“Everything in this world can be seen as you wish to. Good or Bad; Simple or Complicated; Easy or Difficult. Its not how things are; its about how you look up to them. and how you look up to them is all up to you.” scribbled after some introspection
I may be in situations where my life comes to a halt. My efforts may not bring success. I would not be able to move ahead in life. But even then, I would not want to be a motionless statue. I would prefer to be a lighthouse which is stationary; but continues to guide ships which are passing along.”
“Over the same sea, on the same winds; A ship sails in one direction, another in opposite. It is not the wind that decides which direction the ship goes; it’s the sails; how they are tied and how they are maneuvered. Similarly, it is not fate that decides where your life is going; It is all about how you take life and where you take it to.”
“One day you might see yourself walking alone on a new path. No one seems in sight. No one seems to have walked it earlier. Don’t give up midway. You’re on a right track. Go on. Reach your dreams. The reason why you do not see anyone is because, the world is following you.”
“Life is like a Sea. It’s as vast as you can imagine; As deep as you can think. Don’t waste time measuring your life. You won’t succeed. Instead, explore Life. Reach for new harbours as you pass through different phases of life. Make friends on each destination. Enjoy your journey.”
“Your first step is all that it takes to reach success. It shows your faith in your dreams. It shows your belief in yourself. It shows you have courage to move ahead.”
“If you are right, I shall fight for you. If you are wrong, I shall fight with you” my random thoughts, they just don’t stop coming
“Journeys end. Friends depart. Every phase of life comes to an end. But every end is also a new beginning. It is a new chapter waiting to open. It’s up to you what you want to think about! The End or the New Beginning”
“In silence lies power” based on my belief
“The most complex things in life are aimed towards making life simpler”
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
We can avoid making choices but even that is a decision.
One day your life is going to flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone who never gives up, who has great hope, anything can happen.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Those who fail, do so because they wait for things to happen Those who succeed, do so, because they make things happen
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
What makes you so sure that mathematical logic corresponds to the way we think?
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.
The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep & miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep…
Knowledge is a burden if it doesn’t let you free.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The years teach much that the days never know.
If you bring forth what is within you, it will heal you. And if you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now — when?
You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Then set me free. You look at me and you don’t like what you see but this is the price, mother… the price of belonging to you.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
The best thing about failure is that it keeps you humble.
Only after you’ve lost everything are you free to do anything.
The living self has one purpose only; to come into its own fullness of being as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
The 20th Century will be remembered, when all else is forgotten, as the century when man burst his terrestrial bonds.
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Life does not consist mainly – or even largely – of facts and happening. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Some people go through life getting results; others get consequences.
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best
Life is not what you expect. It’s what you don’t expect that makes life worth living.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
Everyone is doing the best they can with what they have and what they know. So everybody is essentially of the same moral worth.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
I don’t have a problem with people who fail – but with people who are content with their failure.
Most people when criticized for being egocentric only find clever means of hiding it from others. After a while they fool even themselves. They then take secret egocentric delight in imagining themselves egoless.
We spend our entire lives searching for happiness. Happiness exists in our own hearts; if we can’t find it there, we’ll never find it.
Live every day as if it were your last. Work for your future as if you were immortal.
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.
All paths lead to the same goal: To convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Don’t take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It’s a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning to life is whatever you ascribe it to be. -
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Do not go where the path may lead; Go instead where there is no path; And leave a trail.
Every child comes with the me
My effort should never be to undermine another’s faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
- Mark Twain
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant…. – Cary Grant
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
I enjoy my work, enjoy my family.. and look forward to each day.
The unexamined life is atleast as worth living as the examined.
Some people lead a successful life by looking right, some people lead a successful life by looking left, others do the same thing by looking anywhere in between.
Its so wonderful. After all, what all people actually want – is – to be loved.
Don’t try to be like others. Just be happy.
