05-05-2016
Arjuna, better do what you have been asked to do imperfectly than try to do perfectly what others have been asked to. All work has inadequacies; even fire is enveloped by smoke.
Bhagvad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 47 and 48(paraphrased).
06-05-2016
Release...
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: ”How heavy is this glass of water?”
Answers called out ranged from 100 g to 250 g.
She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”
She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”
It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!
Source: academictips.org
07-05-2016
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only deprives today of its happiness.
-Sir Charles Spurgeon
08-05-2016
Every person has a dark side and a bright side which occasionally communicate with one another; whereas the bright side considers every suggestion of its counterpart with a fatherly interest, the dark side shows no more than a son's indifference to the suggestion of the other.
09-05-2016
Where there's desire, there's going to be a flame.
Where there's a flame someone's bound to get burned.
But just because it burns doesn't mean you're going to die,
You've got to get up and try.
Source - From the song 'Try' by Pink.
PS : Do listen to the entire song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M
10-05-2016
Time makes the significance some great memoirs of your life shrink to a point from a line from a plane from a cube but it still remains somewhere at the back of your mind, since it can no longer be reduced beyond a point ,like in a limbo state. There is an infinitude of these points which share a limited space in your memory. These points are inflatable and can jump back to being cubes again provided they get some kick out of the events occurring around you.
11-05-2016
One who is talented does not hold pride in it because he/she knows that it is not a ground to compare as he/she has more of it.
12-05-2016
That people will be able to empathize with my work, which happens once in a blue moon, induces self-pity in me; hence do your job without expecting a zealous response as one might not feel the beauty of your work the way you perceive it.
13-05-2016
As is a tale; so is life. It's not how long, but how good it is that matters.
-J.K.Rowling (Although her's is both long and good :p)
14-05-2016
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dreams. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
- Lao Tzu
15-05-2016
Benford's law of controversy:-
Passion is inversely proportional to amount of real information available.
16-05-2016
Happiness in a marriage is a matter of chance.
-Pride And Prejudice.
17-05-2016
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-G. H. Hardy
18-05-2016
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; She changes it more often.
- Oliver Herford
(Does anyone disagree ?)
(On a more serious note..)
Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say nothing at all.
- Anon
19-05-2016
Make a decision through your heart, the brain will work out plans to accomplish it.
(Dil se faisla lo, dimaag tarkeeb nikal lega.) - ZNMD.
20-05-2016
"Plan out your work" and "Work out your plan". Former without latter is a wasted effort and latter without former will lead to unproductive confusion.
21-05-2016
Analysis , analysis and only analysis leads to paralysis.
-Chanakya in you.
22-05-2016
S-S=S+S
Success without stress can be achieved with strength and skill.
Strength here refers to strength of mind.
-Swami Swatmananda.
23-05-2016
Why do we offer food to god and then distribute it as prasadam?
While having food with a spoon, spoon serves as a medium to get the food out of the plate and into our mouth. After we ingest the food, the spoon returns to the plate.
Similarly, the food which we offer to God is a medium to transfer our love, devotion and bhakti-bhava. Once the emotion is conveyed, the food is returned back to where it belongs i.e. to the people as prasadam.
-Swami Swatmananda.
24-05-2016
Great and beautiful things will happen to you only if you don't hold on to the regrets of the past.
-Swami Swatmananda.
25-05-2016
The day the father dies, the son becomes a man.
-Swami Vivekananda.
26-05-2016
All parents wants to teach and share their experiences with their children, so that the children should not live the sufferings which they went through.
But only if the child is equally ready to listen, then the experience is transferred to the next generation. Parents need to realise this and children should listen to their parents but follow their heart.
-Chanakya In You
27-05-2016
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you and not from you.
And though they are with you, they belong not to you.
-The Prophet
28-05-2016
You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are an entire ocean in a drop.
-Rumi, a sufi mystic.
Think of it scientifically. Continuum hypothesis will suggest that every particle experiences similar environment which means whatever is true for one particle is true for every other particle. So though counter-intuitive, the entire ocean can be imagined as one drop of water. One for whole.
29-05-2016
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
30-05-2016
Neither independence nor total dependence but inter-dependence is the key to strengthening the world relations of different countries.
31-05-2016
Talk less. Think more. Act wisely.
01-06-2016
In whatever short span of life we live, we must make sure to make our lives purposeful; if not to us, then to someone else; even if it means handing coffee to a sweeper or remembering a nurse's bday and greeting her with flowers. Seek pleasure in serving others if you have not yet found your purpose cause working for a good higher cause like service of the society is an undeniable universal purpose which surely makes us hedonic.
