To know more about this festival, browse the following links which gives enough idea.

Makar Sankranti Festival
The Harvest Festival

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Even if you're not responsible for your situation, you're certainly responsible for your reaction to it.

Trouble is a part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

It's said that there is a particular time for everything to happen, one can't go against that and make things happen.

To have peace on earth, it is a must to remove the negative feelings like selfishness, cruelty, hatred.

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half... He helps those who help themselves.

Thanks Sush for giving me this wonderful gift of quotations. This really makes me think of life. I strongly feel, we all need to learn a lot from it.

It is a magical bond between two different personalities which includes understanding, belief, respect, handling conflicts, compromising when required, luck and giving each other enough space. This might result in a successful marriage. But still, there is one most important aspect in marriage. It is being friendly with each other. This is where any person can have a long lasting and a wonderful relationship.

I just got some links regarding the same.
How can we step into our spouse's world
Different views of marriage by different people
Nurturing friendship in Marriage
Learning friendship in Marriage

Now just let me know your views regarding a successful marriage.

A Guru asks the disciples to fill the glass bottle with cricket balls. They filled it before him and said it is full. Then the Guru filled it with pebbles by shaking the bottle. Again they said it became full. Then again the Guru filled the bottle with sand. This time they were sure that the bottle was full. Now the Guru again filled the bottle with milk and started telling them this is what human life is. If this glass bottle is life, then the cricket balls in it are the primary goals of human life. They are husband/wife, children, and personal achievement of a purpose. You can guess what secondary, which is pebbles, is: job, truthfulness towards your duty, social work.
Unnecessary dealings/work and bad habits is compared with sand. Though this is not necessary, many of us emphasize mostly on it. Now for suppose, we fill the glass bottle first with sand and then with cricket balls and pebbles, our priority will be more on what is not required and then automatically we fail in our life. So, setting priorities is very important.
A disciple asked the Guru then what about milk in the glass bottle. Guru says how much ever busy people are with any work, there will be some time left out. And not finding time few minutes with God/inner self means not finding time for self growth. So, if we evaluate time/space for every work, automatically we will become successful people.

Just learnt the true meaning of Guru. The term Guru means One who can drive away the darkness of ignorance and reveal the light of God within. That means, Gu - ignorance, Ru - destroyer.

Wishing you all a great year ahead with all your dreams come true. And now, here is a very interesting word game which I got as a forward.

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE