Kiran Pal's Tiny Notes: December 2005

Sirf Main, Main, Main, Main

Zindagi ek khayal hai,
jaise ke maut ek khayal hai.

Na sukh hai,
na dukh hai,
na deen hai,
na duniya.

Na insaan,
na bhagwan,

Sirf main, main, main, main.

(Dev Anand in Guide)

Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.

- Dorothy Parker

Speak from heart

Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.

- William Purkey

Nine requisites for contented living

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure.
2. Wealth enough to support your needs.
3. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
4. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
8. Faith enough to make real the things of God.
9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

- Johann von Goethe

Tomorrow is a new day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Waldo Emerson

All the books I want to read

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

- John Burroughs

Hate less, Love more

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.

- Swedish Proverb

Who has enjoyed trust of pure women

He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men
and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.

- Bessie Anderson Stanley (Source)

Youthfulness of spirit

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

- Forbes B. C.

Appreciate rejection

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

- Bo Bennett

Read a good poem

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

- Johann Goethe

Sexual intercourse

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

- Mark Twain

Who work with joy

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

- Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)

I'am here

I existed from all eternity and,
behold, I am here;
and I shall exist
till the end of time,
for my being has no end.

- Khalil Gibran

Blame the wind

If you reveal your secrets to the wind
you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees.

- Khalil Gibran

Hidden within him

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

- Khalil Gibran (A Handful of Sand on the Shore)

Become a voice

We were a silent,
hidden thought in the folds of oblivion,
and we have become a voice
that causes the heavens to tremble.

- Khalil Gibran

I have learnt silence

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

- Khalil Gibran