- Message learnt from the movie "Waiting".
02-06-2016
Problems appear thick when Love is thin.
03-06-2016
Worry casts a big shadow of a small problem. We are intimidated by the shadow which is an illusion rather than the real problem whose solution is right under our nose all the time.
-Swedish proverb
04-06-2016
Dost, main Krishna hun isliye chamatkaar karta hun, chamatkaar karta hun isliye Krishna nahin.
- OMG
05-06-2016
Service to others is the rent we pay to the almighty for living in his house (i.e. this world).
- Muhammad Ali.
06-06-2016
Mitch, you don't have to outdo anyone. Those superior to you will look down upon you anyways, those inferior to you will only get more envious. Status won't get you anywhere, only an open heart to float equally with everyone else will.
(This quote isn't verbatim, but essence is the same.)
- Tuesdays with Morrie.
07-06-2016
" Well, for one thing the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say, if the culture does not work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They are more unhappy than me - Even in my current condition (He is suffering through the Lou Gehrig's disease.)"
- Morrie Schwartz to Mitch.
08-06-2016
The tension of opposites-
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing but you are required to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted even when you know you shouldn't take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites like a pull on a rubber-band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
-Morrie Schwartz.
09-06-2016
Maybe, Death is a great equalizer. The one big thing that can make strangers shed a tear for one another.
- Mitch Albom.
10-06-2016
Morrie asks his students to arrange themselves one behind the other keeping substantial distance apart. He then asks the front person to open out his arms and fall back freely and the person behind shall hold him from falling. Only one pair could accomplish the task he asked them to do. While others pondered on why they couldn't do it, Morrie spoke addressing the girl who took the fall,
"You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes, you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have others trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too- even when you are in the dark, even when you are falling".
11-06-2016
Love is the only rational act.
-Levine.
12-06-2016
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself
-W. H. Auden
13-06-2016
When you're in bed, you are dead.
- Morrie Schwartz.
(One of his aphorisms.)
14-06-2016
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, the wrong ones take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
15-06-2016
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
-Henry David Thoreau
16-06-2016
Love is not because of, Love is Instead of.
-Swami Chinmayananda.
17-06-2016
People often think that I am a faker, but I am usually honest, in a certain way. In a way that nobody believes me.
-Sir Richard Feynman.
(From Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman)
18-06-2016
One man's ceiling is another man's floor
-From Predictably Irrational
19-06-2016
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn't there.
-Sir Charles Darwin.
Is this a compliment or an insult to the mathematicians or just a plain statement?
20-06-2016
Julius Caesar was a great king.
He ruled many men.
He gave long speeches.
People killed him.
21-06-2016
Once you cross over, there are things in the darkness that can keep your heart from ever feeling the light again.
- Raymond Reddington (The Blacklist)
22-06-2016
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
- Malcolm Gladwell.
23-06-2016
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
What to learn from this statement?
-Ayn Rand.
24-06-2016
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."
- A Mathematician's Miscellany
25-06-2016
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Lobatchevsky, Nikolai
26-06-2016
Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Leibniz.
27-06-2016
[Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said:]
I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
- A Mathematician's Miscellany.
28-06-2016
[said about the chemist Lavoisier:]
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
-Lagrange.
29-06-2016
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
02-07-2016
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and again but expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein.
03-07-2016
You can live your life as though everything is a wonder or nothing is!
- Albert Einstein.
Reminded me of Barney Stinson keeping on insisting to make every night legendary but Ted then commenting if all nights are legendary no night is legendary! That's the difference which Einstein was pointing. Sure he was always a step ahead.
04-07-2016
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
- P. C. Hodgell
05-07-2016
Life has to be lived like riding a bicycle. To keep from falling, one has to keep moving.
- Albert Einstein.
06-07-2016
Even if a snake is not poisonous it must put up an affectation of being venomous.
-Chanakya.
07-07-2016
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
-Chanakya.
(Even THE Robert Langdon testified the power of sacred feminine interrobang)
08-07-2016
You don't find the Grail, the Grail finds you.
- The Da Vinci Code.
Although it is not a thought, it captivated me the moment I read it.
09-07-2016
Langdon's years in the classroom had taught him something about answering paradoxical questions. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence!
- The Da Vinci Code.
10-07-2016
Take care of the pains and the pounds will take care of themselves.
11-07-2016
"The key question to keep asking is , are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all that you have."
