Sunday, November 30, 2008

Worth one's salt.

Worth one's salt.

Meaning

To be effective and efficient; deserving of one's pay.

Origin

Sodium chloride, a.k.a. salt, is essential for human life and, until
the invention of canning and refrigeration, was the primary method of
preservation of food. Not surprisingly, it has long been considered
valuable.

To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. Our word salary
derives from the Latin salarium, (sal is the Latin word for salt).
There is some debate over the origin of the word salarium, but most
scholars accept that it was the money allowed to Roman soldiers for
the purchase of salt. Roman soldiers weren't actually paid in salt, as
some suggest. They were obliged to buy their own food, weapons etc.
and had the cost of these deducted from their wages in advance.

Salt continues to be important enough to feature in the language for
many centuries. Other phrases that would have been known to the
mediaeval mind were take with a grain of salt, the salt of the earth
and below the salt. The ancient roots of 'worth one's salt', and its
similarity to the 13th century 'worth one's weight in gold' and the
14th century 'worth one's while' (i.e. worth one's time), give the
phrase a historical air. Nevertheless, 'worth one's salt' didn't exist
in Roman Latin or even in mediaeval English and dates from as recently
as the 19th century.

The earliest citation of the phrase that I have found in print is in
The African Memoranda, a report of an expedition to Guinea Bissau, by
Philip Beaver, 1805:

"Hayles has been my most useful man, but of late not worth his salt."

It's worth pointing out that, although English is replete with phrases
of a nautical origin, none of the above salty phrases has anything to
do with the sea.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Don't do any thing in haste..........................

DON'T DO ANY THING IN HASTE AND MAKE WASTE.

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening
appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as
it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it
seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had
gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the
man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors
and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly
then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body (or head) and
small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly
because he expected that at any moment the wings would enlarge
and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract
in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest
of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled
wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was
that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the
butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of
forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so
that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom
from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God
allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would
cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
And we could never fly.

Moral: Any hasty decision will be a nasty decision-Prevent it.

JK

Monday, November 17, 2008

That's Wisdom.

That is "wisdom":-

which can reconcile itself with actual life. When the
realities of practical life conflict with or stare at
the knowledge we possess, it should be remembered
that such knowledge is immature and is a mere theory.
Moreover, it is not knowledge "of life" that we need;
We require knowledge which "is life", and is
inseperable from its daily vexations. We have to view
ourselves in a universal context and then live life,
not look upon ourselves as individuals who have to be
at war with the world in our everyday life."

J.K

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Life's Like that.......................................

LIFE'S LIKE THAT- LEARN TO ACCEPT & ADAPT UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND LEAD YOUR LIFE HAPPILY & CONTENDED TO FULFIL YOUR MISSION .

”I earnestly believe, this compilation of quotes will help many, in many ways, with perseverance to read.”

"Nothing is nobler, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

"There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility."

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."


"Never allows anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish can pull it to pieces."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."

"A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it's the journey that matters in the end."

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

"If your sword is too short, add to its length by taking one step forward."

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:” decide what you want." -

"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."



"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

“Don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." -

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."

"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!"

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose".

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof".

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it".

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life".

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies".

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are".

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears".

"Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomizes infinity".

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives".



"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen".

"To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come".

"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us".

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it".

"People may not remember what you did for them, or even what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it".

"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."

"Believe in the impossible. We have the power to make this an amazing society ... if we work together. Be a part of it. Make waves".

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"

” While Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens.”

”Be the Change: How well do you really listen? The next time you engage in conversation, watch where your mind is when the other person is talking.”

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."

"Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it".

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love doing. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

"Take the attitude of a student, Never be too big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new."

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."

"We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do It."

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it."

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams to live the life that you have imagined. That's when you have success."

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they have gotten lost."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."

"When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."

"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."

"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love doing. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."


"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us."

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Compiled&Presented by J.K