MORE ON LEARNING ENGLISH (MOLE) SPECIAL

WHAT ARE BOOKS FOR?

FOR MAKING A HOME LIBRARY?

FOR KEEPING AS A PILLOW?

FOR SHOWING OTHERS THAT

YOU HAVE READ ALL THE BOOKS THERE

BEHIND YOU?

OR HAVE YOU REALLY TURNED

AT LEAST ONE PAGE

IN EACH BOOK?

OR THEY HAVE BEEN THERE

AS BORROWED BOOKS

AND NOT RETURNED

TO THE LIBRARY OR THE OWNER.

THINK,WHY THOSE BOOKS

ARE THERE?

SOME BOOKS ARE TO BE READ,

SOME TO BE PONDERED UPON,

SOME TO BE DIGESTED.

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DO YOU KNOW WHO AM I?

I FOUND OUT WHERE SEETHA WAS

AS SAMPATHI,THE BROTHER

OF ARUN, THE CHARIOTEER

OF THE SUN GOD,

AND INFORMED THAT

SHE  WAS IN SRILANKA

IN ASOKA VANA.

HAVE SUCH EYES OF MINE,

TO LOOK EVEN A RAT,

FROM THAT LONG DISTANCE.

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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, “I like you.

 You make me happy. 

 am glad to see you.” 

That is why dogs make such a hit. 

They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

A baby’s smile has the same effect. 

WHAT A BEAUTY!

“I have also eliminated criticism from my system.

 I give appreciation and praise now instead of condemnation.

 I have stopped talking about what I want. 

I am now trying to see the other person’s viewpoint.

 And these things have literally revolutionized my life. 

I am a totally different man, a happier man, a richer man, richer in friendships and happiness—the only things that matter much after all.” 

You don’t feel like smiling? 

Then what? 

Two things.

 First, force yourself to smile.

 If you are alone, force yourself to whistle or hum a tune or sing. 

Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

 Here is the way the psychologist and philosopher William James put it: 

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. 

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It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.

 It is what you think about it. 

For example, two people may be in the same place, doing the same thing; both may have about an equal amount of money and prestige, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. 

Why?

 Because of a different mental attitude. 

I have seen just as many happy faces among the poor peasants toiling with their primitive tools in the devastating heat of the tropics as I have seen in air-conditioned offices in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. 

There is nothing either good or bad,” said Shakespeare, “but thinking makes it so.”

Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. 

To think rightly is to create.

 All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. 

We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. 

Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. 

We are gods in the chrysalis. 

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Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.

 Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. 

To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. Especially when that someone is under pressure from his bosses, his customers, his teachers or parents or children, a smile can help him realize that all is not hopeless—that there is joy in the world.

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Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. 

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A department store in Chicago almost lost a regular customer who spent several thousand dollars each year in that store because a sales clerk wouldn’t listen.

 Mrs. Henrietta Douglas, who took our course in Chicago, had purchased a coat at a special sale.

 After she had brought it home she noticed that there was a tear in the lining. 

She came back the next day and asked the sales clerk to exchange it.

 The clerk refused even to listen to her complaint.

 “You bought this at a special sale,” she said.

 She pointed to a sign on the wall.

 “Read that,” she exclaimed. “‘All sales are final.’

Once you bought it, you have to keep it.

 Sew up the lining yourself.”

“But this was damaged merchandise,” Mrs. Douglas complained. 

“Makes no difference,” the clerk interrupted. “Final’s final.”

 Mrs. Douglas was about to walk out indignantly, swearing never to return to that store ever, when she was greeted by the department manager, who knew her from her many years of patronage.

 Mrs. Douglas told her what had happened.

 The manager listened attentively to the whole story, examined the coat and then said, “Special sales are ‘final’ so we can dispose of merchandise at the end of the season.

 But this ‘no return’ policy does not apply to damaged goods.

 We will certainly repair or replace the lining, or if you prefer, give you your money back.” 

What a difference in treatment! If that manager had not come along and listened to the Customer, a long-term patron of that store could have been lost forever. Listening is just as important in one’s home life as in the world of business.

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