-The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch.
12-07-2016
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.
-Albert Einstein.
13-07-2016
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost.
14-07-2016
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you- The principal difference between man and a dog.
- Mark Twain
15-07-2016
A stitch in time might have confused Einstein.
-A humorous one :p haha!
16-07-2016
The interesting thing about houses is that they always seem insipid and as if not much is happening inside of them even though they are where we spend most of our lives.
- John Green.
17-07-2016
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
-Eric Hoffer.
18-07-2016
In engineering, you don't understand things, you just get used to them.
- Slight modification of Neumann's quote.
19-07-2016
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege,
20-07-2016
Some cupid kills with arrows; some with traps.
- Shakespeare.
21-07-2016
By all means marry if you find a good wife; you will be happy. If you find a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates.
22-07-2016
A child becomes an adult the day he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz.
23-07-2016
The problem is not how to fill your mind with new thoughts and imaginations and creative ideas; it is to get the old ones out; every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture.
- Dee Hock.
24-07-2016
To try to be better is to be better.
25-07-2016
Perfection cannot be achieved. But chasing for perfection can fetch us excellence.
26-07-2016
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle.
27-07-2016
Use your imagination to inspire yourself to live; not to scare yourself to death.
28-07-2016
The effect you have on others, the most valuable currency it is.
-Jim Carrey.
29-07-2016
Behind every great man is a woman, rolling her eyes.
- Bruce Almighty :P
30-07-2016
Life opens up opportunities to you and you either take them or remain afraid of taking them.
-Jim Carrey.
31-07-2016
It's not our job to play judge and jury to determine who is worthy of our kindness or who isn't. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive even, or rather when we would prefer not to be.
- Joshua Radnor. (aka Ted Mosby)
01-08-2016
Increaseth the knowledge, Increaseth the sorrow.
- Liberal Arts Opening Quote
02-08-2016
I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that , it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, "Wow, I've been working all week- it might be really nice to stay in".
03-08-2016
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you don't speak out.
04-08-2016
The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.
- Josh Radnor.
05-08-2016
In freedom, most people find sin.
-TFIOS, John Green.
Arjuna, better do what you have been asked to do imperfectly than try to do perfectly what others have been asked to. All work has inadequacies; even fire is enveloped by smoke.
Bhagvad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 47 and 48(paraphrased).
06-05-2016
Release...
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: ”How heavy is this glass of water?”
Answers called out ranged from 100 g to 250 g.
She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”
She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”
It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!
Source: academictips.org
07-05-2016
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only deprives today of its happiness.
-Sir Charles Spurgeon
08-05-2016
Every person has a dark side and a bright side which occasionally communicate with one another; whereas the bright side considers every suggestion of its counterpart with a fatherly interest, the dark side shows no more than a son's indifference to the suggestion of the other.
09-05-2016
Where there's desire, there's going to be a flame.
Where there's a flame someone's bound to get burned.
But just because it burns doesn't mean you're going to die,
You've got to get up and try.
Source - From the song 'Try' by Pink.
PS : Do listen to the entire song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M
10-05-2016
Time makes the significance some great memoirs of your life shrink to a point from a line from a plane from a cube but it still remains somewhere at the back of your mind, since it can no longer be reduced beyond a point ,like in a limbo state. There is an infinitude of these points which share a limited space in your memory. These points are inflatable and can jump back to being cubes again provided they get some kick out of the events occurring around you.
11-05-2016
One who is talented does not hold pride in it because he/she knows that it is not a ground to compare as he/she has more of it.
12-05-2016
That people will be able to empathize with my work, which happens once in a blue moon, induces self-pity in me; hence do your job without expecting a zealous response as one might not feel the beauty of your work the way you perceive it.
13-05-2016
As is a tale; so is life. It's not how long, but how good it is that matters.
-J.K.Rowling (Although her's is both long and good :p)
14-05-2016
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dreams. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
- Lao Tzu
15-05-2016
Benford's law of controversy:-
Passion is inversely proportional to amount of real information available.
16-05-2016
Happiness in a marriage is a matter of chance.
-Pride And Prejudice.
17-05-2016
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-G. H. Hardy
18-05-2016
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; She changes it more often.
- Oliver Herford
(Does anyone disagree ?)
(On a more serious note..)
Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say nothing at all.
- Anon
Make a decision through your heart, the brain will work out plans to accomplish it.
(Dil se faisla lo, dimaag tarkeeb nikal lega.) - ZNMD.
