Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you

Dear Children,

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant. In moving world re-adaptation is the price of longevity.

We must banish self-pity. Tears mess up your happiness. Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy. In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatever.

A man is as miserable as he thinks, he is. Misery is a communicable disease. How we react to events is very important. I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from disasters and grow brave by reflection.

Life, like war is a series of mistakes, and he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. To a brave man, good or bad luck are like right and left hand. He uses both. He turns his stumbling blocks into stepping stones. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself. He is lifeless that is faultless. Perfection is out of question. A good garden may have some weeds. To try to be better is to be better. Make the best of whatever happens!

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you, is a popular proverb.

The art of life consists in taking each event which be falls us with a contended mind, confident of good. With this method rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things though destitute of everything.

With Love, Amma-Naana