Endurable Pain

“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”

--John Patrick

My Thoughts:
After reading this, does it seems to you that pain is good. Sometimes I think it is. After all, many a times, you learn new things only if you learn form your mistakes.

So the next time you have a painful experience, you know that there would be a happy ending if you have a thought on it.

Discover Wisdom

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 6 Feb '09

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

--Marcel Proust

My Thoughts:
You have the capability of being wise. But wisdom is not that you can buy. Nor can someone pass it to you.

You have to search for it. And you have to search it first in yourself. And you can find it by having a journey; the journey of life which no one can take for you.

Find the ridiculous

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Saturday, 31 Jan '09

“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”

--Jules Renard

My Thoughts:
As I have told I my previous thoughts that a person, specially the so called knowledgeable men, would see everything as ridiculous.

But if you understand, then every thing is what it is for a reason. And it is totally ridiculous to think that something is ridiculous because it is not the way you wanted.

Intelligent or sensible?

“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My Thoughts:
This happens with most of us. When we think we know something or about something, we want that our way. And when that stuff is not the way you want, it seems ridiculous.

Where as the sensible man, even he knows that something, would know that things are the way they are for a particular reason. That does not mean that we need not improve things, of course we should but without looking at things as if they were ridiculous.

Wise in proportion

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 21 Jan '09

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

--James Boswell

My Thoughts:
When I read this Quote, I remember my English Teacher, Prof. Anthony. He used to tell us about his experiences about teachers with horrible English, who he claims have been teaching English for more that 10 years!

While telling this, the point Prof. Anthony wanted to make was that when these teachers said they had 10 years of experience, they actually meant they had effectively 2 years of experience and for the rest 8 years they repeated the same thing they had learned for the first 2 years. So people are proportional to what they have learned from their experience.

Is that a diamond or a pebble?

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 7 Jan '09

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

--Joseph Roux

My Thoughts:
If you gift someone with something, then the receiver has two options – take that gift as precious belonging or just take that gift and throw it in the junk box.

Same is with advise and quotations, it is up to the receiver of the advise – either treat it as precious and use it or to throw it in the junk box by not using it.

Tomorrow’s Sun may not rise

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 22 Dec '08

“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”

--William Congreve

My Thoughts:
In India, we follow this famous saying “Kal Kare So Aaj Kar,. Aaj kare so ab. Pal mein parlay ho jayega, Bahuri karega kab” (translated to English) “If it is to be done tomorrow, do it today. If it is to be done today, do it now. In a second disaster would struck, then when would you do what you want to do?”

Now is the chance to do things, or I must say – be wise and do things, because nobody knows will you ever get a second chance.

Heart and Mouth

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Saturday, 20 Dec '08

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

--Benjamin Franklin

My Thoughts:
My Dad says this “a closed fist is worth million rupees”. Unless the other person knows what is inside your clenched fist, he might think that it’s something precious you are holding, even if you are holding nothing.

So show your wisdom by holding your tongue, wherever you can

Look ahead

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 17 Nov '08

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”

--Jackie Joyner

My Thoughts:
A stitch in time saves nine. That is what I was taught when I was in school. I don’t want to confuse by giving one more proverb, but just thought of mentioning it.

It’s of no use to regret and cry over things that have already been over. But it is very much required that we look ahead and prepare for what is coming our way.

Do you use your wisdom?

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 12 Oct '08

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

--Rene Descartes

My Thoughts:
Will a donkey become wise if you load him with a heap of books? Certainly not, having a good mind and grasping power is same like carrying a heap of books (wisdom) on your head.

It does not make you wise until you use it. If our wisdom is of no use anyone then we are like that donkey carrying books on our back.

Prepare for war

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 6 Oct '08

“In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”

--Horace

My Thoughts:
We all must have heard the story of The Ant and The Grasshopper. The Ant works in the summer and collects food for winter where as the Grasshopper dances and sings all summer until it has no food to eat for winter.

The ant acted wisely, and prepared for the tough time. There is a great learning that comes from the story, which is in short taught in the military training that –“the more you sweat in war time, the less you bleed during the war time.”