Life’s lessons
Love in action

One night a man came to our house and told me, "There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days," I took some food and I went. When I finally came to the family, I saw the faces of those little children disfigured by hunger. There was no sorrow or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger. I gave the rice to the mother. She divided it in two, and went out, carrying half the rice with her. When she came back, I asked her, "Where did you go?" She gave me this simple answer, "To my neighbours — they are hungry also."

I was not surprised that she gave — because poor people are generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we are suffering, we are so focussed on ourselves that we have no time for others.

— Mother Teresa

Thomas Edison tried 2000 different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, "All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing."

Edison replied very confidently, "Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are 2000 elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb."

— From the net