Hey dudes,
Courtesy: An electronic mail forward from my friends Archana Muralidharan & Aysha Banu. (infact i m in the mailing list of both ;-))
This is yet another best email forward. Feel so happy while reading and wish all of us should try implementing these in our lives atleast to certain extent. The life is not only for us but also to the people around us.. wassay?
Just to quote, i lend the dialogues of Manirathnam (the great film director of Tamilnadu, India) in his movie Naayagan (casting kamalhaasan), "naalu pearukku nalladhu nadakkumna ethuvumea thappilla" [Translation: If your deeds yield some good things for others, nothing is wrong and you dont need to bother about anything else]
A wonderful story comes from 19th Century England. According to the account, Queen Victoria was once at a diplomatic reception in London.
The guest of honor was an African chieftain. All went well during the meal until, at the end, finger bowls were served. The guest of honor had never seen a British finger bowl, and no one had thought to brief him beforehand about its purpose. So he took the bowl in his two hands, lifted it to his mouth, and drank its contents down!
For an instant there was breathless silence among the British privileged guests, and then they began to whisper to one another. All that stopped,however, when Queen Victoria silently took her finger bowl in her two hands, lifted it, and drank its contents! A moment later, 500 surprised Britishladies and gentlemen simultaneously drank the contents of their own finger bowls. It was the queen's uncommon courtesy that guarded her guestfrom certain embarrassment.
"Knowledge, ability, experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy be lacking," says George D. Powers.
"Courtesy is the one passport that will be accepted without question in every land, in every office, in every home, in every heart in the world. For nothing commends itself so well as kindness; and courtesy is kindness."
"When every thing seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it..." -- Henry Ford
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