Building Life
English book, p. 192
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
the resilient find a new way forward. The unresilient see only the dark side of events, while the resilient focus on the bright side. The history of progress is basically the story of persistent people taking action. A BIG HEART A person with a big heart is always successful, while someone with a small heart is always a failure. In this world, success depends on the size of a person’s heart. The principle is simple: the bigger the heart, the greater the success. To achieve any real success in this world, one must rise above immediate circumstances. One must manage people by rising above their behaviour. One must give to others without worrying about what they have given or not given in return. Such a character cannot exist without a big heart. That’s why, in this world, no great success is ever achieved without a big heart. Whether in one country or another, whether in one era or another, at every place and at every time, this is the one principle that remains true. There are no exceptions to it. The small-hearted person, on the other hand, constantly complains about others over every minor issue. He gets

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