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.

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.”

An array of quotes on man and life:

It is man’s indomitable nature to scare himself silly for no good reason!
- Calvin and Hobbes

Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
- Calvin and Hobbes

It is alright letting yourself go, as long as you can let yourself back.—Mick Jagger

Live your life in a manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. –Michael Levines

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.– Bernard Shaw

View life as a continuous learning experience.– Denis Waitley

We are always getting ready to live but never living.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened: Everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger.
“God, how could you do this to me?” he cried.

Early next morning, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him.”How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of hisrescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we
shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in
the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little
hut is burning to the ground–it just may be a smoke signal that
summons the grace of God.

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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 -

1. Develop a benevolent world view; look for the good in the people and circumstances around you – Brian Tracy.

2. Those who apply themselves too closely to little things, often become incapable of great things – La Rochefoucauld

3. A dream minus Action equals Fantasy. Dreams plus Action equals Reality – Unknown.

4. In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them – Joyce Brothers

5. When building a team, I first look for people who love to win, if I can’t find any of those, then I look for people who hate to lose – H Ross Perot

6. If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way – Anonymous

7. Learning is the beginning of wealth, the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins – Jim Roth.

8. The history of progress is people challenging assumptions – Wilbur Wright.

9. A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it – Alistair Cooke

10. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us – Anonymous.

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

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“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.”

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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”