The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

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Great dreamers’ dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
-ALFRED LORD WHITEHEAD

I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life – SUZUKI

Most people live – whether physically, intellectually or morally – in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon of which we do not dream. – WILLIAM JAMES

How can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley?

To savor the good one must know the bad?

Remember that the laws of nature always ensure that when one door closes another opens.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary projects, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Winston Churchill said that ‘the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.’

Then you will install the vibrant mindset you are looking for. Remember, the mind truly is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends.

You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.

Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge.

Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams.

Only those who seek shall find.

There are no mistakes – only lessons. See setbacks as opportunities for personal expansion and spiritual growth.

The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of you energy towards doing it. Once you do this abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement.- FOSTER C. McCLELLAN

Benjamin Disraeli said: “The secret of success is constancy of purpose”.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A day without laughter or a day without love was a day without life.

A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly – CONFUCIUS

Epictetus said: ‘No man is free who is not a master of himself.”

The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.

Luck favours the prepared mind.

When you erase fear from your mind, you start to look younger and your health becomes more vibrant.

One must live a life of moderation and do nothing to extremes.

Mistakes are part of life and essential for growth.

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza Snapshots
Birthdate: November 15, 1986
Age: 21 years
Height: 1.71m (5′ 7 1/2″)
Birthplace: Mumbai

Highest Singles ranking: No. 27
Highest Doubles ranking: No. 20
Status: Pro (2003)
Current coach: S Narendranath
Former coaches: Vasudeva Reddy and C G K Bhupathi

Personal:
Sania was born in Mumbai but now resides in Hyderabad. She began playing tennis at age 6 and was coached by her father, Imran Mirza. She has one sister, Anam. She is the first Indian to break into the top 50 WTA rankings. Tennis legend Steffi Graf is her idol. Ocean’s 11 is one of her favourite movies, as are actors Brad Pitt and Hugh Grant.

She loves listening to hip-hop, rap and Hindi remixes and likes playing cricket and swimming. Her favourite colors are red and black.

Singles performance:
2007 2006 2005
Australian Open 2nd round 2nd round 3rd round
Roland Garros 2nd round 1st round 1st round
Wimbledon 2nd round 1st round 2nd round
US Open 3rd round 2nd round 4th round

Career highlights:

# 2006 – Second straight Top 100 finish in season highlighted by one SF run, at Tier III Kolkata (as No.5 seed, d. No.4 seed Rezai 64 75 in QF, having trailed 4-1 second set; l. to top seed and eventual champion Hingis) and four QF, incl. Cincinnati (l. to Schnyder 76(7) 75, after holding set point during first set tie-break) and Seoul (d. No.8 Hingis 46 60 64 in 2r for first Top 10 victory of year, third of career; l. to Ruano Pascual 76 third set);

# Roland Garros and Wimbledon; impressive doubles results, claiming second and third career Tour doubles titles at Bangalore and Kolkata (both w/Huber; pairing is now 12-0 when playing in India, having also won 2004 Hyderabad together); three-time doubles runner-up as well, with different partners; withdrew from Rome w/low back and wrist injury.

# 2005 Japan Open: Reached the semi-finals of women’s singles and doubles. Shahar Peer of Israel was her partner in doubles. Also reached her highest doubles ranking — 114.

# 2005 US Open: Lost in 4th round to top seed Maria Sharapova. Voted ‘Best Player of the day’ on the 3rd day for winning her 2nd round match despite bleeding toes.

# 2005 Forest Hills Women’s Tennis Classic, New York: Reached second WTA final but lost.

# 2005 Acura Classic: Lost in the third round to Akiko Morigami of Japan. By beating 8th-ranked Petrova, she broke into the WTA top 50 for the first time.

# 2005 Dubai Tennis Championships: Upset reigning US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in 2nd round to reach the quarter-finals.

# 2005 Hyderabad Open singles: Won the tournament defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the final and became the first Indian woman to capture a WTA singles title.

# 2005 Australian Open singles: Became first Indian woman to reach the 3rd round of a Grand Slam tournament.

# 2004 Hyderabad Open doubles: Won the tournament partnering with Liezel Huber to become the youngest Indian to win a WTA or ATP tour title and the first Indian woman to capture a WTA tour title. Entered the singles as wild card but lost in the first round to the eventual winner, Nicole Pratt.

# 2003 Wimbledon Championships Juniors doubles: Won the tournament partnering with Alisa Kleybanova to become the youngest Indian and the first Indian woman to win a junior Grand Slam title.

# 2003 Afro-Asian Games: won four gold medals – Women’s singles, Mixed doubles (with Mahesh Bhupathi), Women’s doubles and Women’s team events (the last two golds in partnership with Rushmi Chakravarthy) [5]

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Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza (b November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai, brought up in Hyderabad. Coached by her father, Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 20 in doubles. She is now ranked 27th in the singles category and 20th in the doubles category, as of 27th Aug, 2007.Sania Mirza holds the distinction of being the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam tennis tournament when she was seeded 26th in the 2007 U.S. Open. Earlier in 2005, she had become the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 U.S. Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli. In 2004, she finished runner up at the Asian Tennis Championship. In 2005, Mirza reached the third round of the Australian Open, losing to eventual champion Serena Williams. On February 12, 2005, she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title, defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open Finals.Mirza won the 2003 Wimbledon Championships Girls’ Doubles title, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia. Mirza does not enjoy clay court. Her best performance in French Open singles has been a second round appearance in 2007.As of September 2006, Mirza has notched up three top 10 wins against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Martina Hingis.At the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Mirza won the silver in the women’s singles category and the gold in the mixed doubles partnering Leander Paes. She was also part of the Indian women’s team that won the silver in the team event.Mirza had the best results of her career during the 2007 summer hardcourt season, finishing eighth in the 2007 U.S. Open Series standings. She reached the final of the Bank of the West Classic and won the doubles event with Shahar Pe’er, and reached the quarterfinals of the Tier 1 Acura Classic.At the 2007 U.S. Open, she reached the third round before losing to Anna Chakvetadze for the third time in recent weeks. She fared much better in the doubles, reaching the quarterfinals in mixed with her partner Mahesh Bhupathi and the quarterfinals in the women’s doubles with Bethanie Mattek, including an impressive win over number two seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.She has stated that two of her best friends are fellow WTA tour players, Anna Chakvetadze and Bethanie Mattek.

Inspirational quotes

phoenix

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Be civil to all; sociable to many, familiar with few; friend to one’ enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

E. Phillpots
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One person can make a difference, and ever person must try.

John F. Kennedy
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton
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Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Stanislaus
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Unknown
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.

Jan Glidewell
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Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and

to play and to look at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke
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When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Maya Angelou
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When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward
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The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.

Anonymous
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
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There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need, but not for man’s greed.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
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One person can make a difference, and every person must try.

John F. Kennedy
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot
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inspiring quotes

Don’t let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for the high times. – David Wiemers

“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.
I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep. ” – Greg Evans

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ”
— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”
— W. Edwards Deming

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ”
— George Bernard Shaw

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ”
— Albert Einstein

The most important opinion is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.
- Zig Ziglar

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
— Orison Swett Marden

“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

“Keep company with those who make you better.”
— English Proverb

“Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. “ — Norman Vincent Peale

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry Davi thor

“Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your

plan long enough to win. – David Cottrell

“Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision.

It’s the fuel that allows common people obtain uncommon results.” – Andrew Cargegie

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.

They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. – Harvey
S Firestone.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.

Swami Vivekananda
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish come true”
- Paulo Coehlo
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

La Rochefoucauld