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“If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart Gratitude. It's the quality of being thankful; ready to show appreciation for and to return kindness, counting your blessings, noticing simple pleasures, and acknowledging everything that you receive. It means learning to live your life as if everything were a miracle, and being aware on a continuous basis of how much you’ve been given. Gratitude shifts your focus from what your life lacks to the abundance that is already present. Gratefulness is the best personality trait, a grateful heart will always have more than it needs, although a greedy heart will never have enough. It brings you joy, it brings you relief, it reduces your stress, and it helps you grow.... Keep growing, keep learning they say, Keep thanking, keep smiling I say :)

We all go through tough times and we all have bad moments. Most people tend to focus on what they have gone through instead of the people who have gotten them through it. The people who become the shining bright stars in their dull grey sky, the silver lining in that dark cloud and the colorful rainbow in it. The people who cared and gave them enthusiastic smiles through their way. Don't you remember the people who made your life just a little better when you didn't feel quite nice.? Now it's time to give back! Think about all those people and how amazing they are and how their one small deed possibly made you feel safe and okay. Be one of those people for another person.  Show your kindness and love to them, make them happy and you will be too.

Sometimes things don't happen your way, to let you know that getting what you want, takes depending on yourself. Sometimes obstacles block your way to success, but..all obstacles are built for you to pass, stronger and better. Sometimes you don't get the things you want, to let you know that you deserve much more. Sometimes you don't achieve, for you to succeed....with flying colours. Sometimes the moon rises, so the sun can too. Sometimes you find yourself in a dark tunnel, only to find the light at the end. Things...bad/good happen for your own benefit. You get what you're ment to get, you are where you're meant to be,  You live the life you're meant to live!

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein. When one creates problems, we do so because, we can't see through it or we can't see outside the box (the problem). If we stay where we are, unable to understand the problem, we will never understand the situation. Imagine a glass elevator on the side of a very tall building. The view from each floor is different and the higher you go the bigger and broader the view. When you see the problem as a whole, every detail included, it'll look a load different than it did when you looked at it with a narrow mind. Break down the make believe barrier that's inside your head, extend your view, change your perspective, step out of 'the box' and solve the problem.  *Think Different* How? Get rid of all the unhelpful thoughts and prove them wrong, turn the situation upside down and find patterns never spotted before, think weird and believe maybe it's possible? And lastly...

"You feel what you choose to feel, You see what you want to see, You are where you want to be, You are he whom you wish to be" ~ Annanya Desai If you want to be happy, seek the positive, there's ALWAYS one; if you want to see yourself become successful, believe that it's your destiny; if you want to sit where an admired one does, proclaim that you already do and, if you know the wonders of being yourself, it's most likely that you already are.

As your body begins to nervously shiver, butterflies get your gut all tangled up & you feel small and intimidated, remember that it is completely fine, it's okay. When you feel scared or afraid. Don't think that you are weak because you feel like this. "Being brave isn't the absence of fear being brave is is having that but finding a way through it" ~Bear Grylls Fear is the greatest illusion. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself small and weak until,  you let him to be huge.  F.E.A.R Has two meanings: Forget Everythingthing And Run OR Face Everything And Rise The choice is yours.

If you are a particular colour, you get judged; if you follow a particular religion you get judged; if you have a particular accent, you get judged.......if you are not normal, you get judged. What is being normal, well humans describe it as not being successful, not accomplishing your goals, being basic. And a lot of talented, amazing people pretend to be 'normal' just so they will not be judged by others. And there are not alot of people to tell them that if they strive to be normal, they will never know how amazing they can, they will never know that they are capable of revelutionizing humanity. Don't be normal, be weird, be quirky, be hilarious...Be yourself

Dark clouds cover the sky, not a ray of bright light to be seen, gloomy does the day become, but only for he who is unaware of the wonders to come. ~ Annanya Desai The rain. For most people it's gloomy, makes them feel lazy, grumpy, stressed and sometimes sad. But it can teach alot in life.  "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's learning to dance it the rain" ~ Vivian Greene The best thing that one can do when it's raining, is to let it and make the most out of it it. Learning to make the most out of worst situations, will grant all your situations with a positive benefit. Sometimes the storm will just come to clear your path and loosen your soil, so YOU can GROW in all different directions.    

