daily bread

"A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry."

Al Muwatta Hadith 47.12 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al-Musayyab from Abu Hurayra

In order for you 2 be trully happy with other people, you have to learn first how to be contented & happy being alone. Its only when you become in touch with urself dat you realize how important it is to be a whole person before sharing your life with someone else.

start thinking positively early in d day.

SMILE!

coz when u put on a happy face,

ul immediately start feeling better inside.

thanks for sharing truefriend

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:

“The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, who invoke Allah’s blessings upon you and you invoke His blessings upon them.

And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you, and whom you curse and who curse you.”

god is always at work in u.thats why you always have to be confident in evrything you do. HE is not just beside or behind u, but he is in YOU!

whats d problem?

i thought she asked for quotes...people have posted stories and poetry...wat the...

if you want to know where your heart is..

look where ur mind goes when it wanders..

always use a good quality flour for daily bread and don't use a bread maker.....

"Turn Your Face To The Sun And The Shadows Will Fall Behind You"

"I may not have given what is expected of a true friend, I am only human, not perfect. But inside this imperfect person lies a heat that loves and values you the best way it knows how"

happy thoughts create a happy day!!!!

Yesterday is history... tomorrow is a mystery...today is a gift... just believe ;))

Love the story! very touching!

I wish all people would have that determination!

She was three. Just released from a far-away hospital after life threatening brain surgery, ready to take on the world again. I was happy just to have her back. My little "Mr. Clean" (shaven head and hoop earrings) and me driving along to our local mall. Hanging out with dad day. I recall her words as if it were yesterday.

"Daddy, can I get a treat?"

As she was understandably spoiled (if there is such a thing), I replied "ok honey, but just ONE". Her eyes beamed like the Fourth of July in anticipation of that something only she knew at the time.

We drove around to the new end of the mall on the normal seek-and-destroy mission of capturing a parking place. After all, it was Saturday. We landed a fair distance from our destination, and began walking hand-in-hand towards the entrance, her pace gaining momentum with each tiny step. A few feet from the doors she broke loose and ran hands-first into the thick wall of glass, trying with everything she had to swing the big doors open. No luck. With a little assistance, she 'did it' and tried the very same thing at the second set of doors.

It was then that I asked her what she wanted for her treat. Without hesitation, she matter-of-factly said "an ice-cream comb from the ice-cream store". Ok, the goal was set and we were in the mall!

But hold on! What was this? At the end of what was just an ordinary looking lane of retail chain outlets she spied something new- this huge fountain, water shooting who knows how high into the air. The new goal line!

She ran, and I walked (don't ya just hate it when parents let their kids run wild in public?), and we arrived at the spectacle at about the same time. The turbulent noise was almost deafening. "Daddy, can I make a wish, can I make a wish?" she screamed as she jumped with the kind of pure joy we've all long since forgotten.

"Sure honey, but that will be YOUR TREAT you know," I explained (gotta be firm with these kind of things).

She agreed.

I fumbled around in my pocket and pulled out what I think was a dime (big spender) and placed it in her outstretched hand. She cupped it tightly, closed her eyes and grimaced, formulating her wish. I stared at that little scrunched-up face and said my own kind of prayer of thanks, feeling so blessed to still have this ball of energy in my life. And then like a shooting star, the coin was flung into the foaming water and with it, her wish.

We happily continued our stroll into the familiar section of the mall. An eerie silence ensued, which I was admittedly uncomfortable with. I couldn't resist breaking it.

"Aren't you gonna tell daddy what you wished for?"

She retorted "I wished I could get an ice-cream comb".

I just about lost it right then and there. Couldn't imagine what the shoppers thought of this lunatic laughing uncontrollably in the middle of a crowded mall. And needless to say, she got her wish, and two treats.

Little did I know then that my beautiful little girl would soon embark on a long road of seizures, surgeries, special schools, medications and end up partially paralyzed on her right side. She never learned to ride a bike.

