Crisis is Opportunity

I found the lesson in the above old Chinese saying from the many stories of the invention of Dry-Cleaning. According to my favourite version, a man had accidentally spilled some paraffin on to a dirty table-cloth. That was the crisis. He then NOTICED that the bit the paraffin had soaked was clean. That was the opportunity. 

Now the lesson: Inside every crisis we face in life lies an opportunity. 

You hold the key to your own happiness

Your lifelong happiness does not come from your physical appearance. It does not come from what you wear or from your material possessions. Rather, they are the sources of your fear, your anxiety and your worries. Your real happiness comes from your state of mind, your outlook, your motivation, the strength of your character and the level of your warmhearted feelings toward others. By HH Dalai Lama in Beyond Religion.

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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions.  Get started now.  With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen