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A good head and a good heart are always a
formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence
of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave
man is not he who does not feel afraid, but
he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Whc one con be abomination.........abi na todai dis kind tin dey happn ni.....abegi!

cowleg: New delhi

Iráklion. (Greece)

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Read the instruction sir.

decked

That awkward moment when yuh expect your salary @ the end of a month but only for your boss to keep telling you next week.......

Ramata

Why waking the gods

gauges

There is little difference in people, but that
little difference makes a big difference. That
little difference is attitude. The big
difference is whether it is positive or
negative.

Robert Collier

Positive feelings come from being honest
about yourself and accepting your
personality, and physical characteristics,
warts and all; and, from belonging to a
family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

You can't make positive choices for the rest
of your life without an environment that
makes those choices easy, natural, and
enjoyable.

Deepak Chopra

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the
good is collected. When positive things are
made, that returns well.

Yannick Noah

People deal too much with the negative,
with what is wrong. Why not try and see
positive things, to just touch those things
and make them bloom?

Nhat Hanh

Positive anything is better than negative
nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Like success, failure is many things to many
people. With Positive Mental Attitude,
failure is a learning experience, a rung on
the ladder, a plateau at which to get your
thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W. Clement Stone

It was September 2007 and I was in Monte
Carlo for a friend’s wedding.
We prayed that Saturday morning at the local
synagogue and later walked to the nearby Hotel
de Paris. Entering the lobby, I was surprised at
the large security presence. I soon learned that
the legendary former South African president
Nelson Mandela was a guest in the hotel. As it
happened, he was sitting in one of the stately
public rooms on the lobby floor as I passed by.
I instinctively wanted to meet the iconic
statesman. The slim chance of gaining access to
meet Mandela did not stop me from asking the
security guard at the door if I could please step
in to bless the former president. Just then, a
second member of the security detail
approached and asked what I wanted. The first
bodyguard explained that I was a rabbi who
wanted to bless Madiba on the holy Sabbath.
They agreed to let me go over to greet him.
As I approached the former president, he looked
up and beamed. I was dressed in the full
Chabad Shabbat attire, the flowing black frock
and black fedora, and since I had just left the
synagogue my white and black tallit was draped
over my shoulders.
After we had been introduced, Madiba invited
me to sit near him. He asked me to please bless
him and mentioned how touched he was that I
had blessed him on the Sabbath. President
Mandela also told me how much he cherished it
when ‘his rabbi,’ Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris,
would bless him back home.
Looking across at the great man, who had
suffered for decades, fought for freedom, and
pulled a splintered nation together, I felt
compelled to ask one question. Had he ever
compared his story to that of the biblical
Joseph?

Without pause, Madiba replied that he felt a
strong affinity with Joseph. Joseph had been
imprisoned for life, yet he found strength in his
positive outlook and had finally emerged to lead
a nation. With twinkling eyes, Mandela laughed
out loud: “But I spent many more years in
prison then Joseph did!”
I then asked him, “Is it in honor of Joseph’s coat
of many colors that you wear your trademark
colorful “Madiba shirts”?
“No,” he replied, “I wear these shirts to
represent my people and their struggle and to
represent the beautiful diverse cultures and
traditions of Africa.” He tenderly touched the
African continent embroidered on his custom-
made silk black shirt.
We chatted easily and he shared the story
behind the Madiba shirts. On the first Shabbat
after he had been elected president, back in May
1994, he visited South Africa’s largest
synagogue, the Green and Sea Point Hebrew
Congregation in Cape Town. “His rabbi,” Chief
Rabbi Harris had invited him to attend morning
services.

Mandela recounted how he had addressed the
packed crowd and had “appealed to the local
Jewish community to implore their South
African family members who had emigrated to
return home to help rebuild a new democratic
South Africa.” He also reassured the local
Jewish community not to be afraid of a
Government of National Unity and promised
that “together we will succeed.”
He then recalled, “When I returned to the
motorcade, my driver handed me a gift from a
women who had attended synagogue that
morning. It was a beautiful black shirt, with a
colorful design of golden fish across it. I chose
to wear that shirt to the opening of parliament of
our new democratic government.”
“After I had worn that shirt, this same woman
(South African designer Desre Buirski)would
continue to send me shirts. We become good
friends, and she designed hundreds of shirts for
me. These shirts help me carry my message all
over the world.”

He smiled and added, “And all because I went
to synagogue on a Saturday morning.”
I stood up and thanked him for the generosity of
his time and the honor of meeting him. Before I
walked off, Mr. Mandela complimented the
traditional look of my Chassidic dress. “I am
happy to see you dressed this way; you should
always be proud to wear the clothing of the
Jewish faith as a mark of honor,” he said.
As I shook his hand, he told me, “Remember
young rabbi, when you dress in your royal garb,
you represent what the Bible stands for: How
all humans are G‑d’s children, created in the
image of G‑d, regardless of ethnicity, color or
faith.”





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People across South Africa are taking part
in a national day of prayer and reflection in
honour of Nelson Mandela, who died last
week.

The former president and anti-apartheid hero
passed away peacefully on Thursday (local
time) at the age of 95 after a year-long battle
with a lung infection.
President Jacob Zuma has called on South
Africans to come together in stadiums, halls,
churches, temples, synagogues or simply in
public spaces to remember and celebrate the life
of Mandela, also known by his clan name of
Madiba.
Although crowds have already been out in
many towns and cities, the government and the
ruling African National Congress (ANC) party
want to make more scattered communities feel
intimately involved.
Lindiwe Zulu, a senior member of the ANC,
told ABC News 24 the mood in South Africa is
sombre and celebratory at the same time.
"This is the man that assisted us to have
reconciliation in South Africa. This is a man
that took us from a very difficult situation into
the current South Africa in which we live
today," she said.
"We remember him for all his resilience and we
remember him particularly because, despite the
27 years of incarceration, he came out being the
man that managed to get us in the African
National Congress - or in all the liberation
movements - to think about reconciliation, to
work towards a new South Africa that is
democratic, non-racial and non-sexist."
The largest public event during the country's
national week of mourning will be on Tuesday,
when a national memorial service is held at the
Johannesburg stadium that hosted the 2010
World Cup final.
But one South African government minister is
predicting the 95,000-seat stadium will be
overwhelmed.
The public event will also attended by world
leaders and dignitaries, including Prime
Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader
Bill Shorten.
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will also
travel to Johannesburg for the memorial service,
as will US president Barack Obama and former
presidents George W Bush, Bill Clinton and
Jimmy Carter.
From Wednesday to Friday, Mandela's body
will lie in state in the capital Pretoria before he
is laid to rest next Sunday in Qunu, the village
of his childhood.





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If you have a positive attitude and
constantly strive to give your best effort,
eventually you will overcome your
immediate problems and find you are ready
for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

It takes but one positive thought when given
a chance to survive and thrive to overpower
an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

You've done it before and you can do it
now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect
the substantial energy of your frustration
and turn it into positive, effective,
unstoppable determination.

Ralph Marston

Always turn a negative situation into a
positive situation.

Michael Jordan

Few things in the world are more powerful
than a positive push. A smile. A world of
optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when
things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

No matter what you're going through,
there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it
may seem hard to get to it but you can do it
and just keep working towards it and you'll
find the positive side of things.

Demi Lovato

If you're not making mistakes, then you're
not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer
makes mistakes.

John Wooden

In order to carry a positive action we must
develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar