As wisdom matures and we begin to understand in accordance with the truth, we will no longer be dragged up and down. Usually, if we have a pleasant mood, we behave one way; and if we have an unpleasant mood, we are another way. We like something and we are up; we dislike something and we are down. In this way we are still in conflict with enemies. When these things no longer oppose us, they become stabilized and balance out. There are no longer ups and downs or highs and lows. We understand these things of the world and know that that’s just the way it is. It’s just “worldly dhamma”. ~Ajahn Chah

Dogs are well known for tales of lifesaving heroism, but most people think cats seem generally too self-involved for valor. In practice, this is hardly the case. In 2012, a cat that had only been rescued from the Humane Society hours before managed to save its new owner’s life when she had a diabetic seizure. The cat leaped onto her chest as she lost consciousness, nudging and biting at her face until she awoke. The cat then darted into the woman’s son’s room and pestered him until he woke up to call for help. An even more unbelievable story emerged from Argentina in 2008, when a one-year-old boy was found by police in the city of Misiones, being kept alive by a band of feral cats. The boy, who’d been separated from his homeless father, would likely have died without the intervention of the cats. They snuggled up to him at night to keep him warm and brought him scraps of food. When police approached, the baby’s guardians hissed and spat ferociously at them. Source: ListVerse

No matter how badly someone might have treated you, give them love, kindness and forgiveness in return. The gentle footprints of kindess that you leave behind makes a lifetime of soft imprints in the hearts of others that will never wash away. ~Unknown

Most turtle species have five toes on each limb with a few exceptions including the American Box Turtle of the carolina species that only has four toes and in some cases only three. The earliest turtles had teeth and could not retract their heads, but other than this, modern turtles are very similar to their original ancestors. Several species of turtles can live to be over a hundred years of age including the American Box Turtle. Source: Pet Education

Everyone wants success; yet, they often don’t know when they have it. For most, success is the desire for a better life, or more quantities; however, success is not material wealth. It is not to be sought in the outside world, but discovered within. It is kindness shared, support given, and love sought. ~Unknown

Some aquatic turtles can absorb oxygen through their skin on their neck and cloacal areas allowing them to remain submerged underwater for extended periods of time and enabling them to hibernate underwater. Turtles are one of the oldest and most primitive groups of reptiles and have outlived many other species. One can only wonder if their unique shell is responsible for their success. ~Source: Pet Education

Words spoken with good manners have reached a lot more hearts than words
spoken sternly. ~Saad Tasleem

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Knock, And He’ll open the door
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.

~Rumi

Many parents try to keep their married children under their control. They do not give due freedom to them and tend to interfere with a young married couple’s life. When parents try to control their married son or married daughter and want them to follow their way of life strictly, this will create a lot of misunderstanding between the two generations as well as unhappiness between the couple. Parents may be doing it in good faith due to love and attachment towards the children, but in so doing, they are inviting more problems to themselves and to the children.

Parents must allow their children to shoulder the responsibilities of their own lives and families. For example: if some seeds are dropped under a tree, plants might grow after sometime. But if you want those plants to grow healthy and independent you must transplant them to open ground somewhere else to grow separately, so that they are not hampered by the shade of the parent tree.

Parents should not neglect the ancient wisdom based on advice given by religious teachers, wise people and elders who have developed a knowledge of the world through their own trial and errors. ~Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda