Kanan Jaswals Thoughts for the Days of January 2021

 01 Jan: At times, life is like a coconut; if we are not intimidated by the forbidding husk and hard shell, we do get to its soft and sweet core.

02 Jan: Two steps forward and one back, yet, it is some progress.

03 Jan: Learn to laugh and the jokes will follow.

04 Jan: Excuses seemingly defend your past but put your present and future in jeopardy.

05 Jan: If your circumstances permit only that, start small but keep looking for the ways to make it big.

06 Jan: Don't enjoy your greatness in splendid isolation; inspire others to give you company there.

07 Jan: Without consideration for others, one can be literate, computer numerate, but never educated.

08 Jan: When you find yourself dreaming, not day-dreaming, about success, rejoice because now your subconscious has also joined the game.

09 Jan: Like India, the United States should have a central or federal election commission to hold all elections. It's high time the oldest democracy learned from the biggest.

10 Jan: I knocked at many doors yesterday but none opened, one opened today only to turn me away, but another may open tomorrow to welcome me in.

11 Jan: When nothing seems to be working, try the most illogical; that will perhaps lead you to success.

12 Jan: Our dreams are more fragile than the finest china and we can protect them only by living them.

13 Jan: Happiness is our right but like any other right, it comes in a package with duties.

14 Jan: Freedom means assuming full responsibility for one's speech and acts.

15 Jan: By not fully developing our talents, we are shortcharging the creator.

16 Jan: Don't you ever rough up a person, on the other hand it is always in you to smoothen their roughness. 17 Jan: Self-improvement is at the core of all religions.

18 Jan: The world is an endless spectacle but we only notice what we like to

19 Jan: Success is name, fame, and riches, and, above all, the satisfation that you made a difference in your chosen field.

20 Jan: Logic and anger can not be both present in our mind at the same time.
21 Jan: Everyday, we should raise our threshold of disappointment a little higher because we can't afford to get disappointed at every non-achievement.

22 Jan: If being first time right is desirable and attainable in a factory or business situation, it is equally so in our personal life.

23 Jan: Very few expectations from others means very few reasons for unhappiness.

24 Jan: We get old by worrying more and doing less.

25 Jan: I will continue to do my work and you decide how, if at all, you would like to remember me when I am gone.Today, on Republic Day, we must renew our sacred pledge to defend our nation against all enemies, external and internal.

26 Jan: Today, on Republic Day, we must renew our sacred pledge to defend our nation against all enemies, external and internal.

27 Jan: When the state shows signs of weakness, all sorts of its enemies raise their ugly heads.

28 Jan: When the well-meaning majority becomes too diffident, too timid to assert itself, anti-nationals of all hues and colours get a chance to come to the fore and do their utmost to hijack a democracy.

29 Jan: Having publicly committed to take an action, if you develop cold feet at the last moment, you only make a laughing stock of yourself.

30 Jan: For winning victories, we must learn to keep our cool at crucial moments.

31 Jan: Truth does not need a prop and a lie can never have too many.

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