180.  Self-respect and egoism are opposites. Examples:

(a) A person with the sense of self-respect wouldn’t hesitate to acknowledge his/her mistake(s) and apologize for the same even in public. Such a person can even go to the extent of standing up for the others, taking upon the self the responsibility for the others’ mistake(s) and of apologizing for them despite being innocent. In doing so, the person with the sense of self-respect gains respectability.

(b) An egoistic person, on the other hand, just wouldn’t acknowledge his/her mistake(s), even if it is proved, let alone apologize for the same or stand up for anyone else. In doing so, an egoistic person loses respectability.

- Sujit Mukerji

179. Our life depends on our responses which depend on our personality traits – the attitudinal, behavioural, language etc. patterns – that we have inherently or acquired since our childhood. Hence, to understand the life of an adult, we have to go to his/her childhood stage so as to be able to trace the origins and development of his/her particular personality aspects. A person is born with and, over the years, picks up and develops certain qualities according to which he/she thinks and, therefore, acts and gets the results. He/she is either positively or negatively inclined and seldom balanced. Tragedy is when he/she shows negative propensities. For example, stubbornness, cheating, violence etc. So, let us go to his/her childhood days. A child becomes stubborn if it learns that its wishes can get fulfilled if it resorts to stubbornness. Similarly, it learns to cheat, by telling lies etc., and getting away with it. Not just that, it even learns to gain by lying. Needless to say, it learns this from its elders and its environment. The elders might themselves be doing just that. Or maybe, they are just too loving. So much so, that they would rather turn a blind eye to the faults of their wards, forgetting that this same ward of today would be the adult of tomorrow.

- Sujit Mukerji

178. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

- Dale Carnegie.

177. Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due.

- Dean Inge

176. Flattery brings friends, truth enemies.

175. Goodness has a price but that can be treated as a test of the self.

- Sujit Mukerji

174. Even the noblest of souls and deeds are/have been criticized. Should criticism necessarily be a deterrent?

- Sujit Mukerji

173. The Present is born out of the Past and nurtures, in its womb, the Future.

172. To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

- Anatole  France.

171.  Who spends more than he should, shall not have to spend when he would.

- Ray