From here and there

• Those who think they are wise, speak. Those who are, listen.



• You don't know what you can do till you try. You don't know what you can enjoy till you do. So keep trying new things- enjoy living! Japinder Gill :)



• Learning needs a humble mind. You can improve only if you accept in the first place that you have many flaws.



• Masters in whatever field frequently leave the uninitiated with the illusion that they simply fell out of bed one morning and produced the exquisite musical concert, or the one in a million sports performance or some other perfect and graceful beyond display. We of course know better.



• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Confucius



• Difficult is that which takes a little more time and impossible is that which takes a little more effort.



• No person can argue with you without your agreement.



• Without grand aims, we are all small people.



• Behind every door, on every ordinary street, in every hut, in every ordinary village on this middling planet of a trivial star, a rich story worth telling can be found. Vikram Seth at the end of 'Two Lives.'



• Easy reading is damn hard writing. Vikram Seth



• The truest judges are those whom you are describing. Vikram Seth



• The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.



• Do what scares you the most. That's the only way to push the limits you are setting for yourself. Japinder Gill :P



• It is the journey, not the destination that matters.



• Peace is not absence of violence, but absence of those conditions which create violence.



• The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you. It is when you don't understand yourself.



• All of us in this world are reflections- we are living mirrors of each other. Japinder Gill



• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.



• If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln



• Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs.



• Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs



• Whether a person is a dreamer or a visionary is decided by his conversion ratio- how many of his ideas does he actually bring to life. Japinder Gill



• Temptation usually comes through a goal that has been deliberately left open. Gandhi



• Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.



• Determination is worth nothing if it bends before temptation.



• If victory is certain, then even a coward can fight. But the real hero is the one who still dares to fight knowing that his defeat is certain.



• Don't get it right. Get it written.



• As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.



• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Nelson Mandela



• He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.



• The fruits of riches lie in abundance; satiety declares abundance.



• No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainity.



• Take integrity over popularity and you'll always be cool.



• Isn't it strange that the less you need someone, the more you are able to love them?



• When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. William Joseph Slim