Friday, August 21, 2009

Thoughts

Put yourself to work, and you will find such a tremendous power coming to you that you will feel hard to bear it.
- Swami Vivekananda

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.
- Swami Vivekananda

Neither money pays nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is character that can clave through adamantine walls of difficulties.
- Swami Vivekananda

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your way absorb it; do not become others.
- Swami Vivekananda

Let us struggle for higher and better things; look not back, no, even if you see the dearest and nearest.
- Swami Vivekananda

Do all without regard to personal result, give up all results to the Lord, then neither good nor evil will affect you.
- Swami Vivekananda

First, have faith on yourselves. Know that though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain–high wave, yet behind the bubble and the wave there is an infinite ocean.
- Swami Vivekananda

You are a machine for taking and giving; you take, in order to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more will come you.
- Swami Vivekananda

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
- Swami Vivekananda

Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy and above all perfect obedience; they are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration.
- Swami Vivekananda

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity and that is the cause of his signal success in life.
- Swami Vivekananda

Whenever there is dark, you can see the stars.
- Anonymous, (Harshad)
If working like a slave results in selfishness and attachment, working as master of our own mind gives rise to the bliss of non-attachment.
- Swami Vivekananda

Help all as long as you find they are doing all right, and in case where they seem to be going wrong, show them their mistake gently.
- Swami Vivekananda

Before reaching the highest ideal, man’s duty is to resist evil; let him work, let him fight; let him strike straight from the shoulder.
- Swami Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal, as nearer as possible to the truth.
- Swami Vivekananda

The best leader, however, is one who “leads like the baby”. The baby, though apparently depending on everyone, is the king of the household.
- Swami Vivekananda

Try to get what you like, unless you will be forced to like what you get.
- Bertrand Russell

War doesn’t determine who is right; only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell

There is no way to peace; peace is “The Way”.
- Mahatma Gandhi

One can never consent to creep when one feel an impulse to sour.
- Helen Keller

This above all, to thine own self to be true.
- Shakespeare

Friendship with once is all important, because without it one cannot be a friend with anyone else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The most I can do to my friend is simply to be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is antidote to fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Darrell Royal

Attitude and not the aptitude determines the altitude
- Jesse Jackson

The journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese Proverb

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn’t we?
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers, we borrow it from our children.
- Anonymous

If you want to make peace, don’t talk to your friends talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
- Erica Jong

I would rather have a mind open by wonder than one closed by belief.
- Gerry Spence

First, learn to play piano with the help of rules; once you do this, then forget the rules and play it with your heart.
- Anonymous (Harshad)

If you are falling down, try to fly; you have nothing to lose.
- Anonymous (Harshad)

It is impossible to understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
- Ender’s Game

To live creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pierce

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of discussion should not be winning or lose but progress of all.
- Ganesh Kadu

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Robert Frost

A man may die, nation may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
- Françoise Sagan
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.
- Evan H. Hopkins

Water and fire are good servants but bad masters.
- Anonymous (Harshad)

Those who flows as a life flows, know they need no other force; they feel no wear they feel no tear; they need no mending, no repair.
- (Sunday Times, pg. 9, 8/9/2002). Anonymous

A soulmate is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
- Rod McKuen

Truth is unimaginable, if it is, somewhat false is mix in it. False is imaginable; thus who never think; feels every false as a truth.
- Anonymous (Harshad)

Change your postulates, you will change the Physics.
- Trillochan

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

Love is not measured by how you feel, but how you make other person feel.
- Julie Andrews

Team work means less me & more we.
- Anonymous

One of the tests of leadership is to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold Glasgov

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
- Unknown

Every thing that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

The sole aim of science is the honour of the human mind, and from this point of view a question about numbers is as important as a question about the system of the world.
- C. G. S. Jacobi

The word ‘Impossible’ says ‘I am possible’.
- Anonymous

Fate brings you together, but it’s still up to you to make it happen.
- Julia Roberts

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
- Jan Glidewell

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn Vas Savant

If you decided to love a person, even with his faults, that’s not chance. That’s choice.
- Audrey Hepbum

A man is not where he lives but where he loves.
- Latin Proverb

I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.
- Albert Einstein

A good novel is the one which tells more about it’s hero and the bad novel is the one which tells more about it’s author.
- Harshad