What is life...are you living? Or are we all still in a really realistic dream, mabye just characters in someone else's project, what if humanity had come into existence thousands of billions of years ago, and had developed and succeeded in mastering the use of technology to a point where they created their own game...a game of life.  The possibilities are endless. But we know one thing, that is, we know that we are real, we have feelings, we have living, breathing bodies, we have a heart, we feel excitement, for some it is love that makes them smile, unfortunately for others it's hatred. Know doing bad hurts, being selfish hurts, we are not robots, our hearts are not a product of AI, we have feelings and the wrong feelings can break us. Nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don't drink their own water. Trees don't eat their own fruit. Sun doesn't give heat for itself. Flowers don't spread fragrance for themselves. Living for others is the rule of nature. A...

It is the weaknesses that determine your strength. ~ Annanya Desai You always want to be strong, have no weakness, But the truth is that everybody, you, me, everyone, has a weakness. You can try to hide them, but you won't be able to. Instead, the best option for you is to embrace them. Let them know your weaknesses but not your strengths. Then, play to your strengths. When you know what you're not good at, it is then when you realize that you don't need to be. Being good at everything is not necessarily a positive trait. There is a very slim chance that you will get the opportunity to use all of your skills. Focus on those little strengths that you have and strive to perfect them. Don't have good strengths, have great ones. ~ Annanya Desai  

It's never too late & never too early to start your journey to accomplish your goals; it's never impossible either. Possibilities may not be easy, they may not be likely but possibilities, they are endless. The possible today were impossible once, and the impossible in your head will soon be possible. So, why don't you be the one to break down the impossible to a point it says:  I'm Possible

IT IS A NARROW MIND WHICH CANNOT LOOK AT A SUBJECT FROM VARIOUS POINTS OF VIEW. George Eliot In a confusing situation..have you ever, stopped..waited and thought of all the other ways you could solve the problem? Have you ever just let your brain take you places and give you ideas that you have never received before? Ideas that nobody has ever spoken of except, except that voice in your head. In such a circumstance have you tried to look at the situation from the problems view or perspective? Nooo..? Well this is the trick of the successful, to create and think things some people couldn't even imagine. Take some time to think about it.. It'll be quite the opposite wouldn't it? Long ago gravity..it was not thought off, and seemed completely out of this world. But  the curious mind of Sir Newton couldn't help but exploring all the possibilities..and that's how what could be one of the worlds biggest questions has been solved early on. Once you open your mind to unlimi...

Mahatma Gandhi said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world".  It's our duty set an example and implement the right kind of changes in order to make the world a beautiful place. if we want to see a change in a place we should be the one do it first for ourselves. When we want others to follow a good habit and we insist on it, first of all we should follow that habit.  We all want the world to be free free of all that toxic waste and pollution what what we don't understand is that we keep on using are ac's, driving our personal cars and so much more. Even if a quarter of the 7.8 billion human population constantly kept on doing so, it would have a massive negative impact on our climate Wiyh everything going on in the world, we must remember that all the changes that we want to see from the world should first be shown within us. It might sound particularly stupid if I say that, "You alone could change the world", but it is a reality. When you chan...

Honesty means always being truthful.  Even when the truth hurts; remember the longer it is confined within you the stronger it becomes. And when it eventually comes out i(always will) it'll hurt so so so much more. No one and I mean no one gets away with lying. Even if another doesn't find out that you are lying, you will always know and that guilt inside will devour you slowly. It creates confusion and distrust. Lying doesn't help you, instead it takes you down under.  So remember; Even though, being honest is hard, the truth often hurts, it brings freedom and content in such levels that it is worth trying.  It removes  the fear from the heart and makes a person courageous and confident. Honesty brings a spark of hope in this dark world. "When the truth is told, it takes all the weight with it, but the weight never leaves the person who doesn't speak it." ~Annanya Desai  

The only person you should strive to be better than, is the person you were yesterday. Being better or worse than anybody else doesn't and shouldn't matter, one has to win and one has to lose and it's ok if you're the one that loses, but always win in the race against yourself. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.” –Bill Gates When we compare ourselves to someone else we will always have to rank ourselves as either superior or inferior to that other person, and neither of those assessments will ever be factually accurate. Infact, the ONLY person you should EVER compare yourself with is YOU! One day you might come out successful, but just remember, that doesn't mean you can't get better, winning once isn't a dead end, you will have a lot more distance to cover. Each day has 24 hours, it's actually a lot..and it's our job to make most of it!  

