Words. They are not merely symbols used to say what you want, they serve a bigger purpose. Put your faith into them and they turn into a prayer. Put your feelings into them and they turn into a poem. Put imagination into them and they turn into a story. Put music into them and they turn into a song. Put a thought into them and they turn into a quotation. Here are thoughts and sayings from various writers and great men who have inscribed their wisdom forever into quotations and my Words.
New Dreams???
As I talked to one of my college friends today I had a realization. What I wanted three years ago, or lets say just a year ago, was quite different than what I want now. My dream of becoming a director or writer has shriveled quite a bit and I have become more accepting to the changes and situations I face in life. Can I say this is maturity? Or is it just adjusting and accepting the things that I cannot change?
In college, while doing my Bachelor's, I had a distinct dream or say a plan in mind. I had thought quite clearly that when I pass my college I will get a job and I would be settled in a sense. I did pass my college and end up in a job but I also left it after a year and joined another college for my Masters. But now when I sit to think of it I really don't know which way my life is heading.
Very clearly my plan of life did not materialize. I may have made mistakes and taken some wrong decisions in life but they made me what I am today and I do not regret even a bit of it. But now I know things work out on their own and we might end up doing things we never thought of. In fact I have ended up doing what I thought I would never do! Maybe this is the case with me or a few other people my age. Or can I say this happens with most people in their youth?
Things don't always turn out the way we think nor do we achieve all our dreams. With time our dreams may change and it's okay to make mistakes. Youth has the liberty to make mistakes and learn what is wrong and right early on. I cannot afford to make choices in my career after 25 but I can right now at 22. We do have the time and the privilege to try out different things and see what works for us and what doesn't work for us both in the professional and personal fronts.
We normally go according to our parents wishes till we are in school. In college too some agree to what their parents have thought they should do. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they are confused with whatever is going on with their lives either professionally or personally. That time may come early for some and a little later for others. Don't we all go through phases when we ask ourselves where are we heading? What will we be doing after five years?
Youth is a time to get confused, ask questions to oneself, make mistakes and learn to choose the right direction in life. It is a time of trial and error. To decide what works for you, where are you comfortable. I am in a phase where I am struggling both professionally as well as personally. No matter how much friends argue or agree I have to make my own decisions in life. I have to choose the way I have to move on for the years to come. I have no specific plan in mind as I want to live without regrets.
I want to make my own mistakes and learn from them. I want to live my own life, try and fail and then prevail. I don't have to live up to other's expectations but my own. I am no longer a child who goes on the path she is taken on by her parents. I am an individual who can now live her own life in her way without explaining why.
When you change your feelings into words you can make the impossible possible.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
“I love you, not for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.”
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on when others have let go.
The best way out is always through.
If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
“I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen not what it actually does.”
You must always know what it is that you want. Never stop dreaming, follow the omens.
Together We Did
Truth and Non Violence
Death
Teachers' Day
When you play cards for the first time you are almost sure to win. It’s the principle of favourability because life wants you to achieve your destiny.
We have to take advantage when luck is on our side and do as much to help it as it is doing to help us.
Every search begins with beginners luck and every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
The darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
Don't say that you've got more than you deserve as life might be listening and give you less the next time.
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
That what you really believe in always happens. And a belief in a thing makes it happen.
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Always stand by your friends because in the end they are the ones who will stand by you.
A friend loves at all times.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
Love is like a mountain hard to climb but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Somewhere someone dreams of you and finds your presence in life worthwhile. So when you are lonely remember, someone somewhere is thinking of you.
“May you have warm words on a cold night, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.”
“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. It is more meaningful than painting trees.”
There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete everybody will respect you.
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.
When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.
People are capable at any time in their lives of doing what they dream of.
There is a force that wants you to realise your destiny. It whets your appetite with a taste of success.
If you want to be a star and shine your own light don’t be afraid of the darkness because it is then that the star shine the brightest.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
A successful man is that who lays the foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
“Speak to me so I can see your soul.”
You should know what’s going on in your friend’s heart. But most importantly you should know what’s going on in your enemy’s mind.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Friendship with oneself is all important, without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Friends don’t have to agree on every issue, they just have to have an honest relationship about it.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes and her eyes everywhere in the world.
“I want to look into someone’s eyes and see the whole world, and feel as if I don’t want anything else.”
A simple “I love you” means more than money.
Love asks no questions and gives endless support.
“Looking back I have this to regret that most often when I loved I didn’t say so.”
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.
Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the voice of others drown out your own inner voice.
Dream as life you’ll life forever. Live as of you’ll die today.
