The drudgeries of life
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Quote for the day!
One of my school friends, Neha, started a trend ages ago: She'd handpick a quotation everyday, and early in the morning she'd mail it out to a bunch of friends.
Initially it seemed strange, and I'd just have a glance at the mail before moving on to other stuff.
Sometimes her "Thought for the day! :)" mails used to remain unread in my inbox for days at an end.
But then gradually, don't know when and how, these mails became a part of the daily routine... it fitted in beautifully!
Everyday morning, it is a pleasure to read unheard of sayings that made lots of sense, and strange enough, they fitted in with the happenings in life.
The fascinating thing about Neha is that despite her busy life (earlier a doctor, now an MBA student), she keeps the mails coming! And the days when she isn't able to send, we'll receive an apology mail the next day along with another gem :)
I wonder how many people reply to her mail. It's probably a thankless job (I know it's not a job, but still it's thankless)
I too seldom send her a reply, but sometimes when I really like her thought for the day, I send her a 'thank you, and keep it up' mail.
Seriously, mate! Thanks! And keep these gems coming :)
A collage of my favorite Thoughts of the Day from the lot:
"Without adversity, without change, life is boring. The paradox of comfort is that we stop trying." - John Amatt
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. - Ayn Rand
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me". Look what happens with a love like that; it lights up the whole sky! - Hafiz
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.:) - Anonymous
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. Failure is defined by our reaction to it. - Oprah
Love is the ability & willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Dr Wayne Dyer
Beauty doesn't exist in things; beauty is a projection. Beauty is not objective; it is subjective. So one day somebody looks beautiful, another day the same person becomes ugly. It is you who projects, it is you who withdraws; the other works just as a screen. - Osho
There is one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west - the only folks we really wound are those we love the best. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. - Zig Ziglar
The one thing that doesn't abide by the majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. - Bertrand Russell
In order to keep a true perspective of one's own importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Bruce
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. - Robert Anderson
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right? - Dr Wayne Dyer
Every time you state what you want to believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you & others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. - Oprah
That which you resist, stays. - David Hawkins
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I have led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me & my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart & soul, and to me, this has always been enough. - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing. - German Proverb
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.- Anonymous
To love someone is to understand each other, to laugh together, to smile with your heart & to trust one another. One important thing is to let each other go if you can't do this. - Unknown
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. - Cullen Hightower
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds & secrets, family griefs & joys. We live outside the touch of time. - Clara Ortega
While we believe our problems are the greatest & our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more. And just as they survived & triumphed over their suffering, we must too. - Ramayana
Love don't exist. There is only an endocrine response. - 'The Bachelor', the movie
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three- all they've had, all they have now & all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - Chinese proverb
"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest." - Spanish proverb
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