જ્યારે તમે ભૂતકાળની ભૂલોને વાગોળવામાં અને ભવિષ્યની ચિંતાઓ કરવામાં વ્યસ્ત હો છો, ત્યારે તમારી જાણ બહાર જે પસાર થઈ જાય છે એ જિંદગી.

તમે પ્રગતિનાં સોપાન ચઢતા હો ત્યારે લોકો પ્રત્યે નમ્રતા રાખો, કારણકે ઊતરતી વેળા તેઓ તમને મળશે.

આશાવાદી અને નિરાશાવાદી બેઉ સમાજની પ્રગતિમાં ફાળો આપે છે. આશાવાદી વિમાનની શોધ કરે છે, નિરાશાવાદી પેરેશુટની.

ભીતર ઝાંકો – અંતર ફંફોસો. બહાર જોવું સમણાં છે. ભીતર જોવું જાગરણ છે. આંખો નજર આપે, હૃદય દષ્ટિ પ્રદાન કરે છે.

જીવન અતિસરળ છે. જ્ઞાનનો હેતુ શાણપણ મેળવવા માટે જ છે. આ શાણપણ અંત:સ્ફુરણાને-અંતરાત્માના સાચા અવાજને – વિકસાવવામાં મદદ કરે છે. માત્ર અંતરાત્માનો અવાજ જ શુદ્ધ છે. આપણે આ અવાજને આપણા પોતાના અહમ, આપણી આકાંક્ષાઓ, પૂર્વગ્રહો, વિકારો, ઈર્ષ્યા, લોભ અને અવાંછિત માહિતીથી ગૂંગળાવી દીધો છે. આપણે ખુદ જ પ્રશ્નોને ઊભા કરીએ છીએ અને તેને ઉકેલવામાં કિંમતી સમય વેડફીએ છીએ. હંમેશા યાદ રાખો કે ઈશ્વર આયોજન કરે છે પણ માનવ તેને બગાડે છે.

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" Life is not always fair...

Is if fair that all of you came from different backgrounds?

Is it fair that some of you can type faster?

Is it fair that some of you have computers at the hostel room and others

don't?

Is it fair that some of your hostels are closer to the college and others' far? "

-Prof. Sivakumar

At my age and stage in life, one comes to accept the fact that life is

full of deadlines, cut-offs, near-misses, and just-made-ins. You have to

simply judge whether something is grossly unfair - if it isn't, one has

to trade-off the super-optimizations of fairness against time and effort,

and make a decision, subjectively.

Take the example of a packet-scheduling algorithm in routers:

one can run algorithms super-optimized for fairness, but they require

a lot more space and time complexity.

Life's no different.

-Prof. Varsha Apte

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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

-Albert Einstein.

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Out of sight, is out of mind

Most of the troubles in life are the result of saying "Yes' too soon or saying 'No' too late

You are always moving in the life, it's your actions that decide the direction

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done

Life is too short to be wasted

when going gets tough, tough gets going. So, go on....

Wt ppl call "congestion" in a train, becomes "atmosphere" in a night club. It's our perception that makes thing 'good' or 'bad'.

And somewhere there are engineers helping others fly faster than sound. But, where are the engineers helping those who must live on the ground ?

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Sometimes, when u r feeling important,

sometimes, when ur ego is in bloom,

sometime, when u take it for granted,

u'r the best qualified in the room;

sometimes, when u feel that ur going,

would leave an unfillable hole,

Just follow this simple, instruction,

and see how it humbles ur soul.

take a bucket and fill it with water,

put ur hand in it upto the wrist,

pull it out, and the hole that's remaining,

is a measure of how u'll be missed.

u may splash all u please when u enter

u can stir up the water galore,

but stop, and u will find in a minute,

that it looks quite the same as before !

the moral in this quaint example,

is : do just the best u can,

be proud of urself, but remember,

There is no indispensable man.

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Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down. Don't dance so fast.

Time is short. The music won't last.

Do you run through each day On the fly?

When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores running through your head?

You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast.

Time is short. The music won't last.

Ever told your child,We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time to call and say,"Hi"

You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast.

Time is short. The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away.

Life is not a race.Do take it slower

Hear the music before the song is over.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long as I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth,

Then took the other as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim;

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet, knowing how way leads onto way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh,

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken".