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101 " If you have a long-term goal in your life, all your activities become a part of that goal. You can keep yourself engaged for several hours and even days when you are reading an interesting book. When you are writing your new book, you can be busy for a year. When you want to transform the society, help the needy, educate the poor children, your goal can keep you engaged fruitfully for life. The greater is your goal, the higher is your energy level for achieving the goal and the less time you have to get bored. "
― Awdhesh Singh , 31 Ways to Happiness
102 " A person who takes responsibility of his life believes in the immutability of laws that govern this world. When we fail to achieve our desired fruit, it is because we failed to sow the right seed in the right soil at the right time. "
103 " If you are happy, you may not be tempted to buy anything except the real necessities of life. Businesses, therefore, exaggerate negativities in the world to sell their products and services. They try to convince you that if you wish to be happy, you must buy their car, home or clothes or visit the exotic locations managed by them. "
104 " When we close our options at some point of time, we learn to be happy with what we have. However, when we keep our options open, we are rarely happy with what we have as we find the grass greener on the other side of the fence. "
105 " You are transformed and purified through the sufferings, chosen voluntarily, for achieving a greater purpose in life. "
106 " While routine and mundane jobs may be ridiculed or looked down upon in some circles, the fact is that these jobs provide livelihood to millions of people. A good information technology company in India employs thousands of professionals every year giving them decent salaries. However, in fields such as politics, writing, cinema or arts, there are very few people who come on top, and those who do, end up taking home almost all the rewards, leaving little for the runners-up or the bottom rankers. "
107 " Be a master of your mind and force it to work even if it does not wish to. Soon you will find that your mind is much better than what you had expected it to be, as it can provide many solutions to the problems of life. "
108 " You must treat an evil-doer in the same spirit as a doctor treats a patient and develop sympathy for him. It is better to maintain distance from unhealthy people and protect yourself rather than become intimate with them and later curse them for infecting you with their viruses. "
109 " You believe what you are and you are what you believe. This is a vicious or virtuous cycle in which we are all trapped. Our faiths and beliefs are like walls erected around us that provide us security but also act like a prison by blocking our view from the complete reality. We live in a make-believe world, oblivious to the reality that exists outside the four walls of our beliefs. The deep-rooted belief is called ‘faith’, which is responsible for many good things, but also for much of the evil in the world. "
― Awdhesh Singh , Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
110 " There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious. "
111 " There are two types of person in the world. The first are those who create expectations and the second are those who have to fulfil the expectations. "
112 " Your goals can’t be accomplished unless they are in harmony with you and with the world. The world is not interested in fulfilling your desires. It is interested in fulfilling its own desires. "
113 " When your mind is dwelling on a past event, it is not for giving you pain in the present, but it is actually reminding you of an unsolved matter or an uncared wound that needs to be attended to, to get relief from the pain. Instead of ignoring that pain, it would be better if you accept it and find a way to reduce it by taking a suitable action. "
114 " Uniform application of laws may be as dangerous as administering all prescribed medicines to every person in a society irrespective of his health condition. "
115 " Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to understand the limitation of his idea and believes that the real world can be converted into the world of his idea. "
― Awdhesh Singh , Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
116 " It takes a long time for the spiritual and cultural knowledge to sink in our subconscious mind and become a belief. Our beliefs also change with time, but the change is quite slow like the changes in the body of a person. Even the most progressive person doesn’t want to change his beliefs though he may always be ready to acquire new knowledge. "
117 " We have the mind and the consciousness of the universe. Due to our ignorance, we see the world and our own selves divided and separated into two units. A truly wise person sees the entire world in the self and the self in the world. "
118 " If we can suffer boredom with peace and conquer it with patience, we can discover our creative selves. "
119 " Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly describe him, no ideal can represent reality as it is. "
120 " Our mind is working all the time with two goals in sight: first is to minimise the pain and the second is to maximise the happiness. In its attempt to achieve its twin objectives, it is always moving back and forth in the three dimensions of time so that it can heal the pain and bring happiness to the present. "