Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. Friedrich Nietzsche The acronym YOLO, which stands for you live only once, has become a somewhat clichéd notion over the recent years. It is still a fashionable idea, especially among the youth, but one that very few people actually practice in the great twenty-first century rat race Read more…
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard Failures are part and parcel of life; no successful man can claim to never have tasted the bitterness of failure. In fact, failure teaches us a lot more than success can. Whether we learn from Read more…
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein Ours is a materialistic society obsessed with numbers. In our attempt to quantify everything, we tend to forget that there is so much more to life than numbers can ever reflect.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes Our dreams are our raison d’être; they are what motivate us to get out of bed day in, day out. They are what keep us going through the bad times, giving us something to look forward to. Read more…
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward We are all born with the extraordinary ability to achieve great things in life. We can all be whatever we wish to, provided we really set our minds to it. This ability to have Read more…
Greed enables a person to buy things money can buy while losing the things money cannot buy. Laurence J. Peter A person can stake their claim to any material possession so long as they have the financial firepower to acquire it. However, money and, by extension, all the material possessions it can buy are but Read more…
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith There are few things in life as worthwhile as having something to aim at; life would be devoid of fun or flavor had Read more…
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred Grenfell Man’s pursuit of happiness is as old as man himself; he has been driving himself crazy over this elusive quest since he first learned to reason. However, the answer to this seemingly mind-boggling question Read more…
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike Virtues like selflessness and benevolence are unique to and yet so rare in human beings. Only human beings are known to help each other and other living beings without expecting in return, and Read more…
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee Life is no bed of roses; it is more like a thorny path that we are usually forced to navigate barefoot. And yet, it is these hardships that make both life and success worthwhile.
