50 Most Amazing Things One Should Know

• The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
• What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
• “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
• In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
• Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
• The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
• The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
• Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
• The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
• The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
• On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
• The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
• More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
• The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
• You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
• Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
• The average person laughs 10 times a day!
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain

And a Mistake There are 51 Most Amazing Things One Should Know….

The Last One is You Are The Most Amazing Person in the Entire Universe….

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Please teach me, Lord

Please teach me, Lord …

I want to know

Exactly how to pray.

I need some words

Which ones are right?

Please tell me what to say.

I’ve bowed my head

I have knelt down,

But … should I be upright?

I’ve closed my eyes,

I’ve raised my hands,

Or … should I fold them tight?

Do I stand up?

Should I sit down?

Dear Lord … what do you like?

Are lights turned on

Or are they off?

Maybe … candle light?

Wear my glasses?

Take them off?

Be at my desk or table?

Should I whisper?

Speak out loud?

Do I quote the Bible?

What do you think

About the time?

Do You prefer the dawn?

Should I pray fast,

Or keep it slow?

Better short … or long?

I’m new at this

What are the rules?

I want to do it right.

How do I know

You’ll even hear

That I am in Your sight?

And while I sat there quietly,

Waiting for some sign,

I heard a gentle voice say,

“Oh, dearest child of mine …

Do you think I really care

About the time of day,

Or whether you are standing up,

Or kneeling when you pray?”

“I don’t care about your posture,

Or about the place you choose;

Just open up your soul to me,

I have no other rules.

Tell me what is in your heart,

And tell me what you seek;

Tell me of your sorrows,

And of those things that made you weak.”

“Speak to me in private

About what concerns you most;

I know about your good deeds …

You have no need to boast.

My child, you don’t need lessons,

Just talk to me each day;

Tell me anything you want, dear child,

Anyone can pray.”

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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,

Splendour, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice,

and absence of pride; these are the qualities

of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.

Bhagavad Gita 16.3

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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,

and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Bible

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Be like the sandalwood which perfumes the axe that wounds it.

Dhammapada

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Holding on to anger is like grasping hot coal with the

intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Gautama Buddha

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

M K Gandhi

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much.

Oscar Wilde

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Namasmarana

Namasmarana

 

Namasmarana is the best antidote for all ills. Never be ashamed to sing the name of God. Vemana did not visit any temple for long; for years he was laughing at those who considered the image as a symbol of Divinity. But when his daughter died, he was one day holding her picture in his hand, weeping over the loss. Then it struck him that if the picture could cause sorrow and bring tears, the divine image can evoke positive feelings and bring tears of joy to those who know the beauty and glory of God. The image was a reminder of divine presence.

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Forgiveness is Truth; forgiveness is holiness; and by forgiveness the universe is held together.

Forgiveness is Truth; forgiveness is holiness; and by forgiveness the universe is held together.

Mahabharata

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If you love God, follow me, and God will love you, and forgive you all your sins; God is all-forgiving, all-compassionate.

Quran 3.31

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Where there is forgiveness, there is God Himself.

Adi Granth

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They are great who fast and do penance,/ But they who forgive wrongs are even greater.

Tirukkural

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Forgive, you will have happiness./ Forget, you will have satisfaction./ Forgive and forget,/ You will have everlasting peace/ Within and without.

Sri Chinmoy

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

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He who refuses to forgive breaks the bridge over which he, too, must cross.

Confucius

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Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Brian Tracy

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Louis B Smedes

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I look upon all creatures equally

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita 9.29

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There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you might know each other not that you might despise each other. Verily the most honoured among you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous.

Quran 49.13

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Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another.

Prophet Muhammad

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Light is a living spirit. The most sublime lesson that the sun gives us is his love for all creatures.

Omraam Aivanhov

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Nobody is born or dies at any time

Nobody is born or dies at any time: It is the mind that conceives its birth and death and its migration to other bodies and other worlds.

Yoga Vasishta

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Know that the body is like a garment. Go, seek the wearer of the garment…

You are such that without the material body you have a spiritual body:

Do not, then, dread the going forth of the soul from the body.

Jalaluddin Rumi

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As fire assumes the forms of burning objects, so hath the all-pervading Lord assumed the forms of beings and things.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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The Self existed before the birth of this body and will remain after the death of this body. So it is with the series of bodies taken up in succession.

The Self is immortal. The phenomena are changeful and appear mortal. The fear of death is of the body.

Ramana Maharshi

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There is no coming and going.

For what is coming but going?

Shabistari

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Avoid Dwelling its Very Destructive……….

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Henry Emerson Fosdick

Some people believe that in order to process an event or a frustration that they have to talk about it. There is a fine line between catharsis and dwelling on the negative though. If you find yourself frequently retelling the same negative story over and over again, you are not getting it out of your system; you are culturing it and allowing the negativity to fester. Even retelling it once may be allowing it to fester. This does nothing to fix the problem and it brings you down.

Don’t allow external events to bring you down. No one has the power to hurt you emotionally, no matter what they do, unless you let them. Dwelling on unfortunate events or people only hurts you, and it does nothing to them.

If you find yourself returning to thoughts that don’t make you feel good, set them aside and focus on more positive thoughts. It may help you to listen to a song that you find uplifting, watching a happy movie or reading something positive.