Today, she is almost seventeen. She cannot use her right hand and walks with a noticeable limp. But she has overcome what life seemed to so cruelly inflict on her. She was teased a lot and always struggled in school, both socially and academically. But each year she showed improvement. She is planning a career in early childhood education. With one year still remaining in high school, her and I, one night not too long ago mapped out all the courses she would need to take in community college. It was her idea. She volunteers weekly at a local hospital, on the children's floor. She baby-sits a neighbors children five days a week. On her own this year, she stood outside in line for four hours on a cold Canadian January afternoon and enrolled herself, with her own babysitting money, into two courses she felt she would need for college.

You see, to her failure was never an option.

It would almost be redundant for me to explain why I wanted to share this story with you. She IS my daughter and I carry all those fatherly biases with me wherever I go. But these aside, she is a very exceptional person and one that I admire and have learned a lot from.

It is my sincerest hope that her story will have even a momentary positive impact on you as a human being, a parent, a spouse or even, an entrepreneur.

I'd like to leave you with a closing thought. As human beings, we deserve all the treats, and the multitude of good things that life can offer us. We all have wishes and dreams, AND the power to make them reality. Just simple truths of the universe.

We can wish for, and get, that ice-cream comb.

(c)1999 Rick Beneteau

Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took hold of the rope, and started up the face of that rock. Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens.

Well, here she is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there.

Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her to find it.

When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make it up the face of the cliff.

She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me."

Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?"

Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it on it's back.

Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."

have faith and you will be healed..

have god in ur life and u will find peace and right path to happiness with HIM..

"The past is history , the future is mystery, today is a gift thats why they c all it PRESENT."

"Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once."

1. Serve. Love. Give. Meditate. Realise.

2. Be Good. Do Good.

3. Enquire ‘Who am I?’ Know the Self and be free.

4. Detach. Attach. D.I.N. (Do It Now)

5. Adapt, Adjust and Accommodate.

6. Bear insult. Bear injury. Highest Sadhana.

7. Simplify. Purify. Intensify.

8. Seek, Find, Enter and Rest.

9. Devote, Dedicate and Dissolve.

10. Examine, Analyse and Know.

11. Enquire, Discover and Recover.

12. Cooperate, Collaborate and Coordinate.

13. Devotion, Dedication and Discipline.

14. Discrimination, Dispassion and Determination.

15. Aspiration, Renunciation and Meditation.

16. Service, Sacrifice and Sublimation.

17. Solitude, Seclusion and Silence.

18. Purification. Concentration. Reflection. Meditation.

19. Illumination, Identification, Absorption and Salvation.

20. Energise. Galvanise. Vitalise.

21. Excel in service. Expand in love. Advance in knowledge.

22. Pray. Aspire. Inspire.

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

“Look God I have never spoken to you,

But now I want to say “How do you do?”

You see God, they told me You didn’t exist,

And like a fool, I believed all this.

Last night from a shell-hole I saw Your sky,

I figured right then they told me a lie.

Had I taken the time to see things You made,

I’d have known they weren’t calling a spade a spade.

I wonder God if You’d shake my hand.

Somehow I feel You would understand.

Funny I had to come to this hellish place,

Before I had time to see Your face.

Well I guess there isn’t very much more to say,

But I’m glad, God I met You today.

I guess the ‘Zero Hour’ will soon be here.

But I’m not afraid since I know You are near.

The signal: Well, God, I’ll have to go;

I like You a lots; and I want You to know.

Look, now, this will be a horrible fight;

Who knows? I may come to your home tonight;

Though I wasn’t friendly to You before,

I wonder, God if You’ll wait at Your door.

I wish I had known You all these years.

Well, I have to go now, God; Goodbye;

Strange—since I met You,

I’m not afraid to die ....

*** Make up your Mind to be Happy.. Learn to find Pleasure in Simple Things.***

***Make the Best of Your Circumstances. No One has Everything,and Everyone has Something Of Sorrow Intermingles with Gladness of Life. The Trick is To Make The Laughter Outweighs the Tears.***

***Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously.. Don't Think that Somehow You Should Be Protected From Misfortune That Befalls Other People***

**You Can't Please Everybody. Don't Let Criticism Worry You.***

***Don't Let Your Neighbors Set Your Standards. BE YOURSELF.***

***Do The Things You Enjoy doing but Stay Out of Debt.***

Never Borrow Trouble. Imaginary Things are Harder to Bear than Real Ones.***

***Since Hate Poisons the Soul. Do not Cherish JEALOUSY. Avoid People Who Make You Unhappy.***

***Have Many Interest. If You Can't Travel, Read about New Places.***

***Don't Hold Postmortems. Don't Spend time Brooding Over Sorrows or Mistakes. Don't Be One Who Never Get Over Things.***

***Do What You Can For Those Less Fortunate Than Yourself.***

***Keep Busy At Something. A Busy At Something. A Busy Person Never Has Time To BE Unhappy.***

God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with Him

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" 1 Corinthians 2:9

When God leads you to the Edge of the Cliff, Trust Him fully and Let Go, Only One of Two thnings will happen, Either He'll catch you when you fall, or He'll teach you how to fly.

"Saints have a past, sinners have a future"

"All that goes well, ends well"

"women's biggest assest, is their lie-ability"(jks)

Everything is fear in LOVE and war ---- to love with someone who will love and care about u

The path that im taking is according to GOD's plan.. He is my sailor, my savior, my lifes attorney for evryday living. I found love and peace in his will of service.

one reason its free, its not compulsory, no need license/visa/police clearance etc, and heartaches is good for the circulation of your blood towards your heart so its healthy lols.. ;)))

life is a mess when u put ketchup on ur head..

its not a mess..its now yummy!

ladycharm i am 100% with you

The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) said, "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face."

Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) said: "Avoid being naked, for with you are those who never leave you (the Angels) except when you are relieving yourselves and when a man has intercourse with his wife; so observe modesty before them and honor them."

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: ‘A wise person is one who keeps a watch over his bodily desires and passions, and checks himself from that which is harmful and strives for that which will benefit him after death;

and a foolish person is one who subordinates himself to his cravings and desires and expects from Allah the fulfilment of his futile desires.’

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales and do not look for the others' faults, and do not do spying on one another, and do not practice Najsh (to cheat), and do not be jealous of one another and do not hate one another, and do not desert (stop talking to) one another. And O, Allah's worshipers! Be brothers!"

Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 008 Book No. 073 Hadith No. 092 Narrated by Abu Huraira (r.a.)

If things r happening

according to ur wish,

u r lucky!

But if they r not,

u r very lucky,

Bcoz they r hapning

according to God’s wish!

Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: "This world (i.e. its pleasures and duration) in comparison with the Life in the Hereafter is (similar to the amount of water) one gets when he puts his finger in the sea. Let him then see what it returns with.”

I tell you this, and I tell you plain:

What you have done, you will do again;

You will bite your tongue, careful or not,

Upon the already-bitten spot.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

"The signs of a hypocrite are three:

Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie.

Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise).

If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest. (If you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it.)"

Narrated Abu Huraira Sahih Hadith Volume 1 : 32

No one is listening until you fart

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

A FRESH DAILY BREAD TO YOUR SOUL....

I AM STILL ALIVE...THANK YOU GOD

PRAY TO GOD FOR GIVING ME STRENGTH TO STAND, WALK & DO PERFORM MY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE BEST!

I COULD NOT PAY IN RETURN TO GOD EXCEPT FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART AND SOUL "THANKS A ZILLION MY LORD FOR GIVING ME A HEALTHY AND WEALTHY FAMILY LIFE"

Prayer is a main part of life because this land of GOOD

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

May those who love us love us,

and those who do not love us,

may God turn their hearts,

and if He cannot turn their hearts

may He turn their ankles

that we may know them by their limping.

~Irish Prayer

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me.

Without geography, you're nowhere

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it

You can't have everything... where would you put it?

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.

No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.