SOME ETERNAL IDEAS

 

                                SOME ETERNAL IDEAS

1.     To compare is not to prove. ---French Proverb

2.     Each loss has its compensation/There is healing for every pain/But the bird with a broken pinion/Never so high again.

3.     Credit is like a looking glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.   

4.      Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

5.     A river becomes crooked by following the line of least resistance. So does man.

6.     Marriage is not a word but a sentence.

7.     True obedience is true liberty.

8.     We cannot eat the fruit while the tree is in blossom.

9.     If success comes too late in life, it causes more regrets than comforts.

10.                        What Is Success?

Success is speaking words of praise

In cheering other people’s ways,

In doing just the best you can

With every task and every plan.

 

It’s silence when your speech would hurt,

Politeness when your neighbor’s curt.

It’s deafness when the scandal flows,

And sympathy with others’ woes.

 

It’s loyalty when duty calls;

It’s courage when disaster falls.

It’s patience when the hours are long;

It’s found in laughter and in song.

 

It’s in the silent time of prayer.

In happiness and in despair.

In all of life and nothing less,

We find the thing we call success.

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G.R.Kanwal

23 January 2026