Cool Quotes

I just love quotations. After a long and intense Google search I found some of these interesting quotes. I often use them as my email-signatures. Here is the list.

• Minds, like parachutes, function best when open.

• "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

• I've given up trying to escape from reality; they always find me anyway.

• Don't worry about life; you're not going to survive it anyway.

• When at the edge of the unknown, faith provides the wings to fly.

• Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.

• "All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

• "A leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes."

• "Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top."

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

• When you lose, don't ever lose the lesson learned.

• The only place you will find success before work is in the dictionary.

• It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

• A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

• I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

• Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

• 'The harder I work, the luckier I get.'

• Hard work never killed anyone, but why give it a chance?

• Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

• I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!!

• "The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."

• God is real, unless declared integer

• Before borrowing money from a friend, decide whether you need more.

• Death is hereditary.

• An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing

• Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.

• Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

• Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

• Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.

• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

• If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

• Where there's a will there are five hundred relatives

• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else

• Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day

• I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

• Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use

• I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

• I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM.

• Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thoughtto myself, "where the heck is the ceiling?"

• I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier.

• After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

• When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

• Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

• To Err is human, to forgive is not a COMPANY policy.

• Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.

• In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.

• If at first you don't succeed... Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.

• If you have bunked the class, the professor has taken attendance.

Anniversary Gift for parents

Actually I wanted to give this gift on my first salary itelf. But something changed my plan. It's 11th Dec.; marriage anniversary of my mom and dad, (I call them Aai and Aaba). Aaba is a die hard fan of Marathi songs, especially of Sudhir Phadake's . And my Aai likes all genres of music, except hard-rock :-)

So, I bought a set of GEET-RAMAYANA, the divine creation of Sudhir Phadake and G.D. Madgulkar. My parents both just love it. They said that this is the best gift they have ever recieved from me.....

Absence of choice...

I had a thought in mind "The absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare" . And I want to write something about this thought.

Firstly, what is a choice? Choice is the process of making out one selection from a number of available options. Naturally, to make a choice, you should have more than one options.
I think that throughout the whole life, we never had an absence of choice. Here the stress is on the word absence of choice and not on choice. So, we do have choices, but to go with them or not is the decision to make.
Even if we broader our view a little bit, we could say that even animals also have sense of choices. Think of how they find their mate? There is a certain ritual of doing that choice.

So, what could be the circumstances and what are the choices? The decision of going with one of the choices depends largely on various factors. They could be economical, moral factors. They could be the factors involving relationships. responsibilities. e.g. a person scores good marks in an exam and still he could not opt for a good university just because its costly. A person, feels that he is a maverick, he wants to leave his job, grow long hairs, devote his life for guitar.
But he can't do it!!!
Also time is the most crucial factor. Even if I go with one of my choices and later found that I chose a wrong way, the time doesn't permit me to get back my old days from where I started.

So, in all what I think is, all the time we play a game of choices, one who gets it right, goes through, one who doesn't, flunks...

Lost in work!!!

I joined a guitar class and gym in last month. Everything was going merrily for one month after that. And then I understood that life is not sweet as it seems. I had a sudden workload and couldn't catch up the timings for gym and guitar classes. So here I am, sitting on my chair, looking frantically towards my screen, which shows nothing more than a unix console, doing my job.

Hope I will soon find a way out , and will join the gym and my lovely guitar classes.

Amen...

Raigad ...

It was our passion for trekking that finally took all of us to Raigad Fort. Maharashtra has a splendid history of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of "The Hindavi Swarajya" and one of the greatest kings in the history . We reached to Pachad, a small village near Raigad Fort at about 6 PM. As per our expectations, it was raining hard. We started trekking at 7. Actually, by any means it was not trekking, cause Raigad have around one thousand steps to get to the top. That didn't sound good to me and I was a little bit disappointed. We stayed in a MTDC( Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation ) room that night.

I heard a lot about Raigad, and didn't want to miss the sunrise that day. But clouds faded my wish. But as we strode there, I went into a kind of influence. The influence, that every "Marathi Manus " must experience. Everything there takes us so close to Maharaj that we get totally astonished by his vision, his wisdom, his prowess, his faith towards the ultimate aim of Swarajya and what not.

There has been plenty of research done and there is enough literature available that tells us the greatness of Maharaj. We had a glorious history that very few of the countries have. But one thing I must say, Raigad gives us an inspiration and reminds us the duties that we have towards this mother-land. One must go there at least once to feel that influence.