20-05-2016
"Plan out your work" and "Work out your plan". Former without latter is a wasted effort and latter without former will lead to unproductive confusion.
21-05-2016
Analysis , analysis and only analysis leads to paralysis.
-Chanakya in you.
22-05-2016
S-S=S+S
Success without stress can be achieved with strength and skill.
Strength here refers to strength of mind.
-Swami Swatmananda.
23-05-2016
Why do we offer food to god and then distribute it as prasadam?
While having food with a spoon, spoon serves as a medium to get the food out of the plate and into our mouth. After we ingest the food, the spoon returns to the plate.
Similarly, the food which we offer to God is a medium to transfer our love, devotion and bhakti-bhava. Once the emotion is conveyed, the food is returned back to where it belongs i.e. to the people as prasadam.
-Swami Swatmananda.
24-05-2016
Great and beautiful things will happen to you only if you don't hold on to the regrets of the past.
-Swami Swatmananda.
25-05-2016
The day the father dies, the son becomes a man.
-Swami Vivekananda.
26-05-2016
All parents wants to teach and share their experiences with their children, so that the children should not live the sufferings which they went through.
But only if the child is equally ready to listen, then the experience is transferred to the next generation. Parents need to realise this and children should listen to their parents but follow their heart.
-Chanakya In You
27-05-2016
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you and not from you.
And though they are with you, they belong not to you.
-The Prophet
28-05-2016
You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are an entire ocean in a drop.
-Rumi, a sufi mystic.
Think of it scientifically. Continuum hypothesis will suggest that every particle experiences similar environment which means whatever is true for one particle is true for every other particle. So though counter-intuitive, the entire ocean can be imagined as one drop of water. One for whole.
29-05-2016
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
30-05-2016
Neither independence nor total dependence but inter-dependence is the key to strengthening the world relations of different countries.
31-05-2016
Talk less. Think more. Act wisely.
01-06-2016
In whatever short span of life we live, we must make sure to make our lives purposeful; if not to us, then to someone else; even if it means handing coffee to a sweeper or remembering a nurse's bday and greeting her with flowers. Seek pleasure in serving others if you have not yet found your purpose cause working for a good higher cause like service of the society is an undeniable universal purpose which surely makes us hedonic.
- Message learnt from the movie "Waiting".
02-06-2016
Problems appear thick when Love is thin.
03-06-2016
Worry casts a big shadow of a small problem. We are intimidated by the shadow which is an illusion rather than the real problem whose solution is right under our nose all the time.
-Swedish proverb
04-06-2016
Dost, main Krishna hun isliye chamatkaar karta hun, chamatkaar karta hun isliye Krishna nahin.
- OMG
05-06-2016
Service to others is the rent we pay to the almighty for living in his house (i.e. this world).
- Muhammad Ali.
06-06-2016
Mitch, you don't have to outdo anyone. Those superior to you will look down upon you anyways, those inferior to you will only get more envious. Status won't get you anywhere, only an open heart to float equally with everyone else will.
(This quote isn't verbatim, but essence is the same.)
- Tuesdays with Morrie.
07-06-2016
" Well, for one thing the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say, if the culture does not work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They are more unhappy than me - Even in my current condition (He is suffering through the Lou Gehrig's disease.)"
- Morrie Schwartz to Mitch.
08-06-2016
The tension of opposites-
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing but you are required to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted even when you know you shouldn't take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites like a pull on a rubber-band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
-Morrie Schwartz.
09-06-2016
Maybe, Death is a great equalizer. The one big thing that can make strangers shed a tear for one another.
- Mitch Albom.
10-06-2016
Morrie asks his students to arrange themselves one behind the other keeping substantial distance apart. He then asks the front person to open out his arms and fall back freely and the person behind shall hold him from falling. Only one pair could accomplish the task he asked them to do. While others pondered on why they couldn't do it, Morrie spoke addressing the girl who took the fall,
"You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes, you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have others trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too- even when you are in the dark, even when you are falling".
11-06-2016
Love is the only rational act.
-Levine.
12-06-2016
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself
-W. H. Auden
13-06-2016
When you're in bed, you are dead.
- Morrie Schwartz.
(One of his aphorisms.)
14-06-2016
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, the wrong ones take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
15-06-2016
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
-Henry David Thoreau
16-06-2016
Love is not because of, Love is Instead of.
-Swami Chinmayananda.
17-06-2016
People often think that I am a faker, but I am usually honest, in a certain way. In a way that nobody believes me.
-Sir Richard Feynman.
