570. Achievers are often described as lucky. But what about the years of toil?

- Sujit Mukerji

569. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

- Theodore Roosevelt

568. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

- Sam Levenson

567. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

566. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

565. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

- Willie Nelson

564. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

563. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

- Allen Klein

562. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

561. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

560.  The rising sun is admired and even worshipped by some but the setting sun may, at the most, be admired but never worshipped.

- Sujit Mukerji

559. A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

- Lao Tzu

558. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. 

- Erick S. Gray

557. Anything with scales counts as a fish.

556. Even monkeys fall out of trees.

555. No one goes through life unscathed.

554. Nothing is black or white.

553. The price of your hat is not always the measure of your brain.

552. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

551. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

- Ben Franklin

550. It is a tragedy when care for closer ties is thrown to the winds if and when there is a clash of interest.

- Sujit Mukerji

549. Life is a journey, not a destination.

548. Even the best laid plans go awry.

547. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

546. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

545.  It is your responsibility to make your world work for you.

- Ashok Subramanian

544. I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

- Art Williams

543. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

- Thomas Jefferson

542. Life is not so important as the duties of life.

- John Randolph

541. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

540. The lonely sun has to burn itself out, the mountains have to melt, the air has to be on the move and undergo changes and the earth has to suffer ordeals so that life can continue. And, such is the destiny of Samaritans.

- Sujit Mukerji

539. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

538. No man can lose what he never had.

- George Herbert

537. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

- Alexandre Dumas

536. The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

- Democritus

535. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

534. Life is what you make it.

533. In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

- Aesop

532. Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more noble and to realize his own true worth.

-Albert Schweitzer

531. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

- Ramana Maharshi

530. Beware of any sudden change in behaviour.

- Sujit Mukerji

529. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

- Mary Anne Redmacher

528. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

527. Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.

526. The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

- Carl Jung

525. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

524. Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

- Sallust

523. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

522. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

- Ramana Maharshi

521. Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. 

520. To appreciate beauty, stop analyzing;

To get to the truth, start analyzing.

- Sujit Mukerji

519. What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight.

518. Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself.

517. Sometimes, less is more.

- William Shakespeare

516. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

515. Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset.

514.  If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

- George Bernard Shaw

513. He who is different from me does not impoverish me – he enriches me.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

512. He that respects himself is safe from others.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

511. Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.

- Ben Franklin

510. The journey to the final results is usually long and painful.

- Sujit Mukerji

509. He who flees at the right time can fight again.

- Marcus Trentius Varro

508. Better slip with foot than tongue.

- Ben Franklin

507. When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.

506. When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

- Confucious

505. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

- Winston S Churchill

504. You can't make bricks without straw.

503. It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.

- Ben Franklin

502. Truth can pass through three stages:

1. It can be ridiculed;

2. It can be violently opposed;

3. And, finally, it can be/is accepted as being self-evident.

501. Just because everybody's doing something, doesn't mean it's right.

500. The sun can’t see what is in the shadows. So, the most powerful also has some limitations. Certain facts stay hidden, even from the most powerful, until they are dug out. One at the top can’t see the goings-on at the grass-root level. To know, one has to come down.

- Sujit Mukerji

499. The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.

498. The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfections of a fool.

- William Blake

497. The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.

496. Justice is truth in action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

495. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

494. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hands with a grip that kills it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

493. Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.

492. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

491. A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. 

- Virgin Islander

490. The ship has to decide its course regardless of the wind’s direction.

- Sujit Mukerji

489. Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.

488. It is easier to criticize than to do better.

487. One should speak little with others and much with oneself.

486. Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

485. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

484. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put the foundations under them.

-         Henry David Thoreau

483. Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat.

482. Wisdom is of times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

- William Wordsworth

481. A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.

480. Even the sun’s worshippers look away during its eclipse. Others admire it!

- Sujit Mukerji

479. It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

- W Edwards Deming

478. The prudent embark when the sea is calm - the rash when the sea is stormy.

- Maori

477. Eggs have no business dancing with stones.

- Haitian

476. Sleeping people can't fall down.

475. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance. Fame is nothing. Openness is everything.

