The bottom line (from email circulated by Abhimanyu Hooda)

> Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
> No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
> Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
> Forgive everyone everything.
> What other people think of you is none of your business.
> Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
> However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
> Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
> Your children get only one childhood.
> All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
> Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
> If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
> Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
> No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Living it up ... here and now

- You can’t get to the top of Everest by jumping up the mountain. You get to the top of the mountain by taking incremental steps. Step by step you get to the goal. Every step gets you closer to the dream.
- At the end of our lives, few of us regret not having made more money. Just doesn’t happen. What we truly regret are the places we didn’t visit, the friendships we didn’t nurture, the risks we didn’t take and the things we didn’t do with the people we love.
- Every one of us will die. But how many of us really live? (Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart)
- To me, the only failure is the failure to try and dream and dare.
- Most people give up too early. Their fears are bigger than their faith.
- If you eat three times a day, you will be fed. But if you read three times a day, you will be wise (Israeli Prime Minister - Shimon Peres)
- Life without cause is life without effect (Paulo Coelho in Aleph)
- Don't think about what you will tell people afterwards. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.   - by Paulo Coelho in Aleph (while talking about living in here and now. I have myself seen many people looking at the world's greatest scenes through a video camera with the intent of later posting the videos on facebook.)
- The purpose of growing up is achieved when you have learned to live like a child. (Self, 2011)

- Today is special. When it is over, it will be gone forever. (Corporate Acumen)

- All guys are basically good. It is only that you may not understand them. (Self, 2001)

- The face of a person reveals a lot that his words do not. E.g. – while his tone may suggest that something his ‘really’ good, his eyes may not share the same excitement. (Self, 2001)

- “JMT” or “Jhoot muut ka timepass” is a very powerful concept for enjoying a boring party. Everybody “acts” very enthusiastic and proclaims that he is having fun, and in due course, people will actually start to have fun. (Sarabjit Singh Sodhi, 2000)

- It is not the strongest of the species that survives; nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. (Chinese Proverb).

- The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. (Pogo, the great Oracle)

- There was a local bus service in rural England where drivers passed by long queues of would be passengers with a smile and a ware of hand. “It is impossible for drivers to keep their time tables if they must stop for passengers”, explained one of the company officials. The logic is certainly impeccable, but something seems to have been missed … you need to decide whether you will just keep running in life to achieve something elusive, or will you enjoy as you go ahead. (Swami Vivekananda)

- Your knowledge limits your memory … so read more! (Self, 2002)

- Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it. (Anonymous)

- In real life, there are no silver medals. (Anonymous)
- Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid (Albert Einstein)
- The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Source - unknown)