Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts of the Days of January 2023

Jan 01:     A happy face is a smiling invitation to happy thoughts which they accept with alacrity.

Jan 02:     Unless and until India is able to raise the cost of terrorism to a level absolutely unbearable for terrorists, their sponsors and other supporters, the menace of terrorism will continue.

Jan 03:     Our achievements multiply our happiness and expectations divide it.

Jan 04:     My growth stopped the moment I started measuring myself against others.

Jan 05:     Fairness and justice are just empty words if your heart does not bleed for the underdog.

Jan 06:     Procrastinators are not afraid of the past or of the future; it is the present that frightens them.

Jan 07:     Don't glorify poverty, what if it decides to descend on you?

Jan 08:     In a mad world, the sane should be prepared to be ridiculed and even penalised for their sanity.

Jan 09:     All treat success alike, it is how they treat failures that separates men from boys.

Jan 10:     We ought not to cast off small opportunities while waiting for a real big one coming our way.

Jan 11:     It is the bitterness of our struggle that makes success so sweet.

Jan 12:     Halve your whining and double your action and see your success quadrupling.

Jan 13:     When you pursue a dream, your age stops.

Jan 14:     No one can hold that the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act passed by both Houses of Parliament with an extremely rare unanimity had altered the basic structure of the Constitution. But the Supreme Court had chosen to strike it down, regardless.

Jan 15:     By insulting honest and hardworking street-food vendors from North India, a top official of Tamilnadu's ruing party DMK has thrown down the gauntlet, will UP's dynamic and determined chief minister Yogi Adityanath pick it up and prove in a few years that North Indians are second to none?

Jan 16:     Putting up with whatever life throws at us, we should still be determinedly working to improve our lot.

Jan 17:     Self-respect is the fountainhead of every other kind of respect.

Jan 18:     If dissent rattles you, you must be hollow inside.

Jan 19:     No invention or discovery was ever made by a conformist.

Jan 20:     Adversity tests our courage and prosperity our balance.

Jan 21:     Write down your epitaph today and live the rest of your life in a manner which would justify it.

Jan 22:     By making public the government's reasons for disagreeing with the Collegium's recommendations for appointing some High Court judges, has the Supreme Court not prejudiced the affected individuals for ever against the present government?

Jan 23:     Since the Supreme Court had struck down as unconstitutional the Constitutional amendment to institute the NJAC, the Article 124 (2) of the Constitution, which makes no mention whatsoever of a collegium of judges appointing judges, continues to be the law of the land.

Jan 24:     Most in politics today are not political leaders, they are not politicians either; they, in fact, are people in the lucrative business of politics.

Jan 25:     Keeping only to yourself what you have learnt is more of foolishness than of selfishness.

Jan 26:     Sarcasm does not win you new friends; in fact, it puts you in the danger of losing your present ones too.

Jan 27:     Act now; so many exciting things are waiting to come to life through you.

Jan 28:     Let us always greet others with a smile; even if they don't smile back, we still have ours.

Jan 29:     It is not man but flowers that God has created in His own image.

Jan 30:     Loyalty should be to one's values and principles and, flowing from this, also to the persons who hold them dear.

Jan 31:     You cannot perform above expectations for long because soon the expectations would go up.