I have learned..

If you will take the time to read these. I promise you’ll come away
with an enlightened perspective. .. The subjects covered affect us all on
a daily basis!
They’re written by Andy Rooney , a man who has the gift of saying so
much with so few words.

I’ve learned…. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of
an elderly person.

I’ve learned…. That when you’re in love, it shows.

I’ve learned…. That just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my
day!’ makes my day.

I’ve learned…. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of
the most peaceful feelings in the world.

I’ve learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.

I’ve learned…. That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

I’ve learned…. That I can always pray for
someone when I don’t have
the strength to help him in some other way.

I’ve learned…. That no matter how serious your life requires you to
be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

I’ve learned…. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and
a
heart to understand.

I’ve learned…. That simple walks with my father around the block on
summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I’ve learned…. That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I’ve learned…. That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything
we ask for.

I’ve learned…. That money doesn’t buy class.

I’ve learned…. That it’s those small daily happenings that make life
so spectacular.

I’ve learned… That under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to
be appreciated and loved.

I’ve learned…. That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

I ve learned…. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are
only letting that person continue to hurt you.

I’ve learned…. That love, not time, heals all wounds.

I’ve learned…. dat the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to
surround myself with people smarter than I am.

I’ve learned…. dat everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a
smile.

I’ve learned…. dat no one is perfect until you fall in love with
them.

I’ve learned… dat life is tough, but I’m tougher.

I’ve learned….. dat opportunities are never lost; someone will take
the ones you miss.

I’ve learned…. dat when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock
elsewhere.

I’ve learned…. dat I wish I cud have told my Mom dat I love her
one more time before she passed away.

I’ve learned…. dat one should keep his words both soft and tender,
because tomorrow he may hv to eat them.

I’ve learned…. dat a smile is an inexpensive way to improve ur
looks.

I’ve learned…. dat when ur newly
born grandchild holds your little
finger in his little fist, that you’re hooked for life.

I’ve learned…. dat everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, bt
all the happiness and grow

I’ve learned…. That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but
all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

I’ve learned…. That the less time I have to work with, the more things
I get done.

Quotes – each one has a life behind.. see if you can figure out.. :)

1. Walking on the road, you pass so many people. Some look confident, purposeful, well-dressed and well-maintained. But the majority appears so ordinary, wear ill-fitting clothes, unfashionable footwear, have too much fat or too little, nothing remarkable about them, nothing attractive.
But yet :
Someone somewhere eagerly waits for this unimpressive man to come home every evening.
Someone’s entire world turns around the strength of this frail-looking woman.
Someone’s very purpose in life hinges on this brash youngster cutting through traffic.
Someone knows only the shelter of these old arms each time their world begins to crumble.
Someone will count hours, minutes, and weep like a child when this pock-marked face alights from a long-distance train.
Someone will cave in, crack up, and never be the same again if this one person disappears from the face of the world.
There are no ordinary people.
2. “You can buy flattery, but envy must be earned.”
3. Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give… If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is. ~ William George Jordan

4. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm … As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.~ Audrey Hepburn

5.The sun was shining in my eyes,
and I could barely see
To do the necessary task
that was allotted me.
Resentment of the vivid glow,
I started to complain –
When all at once upon the air
I heard the blindman’s cane. ~Earl Musselman~
6. In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.~ Nisargadatta
7. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
8. “The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.”- Marcelene Cox

9. “You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.” – Lydia Maria Child
10. The chicken came first – God would look silly sitting on an egg – a five year old kid

11. You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side. !!!!!!!
12. You never really stop loving someone. you just learn to try to live without them…
13. Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~Og Mandino~
14. It would add much to human happiness,
if an art could be taught of forgetting
all of which the remembrance is at once
useless and afflictive…
that the mind might perform its functions
without encumbrance,
and the past might no longer encroach
upon the present. ~Samuel Johnson
15. Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. – Joseph Addison ….
16. You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. – Albert Camus …….
17. A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord Crothers
18. The aim of an argument or discussion
should not be victory, but progress. ~Joseph Joubert~
19. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. – Erma Bombeck
20. “Honor your talents and act like a woman–a smart woman–who
knows how to jump over business obstacles, even in heels.” –Nancy Clark
21. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same
time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends
all barriers.”– Ed Sullivan

22. Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a… canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
Sonny: Can *you*?
Sonny being the robot.. movie- I robot.. loved it..
23. What will u say if u come to know i hired a person who wasnt wearing a shirt in INTERVIEW ?
WILL SMITH : man he must have had some really good pants…
Movie- Pursuit of happyness
24. Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
25. “What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.” Chuck Palahniuk(My Pen name )
26. Arrogance has to be earned. Tell me what you did to earn yours.. loved it………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
27. Don’t count the steps ahead; just add up the total of steps already covered, and multiply it by faith, confidence and endurance….
28. “The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.” Kung Fu Panda (2008) Oogway(Randall Duk Kim)
29. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think!”
30. “Sometimes we don’t do things we want to do so that others won’t know we want to do them.” The Village (2004) Ivy Walker(Bryce Dallas Howard)
31. ” Two people meet while walking down the street. Each person has just one dollar in their pocket. After visiting, the two people exchange the dollar and continue on their way. They walk away with one dollar in their pocket. Across the street, two people meet while walking down the street. Each person exchanges an idea. Now those two people walk away with two ideas. Which side of the street would you like to walk on?”
32. “A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.” Papillon (1973) Louis Dega(Dustin Hoffman)
33. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need
to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you
love. Barbara Sher (American Author of “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was”)

34. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go- Oscar Wilde                                  35. How can someone want something and yet at the same time not want it with the same vehemency? ——> Need solitude and yet need an audience always….
——> Change is essential… cannot live without it.. oh how afraid am I about it! I just hate it… oh no.. i love it eversomore…
wow!!!the laws of confusion!!!lol!!!…..absolute…..
36. There is no such thing as a ’self-made’ man. We are made up of
thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or
spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of
our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. George M. Adams (1878-1962, American Author)
37. Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it. Eugene Grace
38. “Being brilliant’s not enough, young man. You have to work hard. Intelligence is not a privilege–it’s a gift–and you use it for the good of mankind.” Spiderman 2 (2004) Dr. Otto Octavius(Alfred Molina)
39. Men often become what thet believe themselves to be. If i believe i cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when i believe i can, then i acquire the ability to do it even if i didnt have it in the beginning.. !!
40. here i realized something mindblowing.
Your NOTIONS about yorself will not let you develop.
Your NOTIONS about others will not let them develop.
A Human being is a field of Possibilities! Whatever has been so far Possible on this earth can be credited to the Human mind only. What do we do when we have a few perceptions and notions about ourselves??
We imprison our Being inside the invisible walls of those Perceptions which were probably a result of some event which occured in the past and which led you to CONCLUDE something about yourself, and hence you developed Notions about your self.
41. hw cool is this:
I Resign…
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8-year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald’s and think that it’s a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple.
When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you didn’t care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
I want to think the world is fair.
That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible.
42. An English professor wrote the words :
“A woman without her man is nothing”
on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in the class wrote:
“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
All the females in the class wrote:
“A woman, without her, man is nothing.”
Punctuation is powerful !lol!
gt it as a mail..long time bck..good one!
43. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.A successful woman is one can find such a man.–Lana Turner. rofl!!
44. A Lovely Poem by Shri Rabindranath Tagore
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God,
First fill your own house with the Fragrance of love…
Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God,
First remove the darkness of sin from your heart…
Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,
First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen…
Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,
First bend down to lift someone who is down-trodden. ..
Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,
First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.
45. Christopher McCandless: I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.

