The Sands of Forgiveness

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. 

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: 
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. 

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. 

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: 
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. 

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, yu wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?" 

The other friend replied "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it." 

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone.

Quotes for the day:

"In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you are inspired by some great purpose ... dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
-- Patanjali 

"The only difference between success and failure is that the successful person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do." 
-- J.R. Ridinger 

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