My existence would be mind-numbing deprived of books. Reading is my life. I read everything from brochures to newspapers, magazines to bible, and my favorite are novels from random authors. Moreover, every time I finish reading, something inspires me or even teaches me lessons I am not learning over my day-to-day experiences. Here are some of those:
1. In a fight, if we choose only to defend, the best that we can hope for is a draw. But, we have big brains. We should be able to figure out how to win. Right? A good way to know how to defeat an enemy in battle is to know beforehand how he fights.
2. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor annoyances, cultivate taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those above you may not be annoyed by the dust and soot of your complaints. –Sir William Osler
3. Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. – Tad Williams, Stone of Farewell
4. Success in not rare – it is common. Very few miss gaining some of it. It is not a matter of luck or contesting, for certainly no success can come from preventing the success of another. It is a matter of adjusting one’s efforts to obstacles and one’s abilities to a service needed by others… Most people think of it in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving. – Henry Ford
5. Excellence is not something that can be produced or sold in the market place, it cannot be legislated by the government, and it cannot be conferred upon you like a college degree. It can only come from within yourself, and – at its highest – it is painfully born out of a restless dissatisfaction with things past, and sired by an insatiable hunger for the unattainable. – Roger M. Blough
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