46. ~True Friendship
True friendship isn’t seen with the eyes, it is felt with the heart.
When there is trust, understanding, loyalty, and sharing.
True friendship is a rare feeling, but when it is found
It has profound impact on our well-being, strength, and character.
True friendship does not need elaborate gifts
Or spectacular events in order to be valuable or valued.
To ensure long-lasting quality and satisfaction,
True friendship only needs a few key ingredients:
Undying loyalty, unmatched understanding, unsurpassed trust,
Deep and soulful secrets, and endless sharing.
These ingredients, mixed with personality and a sense of humor,
Can make a friendship last a lifetime!
This is just a thank you, my friend, for all the wonderful and colorful
Special ingredients You’ve brought to my life!

47. Too True, Too Often                                                                                                                                      Too often we don’t realize
What we have until it is gone
Too often we wait too late to say
“I’m sorry – I was wrong.”
Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones
We hold dearest to our hearts
And we allow foolish things
To tear our lives apart.
Far too many times we let
Unimportant things into our minds
And then it’s usually too late
To see what made us blind.
So be sure that you let people know
How much they mean to you
Take that time to say the words
Before your time is through.
Be sure that you appreciate
Everything you’ve got
And be thankful for the little things
in life that mean a lot.
48. “Winners forget they’re in a race, they just love to run.”  With Honors (1994) Simon Wilder(Joe Pesci)
49. LIFE is UNSURE , ALWAYS eat UR DESSERTS FIRST
50. “I know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.” Into the Wild (2007)

Christopher McCandless(Emile Hirsch)                                                                                                           51. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist)
52. The “heart” epitomises the beauty of the unsaid, the mystery of the imploring ideas burning within….
The “self” symbolises the transgression through light n darkness….
The “spirit” glorifies the serenity of the soul….
And “I” reflects the unrelented search for the incantation……called life……
53. If you are in love with the divine, then you can digest the
knowledge. Love is the appetizer — seva is the exercise — without
love and seva, knowledge becomes indigestible. So everyone list the
loving seva you have done for the world.
Marielle: If love is the appetizer, what is the main course?
Guruji: Knowledge
Daniel: What is dessert?
Guruji: MYSELF!! (Laughter)
Jai Gurudev….. …

