Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-George Herbert
When we are small, we find life too simple and start adding things to it. When we become big and life becomes complex, we start untangling it to make it simple. :)
he Carved to free Him
J'ai vu un ange dans le marbre et j'ai ciselé jusqu'à l'en libérer.
I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
Days at once
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- gmail status of rahul upakare
sixty happy seconds
Chaque minute de cafard vous prive de soixante secondes de bonheur.
Each depressing minute deprives you of sixty happy seconds.
- Blas de Otero
cogitation of fellow gmailers
मच्छर ने मुझे काटा उसका जुनून था, मैंने इसे खुजलाया, मेरा सुकून था, मैं चाह कर भी उसे मार न सका...क्योंकि उसकी रगों में भी मेरा ही खून था
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- gmail status of piyush sharan
When you don't get success in first attempt call it version 1.0
- gmail status of abhishek mehta
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them:Khalil Gibran
- gmail status of kanika
♫ I walk a lonely road... The only one i have ever known.... Donno where it goes... but its home to me n I walk alone...
- gmail status of sobi
Love and Life, LIVE
Love is Just Like Life. Its not always easy and it does not always bring happiness ...
but when we do not drop living, why should we Drop Loving!
- gmail status of abhishek(graphics)
The deadly Indecision Syndrome
The undecided person remains in doubt, in anxiety, in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems, worries and aggression. To decide is precisely to know to renounce, to know to lose advantages and values to win others.
- gmail status of akanksha joshi
it takes longer to make shorter
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
- gmail status of kedar
Unassume your thoughts
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
~ Alan Alda
gmail status of pravin shinde
gmail status of pravin shinde
Decision to not choose is a choice
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
- Gary Collins
gmail status of kanika
gmail status of kanika
Birdy Faith
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- gmail status of chintu
Newton in Romantic mood!
" Love can neither be created nor be destroyed; only it can transfer from One girlfriend to another girlfriend with some loss of money. " :)
- gmail status of ankit garg
Run, Walk or Crawl but keep moving
While I can run, I'll run; while I can walk, I'll walk; when I can only crawl, I'll crawl. But by the grace of God, I'll always be moving forward
- gmail status of kanika
Tell Show Involve
Tell me and I will forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.
~Chinese proverb
gmail status of pravin shinde
gmail status of pravin shinde
Reconciling with yourself
Few things test and improve/evolve one's character, sometimes painful but worth doing. - my friend, philosopher and guide
peeyush
Even Lemonade takes time
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
It takes 20 years to become an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Wake Up! There's an Opportunity...
Opportunities are like sunrise. If you wait too long, you miss them.
- gmail status of amol
What a treasure, What a lie
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- gmail status of pawan sabharwal
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
- gmail status of deepali nemade
Faith, Discipline and devotion makes you worth for everything
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
- gmail status of deepali nemade, cdac
Instinct and not Intellect
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Good vs. Bad Soldier
Its not bad as long as you don't give up.
The harder it gets the happier you should be that you can stand it.
THE HARDER THE HAPPIER, its a war and you need to be a good soldier.
- gmail status of sobi
Physical possession vs. real possession
The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
- Rabindranath Tagore
philosopher, author, educator
songwriter, painter, composer
Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
philosopher, author, educator
songwriter, painter, composer
Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
Are you happy?
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Bicycle, the best car
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
- Iris Murdoch, writer (1919-1999)
World Carfree Day, Sep 22
World Carfree Day, Sep 22
Pain and Pleasure
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)
- gmail status of sumeet yadav
Thou will find Him in Thine heart
I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there;
I went to the temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a
trace of Him anywhere.
I searched on the mountains and in the valleys, but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him.
I went to the Kaaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.
I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding.
I then looked into my heart, and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him;
He was nowhere else to be found.
- Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)
Sorry Sorrow! I am busy :)
La diligente abeille n'a pas de temps pour la tristesse.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
- William Blake
Anything but Work
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
- Robert Benchley
Pearl of Contentment - Desire beyond Desires
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
- John Balguy
Quote of the day in wordsmith mailing list
Quote of the day in wordsmith mailing list
Move Move Moving
When people talk behind your back, what does it mean? Simple! It means that you are two steps ahead of them! So, keep moving ahead in life!!
- gmail status of amol
Be a Bird with Attitude
"When it rains all birds occupy shelter, but Eagle is the only bird who avoids the rain by flying above the cloud. Problem is common to all but attitude makes the difference."
- gmail status of akanksha
A Truth about The TRUTH :)
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
- Kahlil Gibran
mystic, poet, and artist
(1883-1931)
mystic, poet, and artist
(1883-1931)
more praiseworthy than Praise
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
- gmail status of kanika
Live Death
I think the tragedy of life is not death, but what dies within you when you are alive.
- Rahul Bose (a noted Indian Actor)
Source: atishay's quote blog
Source: atishay's quote blog
Go, Look for your worm
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
- Swedish proverb
When right becomes wrong
Even a right decision is wrong when it is taken too late.
- gmail status of kanika
Knee and Heart
I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
- gmail status of kanika
Priority or a forced option?
Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life...
