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ABRAHAM LINCOLN once said, “I may be walking slowly, but I never walk backwards! Whenever I walk backwards, it's for a long jump.” One must treat pain and suffering as power-giving forces because unless one faces difficulties and necessities in life, one does not try to acquire power. Sometimes the road travelled turns out to be more beautiful than the destination reached. Enjoy leading your life no matter what it turns out to be. If a granite stone is lying in the way, that could be an obstacle for a weak man but for the strong, it is just like a stepping-stone. Power does not resemble physical strength; it is a strong determination. We are unhappy if someone criticizes, hurts, and upsets us. But, we should not pay attention to it. It is said in the Gita that man himself is the cause of pleasure and pain. The mind runs after desires and if these desires are not fulfilled, it becomes a cause of suffering, which ultimately generates feelings of hatred, jealousy, revenge, ego and anger. All these feelings make man unhappy. The best way to get rid of these feelings is to think that pain will gradually give way to pleasure.

Never blame a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give you a lesson and the best days give you memories. We see that all beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in the darkroom. Whenever our life appears

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Delight & Distress - a Way of Life