Inspiration 365 Days!

Conan, a Chihuahua, sits on his hind legs, raises his paws and puts them together at the tip of his nose.

“He may be showing his thanks for treats and walks,” says a priest at Jigenin temple on Okinawa island.

Priest Joei Yoshikuni would like Conan to meditate, but “it’s not like we can make him cross his legs”, he says.

“Basically, I am just trying to get him to sit still while I meditate,” he told Associated Press news agency.

Mr Yoshikuni said it only took Conan a few days to imitate the motions of praying.

Michael Gates Gill, who once made about $160,000 a year as an advertising executive and who now earns around $10.50 an hour making coffee at Starbucks, has written a book called “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” and it is so admiring of the firm, one fears he has drunk of the Grande Iced Kool-Aid.

“What you are doing is trying to help other people enjoy something,” he says. “It’s not doing Iraq policy, it’s not even doing a serious multimillion dollar ad campaign. It’s just trying to serve a good cup of coffee.”

When John died, an angel came to take him to heaven. While they were on their way, the angel told John that God had granted him a chance to fulfill a last wish as he had been an exceptionally good person.

John had always been curious about how hell was like. So he said, “I always wonder how hell is like. Could we go visit?”

“Very well. Let me take you there now,” the angel obliged.

A shoe addict—if there’s a cure, I don’t want it.

— Shoe designer Christian Louboutin to SocialMiami.com host Allison Weiss Brady

It isn’t that successful people like to be low key. Low-key people just tend to succeed. It isn’t that losers are rash. People with a rash disposition just tend to incur losses.

— Hong Kong writer Cho Chi Ming

Knowledge is NOT power!

Stop reading, stop clicking, stop learning and DO something.

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It was a hot summer day and 6 year old Jerry was holding a triple scoops of vanilla ice cream. To the little boy, having the ice cream melting in his mouth was the best thing ever. It felt so cooling and nothing else tasted better.

Jerry was happily skipping along, enjoying the ice cream, until he suddenly tripped on a stone. He almost fell but managed to steady himself. Unfortunately, he dropped the ice cream on the floor. He was so upset he didn’t even cry. He just stared blankly at the ice cream on the floor.

Jamie Lee Curtis went shirtless to pose for AARP The Magazine.

Curtis is shown sporting gray hair and wading in water up to her chest on the cover of the magazine’s May/June issue, which will be available Monday.

The star of “True Lies,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and other films becomes eligible for membership in AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and over, when she celebrates her birthday Nov. 22.

“I want to be older,” she tells the magazine. “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then.”

…if you are not willing to take a chance because you are scare that you will fail, that is the biggest failure that anyone could experience.

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Mao Asada’s opening move was heart-stopping - and not in a good way.

As she went to take off for a triple axel, a jump so hard few women even try it, she slipped and slid across the ice.

“I was surprised myself,” Asada said.

But the two-time Japanese champion rebounded with a huge triple flip-triple toe loop combination, righting her long-program fortunes and capturing the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships on Thursday. She finished with 185.56 points, winning by almost a point.