Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of August 2021

01 Aug:     We should make patience and perseverance our allies, specially when venturing into something big.

02 Aug:     Sometimes making a decision could be painful but being indecisive is inviting pain to rule our lives.

03 Aug:     Blaming the circumstances for our failure is playing a safe game because the circumstances can not blame us back.

04 Aug:     Knowledge gives us the right answers and wisdom the right questions to ask.

05 Aug:     If you want to live a life of honesty and integrity, be prepared to be on constant vigil against your baser instincts.

06 Aug:     If there is one banworthy practice in Hinduism, undoubtedly, it is the division of society on caste lines. And it is not for the government but for Hindus, themselves, to ban and banish it forever.

07 Aug:     We Indians want our sportsmen and women to be of world standard and bring home loads of Olympic medals, but are we, ourselves, anywhere near the world standards in the professions we could be practising?

08 Aug:     Neeraj Chpora winning independent India's first ever track and field Olympic medal, and that a gold, should act as a catalyst for an attitudinal change in the entire nation that we too can win if we work both smartly and really hard. Aiming to be just a top sporting power like the erstwhile German Democratic Republic would be hollow.

09 Aug: The real death is the death of one's conscience.

10 Aug: One who procrastinates is pessimistic about today and optimistic about tomorrow.

11 Aug: In order to achieve excellence in anything, heartfulness is no less important than mindfulness.

12 Aug: A simple chin up will fill you with enthusiasm.

13 Aug:     Challenges and struggling to meet them is the spice of life.

14 Aug:     It is understandable that that you do not like someone but your not being civil to them is not.

15 Aug:     Only the brave can be honest.

16 Aug:     One can inherit intelligence but neither knowledge nor wisdom.

17 Aug:     Without clarity of purpose and solid commitment on the part of its principal backers, an enterprise is bound to fail.

18 Aug:     A general atmosphere of indiscipline and disrespect for law, even in Parliament, bodes ill for the continuance of democracy in India.

19 Aug:     You are truly steadfast in your values when you can give up without remorse your near and dear ones for them.

20 Aug:     Do not spread yourself too far and too thin; it is the ability to focus that gives you real power.

21 Aug:     Anyone can do well what they like doing but the meritorious do well even what they do not like doing.

22 Aug:     Correct your mistakes even if not yet noticed by others for the simple reason that the correction would benefit you much more than anyone else.

23 Aug:     Why should everyone talk of the fundamental rights and hardly anyone of the fundamental duties?  

24 Aug:     So long as you find yourself worthy of your own respect, it does not really matter whether the others respect you or not. 

25 Aug:     Don't fret if others don't come up to your expectations, you have something real to worry about only when you, yourself, don't.

26 Aug:     Most of our finest scientists and technologists are doing research abroad or for foreign companies in India. If even one fourth of them could be attracted to do research for India, we would become a developed nation within a generation.   

27 Aug:     First forgive, then give a chance to nature to help you forget.  

28 Aug:     How can Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi be called the father of the nation when this nation is more than five thousand years old?

29 Aug:      Try to run away from a problem, and you find you can't run fast enough.

30 Aug:     If every time, you choose honesty over popularity, you can become a leader in the true sense of the word.

31 Aug:    Others can at best be your compass and your sailors but as your ship's captain, you have to chart your own course to the destination.