Will you pass the test of life?

Keith Willams was a soldier. One day, in a library, he found an old book with a lots of writing in the margins. He read the handwritten notes in the book and admired the deep insights. On the front cover, he saw that a certain Meredith Feeney perviously owned the book.

With much effort, he located her address. He wrote to her and told her about her old book and how he liked her written notes.

She responded, thanking him for his kind words.
But that day, he was shipped overseas to fight in a war.
Still, they kept writting to each other. During the difficult times on the battledfield, her words inspired him and gave him hope.

Little by little, Keith was falling in love with her.
He requested for a photo, but she replied that if he really cared for her, it wouldn't matter how he looked.

Finally he was sent home. They decided to meet at the Grand Central Station at 7 p.m. He said he'd be in his soldier's uniform bringing her old book.

And she said, " you'll know me by the red rose i'll wear on my lapel".
when the train arrived at 7 p.m. Keith was there, wearing his neatly pressed military uniform, with her old book in his hand.

The first woman to step off the train was a beautiful woman in a green suit. but there was no red rose on her blouse.

Keith was disappointed. But she was so lovely he kept looking at her. She walked in front of him, glance at him with a smile, and asked, " are you following me soldier?
A part of him wanted to follow her.
But no, he had to wait for Meredith Feeney.

The next woman who stepped off the train had a red rose on her lapel. She was perhaps 45 years old. She had graying hair between her hat. and she was very overweight. Meantime, the beautiful woman in green suit was walking away.

Keith was torn. Yet he looked again at the woman who was wearing the red rose. He remembered her letters and what a fascinating a person she was. He remembered how wonderful her words made him feel. He told himself "this may not be love. But his maybe more than love. this will be a beautiful friendship with a lovely person."

He walked up to her, straightened himself, handed the book to her and said, "My name is Lieutenant Keith Williams, you must be Ms. Meredith Feeney. I'm so glad i could meet you. May i have a dinner with you tonight? The woman smiled." i don't know what this is about, son," she answered," but the young lady in the green suit asked me to wear this red rose on my coat. She also said that if you asked me out for dinner, she'd be waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!"

Imagine the end of this story: Keith and Meredith getting married, having kids and growing old together,

Because he lived deliberately.
Because he made the right choice.
Beacause he passed the test.
Friend, life is a series of tests.
And your choices--- your answers to the test--- will shape your destiny.
Sometimes, it's a choice between love and lust.
Sometimes, it's a choice between selfishness and sleflessness.
Sometimes, it's a choice between what your heart wants and what your flesh wants.
Sometimes, it's between what will bless you forever and what will give you pleasure this moment only.

Your life is really up to you.
You're the chef of your meal.
You're the architect of your house.
You're the scriptwriter of your movie.
You're the composer of your song.
You're the painter of your masterpiece.
At the end of the day, you decide how happy, fully and blessed you want to become.

May your dreams come true.

Words of Visionaries

Muhammed Ali: To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Winston Churchill: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Anne Frank: Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Buckminster Fuller: Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Mohandas Gandhi: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Vaclav Havel: Genuine politics—even politics worthy of the name—the only politics I am willing to devote myself to—is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

Helen Keller: No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

John F. Kennedy: The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Robert F. Kennedy: There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Dalai Lama: With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

John Lennon: My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Rosa Parks: I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Pablo Picasso: The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Jackie Robinson: A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer: By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep and alive.

Dr. Benjamin Spock: Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Mother Teresa: It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Desmond Tutu: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Kurt Vonnegut: Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

Doing What You Love Could Mean Becoming an Entrepreneur

If you are doing what you love, you may have to create your own work.

It’s not always easy to fit into a defined and set job if you are doing what you love, because it often means that you are listening to your own muse and setting out on your own path and finding your own way to express who you truly are.

It can also mean that you prefer the freedom of working for yourself, so that you can set your own boundaries, as opposed to having them  set artificially by a job.

If you decide to go your own way and create your own work, you are following the time-honored path of entrepreneurship.

It is the entrepreneurs who are the innovators, who move forward even when the naysayers say it can’t be done.

They love what they are doing so much that they believe in themselves even when others don’t, and aren’t afraid to fail.

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In fact, failure is not part of the vocabulary of an entrepreneur, because as long as they are doing what they love, whatever the outcome, they are succeeding.

They see failure as not pursuing their dream.

The reality is, is that entrepreneurs can change the world – watch the above video and you will be inspired as you realize this is true.

Just by pursuing their dreams, entrepreneurs are changing the world, by also inspiring others to pursue their dreams.

And with their  creative imagination  and innovative drive, entrepreneurs are changing the world, by creating new ways of doing things, or by making adaptations to current ways of doing things.

Entrepreneurs are also changing the world by shining the light of hope where there once was darkness.