“A century ago, a promise and a handshake was as good as a legally binding agreement. Nothing was stronger than saying, "You have my word." There was a sacred quality to one's word that was not taken as lightly as it is today. Back then breaking a promise was no small transgression. Today, talk is cheap and a promise is not necessarily a prom......

“The first principle of all action is leisure” says Aristotle. Many of us are embarrassed if we ever find ourselves doing nothing, because we are programmed to believe that only the people who are always working, with endless busyness and hustle are the ones who will make it, while the rest of us will be left behind. It is true that hav......

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking” says Alfred Korzybski. During the last couple of weeks there was a lot of buzz about some personal letters written by Mother Teresa. In fact Time magazine made this the cover story with the caption: The secret......

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people” said Abraham Heschel. I guess young people admire intelligent people because they think they have all the answers to their questions, however as we grow older in life we recognize the shallowness of mere knowledge, we tend to respect or lo......

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” says Albert Einstein. I personally believe everything is a miracle and weather we see them as miracles or ignore them as ordinary stuff depends on our perspective of life. Even though it is practically dif......