a son, the peepal should be regarded as one. As long as the tree lives, the family name will continue. To cut down a peepal is considered a sin equivalent to killing a Brahmin, one of the five deadly sins or Panchapataka. According to the Skanda Purana, a person goes to hell for doing so. Some people are particular to touch the Peepal only on a Saturday. The Brahma Purana explains why, saying that Ashvatha and Peepala were two demons who harassed people. Ashvatha would take the form of a peepal and Peepala the form of a Brahmin. The fake Brahmin would advise people to touch the tree, and as soon as they did, Ashvatha would kill them. Later they were both killed by Shani. Because of his influence, it is considered safe to touch the tree on Saturdays. Lakshmi is also believed to inhabit the tree on Saturdays. Therefore it is considered auspicious to worship it then. 

Women ask the tree to bless them with a son tying red thread or red cloth around its trunk or on its branches. On Amavasya, villagers perform a symbolic marriage between the neem and the peepal, which are usually grown near each other. Although this practice is not prescribed by any religious text, there are various beliefs on the significance of 'marrying' these trees. In one such belief, the fruit of the neem represents the Shivalinga and so, the male. The leaf of the peepal represents the yoni, the power of the female. The fruit of the neem is placed on a peepal leaf to depict the Shivalinga, which symbolises creation through sexual union, and so the two trees are 'married'. After the ceremony, villagers circle the trees to rid themselves of their sins.

In Buddhism

The Bodhi Tree at the Mahabodhi Temple. 

The Bodhi tree and the Sri Maha Bodhi propagated from it are famous specimens of Sacred Fig. The known planting date of the tree in Sri Lanka is 288 BC which gives it the oldest verified age for any angiosperm plant.This plant is considered sacred by the followers of Buddhism, and hence the name 'Sacred Fig' was given to it. Siddhartha Gautama is referred to have been sitting underneath a Bo-Tree when he was enlightened (Bodhi), or "awakened" (Buddha). Thus, the Bo-Tree is well-known symbol for happiness, prosperity, longevity and good luck.

According to the Buddha – 'He who worships the Peepal tree will receive the same reward as if he worshiped me in person'. The Peepal tree has its own symbolic meaning of enlightenment and peace.

On new moon day and in karthigai somavaram it is good to circle the tress and worship.In Tamil Nadu,the Snake deity is kept under the tree and worshipped. For infertility and other naga doshas for marriage peepal tree can be worshipped.

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