Solid Words

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.

Taken from "Meditations from a Simple Path" by Mother Teresa

An Answer

An in-depth reply by a friend to my post Does Self-Improvement Improve? :

In my opinion, personal/relational influence is what matters. Books, movies,sports,music etc happen to be the channels through which the authors/actors/directors/singers(different persons) convey what they want to.What exactly matters, changes individually. At the same time whatever the person is trying to convey, has to be caught immediately by the person being conveyed. I call this ability to catch, "an innate spark".

Can I Call You Angel ?

by Erin Sheets

The snow fell, leaving a halo of white upon your head, and that's when I said, "Can I call you Angel?" You looked at me with surprise, but I could see it in your eyes, and I knew. As you sang silent night, your beautiful voice put me at ease, and I asked please, "Can I call you Angel?" A smile came to your face with serenity and grace, but you said not a word. In my darkest hours you held my hand, never leaving my side, and I said, while I cried, "Can I call you Angel? " You then began to wipe the tears away and erase all the gray in my life. You led me down a path of gold, telling me of the creator above, and again I asked with a greater love, "Can I call you Angel?" You never answered my plea, so I fell to my knee in prayer. As I opened my eyes, I could see you before me; Your wings spread and a golden halo upon your head and one last time I said, "Josslyn, can I call you Angel?"

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contd..

Some more confirmed information
For the previous post, click here.

• One of the classmates will become a teacher at Hogwarts - but not Harry, Ron or Hermione.
• The "Godric" in "Godric's Hollow" is not insignificant.The significance of the place where Harry and his parents lived - the first name... Godric Gryffindor
• We will find out a little bit more about Harry's grandparents.
• Aunt Petunia will not be able to do magic.
• The Brazilian title, "Harry Potter e as Relequias da Morte", translates into English as:"Harry Potter and the Relics of Death"
• There is yet more to come about Rita Skeeter: At the Edinburgh Book Festival, JKR said: "I actually quite like Rita. She is loathsome - morally, she's horrible - but I can't help admiring her toughness. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. There is more to come on Rita."
• We will discover what Dudley saw when the Dementor approached in book five. Someone asked this in the World Book Day chat; JKR said, " Ah, good question. You'll find out! "
• Sirius may appear again, though in which form is uncertain. The infamous question from the World Book Day chat read, "If we ever see Sirius again, what form will he be in?" JKR said, "I couldn't possibly answer that for fear of incriminating myself."
• Wormtail's life-debt to Harry will come into play.
• James and Lily Potter's professions/more about their lives will be revealed.
• The gleam of triumph seen in Dumbledore's eyes at the end of book four is still enormously important.
  
• Mr. Weasley's car will appear.
  

Source : Leaky Cauldron

A Street Kid’s Guide

(How to get from here to there)

It’s hard to get from here to there

If you never get out of bed.

You lie a lot to fool your friends

But you fooled yourself instead.

It’s harder to get from here to there

If you set your goals too high;

Then nothing ever works out right;

Too soon, you no longer try.

But the hardest way to get from here to there

Is when all you ever do

Is count up the years, and miles to go.

Then you’re through before you’re through.

So how do you get from here to there?

Well, you first must believe you can

Let no one tell you differently —

It’s your life and it’s in your hands.

Then turn your dreams into your goals

And see what you need now

To satisfy the requirements:

The why, the where and how.

At first you’re overwhelmed, of course;

There is so much you don’t know.

But keep your faith, be strong and sure,

For you do have a way to go.

Take careful steps and do them right,

Take pride in each thing done.

Don’t look too far ahead of yourself,

Just that next step yet to come.

Before you know it you’ll be there, friend,

Your dream will then be real.

And you’ll be standing where I am now,

Telling others how good it feels.

You’ll tell them not to quit themselves,

To have faith, though it’s hard to bear.

So they will know it can be done —

They, too, can get from here to there.

Jennings Michael Burch

Note: This poem was written by a person who was brought up in foster homes, did not even finish high school but succeeded on the basis of his own efforts. He wrote his autobiography “They Cage the Animals at Night”. Maybe a word here or a line there that might help you get through a rough time. I hope so…

Taken from the “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II “.

Prayer

Oh God!...
Help me log on without fretting
Guide me as I am interneting
Bless my downloading and uploading
Keep my browser from uploading

May my website be protected
Let not my password be rejected
Keep my line always connected
And all my inputs be accepted
Please keep all my programs alive
And to remember to backup my hard drive
And protect my computer from a crashing drive
From a virus that would make it a nesting hive.

Author - unknown

Harry Potter- something rare

General Facts Not Disclosed in the Books
(Facts go from newest to oldest, with newest on top)

• Prefects can take points; Ron got it wrong in Order of the Phoenix, which makes him a pretty poor prefect, eh?

• Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fools' day (no joke).
• Ginny Weasley's first name is Ginevra, and she is the first female Weasley born for "several generations," says JKR.
• Molly Weasley's maiden name is Prewett.
• Crookshanks is half Kneazle.
• Dean Thomas's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them. Neither Dean nor his mother know.
• Hogwarts has about a thousand students. (True, that number doesn't seem right, but J.K.R. said so, and she's the boss.)
• Hermione's birthday is September 19th; Ron's is March 1st.
• James Potter inherited lots of money and didn't need a well-paying profession.
• James Potter inherited the Invisibility Cloak from his father.
• Witches and wizards have longer life-spans than Muggles.
• The Gringotts' goblins return the Muggle money they acquire back into circulation.
• The approximate value of a Galleon is about five pounds ($7.30 or 8.00 Euro), though the exchange rate varies.
• Dumbledore is 150, McGonagall is 70 (and is really an old softy; she just doesn't act like it), Snape is 35 or 36.
• Hogwarts' school motto, "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," means, "Never tickle a sleeping dragon."
• If placed in front of a mirror, the inscription on the Mirror of Erised ("Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi") reads, "I show not your face but your heart's desire."
• The happiest people do not become ghosts (Therefore, we can assume that ghosts are people that died while sad, angry, etc. Myrtle was teased; Nearly Headless Nick didn't have his head completely chopped off; the Bloody Baron was...lonely?)
• The Hogwarts teachers do not stay at Hogwarts during the Christmas holidays. However, Filch, Hagrid, and Dumbledore do.
• A few of the Hogwarts professors have spouses, but that information is restricted for reasons we will find out about later.
  
• To remove the tail that Hagrid gave Dudley in the hut on the rock, the Dursleys went to a private hospital where the staff was very discreet, and said that a wart had gone out of control.
  
• There is more to the cats in the story (Crookshanks, Mrs. Figg's cats, Mrs. Norris, etc.) than meets the eye.
  
• The animal an Animagus turns into is a reflection on his/her personality.
  
• For Hagrid, keeping dangerous creatures is all about overcoming something that could kill him.
  
• Azkaban is in a sea north of the North Sea. A very cold sea.
  
• You can do unfocused and uncontrolled magic without a wand (like when Harry blows up Aunt Marge), but to perform really good spells, you need a wand.
  

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This is some info i got about the last book about Harry Potter due to be released on July 21. It does not contain the end or anything such, just general info.

But, if u want to know nothing about the book before reading it, please don't read the following.

Confirmed Information

On this page you can find several points of information we know about Book 7। Each of these points have been confirmed by an official JK Rowling source।

Character Information

• We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter
• We will find out who R.A.B. is
• We will discover more about Dumbledore's past
• We will discover where Snape's loyalties lie.
• Something will be revealed about Petunia Dursley, although it will not be that she is a Squib
• Viktor Krum will return (World Book Day, 2004 interview)
• We will see a reappearance of Dolores Umbridge - "It's too much fun to torture her not to have another little bit more before I finish." (MuggleNet/Leaky Interview)
• JKR has said, "There is a character who does manage, in desperate circumstances, to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare..."

Plot Information

• Harry will face Voldemort for the final time
• Harry will be attempting to find and destroy Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes
• Harry will return to the Dursleys' during the school vacation, but the magical protection Dumbledore arranged will expire on his 17th birthday when he comes of age
• Harry will visit Godric's Hollow
• There will be a reappearance of the two-way mirror
• We will see the wedding of Fleur and Bill Weasley
• The fact that Harry "has his mother's eyes" will prove to be an important plot point
• At least one character will die

Other

• The last word is expected to be "scar," but may change
• We will finally learn the full reason why some people become ghosts when they die and others don't
• The final chapter, which has already been written, will detail what happens to the characters that survive
• There will be no more Quidditch matches

This article has been sourced from MuggleNet. For more interesting information log on to www.mugglenet.com

A little article on hindi and its popularity

With over 500 million speakers, Hindi is the second-most spoken language after Chinese.
As per a 1991 census report, Hindi was proclaimed by over 77 % of the Indian population as the "one language across the nation".

The Hindi language consists of 11 vowels and 35 consonants and is written in Devanagari script. Hindi is equipped with a rich consonant system, with about 38 distinct consonant units of sounds. However, the number of phonemes, as these units of sound are called, cannot be accurately determined, owing to the large number of dialects that exist, which employ many derivative forms of the consonant repertoire. However, the traditional core of the consonant system is directly inherited from Sanskrit with an additional seven sounds conjectured to have originated from Persian and Arabic.

Hindi, the official language of India, is based on the Khariboli dialect of the Delhi region. A more scholarly, Sankritized form of Hindi was believed to have developed primarily in Varanasi, the Hindu holy city and is believed to have been based on the Eastern Hindi dialect of that region. The term "Hindi" can thus be an ambiguous term at times.

However, despite its leading status as the second-most spoken language in the world. Hindi is not employed at concurrent levels over the Internet and in basic home computing utilities. But, emphasis in this regard has returned with an increased vigour in recent times. With the proper guidance, support and governance, Hindi may soon ascend to become a true language of the world in every respect.

हिन्दी
Spoken	भारत, नेपाल, फिजी, सूरीनाम, अमरीका, इंग्लैण्ड, आस्ट्रेलिया,
क्षेत्र	दक्षिण एशिया
कुल बोलनेवाले	४८ करोड़
स्थान	दूसरा
भाषा परिवार	हिन्दयूरोपीय हिन्द ईरानी हिन्द आर्य