(From Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman)
18-06-2016
One man's ceiling is another man's floor
-From Predictably Irrational
19-06-2016
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn't there.
-Sir Charles Darwin.
Is this a compliment or an insult to the mathematicians or just a plain statement?
20-06-2016
Julius Caesar was a great king.
He ruled many men.
He gave long speeches.
People killed him.
21-06-2016
Once you cross over, there are things in the darkness that can keep your heart from ever feeling the light again.
- Raymond Reddington (The Blacklist)
22-06-2016
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
- Malcolm Gladwell.
23-06-2016
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
What to learn from this statement?
-Ayn Rand.
24-06-2016
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."
- A Mathematician's Miscellany
25-06-2016
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Lobatchevsky, Nikolai
26-06-2016
Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Leibniz.
27-06-2016
[Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said:]
I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
- A Mathematician's Miscellany.
28-06-2016
[said about the chemist Lavoisier:]
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
-Lagrange.
29-06-2016
02-07-2016
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and again but expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein.
03-07-2016
You can live your life as though everything is a wonder or nothing is!
- Albert Einstein.
Reminded me of Barney Stinson keeping on insisting to make every night legendary but Ted then commenting if all nights are legendary no night is legendary! That's the difference which Einstein was pointing. Sure he was always a step ahead.
04-07-2016
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
- P. C. Hodgell
05-07-2016
Life has to be lived like riding a bicycle. To keep from falling, one has to keep moving.
- Albert Einstein.
06-07-2016
Even if a snake is not poisonous it must put up an affectation of being venomous.
-Chanakya.
07-07-2016
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
-Chanakya.
(Even THE Robert Langdon testified the power of sacred feminine interrobang)
08-07-2016
You don't find the Grail, the Grail finds you.
- The Da Vinci Code.
Although it is not a thought, it captivated me the moment I read it.
09-07-2016
Langdon's years in the classroom had taught him something about answering paradoxical questions. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence!
- The Da Vinci Code.
10-07-2016
Take care of the pains and the pounds will take care of themselves.
11-07-2016
"The key question to keep asking is , are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all that you have."
-The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch.
12-07-2016
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.
-Albert Einstein.
13-07-2016
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost.
14-07-2016
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you- The principal difference between man and a dog.
- Mark Twain
15-07-2016
A stitch in time might have confused Einstein.
-A humorous one :p haha!
16-07-2016
The interesting thing about houses is that they always seem insipid and as if not much is happening inside of them even though they are where we spend most of our lives.
- John Green.
17-07-2016
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
-Eric Hoffer.
18-07-2016
In engineering, you don't understand things, you just get used to them.
- Slight modification of Neumann's quote.
19-07-2016
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege,
20-07-2016
Some cupid kills with arrows; some with traps.
- Shakespeare.
21-07-2016
By all means marry if you find a good wife; you will be happy. If you find a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates.
22-07-2016
A child becomes an adult the day he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz.
23-07-2016
The problem is not how to fill your mind with new thoughts and imaginations and creative ideas; it is to get the old ones out; every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture.
- Dee Hock.
24-07-2016
To try to be better is to be better.
25-07-2016
Perfection cannot be achieved. But chasing for perfection can fetch us excellence.
26-07-2016
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle.
27-07-2016
Use your imagination to inspire yourself to live; not to scare yourself to death.
28-07-2016
The effect you have on others, the most valuable currency it is.
-Jim Carrey.
29-07-2016
Behind every great man is a woman, rolling her eyes.
- Bruce Almighty :P
30-07-2016
Life opens up opportunities to you and you either take them or remain afraid of taking them.
-Jim Carrey.
31-07-2016
It's not our job to play judge and jury to determine who is worthy of our kindness or who isn't. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive even, or rather when we would prefer not to be.
- Joshua Radnor. (aka Ted Mosby)
01-08-2016
Increaseth the knowledge, Increaseth the sorrow.
- Liberal Arts Opening Quote
02-08-2016
I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that , it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, "Wow, I've been working all week- it might be really nice to stay in".
03-08-2016
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you don't speak out.
04-08-2016
The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.
- Josh Radnor.
05-08-2016
In freedom, most people find sin.
-TFIOS, John Green.
06-08-2016
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill.
07-08-2016
Renunciation of objects without renunciation of desires is short-lived, however hard you may try.
- My experiments with truth, M. K. Gandhi.
08-08-2016
The universe exists independent of us and our constructions such as truth. Indeed it existed 13.8 billion years before the human consciousness arose and will continue being around a whole lot longer after we are gone.
