270. Steps to Paradise –

Humility, Sincerity, Frankness, Pure Love, Courage, Generosity, Sagacity, Forgiveness, Balanced Mind, Mercy, Magnanimity, Contentment.

– The Twelve Virtues.

269. Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, “No thoroughfare!”

But Love came laughing by and cried, “I enter everywhere!”

268. If Fate hands you a lemon, try to make a lemonade.

267. If we wish to hurt any one, the first to feel the agony would be us.

- Sujit Mukerji

266. When we are good to others, we are best to ourselves.

265. Why can’t we aim at winning by love rather than by force? However, love does not mean spoiling. It does not mean gifts. It can not be bought. It also does not mean allowing so much as to let things take an undesirable turn. It is actually far more simple. All one has to do is to have patience, tolerance, conviction, a big heart, a certain firmness, a good intention, a sense of sacrifice for the betterment of the subject in question … Simply put, logic is the keyword. If a person is shown that he stands to gain, why would not he accept? And if the cause is noble, how can it backfire? Yes, if there is any negativity like, for instance, one’s self-interest is coming in the way, then, obviously, the progress will be difficult. So what? Fortune favours the brave, doesn’t it? Perseverance pays. There has to be a tenacity of purpose. Determination can surely subdue stubbornness. Love is a matter of the heart but for the good of the loved one, it becomes necessary to use the mind as well.

- Sujit Mukerji

264. The same objective can be achieved in a better way if we have a different approach.

- Sujit Mukerji

263. War does not determine who is right; only who is left.

Bertrand Russel

262. Truth has no special tine of its own, its hour is now, always and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.

- Albert Schweitzer

261. A Bright New World For Us To Share …

- Sujit Mukerji

 Here’s some quote of the wise,

For us to ponder and rise;

Two men looked out of the window bars –

One saw mud, the other saw stars;

Clouds are never there to stay,

We’d have just deserts if they remained away;

Excess of anything is always bad,

So, bits of everything should make us glad;

Change is the law of Nature,

Sans which what’d be our stature?

If all plants were all green,

Would they have the sheen?

There are two sides to every coin,

Clouds also make the hearts join;

Nothing’s good, nothing’s bad,

I’ll say it’s all a fad!

We should question not but live and labour,

Till our goal be won;

Helping every feeble neighbour,

Seeking help from none;

Let’s be not like a stream that brawls,

Loud with shallow waterfalls;

But in quiet self control,

Linking together soul and soul;

Regrets for yesterday and fear of the morrow,

Relegates us deep into the bed of sorrow;

Failure means the road bends,

Not that the journey ends;

Of all the troubles great and small,

Greatest are those that never happen at all;

Yesterday is but a dream,

Tomorrow only a vision;

But today well lived makes,

Every yesterday a dream of happiness;

And every tomorrow a vision of hope …

Some day a bright new wave

Will break up on shore,

And there’ll be a bright new morning to adore;

A bright new morning over there,

There’ll be a bright new world for us to share …