54. Sheila: What if you feel that you are not serving successfully?                                                           Guruji: You may feel that you have not done enough but you will not feel that you have not been successful. Real service is when you feel that you have not done enough.
Kai: You are not very successful! (Laughter)
Guruji: I am just full!
55. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)
56. Question:* Guruji, how can I be mature and yet child-like? What is being mature?
*Guruji:* Being mature and yet being child-like may appear to be contradictory but actually they are complementary. Maturity should not bring stiffness in you. If it brings stiffness then it does not serve the purpose. Whenever someone matures they realize they know very little! Its like from an ignorant ‘I don’t know’ to an enlightened ‘I don’t know’!!!
An angry person also can say ‘I don’t know!! (Laughter!!) And a person with real can also say, “I don’t know” !!! Like from a ugly ‘I don’t know to a beautiful ‘I don’t know’!! Life is a journey!!
57. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith
58. You can’t say to the spring: “Come now and last as long as possible.” You can only say: “Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can. -Paulo Coelho
59. Intellect can be defined by many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn..his atitude and approach towards d situations…power of judgement… his way of thinking!!
it doesnt gurantee ur success for sure shot… it is just abt being ‘aware’ of ones surroundings and the inside! ..ability to have a holistic view of everything, being analytical and participative…The awareness of existence, the curiosity to learn..sprinkled wd humour..it is about seeing something which others are overlooking and the ease with which u handle anything…and there is a difference btwn intelligence and intellect..intelligence is innate while intellect is outcome of experiences and learnings!
read it smwr..!!Intellect is thoughts distingushed from experiences or emotions and responsibilities!
60. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded life boat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out – your friends, everyone you used to know. And its still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know its going to take you down with it…I think that’s why I’m sick of love
61. There are two types of people– those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’
62. The most charming thing about charming people is that they’re charming to everyone!
63. ” Its only when the world you have to make your way in has no real connection with you that your private world is safe”-Amitav Ghosh (The Circle Of Reason)
64. Did you know….
Pablo Picasso often paid for things by check because people would keep the check for the value of his signature , thus allowing him to get things for free.
65. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know
quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie (1891-1976, British Mystery Writer)
66. Men learn to love the person that they’re attracted to and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love..
67. Many a man owes his success to his first wife…
….and his second wife to his success..:-D – TOI quote
68. “If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would
be so stupid we wouldn’t be able to understand it after all.”- Said the Joker to his son
69. I really wish I could think a thought so difficult that i can’t think it, but I can’t. – The nine of Diamonds, before bursting into tears…hehe!
70. “There are too many ideas and too many people and too many directions to go. The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.” Adaptation (2002) Susan Orlean(Meryl Streep)
71. Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. ~Mary Cholmondeley
72. Lately you have been asking me
if all my words r true
Don’t u know I’l do anything fr u
Sometimes I haven’t been good to u
Sometimes I’ve made u cry
And I m sorry fr everything
but I promise u girl
I promise u this
When the blue night is over my face
on the dark side of the world in space
When I’m all alone with the stars above
u r the one I love
So there’s no need to worry girl
My heart is sealed fr u
And no one’s gonna take it away
cz’ I promise u girl
I promise u this
When the blue night is over my face
on the dark side of the world in space
When I’m all alone with the stars above
u r the one I love
Your voice is calling to me in my dreams
My love is stronger than it’s ever been
73. In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded. My Dog Skip (2000) Narrator(Harry Connick Jr.)
74. Albert Einstein- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
75. I ovreheard dis conversation btwn a middle class women and her 2-3 yr old kid standing in a queue.Mom-”kya khayega beta?”; kid-”Babycorn” ..!!!; Mom-”Kyu pasta ya burger khale”..!!:O kid-nai..den she looks around wid a super artificial smile 2 c if at least a few ppl were listening dem..!! I was astound and irritated 2 think how much an avg Indian wants 2 be recognized as getting westernised..!I am sure had d kid said- roti sabji khana hai..d mom would hav slapped and said..chee mera sub standard beta..
76. Today is the first day of the rest of our lives…
77. I always believed it was the things you don’t choose that makes you who you are.” Gone Baby Gone (2007)
78. “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of you. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
79. ” Love is…seeking symptomatic relief to alleviate your own pain and fill up your lack inside.”
80. Golden words by sir MARTIN LUTHER king:IF U CAN’T FLY,RUN.IF U CAN’T RUN,WALK.IF U CAN’T WALK,CRAWL.But watever u do,keep on moving towards ur goal….
81. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you
82. ” Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me.”– Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie.
83. Height of technical overdose…..!!! A computer software engineer falling from the roof of building and shouting F1 F1 F1 instead of HELP..
84. Through bad female cooks..through the entire lack of reason in the kitchen..the development of mankind has bn longest retarded n mst interfered wid..
85. Experience has taught me that we have to take care of ourselves from the outside in as well as from the inside out. In other words, we need to take care of our internal health as well as our physical appearance, and our mental and spiritual well-being. You may think I’m stating the obvious, but I think the reason so many programs fail is that they focus on one body part at a time instead of treating the whole person. Julian Whitaker (American Doctor)
86. It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)
87. “Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting, they will go unnoticed, because even da Lord is watching!” – A banner in Sydney by an australian fan…
88.  “If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