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breathes; in feelings, not figures.
- Bailey

A nature teaches you that your mother cannot.
- Harshad

Talent develops itself in solitude; character, in life’s stream.
- Goethe

The true measure of a man’s wealth is in the things he can afford and not to buy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life knocks down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.
- Les Brown

Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us or polishes us depends on us.
- Thomas Holdcraft

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to next generation, it would be the ability to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles Schulz

If you can’t love with the one you love, love the one you are with.
- Stephen Stills

A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- John Erskine

Science, can’t resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
- Heinz R Pagles

Ambition is like love: implement both of delays as well as of rivals.
- Buddha

You shouldn’t stop loving because you grow old. You grow old because you stop loving.
- Michael Pritchard

It is impossible for you to angry and laugh at the same time… and you have the power to choose either.
- Wayne Dyer

Getting, what you go after is success; but linking it while you are getting it is happiness.
- Bertha Damon

Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, best friends listen to what you don’t say.
- Anonymous

I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.
- Shirley Maclaine

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to divorce that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
- HL Mencken

It is not what life takes away from you that counts. It’s what you make of what is left with you.
- Hubert Humphrey

Love is a gift. If you receive it, try and appreciate it. If not, don’t worry. Someone is still wrapping it for you.
- Robin Williams

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Andre Gide

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each of us may find his own again… the stars, the deserts – what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible… it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There are some people, who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas Everett

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.
- Anonymous

You are born as an original; don’t die as a copy.
- Anonymous

Love is a game that two can play and both wins.
- Eva Goober

Success is not a destiny; it’s a journey.
- Anonymous

Science is not putting limits on your knowledge but putting limits on your errors.
- Ganesh Kadu

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou

The virtue of love is not finding the perfect person, But loving the imperfect one… PERFECTLY.
- Anonymous (Harshad)

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.
- Bobby Unser

It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced.
- Mae West

Real love stories never have endings.
- Richard Bach

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Wayne Dyer

Success is the ability to go from failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Mutation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz

Someone have been taught to brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller

Guess the student’s talent with his questions and not with his answers or marks.
- Harshad

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

Faith is continuation of reason.
- William Adams

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
- Abraham Lincoln

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.
- William Cowper

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exist at the appropriate time.
- Malcolm Muggeridage

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
- Bertrand Russell

For a shrewd understanding of feminine psychology it’s hard to beat J. B. Pristley’s observation: “She was not pretty, but she might have been handsome if somebody had kept telling her that she was pretty.”
- Sydney Harris

For our perfection, we have to be vitally savage and mentally civilize; we should have the gift to be natural with nature and human with human society.
- R. N. Tagore

Above all, be yourself Be, but don’t just exist There’s more to life than just being another Name on list. Be active, alive and Adventurous, boisterous, Brave and bold Confident, cool and clear – headed, daring, Determined and decisive Eager, earnest and Eloquent, free – thinking, fresh and fun – loving, But above all, BE YOU.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
- Michael Bartel

Communication is to a relationship what breathing is to living.
- Virginia Satir

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistence one.
- Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our mind.
- Martin Luther King

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein

I have not failed just I have found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable; must be truth.
- Sherlock Homes

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge specks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
- Anais Nin

Many a man’s reputation would not known his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard

Be professional, for the world but always keep a group of people away from your professionalism, share yourself with them, it is enjoy and doing this successfully is life.
- Harshad

In life there are neither rewards nor punishments; but only consequence.
- Anonymous

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.
- Anonymous

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
- Mary Lou Cook

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
- The Talmud

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- Anonymous


The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
- Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way.
- Lily Tomtin

When it hurts to look back, and you are scared to look ahead, you can look beside, you and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan

Historians are deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy

A celebrity is the a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid recognised.
- Fred Allen

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
- Albert Camus

Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realised that failure, whatever of personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher that it is.
- “The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari”; Pg. 16.

