DIVINE DICTA

DIVINE DICTA

1. Cultivate self-confidence. Do not doubt yourself ever.

2. Have faith in your abilities, however limited they may seem to be right now. Cultivate them and they will increase.

3. Rome was not built in a day. Have patience. Work on. Slowly build yourself.

4. Be sincere in whatever you do.

5. Concentrate intensely on whatever you do. Do not be casual in anything.

6. Steadfastness, consistency, stability---these are essential attributes.

7. Manifest character and firmness but be kindness personified in the same breath.

8. Hopefulness and good cheer are vital for living a fruitful life. A despairing person leads a burdensome existence.

9. The life of one is the life of the many. Learn to rejoice in others' achievements and learn to share your own with others. Isolation now in focussed endeavour, intermingling now in collective enterprise, a concentrated discovery of oneself in solitude and a shared identity in macro-individuality---these are the hallmarks of greatness.

10. When in times of trouble, 

       When the soul is sore,

       Sink in your Self

       To self restore.

       There's none in this 

       world

       So close to you

       As you yourself

       For evermore.

       So be like the rhino

       That heeds not any

       When the ways of the

       world

       Have cast a wound too

       many.

       Live like a princess

       Though the world calls

       you pauper,

       Knowing life to be

       dream

       And empty its coffer.

10. মানুষকে ছেড়ে 'ভগবানের' পূজো | এই না হলে ভীমরতি ? [Worshipping God, leaving man? If this is not lunacy, what is?]

11. To make a mistake is good,

        To learn from it better,

         But not to repeat it is

         best of all.

12. যে দেশে গুণীর সম্মান নেই,

        সে দেশের উন্নতি হয় না | [A nation in which talent is not recognised, can such a nation rise?]

13. Be confident and conquering.

14. Words fail where character isn't. Words rule where character supports.

15. Some people have no self-confidence throughout their lives. Be not one of them. Trust your abilities, your destiny to be great. Have faith in yourself. Wean your faults away but forgive your lapses. Self-hatred opens the gateway to self-degeneration. Do not allow that. Always remember there is someone holding you from behind.

16. Self-doubt is not a good pastime, self-belief is. Affirm your positives and the negatives will drop off themselves. As Thakur said, "If you move towards the east, the west will fall behind."