- gmail status of Kanika
Scorn Belittles
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Best Leader
The leader is not the best-man of the lot, he is one who gets the best from his lot
- gmail status of nihar khadekar, ex-ncstian
More on Intelligence
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Intelligence Knob
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't seem to work.
- Gallagher
Flat Fact about Flattery
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
You Aspire, They Conspire
When you really want something, entire universe gathers its positive forces, conspires you to realize your Personal Legend and fulfill your dream.
- Paulo Coelho, Author of "The Alchemist"
Anchahi
अनचाही होए कभी मन चाही भी होए, इस धुप छाव कि जिन्दगी में क्या नाचे क्या रोये!
- gmail status of ankit dangi
No loss, All gain
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918 - )
बाक़ी जिन्दगी
जिन्दगी कि असली उड़ान अभी बाक़ी हैं
जिन्दगी के कई इम्तेहान अभी बाक़ी हैं
फिलहाल तो नापी है मुट्ठी भर ज़मीन
सारा आस्मां तो अभी बाक़ी है
- स्टेटस ऑफ़ सौरभ, सीडैक
Histories need a swap, perspectives need a change
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
- Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)
Laughs and Cries
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but i
never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry...
- gmail status of kanika, my schoolmate
Men of Experiment
"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped."
- Francis Bacon as quoted here
For more research and Science Quotes, visit AI+CI
Open Minded Heart
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
- Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- )
Counts matter and not Counted
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein
Its all Seasonal
Les feuilles sèches préparent la tisane de l'automne.
Dry leaves make autumn's herbal tea.
- Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Unawareness is the biggest stupidity
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
- gmail status of nihar khedekar
A li'l techie OLB
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
gmail status of rahul upakare
Today's GMAIL statuses
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult
Neeta Mishra
Never waste a lie when the truth will do. Rahul Upakare
Read this and Feel better
People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
- gmail status of ankit garg
Smartness
None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Read here
The problems we face are too complex to be solved by any one person or any one discipline. Our only chance is to bring people together from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who can refract a problem through the prism of complementary minds allied in common purpose.
Slowly becoming Fast
Somewhere among all the rapid global communications via Transatlantic cables and real-time GPS-based shipment tracking information sent directly to your Palm Pilot and Blackberry, the lesson of "slow and steady wins the race" is being forgotten.
Good for the swarm, Good for the bee
That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.
- Montesquieu
There are many exceptions to the above quote. Can be a good test case for an AI program that finds Moral of a given story.
Try this
Smooth roads never make good drivers.
- gmail status of chintu sir
Regret's Motive
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
- Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915 - )
"don't know enough" paradox
"... the more you study the more you're gonna feel like you don't know enough, there is a whole theory on this thing. Imagine knowledge as circle, inside the circle is what you know, outsite is the unknown, imagline the line as the contact with the unknow, the bigger the circle gets the more contact with the unknown (therefore you may feel stupid), on the contrary the smaller the circle the smaller the contact with the unknown, therefore you think you know everything (remember grade school). "
- from a forum thread on subject GRE, computer science
Parting to cherish
We meet to make memories ...we part to cherish them..
- gmail status of rashi82 on gmail
Life
Life means missing expected things and facing unexpected things. When you are right, no one remembers, but when you are wrong, no one forgets...This is life
- gmail status of Neeta, cdac
Theoretical Roots of Practical Trees
Rejecting theory as useless in order to work only on everyday things is like proposing to cut the roots of a tree because they do not carry fruit.
- Marquis de Condorcet, 1775.
Find your second great day
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- gmail status of amol
Heart's world
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- Buddha
Watch your arrogance
in the sin of a sinner is the seed of his destruction... In his [ravana's] arrogance lies his destruction
- vishnu in 'ramayana'
faith comes after doubt
It's impossible to have faith until you have doubted.
- gmail status of kanika
Attitude
People laugh because I am different. And I laugh because they are all the same.. That's called ATTITUDE.
- gmail status of AMOL
Invasion of Army, Army of Ideas
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Be Difficult for Difficulties
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you but to help you realise your hidden potential. Let difficulties know that you are difficult!
- Gmail Status of Abhishek (cnie, cdacmumbai)
Opinions change, Facts remain
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that i am right.
- Gmail Status of Eva
Graduates of Life
"... Because when you're in college it's very clear what you have to do to succeed. And I imagine here everybody knows exactly the number of credits they needed to graduate, where they had to buckle down, which introductory psychology class would pad out the schedule. You knew what you had to do to get to this college and to graduate from it. But the unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. The paths are infinite and the results uncertain. And it can be maddening to those that go here, especially here, because your strength has always been achievement. So if there's any real advice I can give you it's this.
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong…although I'm sure downloading illegal files…but, nah, that's a different story.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
And the last thing I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead."
- Jon StewartCollege is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong…although I'm sure downloading illegal files…but, nah, that's a different story.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
And the last thing I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead."
In his Commencement address in William and Mary University
Become a fool or Remain a fool
Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
- Picked from atishay's blog
What matters is you and nothing else
Do all you can; with what you have; in the time you have; in the place you are.
- Nkosi Johnson
Very right!!
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
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