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Rivista ghal min qed ifittex is-sejha ta' Alla, u jrid jaghmel xi haga dwarha A resource for those seeking God's plan in their life, and who wish to do something about itTRANSCRIPT
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Your success and happiness
lie in you
- Helen Keller
No matter how good you
get you can always get
better, and that’s the
exciting part.
- Tiger Woods
Success is falling nine
times and getting up
ten
- Jon Bon Jovi
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Don’t be afraid to give up
the good to go for the
great.
- John D. Rockefeller
It’s no use saying, “We
are doing our best.” You
have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
What you are is God’s gift
to you, what you become
is your gift to God
- Hans Urs von Balthassar
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The secret of success in
life is for a man to be
ready for his
opportunity when it
comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The three great essentials
to achieve anything
worthwhile are, first, hard
work; second, stick to it;
third, common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison
Success does not consist in
never making mistakes but
in never making the same
one a second time.
- George Bernard Shaw
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You must expect great
things of yourself before
you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Success is getting what you
want...Happiness is wanting
what you get
- Dale Carnegie
Success is dependent on effort
- Sophocles
Always bear in mind that your
own resolution to succeed is
more important than any one
thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Men are born to succeed,
not to fail
- Henry David Thoreau
Judge your success by
what you had to give up
in order to get it.
- Dalai Lama XIV
For whoever wishes to
save his life will lose it;
but whoever loses his life
for My sake will find it
- Mt 16 :25
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THE BIG STONES OF LIFE
A professor was invited to give a lecture on "Efficient Time
Management" to a group of managers. They had been sent there to represent the largest and most successful companies in the world.
Standing in front of this group of such important people, the
famous professor slowly met eyes with each manager, one by one,
and finally said: "We are going to conduct an experiment".
He pulled out a big glass bowl from under the table and gently placed it in front of him. Next, he brought out from under the table
a bag of small stones, each the size of a tennis ball, and placed them one by one in the bowl. He did so until there was no room to
add another stone. The professor then looked up and saw all those eyes curiously watching him. He asked the managers: "Is the bowl
full?" To which the managers immediately replied: "Yes!".
"Ah!" remarked the professor, smiling, as he reached under the table and pulled out a bag full of pebbles. He poured them all into
the bowl, slightly rattling it to allow the pebbles to slip through the larger stones, until they settled at the bottom. Again he asked: "Is
the bowl full?" At this point, the managers began to understand his
intentions. One replied: "Apparently not!"
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"Correct!" replied the old professor, while
reaching under the table and pulling out
a bag of sand. Carefully he poured the sand into the bowl. The sand filled up the spaces between the stones and the pebbles. Yet again, the professor asked: "Is the bowl full?" Without hesitation, the entire group of students replied in one
voice: "No!" "Correct!" replied the professor. As expected,
he reached for a jug of water from under the table and poured water in the bowl until it was absolutely full. The professor
now lifted his gaze once again and asked: "What important lesson can we learn from this experiment?"
With his thoughts on the lecture topic, one
manager quickly replied: "We learn that as full as our schedules may appear, if we only increase our effort, it is always possible to add more meetings and tasks."
"No" replied the professor. "The great truth we can conclude from this experiment is that if
we don’t put all the larger stones in the bowl first, we will never be able to fit all of them later."
The auditorium fell silent, as every manager thought about the significance of the
professor’s words.
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The old professor continued: "What are the large stones in your life? Health? Family? Friends? Your goals? Doing what you love? Fighting for a cause? Taking time for yourself? We must remember to include the lager stones in our life, because if we don’t do so, we are likely to miss out on life altogether. If we give
priority to the smaller things in life, our life will be filled up with less important things, leaving little or no time for the things that are most important to us. And so, my friends, never forget to ask yourself: 'What are the large
stones for me in my life?' And once you identify them, be sure to put them in first. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have room for things that are truly most important."
With a warm wave of his hand, the professor
bid farewell to the managers, and slowly walked out of the room.
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RIFLESSJONI
X'laqtek jew x'ħassejt waqt li kont qed taqra dan ir-rakkont?
Bħalissa x’qed jidħol l-ewwel fil-ħajja tiegħek: Il-ġebel il-kbir? Iċ-ċagħak? Ir-ramel? L-ilma?
X’jistgħu jfissru dawn għalik bħalissa, fil-bidu tal-vaganzi tas-sajf?
X’inhu l-ġebel il-kbir li taħseb li għandek tibda minnu minn issa l-quddiem?
Contact
Fr Michael and share your comments,
suggestions,
ideas or problems
email: [email protected]
Vocational Centre
Archbishop’s Seminary
Tal-Virtu, Rabat
Tel : 21450354 /79964557.
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passaing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices
Teresa of Avila
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