This is not to say that grieving isn’t ever appropriate. Grieving is always appropriate under certain circumstances. The problem arises when that fear or pain overrides your ability to function in the long-term. It was a difficult road for me, but after a lot of emotional turmoil, I realized that it’s a mental thing and entirely within my ability to control. I don’t have to allow the things that happen to me to control how I feel, and neither does anyone else. If you are dwelling on things that don’t make you feel good, you are allowing those external influences to destroy your peace. If you want peace, you have to impose it in spite of those things. It may take practice, but you can do it.

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By The River……..

She was 20 and he was 26. They met by the river one May afternoon. She was from the city and he lived in the small town of St. Anne. She was a city girl who loved the outdoors; simple and carefree. He was a young man who nursed his grief, who loved to be alone and who shut himself off from seeing the real beauty of life. They were complete opposites.

“Hi!” she said. She is petite and looks younger than her age, unusually pale but there was some glow in her small eyes. She’s wearing a brown leather hat. He’s sitting at the big roots of a mango tree at the riverbank, waiting for any fish that will bite his bait.

He looks up and frowns as he sees the unfamiliar face. He looks back at the river and says, “Ello”.

She sits beside him. “Mind if I sit here?”

“You’re already sitting there”, he says without looking at her face.

She just shrugs her small shoulders. “My name is Gessana”, she says after a long silence. “What’s your name?”

“Arthur.”

After that they remain silent, and after several more minutes she tells him that she will go home now. Her cousin might be looking for her. He just nods.

The following afternoon, she finds him again in the same spot.

“Hi! Please, do you mind if I sit here again?” she happily asks.

A simple nod is his answer. She’s wearing a yellow dress and she looks very fragile.

“Where do you stay?” he asks her after she fully settled on the big stone beside the big roots where he sits.

She smiles. “Keanne is my cousin and she invited me to spend my summer vacation here.”

He nods again.

“I like it here, the place, this river, and the quiet environment.” She closes her eyes and leans back on the mangoes’ bark.

He looks at her then looks back at the water.

“Is that all?” he asks.

She opens her eyes. “Hmmm, it is relaxing in here, I like the green grass and the feel of the rough mango bark on my back. The warm stone I sit on. Everything!”

“Nature lover, huh?”

“Hmmm, sort of. How about you?” She looks at him.

He shakes his head negatively. “Nothing.”

She frowns. “Nothing?”

He nods.

“Hmmm, hearing it is something new!” she says jubilantly. “But honestly, a person has always something on himself; beauty, joy, cravings, even loneliness and desperation. There is always something in a person’s life.”

And that was the beginning. They became friends, sharing that something and nothing.

But he lives in his dark past. She’s the light that comes to lighten his world, but summer will end after two weeks and his world will be dark again.

“But you don’t need to think sadness before it grips you”, she says as they hold each other’s hand under the mango tree at the riverbank.

“You will not enjoy life if you think of getting hurt someday. You will not feel what real love is if you restrain yourself from loving that special person wholly. Will you reap full trust if you sow only half? Interruptions come in a person’s life and we can’t stop them, nobody can. Someone we love might disappoint us, incurable sickness will embrace us, and some people will leave us behind. Well, it’s natural. We don’t know what’s in store for tomorrow, so while we have the now, let’s embrace it joyfully, thanking God for giving it to us, even for a short period. What matters is the lesson it teaches us, that there is always more to life than increasing its speed.”

“Yeah, I guess so.”

The following day is a cloudy day for him. As he cleans his closet, he sees the picture of the woman he loved before, he was about to marry, a woman whom he’d given all his devotion and understanding, a woman he adored, yet left him because of some foreign ambitions – unattainable if she remained in their small village. The grief and bitterness flows back to his heart like a strong current of the river.

She’s been waiting for him for two hours already yet even his shadow isn’t there. But she still waits… till the darkness envelopes the day and it’s time for her to go home. Every day she waits for him at the riverbank until the summer is over; the summer of her heart.

September.

“Where does she live?” He is sitting in the living room of Keanne’s house. She’s looking grumpily at him.

“Please”, he begs.

“Heaven.”

He frowns. “Please tell me. I need to go to her and tell her how sorry am I.”

She shakes her head. Then some small pearls of tears roll onto her cheek.

“She already passed away, two weeks ago. She had bone marrow cancer. You saw how pale she was? Of course you didn’t see it, because you always looked down at yourself.”

He sat by the river and wept silently, but tears would not return her from the grave. Then, he remembered what she said.

“Always enjoy the present because it was God’s gift to us, and it’s the only thing that we have now.”

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Self-confidence is the Key to success

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

“I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized.Nonetheless, the executive decided to put the check in his safe first. Just knowing it was there, would give him the strength to work out away to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and got extended terms of payment from creditors. Soon he could close some big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly a year later, he returned to the park with that uncashed check. The old man did not appear for some time yet the business executive decided to wait for a while more. A while late

the old man came along the way but seemed to be unmindful of the business executive. He stopped the old man and was about the hand over the cheque with a few words of thanks as well as share his success story.

At the same time, he saw a nurse come running up and grabbing the old man. “I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.” And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he’d been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. He understood that Confidence is nothing but the distant vision held positively no matter what comes in between. It comes from one’s own commitment and dedication and entirely internal.

“Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth”

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