Wednesday, February 25, 2009

If....

If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more;
you'll be a Man, my son!
xxxx
Rudyard Kipling

Friday, February 20, 2009

Picked from "The Alchemist"

She wasn't as important as his flock because she din't depend on him.

When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognise the good things that happen in their lives everyday that the sun rises.

There was nothing to hold nim back except himself.

Principle of Favouarbility - There's a force that wants you to realise your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

The secrets of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Because this was the way god repaid those who believed in their dreams.

I am going to become bitter and distrustful of people becuase one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine.

I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I wouild like to see happen, not what actually does.

I'm afraid that if my dream is realised, I'll have no reason to go on living.

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

"You must always know what it is that you want"

Because I don't know how to deal with changes

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a speech for something believed in and desired.

And there were dunes, rocks and plants that insisted on living where survival seemed impossible.

Somewhere you are holding the person I love. So, when I,look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help.

Somewhere in your sands there is a woman waiting for me.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

youth for equality

one of the founder members of YFE was once asked about the reason of inception of this organization and this is what he had to say.....isnt this true? let's value merit alone.
xxxx
" I have taken up this cause because I am treated like a second grade citizen in my own country and the benefits of social welfare schemes are not for me simply because I am born to a mother who doesn't belong to a reserved category."

कबीर वाणी

नैनं अंतर आव तो नैन झांप तोहे लूं,
न मैं देखूं और को, न तोहे देखन दूं.
xxxxx
मेरा मुझ में कुछ नहीं,
जो कुछ है सो तेरा ,
तेरा तुझको सौंप दे,
क्या लागे है मेरा.
xxxxx
सोऊँ तो सपने मिलूँ,
जागूँ तो मन माहि,
लोचन राते सब घड़ी,
बिसरत कबहूँ नाहीं.
xxxx
साधू कहावत कठिन है,
लम्बा पेड़ खजूर,
चढ़े तो चाखे प्रेम रस,
गिरे तो चकना चूर.
xxxxx
चाह गई चिंता मिटी, मनवा बेपरवाह,
जिनको कछु न चाहिए, वो ही शहंशाह.
xxxx
सबद सबद सब कोई कहे,
सबद के हाथ न पाँव,
एक सबद औषध करे,
एक सबद किर घाव.
xxxx
जब हम जग में पग धरयो ,
सब हँसे हम रोये,
कबीर अब ऐसी कर चलो,
पाछे हंसी न होए.
xxxx
जो कछु किया सो तुम किया,
मैं कछु किया नाहीं,
कहो कही जो मैं किया,
तुम ही थे मुझ माहीं.
xxxx
आठ पहर चौसंठ घडी,
मेरे और न कोय,
नैना माहीं तू बसे,
नींद को ठोर न होय.