Lots of Quotes :-)

The greatest gifts you can give someone are your time, your love, and your attention. - Anon

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Ronald Reagan

Love and a cough cannot be hid. - George Herbert

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? - Orhan Pamuk

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. - Robert Herrick

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. - Sophocles

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. - Maya Angelou

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. - Oswald Chambers

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. - Sue Monk Kidd

Who covets more is evermore a slave. - Robert Herrick

We grow small trying to be great. - E. Stanley Jones

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. - B. R. Ambedkar

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. - Robert Herrick

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices. - George Orwell

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? - William Lloyd Garrison

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger

When one teaches, two learn. - Robert Half

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it! - Craig Ferguson

Women can have it all, but not all at the same time and not without major sacrifices. - Dr Ijeoma Kola

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself. - Jeffrey Dahmer

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. - Bob Dylan

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. - Pope Paul VI

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein

The wise strive to find unknown truth. The wiser realise truth, by its very nature, is unknown. - Sethuramiah Abburi

Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those ‘cold gradations of decay’ so distressing to himself and to his friends. - Sir William Osler

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy seeing and Happy sharing :-)

I wish you all a safe and healthy Christmas and New Year.

Take Care

~Aparna~

True

If you are

Looking

For a true

Bengali,

That is

Certainly

Not me.

I'm more of

A Dilliwali

Carrying a

Surname,

that is 

Bengali :)

(Though I was born in a Bengali Brahmin family and I can talk fluently in Bengali but that's about it, I'm more of a Delhiite who's fluent in Hindi and likes North-Indian dishes and abhors bony fishes. I also detest draping myself in sarees. I'm OK with salwar-kameez but I prefer wearing T-shirts and pull-on Pajamas & Trousers as they are quick & easy to wear and convenient to run around for various errands. Though I sometimes listen to Bengali songs but Hindi songs are my all-time Favourites.)

Years

Years

I've spent

With you:

Twenty-two

Still I don't

Hesitate to

Say:

I love you :)

(Dedicated to my Hubby on our 22nd Wedding Anniversary)

Some Blossoms For You :-)

 

I took these photos in Chalkwell Park on 16th July 2020. 

I've uploaded these today for you to see :-)

Happy Viewing!!

I'm Listening To This :-)

Are you?!

If yes, wao! You already know about this :-)

If not, let me share this link with you so that you come to know about this superb radio station

http://www.radioindia.in/bollywood-gaane-purane

Really lovely songs in Bollywood Gaane Purane online

Have a listen when you can :-)

Let me Remember him

With this song of his

It's one of my Fav SPB songs - I love the lyrics, the music and the way it is sung so superbly by SPB

Now, who is SPB?

He is the singer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam who recently passed away at the age of 74, known to many of us as SPB.

In this video, we can see Saeed Jaffrey, Dimple Kapadia, Kamal Haasan and Rishi Kapoor (who also left us in April this year)

Lyrics are by Javed Akhtar and Music is by R.D. Burman

Hope you like this song.

Regards
Aparna

Don't Miss This Pic :)

It's a picture of the beautiful River Mawddach Estuary which is near Barmouth in Wales, UK.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bea5285416fe97039957b429c58495080b2a44b8/0_0_5787_3473/master/5787.jpg?width=1020&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c8d63d5a3b822412dba6566f1fb3a4a0

Photography is by Nigel Hicks/Alamy. Please click to see.

Also, don't miss these Quotes :-)

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back. - Charles M. Schulz

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off. - Jude Law

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. - Jude Law

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Arthur Schopenhauer

In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre

Care and diligence bring luck. - Thomas Fuller

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks

With foxes we must play the fox. - Thomas Fuller

If you take two kids at school, one of them has more innate capability but is a know-it-all. The other person has less innate capability but is a learn-it-all. The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all. -  Satya Nadella

Health is not valued till sickness comes. - Thomas Fuller

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. - Booker T. Washington

And this intriguing article, you can give it a miss if you want to :-)

The Silent Treatment: A Tactic of Abuse and Control

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/invisible-chains/202009/the-silent-treatment-tactic-abuse-and-control

But I found it very interesting and informative and if you find others who are in a similar situation, you can pass this on to them to salvage them from their suffering.

Hope they realise what they are going through and can find some sort of respite and rescue.

That's all my sharing for now.

Have a Rang-Birangi Autumn.

Love always,
Yours, AC :-)