- Survival Guide to the misinformation age.
09-08-2016
Future erases everything- there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. Infinite future makes mattering impossible.
- An abundance of Katherines. (AAOK)
10-08-2016
The risk of being able to win over anyone is that you might pick up the wrong people!
-AAOK.
11-08-2016
You can love someone a lot but you can never love people as much as you miss them.
-AAOK.
12-08-2016
A circle has a missing piece, it hunts for the same and finds a lot of wrong pieces but he finally finds the right one yet leaves it behind.
- The Missing Piece.
13-08-2016
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
-TFIOS.
14-08-2016
Grief does not change you , it reveals you.
-TFIOS.
15-08-2016
I take quite a bit of pride in not knowing what's cool.
-TFIOS.
16-08-2016
If people could see me the way I see myself, if they could live in my memories, would they still love me?
-AAOK.
17-08-2016
You don't remember what happened, what you remember becomes what happened.
-AAOK.
18-08-2016
Someone who gave you confidence; you owe them a lot!
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
19-08-2016
There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen.
-Josh Radnor.
20-08-2016
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
-Josh Radnor.
21-08-2016
Thoughts and beliefs are like elephants. If you anchor them aptly, you can get to go wherever you want to but if you thoughtlessly try fighting against them or moving them by force, they may not even budge the slightest.
22-08-2016
Melancholy is as seductive as ecstasy.
23-08-2016
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
24-08-2016
A few empathizing friends are better than myriad of disingenuous ones.
25-08-2016
There is a melancholy that stems from knowledge, fame, or from anything which you wish to achieve, however nice or great or genuine it may be!
26-08-2016
I don't know what's worse:
To not know what you are and be happy OR
To be who you wanted to and be alone.
-Daniel Keyes.
27-08-2016
Awareness is indispensably accompanied by melancholy.
28-08-2016
The fear of oblivion is debilitating and makes loving and caring seem cynical.
29-0908-2016
But, the same oblivion makes us aware of how time is insidiously killing us and that we've to work and act to combat this oblivion.
30-08-2016
Time and oblivion are the only panacea for a broken heart.
31-08-2016
Once the "I need to be loved and someone should like me" glands are stimulated, they are functional and stick with you to the end of life...
01-09-2016
Being dormant is better than being exuberant and vivid, at least you are true to your own self for a short period of time.
02-09-2016
A reclusive weirdo is more sensible to be with than a convivial smug.
03-09-2016
I can't stay optimistic and hope for good and have faith when all the evidence points to the contrary.
04-09-2016
Everything in life comes in pairs, one shouldn't be perturbed by the consequences and stand still in face of any situation- elation in happiness and despondency in depression should not be bothering you.
05-09-2016
Knowledge doesn't make you weak, but the inability to apply the knowledge to your life does. Knowing what you have to but not doing it is what makes you imbecile; knowledge, by itself, doesn't bring sorrow.
06-09-2016
Melancholy: An appetite no misery satisfies.
07-09-2016
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.
08-09-2016
Convenience is a bitch! People misconstrue situations deliberately by conveniently finding a deus-ex-machina which is difficult to counter.
09-09-2016
Haram stems from the wants of people who disparage the basic laws of nature.
10-09-2016
Silence is a best friend who hardly betrays but when it does, it may seem a nemesis than a best friend.
11-09-2016
Melancholy as an ecstasy ends up opressing you and taking control of you than what you expect should happen i.e. otherwise.
12-09-2016
Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.
13-09-2016
A MAN'S CHARACTER CAN BE LEARNED BASED ON THE ADJECTIVES HE USES IN HIS CONVERSATION.
14-09-2016
Anger, resentment, frustration is like an acid- it can harm the container in which it is stored insidiously and gravely than something on which it is poured.
15-09-2016
Whenever you find yourself in the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
16-09-2016
We must let go of the life we've planned to accept the one that awaits us.
17-09-2016
Every religion is true when you read their scriptures as metaphors than rigid facts.
18-09-2016
Myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths.
19-09-2016
The goal of life is to match your beat with beat of the universe, to match your nature with that of the Nature.
20-09-2016
Your attitude not aptitude would determine your altitude.
21-09-2016
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
22-09-2016
The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that it does exist.
23-09-2016
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
24-09-2016
Be aware not to compromise what you want most with what you want now.
25-09-2016
Learning from defeat makes the defeat a mere event from which you have learnt something; it is no longer a defeat!
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