Love

"With love all things are possible. Love gives the heart, the mind, and soul wings to fly and believe in miracles. The inspiration and power to make those dreams come true."
"Time is fleeting, yet when you are with someone you truly love, time does not matter."
"To love is not to just look at one another, But also to look together in the same direction"
"Saving your love never gains any interest"
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you see all inside their heart and soul and you both know it."
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
"Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse."
"Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life"
"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

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off the chennai pondicherry road....alambara fort...a beautiful spot to see... 

Your Smile

If at times you feel you want to cry
And life seems such a trial
Above the clouds there's a bright, blue sky
So make your tears a smile

As you travel on life's way
With its many ups and downs
Remember its quite true to say
One smile is worth a dozens frowns
Among the world's expensive things
A smile is very cheap
And when you give a smile away
You get one back to keep

Happiness comes at times to all
But sadness comes unbidden
And sometimes a few tears must fall
Among the laughter hidden
So when friends have sadness on their face
And troubles round them piled
The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled.... ;-) :-)

The Love of our Life

Her tears

make you want to

change the world

so that it

doesn't hurt her anymore.....

Yet regardless if you love them,

hate them,

wish they would go away or

know that you would die without them ...

it matters not.

Because once in your life,

whatever they were to the world

they become everything to you.

When you look them in the eyes,

traveling to the depths of their souls

and you say a million things

without trace of a sound,

you know that your own life

is inevitably consumed within

the rhythmic beatings of her very heart.

We love them for a million reasons,

No paper would do it justice.

It is a thing not of the mind

but of the heart.

A feeling.

Only felt...deep within.

If One Day

If one day you feel like crying.
Call me...
I don't promise you that I will make you laugh,
But I can cry with you...

If one day you want to run away
Don't be afraid to call me...
I don't promise that I can offer you the best solution,
But I can run away with you...:-)

If one day you hate the world & don't want to listen to anybody,
Call me...
I promise to be very quiet & listen and be your punching bag...:-)

If one day you call and there is no answer,
Come fast to see me ...
Perhaps I need you...

Beautiful Heart..

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole world. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

"Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." I said.

The crowd and the young man looked at my heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.

The people stared -- how could i say my heart is more beautiful, they thought?

The young man looked at the my heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," I replied, "yours is perfect looking but I would never trade my heart with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love,my care,my affection,my friendship - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of thier heart to me. These are the empty gouges -- giving love is taking a chance.... Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people still, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. "

[ as one gets older and we look back,it is these moments that we remember and cherish the most....the times we have loved and given, does not matter if we have recieved as much in return.....its those moments that have made life worth living]

for you...my Friend :-)

You don't always show it,
but I know that you care.
If I'd ever need you,
I know you'd be there.

You...I'm glad you're my friend.
Your smile makes me smile.
Your pain makes me hurt.

I want you to know:
If you need me...I'm there.
to make you happy,
to make you laugh.

You My friend,
Sometimes you make me mad,
but I can't stay mad.
Sometimes I want to get away from you.
And sometimes there's nothing I want more than...

to talk to you,
to tell you about my day,
to hear about yours,
to laugh with you,
to tease you,
to share an inside joke,
that no one else would get,
to argue with you,
but know we're just kidding...

Do you remember the time when...?
There are so many times.

Don't ever lose the wonderful person you are.
Stay happy.
Stay healthy.
Stay YOU.

I'll never stop being your friend.
Don't ever stop being mine.
You My friend,
Just wanted to tell you,
I care.

(i read these lines on the web....i am sure everyone reading this will immediately think of the one person they will associate these words with... :-)

deepavali view from my desk... 

the rainbow across the adyar river this evening.... 

Some Thoughts

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most?
Saying something and wishing you hadn't?, or
Saying nothing and wishing you had?

Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them. If you do, they might break your heart...if you don't, you might break theirs.

Your heart decides whom it likes and whom it doesn't. You can't tell your heart what to do. It does it on its own....when you least suspect it, or even when you don't want it to.

Have you ever wanted to love someone with everything you had, but that other person was too afraid to let you? Too many of us stay walled up because we are too afraid to care too much... for fear that the other person does not care as much, or even at all.

Have you ever denied your feelings for someone because your fear of rejection was too hard to handle?

We tell lies when we are afraid. .. afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Fate in our Hands

Many years ago, when a person who owed money could be thrown into jail, a merchant in London had the misfortune to owe a huge sum to a money-lender. The money-lender, who was old, ugly and wicked, fancied the merchant's beautiful teenage daughter. He proposed a bargain. He said he would cancel the merchant's debt if he could have the girl instead.Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified at the proposal. So the cunning money-lender proposed that they let Providence decide the matter.

He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money-bag and then the girl would have to pick out one of the pebbles. If she chose the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father's debt would be cancelled. If she chose the white pebble she would stay with her father and the debt would still be cancelled. But if she refused to pick out a pebble,her father would be thrown into jail and she would starve.

Reluctantly, the merchant agreed.

They were standing on a pebble-strewn path in the merchant's garden as they talked and the money-lender stooped down to pick up the two pebbles. As he picked up the pebbles, the girl,sharp-eyed with fright, noticed that he picked up two black pebbles and put them into the money-bag. He then asked the girl to pick out the pebble that was to decide her fate and that of her father.

Imagine that you are standing on the path in the merchant's garden.

What would you have done if you had been the unfortunate girl? Refuse to take a pebble? Point out that there are two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat ? Take a black pebble and sacrifice yourself in order to save your father from prison?

None of the suggestions is very helpful, for if the girl does not take a pebble her father goes to prison, and if she does take a pebble, then she has to marry the money-lender.

How Our Fate can be in our Hands.......

The girl in the pebble story put her hand into them oney-bag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall to the path, where it was immediately lost among all the others."Oh, how clumsy of me," she said, "but never mind - if you look into the bag you will be able to tell which pebble I took by the Colour of the one that is left."

Since the remaining pebble is of course black, it must be assumed that she had taken the white pebble, since the money-lender dare not admit his dishonesty.

In this way, using lateral thinking, the girl changes what seems an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one!

Movies

being from the movie industry,sometimes we have to learn to point a finger at ourselves and laugh... :-) :-)

here are some movie MUSTs.....

At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts-your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

True Love

It had been a year since Anjali, a once fiercely independent woman, became blind. She was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. Now all she had to cling to was her husband Karan,an Army officer.

Eventually, Anjali felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but was now too frightened to get around the city by herself. Karan volunteered to drive her to work each day, even though they worked at opposite ends of the city. At first, this comforted Anjali and fulfilled Karan's need to protect his sightless wife who was so insecure about performing the slightest task.
Soon, however Karan realized that this arrangement wasn't working - it was hectic, and costly. Anjali is going to have to start taking the bus again, he admitted to himself. But just the thought of mentioning it to her made him cringe. Just as Karan predicted, Anjali was horrified at the idea of taking the bus again. "I'm blind!" she responded bitterly. "How am I supposed to know where I'm going? I feel like you're abandoning me."

Karan's heart broke to hear these words, but he knew what had to be done. He promised Anjali that each morning and evening he would ride the bus with her, for as long as it took, until she got the hang of it.

For two solid weeks, Karan, military uniform and all, accompanied Anjali to and from work each day and then took a cab back to his office. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could watch out for her, and save her a seat. Although this routine was even more costly and time consuming than the previous, Karan knew it was only a matter of time before Anjali would be able to ride the bus on her own. He believed in her.

Finally, Anjali decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own.
Monday morning arrived, and before she left she threw her arms around Karan, her temporary bus riding companion, her husband, and her best friend. Her eyes filled with tears of gratitude for his loyalty, his patience, his love. She said good-bye, and for the first time, they went their separate ways. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ... Each day on her own went perfectly, and Anjali had never felt better. She was doing it! She was going to work all by herself!

