WORDS OF WISDOM

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.....

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you....

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't living.....

STRUGGLE

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat

and watched the butterfly struggle for several hours as it struggled to force its body

through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared

as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.


Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped

off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had

a swollen body and small. shriveled wings.


The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment,

the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which contract

in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around

with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.


What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting

cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening

were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so

that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.


Sometimes struggle are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us

to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be

strong as what we could be today.....and we could never fly.....


WHAT'S THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.....

"Takes pain," said the window.

"Keep cool," said the ice.

"Drive hard," said the hammer.

"Be up to date," said the calender.

"Never be led," said the pencil.

"Be sharp," said the knife.

"Make light around you," said the fire.

"Stick to it," said the glue.

"Be bright," said the lamp.