It's too easy to criticize hope
And in the end, cynicism is a lousy strategy.
~ Seth Godin, again (what can I say the man is wise)
Natives of the Solomon islands could literally yell at trees that they wanted to chop down, these trees would subsequently die.
~ Aamir Khan, Taare Zameen Par
My country, Torn, Tattered, Proud, Beautiful, Hot, Humid, Cold, Sandy, Shining India. My country.
~ Mahasweta Devi
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
~ Woody Allen
"Look, sir. Don't worry about me," I said. "I mean it. I'll be all right. I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?"
~ J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
Being an optimist is overrated, at the end of the day all you can really be is a hopeful pessimist.
~ Arinha Dey (yours truly)
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Arinha:
I love your sincerity and joie de vivre! It is obvious how much you love what you do. Your frankness about what made you change your career choices is wonderful. Even though I have read your autobiographical story earlier, just browsing your blog was an eye opener in many ways. In the end, life is all about little moments and our ability to make these meaningful not only to ourselves but also to others that makes the difference. Others before us have in their own ways, changed the world or tried to do so. Some we remember, most we forget. So it is not for us to try and make a change in the world so we are forever remembered, but for us to share our moments with those we love, so we create "sukoon" while we are together.
Live every moment so there never will be regrets of what might have been. Keep your gentleness at home and at work.
Remember what Mark Twain said:
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
A lot of love,
Nandini Mashi
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