Art, like mortality, consist in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gibert Chesterton

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidly is mixed in it.
- Fernando Pessoa

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in his life.
- Muhammad Ali

I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
- Jonathon Winters

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie R.N.Boom

The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
- Benjamin Disraell

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.
- William Morris

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity.
- Leo Tolstoy

Life can be one of satisfaction after another if we let it.
- John Schindler

If I have a belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Behind every personality, behind every mask, is a character that is your god-given uniqueness.
- Barry Long

Great dreamers’ dreams are never fulfilled they are transcended.
- Alford Lord Whitehead

Everything has a beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Be careful for what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
- Oscar Wilde

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- Samuel Johnson

I don’t get success; so I walk ahead without success.
- Harshad

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
- Michel de Montainge

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want we want and killing ourselves to get it.
- Don Herold

Never explain (any thing) – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard

The young man who has never wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- Confucius

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen

You can’t achieve the goal unless and until you challenge your limits.
- Pramod Ghatage

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe
After failing thousand times I never say that I was fail; indeed, I found thousand ways that does not work.
- Thomas Edison

If you are aware, of the fact that your best friend is not good for you; and still thinking he to be the best then it is your choice and if you are unaware of this and thinking him to be the best friend then it is your destiny.
- Harshad

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sydney Harris

If god answers your prayers; he is increasing your faith, if he delays, he is increasing your patients; and if he doesn’t answer, he know that you can handle it.
- Anonymous

Love means: L: Lake of happiness and not of sorrows, O: Oceans of happy moments and not of tears, V: Valley of joy and not of death, E: Ecstasy of life and not to end of life.
- Harshad

Enjoy life, no matte how hard it may seem! When life gives you thousand reasons to cry, show the world that you have million reasons to smile.
- Anonymous


Perfection is achieving, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- Andre Gide

Only he can see the invisible can do the impossible.
- Frank L Gaines.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistake.
- James A Froude.

If you leave smallest part of corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
- George Bernard Shaw.

Sooner or later, those who win they think that they can.
- Richard Bach.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J Plomp.

There are more things in heaven than earth.
- Anonymous
You cannot attempt to create a new different future based on the limitations of your past.
- Shifra Hendrie.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sindey.

Study without thoughts is waste, thoughts without study is dangerous.
- Harshad.

Philosophy begins with wonder.
- Socrates.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G Letterman.

A goal is a dream with deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J Peter.

The difference between impossible and possible lies in the line of determination.
- Tommy Lasorda.

I never pray to God, but I ask for fulfilment.
- Mother Teresa.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud.

Imagination will often carry us to the worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden.

All human actions have one or more these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle.

There are more things in heaven than hell.
- Anonymous.

If you can’t resist, then enjoy it…and if you know how to enjoy then why to resist.
- Himanshu

The dream is not what you see in sleep… dream is the thing, which does not let you sleep.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

He turns not back who is bound to a star.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

A group of donkeys lead by a lion can defect a group of lion lead by a donkey… that’s leadership.
- Socrates.

If you love life, life will love you back.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If god puts you to it, he sees you through it.
- Anonymous

Men are prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

A real programmer codes into binaries.
- Anonymous

A marriage means new birth; it also means death of previous.
- Harshad

Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander.

If every one is moving forward together, then success takes cares of itself.
- Henry Ford

There is a bird in every one, find who is that? (An eagle, or anything else) and then comes to me.
- Harshad

If you win you need not have to explain, if you lose you should not have to be there to explain.
- Adolph Hitler.

Life is a journey, and not the destination.
- Harshad

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you always know they are there.
- Anonymous

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Alan Watts.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon.

All Computers wait at the same speed.
- Anonymous

Friends may come & go enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones

To Invent you need a good imagination & a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison

Laughter & Tears are both responses to frustration & exhaust; I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterwards.
- Kort Vennegut

To acquire knowledge, one must study; to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Manlyn vos Savant

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterwards.
- Anonymous

Vision without action is a day dream. The action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Province

No one can feel you inferior without your consents.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest barrier to success is the fear to failure.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

Never wish that life would be easier, wish that you were better.
- Jim Rohn.

The biggest obstacle is the distance between your eyes.
- Unkown

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior … the other is busy with making mistakes and becoming superior.
- Henry C. Link

Anyone can cook. (It’s not that any one is an artist, but an artist can come from anywhere).
- Ratatouille

Past is always glorious !!!
- Ajinkya