Friday, 20 June 2025

A BOUQUET OF GREAT THOUGHTS

 


 

 

          A BOUQUET OF GREAT THOUGHTS

            First of all a fulsome definition of the word :

            “Thought, in its simplest form, is the process of using your mind to consider something or the result of that process, like an idea or opinion. It encompasses the act of thinking, the capacity for reasoning, and the ideas, opinions, or beliefs that arise from thinking.”

            And further:           

            “Thoughts can be conscious or unconscious, and they can be about anything from concrete objects to abstract concepts.”

              Some popular synonyms of thought are: idea, notion, belief, concept, conception, judgment, reflection and mindset.

Given below are examples of a few great thoughts:

1.All Men Are Brothers. (Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi).

2. No men are strange, no countries , foreign. Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes like ours; the land our brothers walk upon is earth like this, in which we all shall lie. (English poet James Kirkup).

3.The quality of mercy is not strain’d; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ( British poet and playwright William Shakespeare).

4. In small proportions we just beauties see ; and in short measures life may perfect be. (English poet and playwright Ben Jonson).

 5. The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature that is ours. (English poet William Wordsworth).

6. Deliverance? Where is the deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation ; he is bound with us all for ever. (Indian poet, writer, philosopher and statesman Rabindranath Tagore).

7. Sufi-ism has two sides ; Ecstasy and vision. (Anonymous).

8. The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away. (Arabic writer and philosopher Kahlil Gibran).

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G.R.Kanwal

20 June 2025

 

 

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