89. one of the beautiful response..If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?”Ain’t everything subjective in life..this choice will depend on what i play on stage, if i was doing a life of sociopath well eager to change costume,else one can play peter pan forever!!
90. There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.~ Rusty Berkus
91. It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. Joseph Ross
92. Someone once asked me “why do you always insist on taking the hard road?” and i replied “why do u assume i see 2 roads?” real smart line below!!!:)
93. “Why fight to be accepted by people you don’t actually want to be like?” Stardust (2007)  Tristan Thorn(Charlie Cox)
94. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
96. Who you are speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you are saying
97. “Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.”  – Unknown.
98. She ws no diff 4m all other mothers,in that while she wanted me,in a general way,to be married,she didn’t want me,in a specific way,to have a wife.
99. Vulgarity has its uses.Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly
100. Difference btwn skill & intelligence? Skill is successfully walking on a rope over Niagra falls, Intelligence is not trying it…!
101. “It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.” Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Grandpa(Patrick Cranshaw)
102. Modesty is the conscience of the body.
103. “People often feel something but express something else, they mean something but say something else, so learn the art of sayin nothing in such a way, that it leaves nothing unsaid…””
104. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your legs… or your hands… or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you’ll find that you won’t sell them for all the gold in the world. 105. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer)
106. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it..
107. For when three sisters love each other with such sincere affection, the one does not experience sorrow, pain, or affliction of any kind, but the other’s heart wishes to relieve, and vibrates in tenderness… like a well-organized musical instrument.” ~ Elizabeth Shaw ~
108. “Merit is often a little more than just the accident of being conceived in a right womb.” ”
109. “The things that we do and speak , are most of the times,a natural outcome of an inner urge for competition to the part of mankind spread around us.”  …. an incisive truth!
110. Death is meaningless for those for whom life is meaningful..
111. Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. – Lawrence Block
112. “Impossible is not a fact, it’s an opinion”
113. When I tell the truth,it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it,but for the sake of defending those that do …
114. “Well you know what they say, if you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.” Steel Magnolias (1989) Clairee Belcher(Olympia Dukakis)

You sure feel like hugging someone after read these quotes don’t you?

WORDS

What a marvelous book one would write by narrating the life and adventures of a word! Undoubtedly a word has received various impressions of the events for which it was used; depending on the places it was used, a word has awakened different kinds of impressions in different people; but is it not more grand still to consider a word in its triple aspect of soul, body, and movement?”

- Balzac in Louis Lambert

Read it somewhere and i felt i should pen down something on my passion, ‘words’..’I personally believe words have extra ordinary and inexplicable power,it has way of saying things which we cant even think of, the ferocity it can generate is beyond our comprehension, the way it is said, the context on which it is used, the timing, all may lead to a different interpretation altogether, giving an altogether different import, making others misconstrue what we actually intend to say, so we must take utmost care in using it.

Words are under your control untill u speak them..
But you come under their control once u have spoken them..

Monologue of a bicycle amidst rain..

This pic fascinated me, and instantly triggered me to pen down something about it.. would post it soon

Faizan said :

Faizan: “I may be a loner in some seasons, yet I’m content with my simple origin.” That’s what I see. =)

Mansi Joshi said :

ohk. well… i dont (mean like cant) comprehend it in “one way” (i am too confused for that) still.. it can be- like the bicycle(here the protagonist) ..his journey has been stopped by rain. It started to rain..and it brought some painful memories back.maybe ..the memories never left him. he just uses “Rain” as an excuse to let them flow out of his eyes all over again. so, he is standing quietly..drenching in rain..rain drops falling on him or tear drops falling out of him. its beautiful ! its sad…lonely…but still beautiful ! peacefull !… with this beauty…comes sorrow too.a will , a sudden intense urge to change it back…like a thunder..to change whatever he wants to…it strikes him..all over again…leaves a cut. and then…flows out. there is no shelter …no support…maybe he likes it this way. maybe he doesn’t. but he is not thinking of it much now ! all he is living in at the moment -is the past. which like this rain…comes back…once in a while..to make its presence felt…that it was never “out” of him…n to engulf him…all over again now my mood has gone bad- why did u ask me to explain it..

Janani says:

wow!…am not that creative! yet…all i can see is a simple meaning, i am all alone….scared and vulnerable,i had run as far as i can…but couldn’t  anymore,i almost give up…but there comes a ray of light…. help is on its way….hope is still left in the world…. now i believe that i will survive,i will feel safe again…

Amanpreet says:

Theres so much I have to know. So much I have to discover that it
overwhelms me sometimes. I wonder if Ill be able to do the task as
humongous as the one that lies in front of me? I feel like giving up but I
know that I should try. I know that I should keep on walking steadily.
That people might have a different sets of benefits that I crave but
in REALITY its just that they are living with different experiences
and facing a different sort of struggles. Everyone has a different sets
of blessings and different set of blessings they have to struggle to
earn.

Sometimes I want someone to reassure me that Im on the right path
and its in my hand to reach the destination. That I have the power to
reach there.

Whatever weather may be on the path Im on and whether I have someone
to fall back on or not, I should be resolute enough to keep on
walking. Ill find support if Im good enough. I wont focus on help if
Im good enough. Ill focus on solutions rather than problems if my
attitude is right.

I have come this far, I should keep on moving. If I give up hope, I
lose. If I don’t, theres still hope at least.And a sense of
satisfaction that I didnt give up. Keep struggling to win the right to
convert your dreams into reality. Not many people are able to do it coz
doubt comes in their way. Self doubt eats up the souls of men and reduces
them as a pale shadows of what they could have been. So come rain or
come shine, do what you got to do. What you ought to do.

Missing you a lot..

Being apart from you isn’t easy…

I find myself missing you so often,in so many ways…

but even though we can’t be together right now…

Gentle thoughts of you fill my days and dreams of you fill my nights…

No matter what I’m doing,

I know it would be so much nice if I could be sharing it with you…

I keep imagining things you’d say if you were with me now,

or the way you would laugh if something funny happened,

and next thing I know,

‘m daydreaming about all the things we’ll do when we’re together again…

Although the miles come between us now,

I still feel so close to you,

and I just keep hoping the days will fly by because I want you beside me

to talk to,

to hold,

to love.

to keep from the hurts

and pains……..

“Night”- the best time of the day…

Nights, as i call it “the best time of the day”, has always fascinated me. The wintry nights in particular, lures me to stay awake all night long. The dark star studded sky fallin on us, the moon inviting us to come over and dine amongst the stars. The soothing cold wind giving us goosebumbs, a chill down our spine The silence of the night is so relieving, so enthralling yet so enigmatic. The other day i went to my terrace listening, humming to my favorite number (pehla nasha), gazing the sky, as if asking something, searching something over there. The wide spread of the same made me feel so timid as if the vast expanse of knowledge is yet to be revealed. The inherent mysticsm in the sky made me feel it’s playing games with us and smiling at us almost sneeringly on our ignorance.I was barefoot, the cold dew made my feet wet and it was just wow. The refreshing air i inhaled made me feel like i am emptying myself to something. Every breath was so refreshing and had so much to say. I almost involutarily closed my eyes, surrendering myself to it, allowed the soothing air to sashay me at its will as if i am a mere puppet. It is mysterious, captivating and inviting. We get answers for the questions we would never be able to frame. The sky stays there like always, so does the moon and the stars, still everyday there is a new story to be told, to be unfolded. Just like when we look at a piece of a painting. We come out with our own interpretation of the inherent meaning behind it, same with the night. there is wisdom in there, beyond our comprehension. It is always a novel feeling..

ahhh…that reminds me of a quote..”,If a lover is like a moon. friends are like stars, have you ever noticed that night can look beautiful without moon but never without stars.”
However somebody rightly contradicted, almost rhetorically and ironically,”but then even all stars taken together cannot shine as bright as a single moon.!?!”

Some people smitten by superstition harbours negative notions associated with nights, but i would rather glaringly contradict it and say “God gave us night we called it darkness”…
Okk so the whole point of this rather prosy introduction is that, my new found romance with wintery nights has tickled the dormant poet (a poet from nowhere and without rhyme and reason) in me once again..

LABEL: Personal experience …

Silence

 Have you ever experienced a moment in your life when you just ran out of words and you go… s i l e n t ?

Let me assist you in recalling…

.. the moment when you left your home for the first time and you look back at your parents who are worried that their son/daughter are leaving them yet happy that their child took the first step towards independence.

… the moment when the girl/boy you like most.. smiled back at you!You didn’t say anything.. you just smile back n turned around did a miny jig..(haha choo cute)

….the moment when you are alone and you smile silently as you recall something/someone, it is then when you really mean it..(it happened and happens with every one of us, is not it?)

… the moment when you get better marks than you expected… those “numb” moments of ecstasy n surprise “is that true?”…(with that cute confused face,wow)

…the moment when someone who is very very close to you is going away from you, as they leave, your hands stretch out as to stop them, but then you pull it back coz you know they would be better off if let gone, you smile and wish no matter where they go they always be happy..

…..the moment when u r alone in ur room, listening to your favorite number, enjoying each word of it, singing along, dancing freely as if no one is watching, its the moment when u enjoy being with yourself in that silent…

….when you sit silently n the terrace gazing at the dark star studded sky and all of a sudden a cold wind touches you off giving you goosebumbs…(feel it!)

….the moment when you are lying down n your bed engrossed in a novel, as you go through it, while turning the page (for that slight moment) where you start visualizing each scene as if you are watching a movie, the characters rushing through your mind in flash back, and you sub consciously start forseeing the future course of the story, looking forward to read the next page with eagerness more then what was there before…

…when someobody you have been thinking about drops at your place or calls you up…(somebody there in your mind now, hehe!!)

… the moment when you sit alone in your room after having told everyone that you cleared that exam you prepared for 6 months!!(savoring the moment)

..the moment you reach your home after a hectic day, you enter and turn on the light just to be greeted by your loved ones with a surprise party and with confettis and balloons bursting here and there, as you stand by the door smiling silently visualising whats in the offing for the evening…

…the moment when you had a trivial altercation with your loved one,while you are sitting together not talking to each other, and all of a sudden there is this song which is aired on FM, and you start with a jig in tune with the melody and look at each other and start smiling…

… the moment when you are parting with your old friend(s) and the train has just started… and you are standing on the door of the wagon.. waving “bye-bye” with your heart beating fast…(hmmm…)

… the moment after the HR manager has just called you and told you,”You are through! Congrats!”(Eureka!! i did it)

…the moment when you and your love attends a common social do(all decked up,looking ethereal)without being aware(or rather ‘made aware’,wink)of the same, as you exchange glances with those angelic eyes, going completely oblivion of eveything and/or everyone around, that moment you just smile with this comforting feeling that he/she is yours, and only yours..

…the moment while you are driving with your girl (sitting right next to you) and you are worried about something which didnt turn out as you had expected;the gal puts her hand on yours (on the gear pad) and without saying anything, looks right into your eyes, with that look of assurance (saying that things would be fine)…

..when you make something for the one you love after spending loads of time (cutting that from your hectic schedule), as you are making it, you start visualising how he/she would react when they see it..a (silent) smile lits up your face, and then you pat your head and say, hey, enough!get back to it now..lolz..!!

….When your love gives birth to your child, you are called in to see your little cuddly muddly baby, as you look and hold them (ahh twins, hehe) in your hands the feeling of ecstasy of being a father reflecting on your face with that smile, and a thank you expression on the face for your wife, its choo very cute..silence then is the best way (if not the only way) to communicate..

….When during the courtship period, you and your loved ones are together, and both sides of the family agrees to it, the feeling of security that comes up knowing that you are and would always be with the one you love, is so relieiving and comforting..that moment you just want to be with the person and stay silent…

…when a mother sees her baby sleeping, and all of a sudden he smiles or yawn she goes awww!!, the feeling what she goes through is reflected through the silent sparkle in her eyes..

….When your cell phone rings and you see the name of the one you love, for that fraction of second (after the ring, and before you pick up the phone) the silent smile that covers up your face is priceless..