Life gives answers in three ways: It says yes and gives you what you want. It says no and gives you something better. It says wait and gives you the best.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the heart of a true friend.
Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Friends should be few and well chosen.
The freedom we have and don't have
The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things.
Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit it is because it wasn’t true love.
Trouble is a part of life and if you don’t share it you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
People are beautiful if you love them.
There is more hunger for love in this world than for bread.
Don’t expect a great day, make one.
What a caterpillar calls the end the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Maturity has more to do with the kind of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learnt from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
Do not cry for the stars. Pick up the diamonds in the sand.
If you can’t see the brighter side of life polish the dull one.
A friend appreciates the best in you, encouraging you at every step of life, helping you become a stronger person.
Most people walk in and out of your life but only friends leave footprints in your heart.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
How much is too much?
Changing Times
You know you love someone when all you want is that person to be happy even if you are not a part of their happiness.
Find a person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them.
If he doesn't respect you he is not worth any of your time.
The heart does heal and you will love like this again. Except that when you do you’ll deny that you ever loved like this before.
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance everyone should keep a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.
That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.
Never ever let a member of the opposite sex make you compromise your standards.
It’s funny how someone can come in and go out of your life so quickly, yet leave footprints and memories in your heart forever.
If instead a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as angels give.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
No garden is ever really complete without fragrant flowers to make it sweet. No life is ever full or fair without a true and dear friend to share or care.
A friend is someone who does not judge by appearance or action, who accepts all in you and loves you for it.
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Love deeply and patiently. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
Love is the difference between living and existing.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
Soul mates don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along.
“Yesterday is dead, tomorrow has not come yet. I have just one day and I am going to be happy in it.”
The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
Don’t let your life wait for other people.
Ten years from now most of the things that we freak out about won’t make any difference.
Life moves fast but not so fast that you can’t slow down to enjoy it.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would have lied if you were in his place.
“Got no cheque books, got no banks still I would like to express my thanks. I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”
The nice thing about egoistics is that they don’t talk about other people.
When you realise that you’ve made a mistake take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone.
A friend is someone who believes in you even when you’ve ceased to believe in yourself.
Friendship is not a two way road… It is a one way road travelled by two people together hand in hand.
Best friends never tell each other they are best friends, they just know it.
“If I could give you one gift my friend, I’d give you the gift to see yourself as others see you, so you could understand how special you really are.”
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
You can’t stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.
When it hurts to look back and you are scared to look ahead. You can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
“Don’t walk in front of me I may not follow; don’t walk behind me I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”
It is easier to forgive and enemy than to forgive a friend.
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Whine less, breath more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more. And all good things will be yours.
It is better to deserve an honour and not get it than to get an honour and not deserve it.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict but it is the ability to cope with it.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start anyone can start now and make a brand new end.
An optimist expects his dreams to come true, a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
To handle yourself use your head, to handle others use your heart.
Look within for value and beyond for perspective.
Behind every successful man theres a lot of unsuccessful years.
The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you love that you do.
During life, loving is essential as living.
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart I’ll stay there forever.”
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”
Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
A true friend is the one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Don't love a friend who hurts you. Don't hurt a friend who loves.
There is no such thing as a self made man. We are all made up of thousands of others.
Man should subvert anger by forgiveness, subdue pride by modesty, overcome hypocrisy with simplicity and greed by contentment.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don’t have the strength.
A pessimist is a person who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Be a leader not a follower.
Always keep a smile on your face to give to those who don’t have any.
It’s not what life tales away from you that counts. It’s what you make of what is left with you.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
At the end of the game both the king and the pawn go into the same box
When you have nothing left but love then for the first time you become aware that love is enough.
“Your words may hurt my feelings but your silence breaks my heart.”
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh but you can’t truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
Falling in love with someone isn’t always easy. It’s when you want to be together despite it all, that’s when you truly love someone.
Love is all about open arms. If you close your arms around love you will be left holding only yourself.
Love is a gift. If you receive it try and appreciate it. If not, don’t worry, someone is still wrapping it for you.
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you are with.
Don’t cry over someone who won’t cry over you.
Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to do so.
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
Life gives us rocks it’s our choice whether to build a bridge or a wall.
Live today as you’ve never lived before because sometimes tomorrow never comes.
When you live on a round planet there’s no choosing sides.
If opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.
Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking when we ought to feel and feeling when we ought to think.
People won’t remember what you did. People won’t remember what you said. But people will remember how you made them feel.
Most of us can read the writing on the wall. We just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
“I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.”
Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
“I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.”
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
A true friend is not someone to whom you go to laugh but to whom you go to cry.
“If you jumped down a bridge I wouldn’t jump with you, I would be at the bottom to catch you.”