Charity Begins At Home

Charity means willingness to help others. Helping those who are really in need is a rare and good quality. There are certain people who spend huge sums of money on charitable institutions or on religious functions. One should be generous to ones own family before helping others. For example, certain people spend hours and hours on volunteer work and neglect their helpless dear and near. People generally do such act for gaining fame and name or to impress others. This is highly selfish. One's own family (or country, etc.) comes before any other responsibilities. A person's first obligation should be to help the member of his own family before he can begin thinking of talking about helping others. The right way to cultivate the charitable habit is to start loving one’s kith and kin and gradually extend that love to those outside the family. Such a person can love and sympathise with all those who deserve it. Only that sort of mentality can be called really charitable.

Call No Man Happy Till He is Dead

A wealthy and healthy man is often considered as a fortunate person. In the eyes of others he is a happy man. They envy him for his wealth, social status etc. To them it is enough to make a happy. But misfortune can always befall a man; he may lose his wealth power and most of all his health. Without them he will be a burden to others. Those people who have envied him before will start to sympathise or hate him. The respect they have shown to him will be replaced by scorn; and envy by pity. Fate always plays an important role in everybody’s life. A poor person can turn rich overnight by a single stroke of fortune. Therefore no man can be called completely happy or sad till he is dead. Death puts an end to all the good and bad things in life. So if a man is rich and happy till he is dead, he can be called a truly rich and happy man. History tells us stories of many who have enjoyed immense power and wealth but lost it in the end to die miserably. Others had considered them to be happy and fortunate. But they proved to be otherwise in the long run making the proverb ‘no man happy till he is dead’ absolutely right.

Call A Spade A Spade

A spade should always be called a spade. No other expression is adequate enough to replace it. Some people are in the habit of using long and round about expressions when speaking. This only helps to make audience confused. If one is to express his ideas clearly, he should make his speech plain and simple. Such kind of speech attracts listeners. They willingly pay attention to what the speaker has to say. By such a way of speaking, the speaker also can express his ideas easily without much effort. The best speaker is he who puts his ideas into plain and expressive speech. We must also be straight forward in our speeches. We should be bold enough to call a spade a spade when we see one. Instead of that, if we try to call it something else our speech loses its honesty. Such speech is harmful in our dealings with others. It only helps others to think that we are cowards and dishonest. Good people always appreciate plain and straight forward speech. One who speaks in such a way is always respected by others. Therefore, it is always better to make our way of speaking plain and honest in order to make others listen and understand what we have to say.

A Burnt Child Dreads the Fire

Burns from fire is common. Usually mature persons are very careful in handling fire. But Children usually do not realise that fire can produce a burning sensation and recklessly play with it. They find it very attractive until it injures them. Once they get burnt, they may realise that it is dangerous to play. In our daily life we may face difficulties. We may learn from our mistakes. Once we know what is expected from mistakes, we will try to avoid repetition. In other words we are like children, we learn from our mistakes. We may take extra caution in future. A wise man never repeats the same mistakes twice. However as saying goes, it is always best to avoid faults and mistakes than to commit them again and learn in due course.

A Dog is a Man's Best Friend

A dog stands by its master in prosperity and poverty, in health and sickness, in happiness and sorrow. He will sleep on the cold surface, where the wintry winds blow, and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. A dog always remains with his master even if everybody deserts him. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, a dog is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the sky. It is prudent to term Dog as Man’s best friend