JoeyMoggie

(www.art.com)

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect”

–Edward Gibbon

“A yawn may not be polite, but as least its an honest opinion”

 ”We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do”

–Olin Miller

“Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you”

–Arab proverb

 ”If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good”

–Ezra Pound

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but beacause they are not already common”

–John Locke

“I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don’t always agree with them”

–George W. Bush

“Opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one”

“The follish and the dead alone never change their opinions”

–James Russel Lowell

“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself”

–Anthony Trollope

“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator”

–Wendell Phillips

If you don’t ask for a lot of life, you don’t get a lot from life

I got this as an email this week.

Thought it was pretty darn good, good enough to share.  Have a cuppa on me!

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
 
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite—telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
 
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds NO quality to the coffee.  In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.  What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other’s cups. Now consider this:  
 
Life is the coffee.

The jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.” God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.”

Live Simply. Love Generously. Care Deeply. Speak Kindly. Leave the rest to God.

 

I hope it isn’t too far from God’s plan if I help myself to a cup of tea instead

“Why are so many closed minds equipped with loud open mouths?”

A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.

He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.

Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full.

The students responded with an unanimous “yes.”

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.

The students laughed.

“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.”

The golf balls are the important things - your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

“The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car.
“The sand is everything else–the small stuff.
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
“The same goes for life.”

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

Play another 18.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.
Set your priorities.
The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked, “It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a cup of coffee with a friend.”

I came across this little story on another Blog, please check out the source:  Syed Akbar Ali