Our feelings can play an important role in how we think and behave. The things we feel each day can pressure us to take actions that inpact the decisions we make about our lives, both large and small. "Don't burry your feelings inside your heart, you never know when it will emerge as a revolt against your soul" ~AfaN Shakeel When we choose to bury our feelings, we act differently. We may not be ourselves in front of others and may withdraw, or just not fully engage when we do spend time with our closest friends.  At other times, we can react inaptly because our emotions are blinding us to go in different directions from where we really want or need to go. When you express how you really feel, problems get solved and life becomes easier. The truth is that by letting the tears flow, you are letting out what hurts while making more room in your heart for positive thoughts and feelings. Expressing your pain is actually a good way to make it stop. Most of us are far better at ...

People who you are greedy can never be happy because their greed can never be satisfied. It is something that has no limit, a person gets something he/she desires, shows ingratitude and desires something else until one cannot have more, then one takes the wrong, greedy path to get more.  Greed is the chief villain of our troubles, it destroys people and makes them blind, blind to all the love and care that still exists  "The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for" The “devil” is basically the incarnation of everything evil and the cause of everything bad. It represents temptations which lead to corruption, for our selfish benefit.  Classically, the devil is shown usually wearing red, with horns on his head, a cape, and a pitchfork.  In real life, the devil comes disguised as greed, envy, selfishness and etc.. And it doesn't come to help you instead to take you down under. Being happy with what you h...

Human skin comes in a wide variety of colours, ranging from shades of dark brown to almost white. Although an individual’s skin colour is influenced by numerous factors, Melanin is the pigment that determines skin colour as well as hair and eye colour. Melanin is produced by skin cells when they are exposed to the sun. The more sun exposure, the more melanin is produced. People often tend to judge others by their cover, that is their skin colour, race, gender, religion, etc.. but what they don't know is that inside we all are exactly the same, we all have the same chapters, and for each individual those chapters have different words, determining who they are. It isn't right to judge a person or a book whatever thing it maybe only by its outer cover or outer appearance. Mabye if you get to know that person, you would know that he/she deserves better.  Everybody is equal !

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~Albert Einstein     Knowledge is the information, understanding and skills you have gained and stored in your brain. Imagination is the ability to create things - real or not - from the information in your brain. Knowledge is necessary but it is imagination that gives it wings to soar.  For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, giving birth to unlimited possibilities.  The greatest innovators of all time had the ability to deal with real life situations by using the power of the creative mind. Imagination allows one to solve problems in ways that have not yet been used. Innovation can't really exist without imagination and out of the box thinking.  We have discovered and unveiled the greatest mysteries because sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and many more people were curious used their imagination and believed it was possible...... in the end it was! Don't stop at t...

When you feel sad , tired of your failures , stuck deep within the  darkness .... Stop looking for the light  and decide to become it instead , be the one that brightens your day. Wherever you go, no matter what, always bring your own Sunshine 🌅 .  You have a whole  future ahead, forget the past , but remember  the lesson .  If LIFE doesn't challenge you, it won't change you for the better .  In every obstacle there is a hidden helping hand and that hand only wants what's for you. Say: I CAN & I WILL ! Put this thought deep inside your heart , and keep reciting it, because you are confined within the walls you build yourself .  "Believe you can do something and your mind will find several ways to do it ." ~ Annanya Desai

'Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die' Before I explain this line, first we would need to know the meaning of forgiveness.  Forgiveness means different things to different people. Generally, however, it involves a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. Now, Forgiveness is for our own growth and happiness. When we hold pain and anger, it harms us much more than it harms the offender. Forgiveness frees both the forgiven and the forgiver it is thus, a rational form of self love. Not forgiving fills you with hatred and clouds your judgement to trust people can be trusted. Much of our pain comes from not giving the injuries inside us. Work on your anger and decide to forgive.  It's human nature to hold onto our anger after being hurt but holding on to to your anger doesn't hurt the other person it it hurts you.  So decide to forgive and give up the suffering of the past and forge ahead with newly earned love, devotion...

