AUDACITY OF HOPE – BARRACK OBAMA & A TESTAMENT OF HOPE – MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

A VERY GOOD MORNING !!

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Since last two days was flipping through the pages of two books –‘AUDACITY OF HOPE’ by Barrack Obama, which I read six years back. It’s one of the good well written books I have ever read. In my opinion apart from being a politician and statesman Obama is a literary genius.

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And second companion book was ‘A TESTAMENT OF HOPE’ by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.- a great effective leader. I have compiled certain effective thoughts and quotes from both the books for today’s Good Morning NOTE.

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Give it a good read –

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First Barrack Obama – AUDACITY OF HOPE

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

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“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

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“We are the change we have been waiting for.”

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

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“We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”

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“One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”

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“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

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“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

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“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

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“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”

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HOPE AND FAILURE for Barrack Obama -

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“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

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“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

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AND NOW - MARTIN LUTHER KING - A TESTAMENT OF HOPE

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

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“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

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“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

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“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.”

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“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”

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“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.”

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“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.”

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A MORNING POEM

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Morning lifts up your soul

Morning lifts up your spirit

Makes you feel so right in light

Morning has a new charm

To make you feel so bright

The sun when shines all out

Brings a message of happiness around

For all the work left undone yesterday

For all the reasons of being strong

Morning brings in a new phase

Where you can do what you wish for

Morning cheer brings in smile

Feel its vibe and feel all right

Wishing you a bright morning for the day

Good morning for today!

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My Prayers –

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MAHAMRITUNJAYA MANTRA -

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om tryambaka? yajāmahe sugandhi? pushtivardhanam

urvārukamiva bandhanānm?mrityor mokshiye mamrataat

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May Shiva bless you all !!

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GAYATRI MANTRA

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“OM BUHR, BHUVA, SWAHA OM TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM

BHARGO DEVASYA DHEEMAHIDHIYO YONAHA PRACHODAYAT”

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May Gayatri Mantra protect you and bless you all !!

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My prayers to Divine to keep you all blessed !!

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Have a great Tuesday !!

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Much love –

Sudhanshu

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