Thoughts of the Day

Approach to face problems without harboring fear or worry:

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
But be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, 
But for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
But hope for the patience to win my freedom.
~Dr. Rabindranath Tagore

Adopt a positive frame of mind instead of dwelling in unhappiness. Our sorrows are caused by our own actions and our ignorance. Hence, we need to develop courage and understanding and work towards our happiness.


To face our troubles with courage and without resentment towards others:

Have faith in you
If you keep your head, while all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 
If you can trust yourself when others doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about and not deal in lies,
Or being hated and not give way to hating,
Nor yet look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream and not make dreams your Master,
If you can think and not make thought your aim; 
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it in one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose and start again at the beginning,
And not breathe a word about your loss; 

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or see the things you give your life to, broken
And stop to build them up again with worn-out tools;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinews 
To serve their turn long after they are done,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them, "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 
Or walk with Kings and not lose the common touch;
If neither foes or loving friends can hurt you
And all men count with you, but none too mcuh;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
And, what is more, you'll be a man, My Son!