Wayne Dyer once said, "Stop as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed".  I abide by this because there is no point in crying over the past, it is gone. No point in stressing about the future, it hasn't arrived. But when you live the fullest in the present, the future and past too are in your hands and each moment you breathe is a gift. I say, we should live in the present so we can have memories instead of regrets. I say this because life is unpredictable, you never know when you could make a mistake and you never know if today might be your loved one's last. Cherish every living, breathing moment otherwise you will regret not doing so. But if you do every second for you will be a joyful one. You will be more content and focused, and most you will be the happiest you 24/7. Learn from the past, Prepare for the future, Live in the present ! ~THOMAS S. MONSON

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken" ~ Oscar Wilde You may have been told or heard that you should always be yourself, but what does it mean? Being yourself means you like and know who you are. Being yourself means having self-respect. And it means living life the way you want to live it, not based on others thoughts. Don't get worked up on other people's opinions, you can't control them or their thoughts. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" ~ Steve Jobs There is only one of you in this world, no two others are the same, you are rare and perfectly imperfect. Sometimes we tend to compare ourselves to others and worry about what the world thinks of us and suffer because of that. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of anothers thinking - and you will understand who you truly are, what you truly and will finally understand the power of your inner voice. Happiness and success will ...

Biodiversity forms the backbone viable ecosystems on which we depend on for basic necessities, security and health.  Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species no matter how small, all have an important role to play. All species are connected in some way or another. Forests provide homes for animals, animals eat plants, when the animals die they get decomposed by fungi and add nutrients to the soil, the healthy soil that plants need to grow. With less biodiversity, these connections can weaken and sometimes break harming many all  species in the ecosystem.  Healthy ecosystems clean our water, purify are air, maintain the soil, regulate the climate, recycle nutrients and provide us with food. Biodiversity is the key indicator of a healthy ecosystem.  With more plants, trees and animals the soil improves and becomes stronger ~ less prone to erosion, drought and flooding, loss of valuable species and changes in the climate.  Our never ending need...

A perspective is the way one looks and thinks about something. Everyone has a different understanding of a situation, it can either be for the better or for the worse, it's just the way you look at it. Whether you want it to be a 9 or a 6 is completely up to you. It is also important that you seek to understand another's perspective. When you judge someone wrong, it is because you don't understand how their reasoning works. But what if... Maybe they are right? So, instead of looking for an outcome that is negative or has some flaw, look for something beneficial or something that adds to your life. By shifting your search for happiness, you can create it.   Wayne Dyer once said, " if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." It's true. A few hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei proved that the sunn did not orbit the earth and that it was the other way around. Up till then humans believed that the giant ball of light orbited earth. Thi...

For every crisis we face, there are opportunities being found, For every time we heal for the better, there was once a wound, For every day we keep believing, we are a step closer to achieving, For every time we take action, there lots of people benefitting, For every selfish deed, there a thousands of selfless ones, For every time we learn, there is a lot of growth within us, For every time we disagree, there are common interests being found, For every barrier that's built, there are boundaries torn down. EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON ~Annanya Desai  

Laughing and smiling may not take you to wonderland, but will bring wonders right to you. They will change the way you look at things and will let you enjoy the great rollercoaster ride of life to the fullest. Laughter is like medicine. The more you laugh, the more you will be happy with yourself and the things you have, resulting in you dreaming big and never doubting whether you can achieve them. Laughter is healthy too, both physically and mentally. When you feel down, just smile. Sometimes your joy can be the source of your smile and sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  When life doesn't give you what you deserve, smile, cause you deserve everything! When you don't get the credit for a lot of hard work, smile, cause only a few people have been let down and still not given up. Most of the successful people in the world are also the most positive. Laugh a little harder, smile a lot more and remember to just be you !