Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of February 2021

 01 Feb:     We can not produce quality if we are worried all the time about beating the deadline.

02 Feb:     You have made the summit, great! Now, find yourself new peaks and climb them.

03 Feb:     So long as my values and principles do not clash with yours, I will be with you.

04 Feb:     People may have aged but they only start living only when they have a goal to live for.

05 Feb:     An old dog can not learn a new trick, but that is true of an old dog!

06 Feb:     How can anyone ever have nothing to do when there is so much to learn?

07 Feb:     Life is that drama in which the actors also double for spectators.

08 Feb:     Ultra-liberals are in the dangerous business of preparing an ideological base for anarchy.

09 Feb:    Life is not a relaxed walk in the park but a relaxed walk in the park does make us more alive.

10 Feb:     "The meek shall inherit the earth", and then, do what?

11 Feb:     By walking our talk, we exercise our integrity muscles.

12 Feb:     Before blaming your luck for your failures, make sure that you had not been a contributory factor.  

13 Feb:     If we are gentler and better behaved with outsiders, let us then treat those in our inner circle as outsiders. 

14 Feb:     Out-of-the-box thinking gets one the media attention, but it is in-the-box-thinking that mostly solves problems.

15 Feb:     You are truly deaf if you can't hear your inner exhortations.

16 Feb:     We should live for our nation and when the need arises, we should also be prepared to kill and die for it.

17 Feb:     We must strive to keep improving, even if sometimes at a glacial speed, because that is what human life should be all about.

18 Feb:     You will be able to raise the bar for others only when you have placed the one for yourself even higher.  

19 Feb:     By paying honestly all our taxes, income tax, GST and others, we not only do our duty by the nation, we also are able to look at ourselves in the mirror without having to turn away the eyes after a moment.  

20 Feb:     If you are creative, for you solitude is a gift and not something to be avoided at any cost.

21 Feb:     Curiosity might have killed the cat but it has made mankind what it is today and will make it what it will be tomorrow.

22 Feb:     Saving for our future is important but not so much as saving our futute.

23 Feb:     It is up to us to postpone doing something necessary but difficult to tomorrow but we must remember that tomorrow is not going to have a second more than 24 hours.

24 Feb:     It is for the widely awake to wake up those still sleeping.

25 Feb:     Don't ever compare yourself with anyone, not even with you of yesterday or the day before; just make every effort to do your best today.

26 Feb:     Mere existence sublimates into life the moment we are ready to stand up and be counted for our values and principles.

27 Feb:     Life without challenges is not more exciting than an unending yawn.

28 Feb:     The highest blessing is to bless someone to remain relevant all her or his life.

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