On Friday morning, Anjali took the bus to work as usual. As she was paying for her fare to exit the bus, the driver said, "Boy, I sure envy you." Anjali wasn't sure if the driver was speaking to her or not. After all, who on earth would ever envy a blind woman who had struggled just to find the courage to live for the past year?

Curious, she asked the driver, "Why do you say that you envy me?" The driver responded, "It must feel so good to be taken care of and protected like you are." Anjali had no idea what the driver was talking about, and replied, "What do you mean?"
The driver answered, "You know, every morning for the past week, a fine looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner watching you when you get off the bus. He makes sure you cross the street safely and he watches you until you enter your office building. Then he blows you a kiss, gives you a little salute and walks away. You are one lucky lady."

Tears of happiness poured down Anjali's cheeks. For although she couldn't physically see him, she had always felt Karan's presence.

He had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn't need to see to believe - the gift of love that can bring light where there had been darkness.
Sometimes it's the unseen support that makes for the biggest gifts of joy...

[ i like this story so much because i think this is the way i would have reacted....made sure she was strong and independent but also safe and secure..:-) the unseen support...:-) ]

Troubles

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw broke, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again."

"Funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there ain't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

:-) :-)

Romance

Keeping Romance in Every Day Living

Touch is a very important communicator. As you walk through a room, reach out and simply touch your partner. Simply brush your hand across a cheek, pause a moment with your hand on a shoulder, stroke their hair. Touch conveys warmth, caring and love without saying a word.

SMILE a lot...

Little hand written notes left on the pillow, in a pocket, tucked in a lunch, placed in a drawer, even stuck to the steering wheel or mirror of the car telling your partner how special they are.

Remember flirting? You flirted a little (okay so maybe you didn't) to capture their attention. Flirt with your partner on occasion. It's fun!

Hug your someone at least 6 times a day. Hugging lets them and you know someone is there, they care, life and moments are shared.

Be spontaneous! Don't wait for an anniversary or special occasion....got an idea or inspiration for romance? Go with it!Take a walk together..just enjoy each other's company.

Enjoy a slow dance in the living room or in the moonlight when all is quiet late at night.

Make use of the internet and email. You can send just quick "thinking of you" emails or messages, a greeting card just because. Some of the most romantic and cherished "love letters" are emails from the one you love.
Have an answering machine or voice mail? Leave short messages for your partner. Some voice mail boxes allow the set up of individual boxes. Set one up for each person, that way you can leave more personal messages without the kids or anyone else listening.
With text mesaging now on cell phones....make use of it. A simple I love u....you look great...anything nice to remind them you are thinking of them....:-)

A Love Story

He met her at a party. She was young,charming and beautiful,with so many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but being polite, she agreed.

They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, and she started feeling uncomfortable. She was hoping the meeting would finish soon.. suddenly he asked the waiter "would you please give me some salt?I'd like to put it in my coffee."

She stared at him in surprise.

His face turned red, but he put the salt in his coffee and drank it.

She asked him curiously "why do you drink coffee this way"

He replied: "when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea , just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there".

While saying this tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched.That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can talk about his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of a home..

Then she also started to speak...spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. It was a long talk into the wee hours of the morning...

They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who met all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, caring...

He was such a good person but she had almost missed him!

Thanks to his salty coffee the love had blossomed....

Like every beautiful love story, the princess married the prince and they lived a happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I have said to you---the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I had promised not to lie to you for anything.. Now I'm dying, I am afraid of nothing, so I am telling you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste.But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I have never feel sorry for anything I do for you.Having you with me is my biggest happiness in whole life. If I can live for the second time, I still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again".

Her tears made the letter totally wet.

Someone asked her "what's the taste of salty coffee?"

"It's sweet" She replied.

love is not to forget but to forgive...

not to just see,but to understand....

not to just hear,but to listen...

not to let go but to hold on...

A Friend

A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you may become, and still gently invites you to grow......

A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.

Friends are like puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that puzzle will never be whole again.

Friends are like stars. You may not always see them but you know they are always there....

Friendship is a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears......