An old lady who looks as if she is about to die,
A doctor who had once saved your life,
A man/woman you have been dreaming to be with.
You can only take one passenger in your car. Which one will you choose?

Think about it before you continue reading.

This must be some kind of personality test. Every answer has its reasoning.
You could pick up the old lady. She is going to die, and thus you should save her first. You could take the doctor, because he once saved your life. This will be the perfect chance to pay him back.However, you could always pay the doctor back in the future, but you may never be able to find the perfect lover once you pass this chance.

The candidate who was eventually hired (out of 200 applicants) did not have to explain his answer. WHAT DID HE SAY?

He simply answered:
“Give the car key to the doctor. Let him take the old lady to the hospital. I will stay and wait for the bus with the man/woman of my dreams.”

Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our stubborn limitations.

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, or a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. “The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” Vince Lombardi

2. “Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

3. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell

4. A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. Edgar J. Mohn

5. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Robert M. Pirsig

6. God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie

7. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

8. “The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, I wish someone would come by and turn me on. What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life than that.” –Jim Rohn

9. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

10. “We become what we think about all day long”.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.

12. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

13. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

14. Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands–and then just eat one

of the pieces. Judith Viorst

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the
room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity
and color of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be
moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was
comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his
first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.
It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

Epilogue:
“There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations”
“Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled”
“If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy”
“Today is a gift, that’s why it is called the present.”

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Edgar A. Guest

Love is that orbit of the restless soul
Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
Bounding within the limits of its race
Utmost extremes.
Sonnet

“I love you because You’re a sweet little fool!”
The sweet little Fool

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
Solemnization of Matrimony.

To love, cherish, and to obey.
Solemnization of Matrimony

He was my North, my South, my East and West, / My working week and my Sunday rest, / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; / I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

W H Auden

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin

If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Phyllis Battelle

Flowers are Love’s truest language.
Sonnet.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations—but they all will console themselves with another man.
Charles Boyer

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child…. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
Richard Burton

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

You say that love is nonsense….I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one’s nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength
Adams, Henry Brooks

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you…
Adams, Joey Lauren

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart
-Antoninus, Marcus Aelius Aurelius

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ”

-Mother Teresa
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. -Ovid
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
-Eric Fromm
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings

its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another

day of loving. -Kahlil Gibran

Where ever I go, whatever I do, I carry a little part of you with me right here in the

center of me heart.

Who cares whether this is a poem or rhyme, I will love you until the end of time…
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love

To feel love gives pleasure to one; to express it gives pleasure to two.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
-Rosemonde Gerard
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
- James J. Walker
Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
- from the movie Moulin Rouge -

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
- by G. Moore -

I would fly you to the moon and back if you’ll be . . . if you’ll be my baby.
- From a song by Savage Garden -

I love you – those three words have my life in them.
- by Alexandrea to Nicholas III -

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- by Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder’d at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr’d for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
- by John Keats -
I’d like to run away
From you,
But if you didn’t come
And find me …
I would die.
- by Shirley Bassey -

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.
- From “Unforgettable with Love” by Natalie Cole

Soul meets soul on lover’s lips.
- by Percy Bysshe Shelly -

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss.
I’ve always found time to teach them.
- by Mae West -

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
 
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert EinsteinAnyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. 
- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
- Sydney Harris

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans