In a nutshell ...
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
- Where the Mind is Without Fear, Rabindranath Tagore.
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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your ideas, your dreams,before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
- from page 147 of the book "Addiction by Prescription"by Joan Gadsby
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IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- IF, rudyard kipling.
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ओळखलत का सर मला .. पावसात आला कोणी,
कपडे होते कर्दमलेले केसांवरती पाणी,
क्षणभर बसला नंतर हसला बोलला वरती पाहून,
गंगामाई पाहुणी आली गेली घरट्यात राहुन,
माहेरवाशीण पोरि सारखी चार भिंतीत राहिली,
मोकळ्या हाती जाईल कशी बायको मात्र वाचली,
भिंत खचली चुल विजली होते नव्हते गेले,
प्रसाद म्हणून पापण्यांमध्ये पाणी तेवढे ठेवले,
कारभारणीला घेउन संगे सर आता लढतो आहे,
पडकी भिंत बांधतो आहे चिखल गाळ काढतो आहे,
खिशाकडे हात जाताच हसत हसत उठला,
पैसे नको सर जरा एक्तेपणा वाटला,
मोडून पडला संसार तरी मोडला नाही कणा,
पाठीवरती हात ठेवून नुसतं लध म्हणा.
- कणा , कुसुमाग्रज
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- देव देव्हाऱ्यात नाही, Sudhir Phadke
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake
- Where the Mind is Without Fear, Rabindranath Tagore.
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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your ideas, your dreams,before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
- from page 147 of the book "Addiction by Prescription"by Joan Gadsby
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IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- IF, rudyard kipling.
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ओळखलत का सर मला .. पावसात आला कोणी,
कपडे होते कर्दमलेले केसांवरती पाणी,
क्षणभर बसला नंतर हसला बोलला वरती पाहून,
गंगामाई पाहुणी आली गेली घरट्यात राहुन,
माहेरवाशीण पोरि सारखी चार भिंतीत राहिली,
मोकळ्या हाती जाईल कशी बायको मात्र वाचली,
भिंत खचली चुल विजली होते नव्हते गेले,
प्रसाद म्हणून पापण्यांमध्ये पाणी तेवढे ठेवले,
कारभारणीला घेउन संगे सर आता लढतो आहे,
पडकी भिंत बांधतो आहे चिखल गाळ काढतो आहे,
खिशाकडे हात जाताच हसत हसत उठला,
पैसे नको सर जरा एक्तेपणा वाटला,
मोडून पडला संसार तरी मोडला नाही कणा,
पाठीवरती हात ठेवून नुसतं लध म्हणा.
- कणा , कुसुमाग्रज
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- देव देव्हाऱ्यात नाही, Sudhir Phadke
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