Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I'm glad God hasn't given me everything I've ask for.

I'm convinced that whatever happens, happens for a reason; sometimes a bad reason and sometimes a good reason.

The only measure of what's right and wrong is that, if you hide and do something, it's wrong.

It's the small daily happenings that make life so spectacular and beautiful.

Under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

The Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?

Ignoring the facts does not change them.

When you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.

People who bow down to circumstance, are the ones who fail.

It's OK to fuck up.

Love, not time, heals all wounds.

The easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Even when you have to stoop down and start over with your life, it's worth it.

Everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

There's nothing sweeter than sleeping with babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks.

No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

I've learned....That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

What people want from you, most of the time,is for you to hear them; not listen to them.

If you don't think you are insane, then you are not human.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness, and growth happen while you're climbing it.

.... The less time I have to work, the more things I get done.

Every person wants be a writer.

... loving is a mistake, but one that we should all make.

Life is a rope full of knots... all you have to do, to find your way, is to keep untying 'em.

White hair and age have as little correlation with each other as white hair has with wisdom.

I've learned...that love and friendship aren't about taking, but giving without expecting.

When you think things can't get any worse, they do.

It's tougher to do the right thing because that way the only person who gets hurt is you.

Every person has a reason for whatever he does... Sometimes it's reason enough, sometimes it's not.

It's easier to forgive than to forget.

When silences between two people become uncomfortable, there's something wrong.

When you try too hard to impress, to think or to feel something about someone, the person is wrong for you.

I've learned... That when you try too hard to forget, you only end up remembering more.

And I KNOW... that's enough for the day... :D.... i just felt philosophical and suddenly 45 years old..!!!

have a super day!

An exerpt from a speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India who would make you starve, if you don't.'"

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Sambhar of 69

...I've been thinking for a while... the suicide rate, the "parent-pressure" and the following of "standard stuff" without finding the courage to think out of the block.

"Why?" I asked myself.

Firstly, there's a need to accept that white hair has as little to do with age, as wisdom has to do with the years you've lived.

Secondly, he have to stop telling ourselves, as teenagers, that while times are changing, WE are changing but are parents are not changing. This is a misconception, to a large extent. They are evolving too.... not at the same rate as we are, but they are. It's tougher on them because, change to them means giving up what they've been made to believe since they were born. It's not easy for anyone to accept that they're wrong. Especially when they're being told as much, by a someone who is about a two decades or so younger than them.

Thirdly, there's a need for parents to understand that there's a difference between teaching a child HOW TO THINK and WHAT TO THINK. When you are telling me what to think, you are leaving no scope for me to experience and explore. When you're telling me how to think.., you're just laying down the facts, and leaving the decision to me. IF I make the wrong choice, you should be there to help me face it. But, when you're telling me what to do, there is no chance of me making a mistake, or learning how to face the consequences of my decisions.

Parents, elders as a whole... Justify these actions of theirs with a "I've seen more of the world than you. I know better." If you're telling me WHAT TO DO, how can I see the world? How can I EXPERIENCE?

I'm not saying that at 17 I'm capable of always making the right choices... I'm saying that at 40, YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF ALWAYS MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES...

Lay down the facts. Tell me what your opinion is. Tell me how and what you've seen happen in a situation as this. And then let me decide how and what I want to do.

How, when whatever I've done is what you've TOLD me to do, do you expect me to face this world? There are decisions to be made at every step in life. Tomorrow, when I have to make a decision, I'm not going to have you to fall back on. I have to make it. For which I need courage to believe that... 'Hey! This is what I think should be done. If I'm wrong, we'll change tracks.... If I'm right, then well done to me.'

I can't be worried that I MAY BE WRONG and then the world MAY end.