-         Rainer Maria Rilke

474. Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

- Ben Franklin

473. Beware the person with nothing to lose.

472. Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

471. When the moon is full, it begins to wane.

470. If someone hurts me, I will not take revenge because it could be unintentional. Even if it is on purpose, it will mean such is his nature which, obviously, will not change and he is bound to be so with others too. Naturally, one day he will be paid back with the same coin by someone else so inclined. So, why should I waste my time and energy and soil my hands?

- Sujit Mukerji

469. Measure a thousand times; cut once.

468. Beware of the fury of a patient man.

- John Dryden

467. He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

-Ben Franklin

466. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

465. When you are finished changing, you are finished

- Benjamin Franklin

464. Whoever has a tail of straw should not get too close to the fire.

463. The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own feathers.

462. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

461. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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460. Those of us who are able to optimally use our resources turn out to be smarter than the others.

- Sujit Mukerji

459. Easy does it.

- T. Taylor

458. Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

457. The anger of the prudent never shows.

456. Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

455. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you, you have to win it.

-         Ralph Waldo Emerson

454. You never know what lies right around the corner.

453. It's an ill wind that blows no good.

- John Heywood

452. The leopard does not change his spots.

– William Shakespeare

451. Little leaks sink the ship.

- Ben Franklin

450. One sees nothing, the second sees what comes to the fore while the third also sees what is beyond and reads between the lines too … who is the smart one?

- Sujit Mukerji

449. MIGHTY UNITY

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

One of the great freedom fighters, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birthday – Oct 31 – has been declared as ‘Unity Day’ from this year. ‘Unity’ is such a short word, so easy to spell, and this word is used so often, but who is really united? Everybody seems to care about his/her own desires and go against everybody else. One is too keen to fulfill one’s own wishes even at the cost of sacrificing the feeling of unity. In such an era like this, it has really been a great step to declare a day, that too such a great day (a luminary’s birthday) as National Unity Day.

Now, it is time for me to relive this Unity Day which we celebrated in our school. We had the heaven-sent opportunity to be able to spread the   message of unity. We rallied around the school trying to spread the message of unity. Some were holding placards, others were just walking. We were really united that day. Everyone seemed to have the same kind of emotions. We rallied around and came back to the school campus hoping that our efforts had been fruitful. We spent the rest of the time in the school engaged in certain other activities such as collage making etc. That was indeed a very great day. I don’t know about anyone else but, at least, I understood the importance of unity.

It would be so good if everyone remains united forever. One thing is assured that if everyone is united, no power can cause any disturbance however mighty that power may be. That is to say, no power is mightier than unity itself. It would indeed be very good if we do not treat this unity as a utopian concept but see it happening. It would be so good to see everyone stand, walk or run for unity. If we are united, our progress will be much easier and faster and we will come out from the dark dungeons of our lives, thereby ensuring a more blissful state.

Surely, “united we stand and divided we fall”. Everyone seems so busy in falling and getting up that there is no time left to stand. But the day is bound to come when ‘unity’ shall be shouted in a united manner.

448. Nothing, even the most appealing, can be perfect.

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

447. The second word makes the quarrel.

446. Keep no more cats than will catch mice.

- J. Dare

445. Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day.

- William Shakespeare

444. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

- John Philpot Curran

443. Fish don't get caught in deep water.

- Malay

442. Pleasing ware is half sold.

- George Herbert

441. I have always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

-         John D Rockefeller

440. A resolutely conscientious would go out of his way to ensure justice to all.

- Sujit Mukerji

439. Only a fool has to be told everything (yet, perhaps, to no/not much avail).

- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

438. Only a fool tests the water with both feet.

437. The fewer the words the shorter the quarrel.

436. If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself.

435. Anger is a short madness.

- Horace

434. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

433. If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.

432. One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

- Aesop

431. A man should never be ashamed to admit that he is in the wrong – which is but saying in other words that – “He is wiser today than yesterday”.

- Jonathan Swift

430. We forget that people may be of the same or more or less IQ level and that makes things more difficult.

- Sujit Mukerji

429. As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.

428. At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.

427. Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

- R. Taverner

426. Be ever vigilant but never suspicious.

425. The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting.

- Ben Franklin

424. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

423. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

422. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

-         Aristotle

421. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

420. Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.

