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   Looking good 'O' Being good


There are three concrete abstracts in the human mind. They are appearing good, to fondle good and being good. The most important of them is being good. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar says, " Being good is better than to be great". Though many among us tend to consider fondle good, in spite of this, being good is the foundation of fondling good.

To support this, a thief can have a fondling good, but he is a thief and he is infidel. We can't trust him for his infidelity. A group among us love appearing good. They tend to feel that they can make an impression on others. So they try to make their appearances look good. They remain in fine dresses, and wearing psycho embellishments. This is not wrong at all when they have the value of being good,  because being good is the foundation of finding good and appearing good.

It is also seen that many among us choose appearing good and banish both fondling good and being good. Consequently, they get a life of mess, and can't change them. To them, the world is a place of illusion and therefore they take part in a rat-racing . All know  the truth that can't be suppressed and it must come into light one day. 

Happiness comes only to those who live plainly but think highly. High thinkers and plain livers know the art of living. They look for good things and do good things. Swami Vivekananda , one of the great monks, says, "Be good and do good. That is a whole religion".  Yes good people see good in everything, even in the  bad things they see good things. We love to see good pictures  and often put them in our house because we are good finders. But a picture of an oppressor may appear good. This is because of artistic hands. But we don't want to be a slave  a good appearing man. A dishonest man may be fond of good. Delightedly, we don't want to be used by them. A good picture or  photograph can not make us happy. Though we fix it in our heart we can't be happy. To be a happy person, our first priority is emptiness. Inner emptiness is a space of joy where we can put ourselves and  see ourselves. "A thing of beauty is joy forever". Beauty comes from truth. Truth is all powerful and brings happiness. Real happiness comes from being good and doing good.

A question may pose that good people,if being good, would never  face any problem. This is a matter of good or bad in general. Both good people and bad people face many problems in life, because problems are part of our life. Good people enjoy problems whereas bad people curve with problems.

Being good is not so easy,  but enjoyable. Good things come after hard labor and with sweating. Good things are enjoyed by all. Being good and doing good make a man a powerful individual.

SOME IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS:

  1. Longfellow:  Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead 

  2. Hazlit :   Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater

  3. Carlyle:  Have a purpose in life and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you

  4. Swami Vivekanand: Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

  5. Swami Vivekanand: All the power lies within you, if you think you are weak you are weak, if you think you are strong you are strong.

  6. Langston Hughes: Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that can not fly.

  7. Sir Walter Scott: The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual aid.

  8. Sir Thomas Browne: Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  9. Sir Burnard Shaw: Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  10. St Barnard: It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

  11. R.L. Stevenson: The world has no room for cowards.

  12. Isaac Disraeli: Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of men

  13. Shakespeare: poor and content is rich and rich enough.

  14. John Ruskin: That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

  15. Joseph Hall: Everyday is a little little life , and our whole life is but a day repeated.

  16. Benjamin Franklin: One today is worth two two tomorrow; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  17. Unknown: God could not be everywhere and so he made mother.

  18. Unknown: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

  19. Octavio Paz: Wisdom lies neither in fixity, nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

  20. John Ruskin: The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  21. J.M.N. Whistler: An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision.

  22. Dr. Radhakrishnan: we are born to love, not to hate, we are born to help one another, not to destroy one another.

  23. M.K. Gandhi: If boys and girls do not learn discipline in the school days, money and time spent on their education is a national waste.

  24. Sir Walter Scott: One crowded hour of glorious life, is worth an age without a name

  25. John Milton: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

  26. R.N . Tagore: Where the mind is without fear and head is held high… into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

  27. Abraham Lincoln: All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

  28. A. Dumas: All human wisdom is summed up in two words- wait and hope.

  29. Leigh Hunt: The groundwork of all happiness is heath.

  30. R.L. Stevenson: To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  31. T.A. Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  32. Harold Taylor: The root of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you become.

  33. Malcolm S Forbes: When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  34. Joseph Addition: Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling your joy and diving our grief

  35. F .D. Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  36. APJ Abdul Kalam: Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong.

  37. APJ Abdul Kalam: All birds find shelter during a rain. But the eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds.

  38. Dr BR Ambedkar: If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self- help which is the best help

  39. Dr BR Ambedkar: I measured the progress of the community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  40. Dr BR Ambedkar: Life should be great rather than long

  41. Mother Teresa: If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  42. George Barnard Shaw: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  43. Alexander Graham Bell: Before anything else, preparation is key to success

  44. Wendell Phillips: What is defeat?- Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

  45. Malcolm S Forbes: Victory is sweetest when you have known defeat

  46. Napoleon Hill: Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbreakable combination for success.

  47. Jefferson: When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.

  48. Keats: A thing of beauty is joy for ever.

  49. Thomas Fuller: If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf.

  50. Thomas Paine: The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  51. 1William Penn: No pain, on palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  52. 52) Unknown: Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

    53) William Arthur Ward: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

    54) The Bible: The love of money is the root of all evil.

    55) HT Buckle: Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

    56) Edward Gibson: Corruption, the most infallible symptoms of constitutional library.

    57) Edward Gibson: Among people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

    58) JawaharLal Nehru: Democracy demands discipline, tolerance and mutual regard.

    59) JawaharLal Nehru: Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

    60) Unknown: God made the country, and man made the town.

                           Impact

    All arts are related to life. Life has feelings. Therefore, it has emotional outputtings. Emotion grows from a deep centre of life. A work of art is judged by the effect on our vital emotion. An artistically and emotionally educated person should have the courage about saying what he feels and also being capable of giving us true accounts. But, he is not an emotional boor, nor does he brilliantly and intellectually break the fibre of life. This man is rare because he is morally very honest. And he knows how to integrate the broken fibre.



 A poem written on my best friend



Walking down and down,

Today, I have learnt to walk with my head held straight

No desire I have to walk with my head down again.

When you will see me, my tree of success,

You will perceive it clearly that every seed of difficult movements makes me where I am.

I know you will come to me, 

Come to my door,

You will see me there standing;

My beloved, true friend

You will see me there standing;

I know it very well

Where I will stand.

Dear ,my friend, my beloved,

Death.

Written by me

( Rajat)




















  


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