…When your friends says something to you, you look at them, (though actualy not looking at them) as you are completely lost in the thoughts of one you love, its then when you are moonstruck, and you smile silently (notwithstanding your friends may be crying hoarse to get your attention, lolz)..

…when you are overflowing with love for someone you love, you are unable to hide your feeling for someone you love the most, you desperately wanting to confide what you are feeling to your closest friend, and finaly when you confide and then when you and your best friend remains silent savoring that moment…

…the moment when you accidentally hear somebody say something good about you..(ahhh haaa,lolz)

Can you imagine the importance of a silent moment in a song??When Bryan Adams stops for a while along with music, before he goes on in his husky voice…… Please forgive me. I can’t stop loving you! or the continual silence in Shaans … le chale …

Ever had those moments when you thought you were tired enough that you reach for your bed after dinner.. but find yourself wide awake looking at the roof of your room silently…
But you sure are ‘thinking’… those moments of self-talk are the most important in our lives. Those moments when we listen to our hearts! Those promises… those decisions… those are the moments when we make our destinies!

Next time you go silent… listen carefully to what your heart is saying.. listen to its joy…listen to its pain.. listen to its fears.. listen to its desires..Don’t make it shut up and go off to sleep.
LISTEN TO THAT VOICE and ACCEPT EVERYTHING IT SAYS!
That voice alone can lead you to the abode of peace that your sleep lacks… peace that awaits you! Be in touch with your true self… be silent once a day, every day!
Always maintain a silent smile…savor the moment..enjoy lifes little pleasure coz small things makes life beautiful in the most beautiful way…
You can go on remembering your “special” moments!
I had always wondered why I never said anything to myself at those moments.. as if it was “understood”…
Love. Joy. Grief. Surprise. Anger. Hope. Expectations. Support. Non-cooperation… happiness, joy, pain.. all feelings just flowed ceaselessly in the ‘years’ that passed in those flash moments!
They say.. the best way to communicate is through “silence”.

Sample this, recieved it via SMS..

Most of us miss out on life s Big prizes…

The Pulitzer.
The Nobel.
Oscars.
Tonys.
Grammys…

But we r all eligible fr life s small pleasures….

A pat on the back.
A good word.
A hug.
A full moon.
A glorious sunset.
An empty parking space.
A great meal.
A good joke.
A love note.
A hot soup.
A cold drink.
An Ice cream.
A thank-you.
A sweet shower of rain.

So dnt fret abt losin lifes grand rewards….. Enjoy its Tiny delights……..

Some amazing quotations:
1. “People often feel something but express something else, they mean something but say something else, so learn the art of sayin nothing in such a way, that it leaves nothing unsaid…”
2. The real art f conversation Is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moments..
3. I chose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I chose to love you in your loneliness, for in your loneliness no one owns you, but me
4. When you smile while you are alone, you really mean it..
5. When asked what is love, what would you say? Well the simple answer to this is complete silence. It is a feeling that only one in love can answer to themselves, without words…
6.With WORDS once can at times UNDERSTAND,But only in SILENCE one KNOWS.
7.“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”

“Seven Days Without Laughter Makes One Weak!”

read it somewhere..
“when you want to speak your heart out,i will be there listening to that silence till you actualy come out with a word at last..”

peeps.. this is an interactive blog.. so please pen down some of your moments that though went by in a jiffy but are still treasured while you reflect/reminiscence them… looking forward to it…!! kp enjoying d “silent smile”…!!

SOURCE: E-mail + some snippets from real life situation ..

Serendipity

Jonathan: This is the ultimate blend to drink. How’d you find this place?
Sara: I first came in because of the name: Serendipity. It’s one of my favorite words.
Jonathan: It is? Why?
Sara: It’s such a nice sounding word for what it means: a fortunate accident.
- From the movie Serendipity (2001)

 Now this is precisely why i have christened my blog with “serendipity”. Yes this is my favorite word.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter.
- Julius Comroe Jr.