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A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. 

~Anonymous

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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

~ Socrates

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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

~John Quincy Adams

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"Don't get so anxious for something that you'll accept anything. 
Hold to your standards and be willing to walk away -- head up."

~Thema Bryan-Davis

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You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offence....

But Silence?? Nah.

~Alison McGhee

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare 

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. 

~Apple Inc.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. 

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." 

~Hugh Sidey 

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

~Karl A. Menniger 

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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. 
~Zig Zaglar

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. 

~Jean Rhys

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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. 
~Caroline Myss

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 
~Oscar Wilde

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

~Charles Swindoll

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If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. 

If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.

~ Unknown

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"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."

~David Icke

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Realise that it’s not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

~ Unknown

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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it. 

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

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Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others - Not realising that everyone has a different question paper.

 ~ Unknown

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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." 

~John F. Kennedy 

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Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

 ~ Rodolfo Costa

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"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." 

~Albert Einstein 

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The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

~ Unknown

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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

~Roger Staubach 

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Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

~ Jonathan Santos 

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Sometimes the things we can't change end up changing us.

~ Anonymous

She

My early childhood memories of “her” were of wanting to marry her once I grew up! She was orphaned at a tender age of five and got married at a young age of twelve; bore five children and said no more... She brought them up admirably well. She taught herself as she sent her children to school and never let them know, she knew any less. At the age when Ghoogat was order of the day, she carried her self well in Sarees with sleeveless blouses. She could carry chiffon and khaadi with equal grace. She got similar high heels made to order for self and her son’s wife.

Pink and Magenta never looked better on anyone else, fuchsia and mauve were the color names I heard only from her. Her cooking was legendary, the secret of course which can never be copied, I think, because a pinch of this and that can't be calculated. She is my benchmark for LOVE. She took me for long walks and asked me to hold her hand so that she does not get lost... during these walks she managed to tell me same story in ten different ways and still left me with the desire to hear it one more time. We enjoyed 10paise worth of groundnut and precious moments together.

She fought with her husband to travel two nights and one day all alone and be by my bedside if ever I fell ill. She epitomized love and everyone who came in touch with her instantly fell in love with her with pleasure of reciprocation. She walked the talk. If ever there was trouble I talked to her for I knew she'll sure understand. She'd got lots of love and good counsel to give and I knew she'll be on my side for as long as I live... She was my punching bag, she was my sounding board, and she was my alter ego.

She fought tooth and nail with my father to let me wear my hair short something unheard of in a conservative Surd family. In

an era when girls were seen as precious objects to be heavily guarded and not let out of sight, she supported my decision to wear Salwar-Kameez only to Gurudwara. We schemed together against the family and society at the stage of life when I felt world was pro-men, she smuggled goodies to my room when I went on indefinite fast to get things done my way, we went together to parks, cinemas, hotels and never let anyone know what we were up to. We vacationed together. She agreed with me that God is wherever we wish Him to be and visited religious places only with my consent in my presence. She was my friend, my confidant, my fellow conspirator, my partner in crime.

She preached making educated choices but never let the voice of heart go unheard. She came all the way alone from Mumbai to Jalandhar at the time I was in my college just to surprise me. We painted our toe nails together and she dragged me to beauty parlor for first time shaping of my eyebrows. She took me around to show the city and told me to live life on my terms. She is my definition for spirit of womanhood. She essentially represented my childhood. I was a child whenever she was around. I grew up at the age of twenty, the day she died. I miss you Grand mom, wait for me, we have got lots to catch up on...