419. Dilemmas and delays prove rather costly at times. Procrastination is an evil to be kept a bay.

- Sujit Mukerji

418. The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake.

- Tagalog

417. The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot.

- Haitian

416. Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your mind.

415. Hear reason or she will make you feel her.

- Ben Franklin

414. Fine feathers don't make fine birds.

- Aesop

413. A watched pot never boils.

412. The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water.

411. Medicine left in the container can't help.

- Yoruba

410. Kisi k liye jeenay me hi to maza h,

Aisa karne se hi yeh baat samajh me ati h;

Apne liye hi jeena to sirf ek saza h,

Aisa karne se to vo baat samajh se paray h …

(Living for others makes life worthy and satisfying, one has to do so to realize it; Living for the self is only a punishment: on doing so, one cannot realize the worth of life …)

- Sujit Mukerji

409. … Depressed patients pay more attention to negative things in their environment than healthy people … Some drugs used in treating depression increase the action of the neurochemical serotonin, or ‘the happiness molecule’, in the brain … Such treatments make them pay more attention to positive things, leading to better mood over time …

Thought processes could lead people into a positive and calm mood … Meditation alters activity of neurons in different parts of the brain and can cause long term changes in the brain. Altered activity of neurons implies that the release of different neurochemicals is being altered …

Bright light also acts on both the serotonin and dopamine systems in humans … Depression in the winter, when days are short, can be treated by exposure to bright light early in the morning. … Running increases serotonin … It can help treat clinical depression, that may be due in whole or in part to release of endorphins (neurochemicals that have an action similar to opiates but without the addictive properties).

In addition to factors such as bright light, exercise and meditation, another important factor that is associated with better mood is having a larger social circle … Serotonin can influence social behaviour in humans, with increased serotonin sometimes increasing agreeableness and decreasing quarrelsomeness …

- Dr. Simon N Young (Professor, McGill University, Montreal, in an interview with Subodh Varma, published in the Times Of India, dated Oct. 13, 2014.)

408. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

- J.K. Rowling

407. Red sky at night,

Shepherd’s delight;

Red sky in the morning,

Shepherd take warning.

406. Out of vulnerabilities will come your strength.

-         Sigmund Freud

405. Anger is one letter short of danger.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

404. Beware of the door with too many keys.

403. Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.

402. Nothing remains constant except change itself.

401. Sticks and stones are hard on bones,

Aimed with angry art …

Words can sting like anything,

But silence breaks the heart …

400. In today’s mad race for progress, man seems to be left with no time for himself. He doesn’t seem to know exactly what he is losing until it is too late and nothing remains to be done. What then should be of utmost priority to him? To pause after every little while to see just where he is heading. One should always stop to think if there is something one is standing to lose in any bargain. One should keep reminding oneself of the differences between selfishness and what one ought to do. Selfishness is how one would feel temporarily, while the path that we ought to take is the one that ensures the ultimate welfare of everybody. For instance, how does an average student feel when asked to study? Selfishness prompts him to run away from his prime duty – studying – and seek comfort or other diversions that makes him feel good. Temporarily. But the ultimate result would obviously be harmful not just for the student but for all concerned. So, selfishness is aimed at temporary feeling of well-being at the cost of ultimate welfare of not just the one who is selfish but also of all those attached to him. Contrary to this, if one takes the path one ought to take, then, maybe, one has to endure certain things and even make sacrifices. But the ultimate result would be good.

- Sujit Mukerji

399. To meet, to know,

And then to part –

Is the saddest fate

Of human heart …

398. A tree falls the way it leans.

- Walloon

397. Life is like the moon: now full, now dark.

396. I don’t think anyone should see them (children) as pitiable subjects … People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children … (e.g.) transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity …

- Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel laureate (Ref: #343, #334)

395. Depend on your walking stick; not on other people.

394. Be careful what you ask for; you may get it.

393. A horse may run quickly but it cannot escape its tail.

392. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

391. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

-Kahlil Gibran