Quotes that can change your life.

1.   “All beginnings are hard.”
            No matter what you are undertaking in life, whether it’s learning a new language, embarking              on a career or working on a project, if you start something from scratch,

           you will suck at it at first. That’s part of the natural order and the way it should be. 

           Don’t worry too much about it and just keep at it until you get it right

2.  “The devil’s favorite piece of furniture is the long bench.”
        putting something on the “long bench” means putting it off
        procrastination long before the word was on everyone’s lips.
        What are you putting on the “long bench” that you could take care of right now?
         Don’t let the devil win.

3.  “He who rests grows rusty.”
        This saying states that in order to improve your skills, you have to continuously work on them.
         It also warns that if you want to achieve anything, the most important thing is to
          take action. Too many undertakings never get accomplished and die because
           of lacking follow-through. So get off your behind before it gets rusty.

4.  “Starting is easy, persistence is an art.”  
         Starting something is much easier than seeing it through to the end. Haven’t we all had
         the experience to be full of enthusiasm at the beginning of a new venture or
         undertaking only to have it fizzle out as time progressed? Keeping up your
          motivation is an art form in itself, one that needs to be cultivated.

5.    “Failure makes smart.”
         Many of us live in cultures that are very avert to failure. Nobody likes to screw up
         or fall on their face. However, what a lot of people forget is that failure is a necessity
         for learning. Without making mistakes, you will never understand how to do it right.
         To quote Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again, fail again, fail better.”

6.  “The cheapest is always the most expensive.”

        This saying is a reminder to invest into quality. While the first impulse is often to
        go for the cheapest option, most of the time it is worth spending a little more.
        Whether on study material, tutors, services, you name it. It almost always pays
         in the long run.

7.   “You don’t see the forest for all the trees.”
         In life it is important to see the big picture. If we only concentrate on the latest
         wins or failures instead of seeing our lives as a whole, we are vulnerable to fate’s
         whims and get frustrated easily.

8.   “First think, then act.” 
       Although taking action is important, it is of equal importance to take the right

        action. Determining which one that is requires some deliberate thinking. 

       This proverb reminds us to to set the right priorities and make decisions 

        about what we want instead of blindly rushing into battle.
9.  “Rush with the free time.”
          While it is important to work hard toward your goals and not be idle (Wer rastet, der rostet                     remember?), you have to make time to smell the proverbial roses along the way.

          If we are too focused on the outcome and the end result, it is easy to miss out 

           on all the fun getting there

Lazyness doesnt give you Anything?

When you feel that you’ve perhaps been too lazy lately it’s common and tempting to beat yourself up about it and to hope that will lead you to start taking action.

Sometimes it does. But I have found that beating yourself up most often just leads to feeling guiltier and like a failure. And so you feel less motivated to get going and you procrastinate because there seems to be little point in even trying.


So make that as easy as you can to reduce the inner resistance and to actually take action.To feel like you can enjoy your lazy/rest time fully and without guilt it’s important to actually get what truly matters in the long run done each week.So start your day with that. But make it easy on yourself by breaking down that task into smaller steps and then focus on just the first one.

Get on it right away to get into an effective and focused mindset.By doing so you set a good tone for your day. You get that quick 5-10 minute win in first thing and you’ll be a lot more motivated to keep going on that path during the rest of your day.
Instead of starting with busy work like checking emails – this may be vital to do first thing for some but for many it’s probably not – or checking Facebook etc. and then 30 minutes later getting started with today’s work.

To lighten up your daily work inject small breaks between doing short but focused burst of work.
 if you have trouble with sticking to your time-limits then use an app on your phone or a simple egg-timer from your kitchen.


Asking yourself better questions tend to give better answers.Two sets of questions that I have sat down and asked myself with closed eyes and that have refueled my motivation many times are:

How will my life look in 5 years if I just continue to stay on the same path as now?
How will life likely become worse for me and maybe even for the people around me?
This is not like beating yourself up but rather a sober examination of where it’s realistic that you’re heading. And it may be uncomfortable but try to see the negative consequences as vividly as you can in your mind to kickstart your motivation to get going for that positive change.


Still, at a moderate amount spending some time on being lazy is truly beneficial for me.
And I’ve found that when you think a little about how you want to spend your lazy time – no matter if it’s a 10 minute break or a lazy Sunday – and use that time on something you really enjoy like reading a book you love rather than aimlessly watching TV-shows you’re just OK with then that time does not only brings more happiness and fulfillment.

I’ve also learned that when I spend my lazy time in this more conscious way I’m more motivated and energized to go back to work again later on.So I make sure to appreciate and fully enjoy the lazy time I have and create for myself because I know that it will benefit me in several important ways.

Mahatma Gandhi (Father of the nation)

                                            MAHATMA GANDHI

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India, on 2nd October 1869, into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings of mutual tolerance, non-injury to living beings and vegetarianism.

Born into a privileged caste, Gandhi was fortunate to receive a comprehensive education, but proved a mediocre student. In May 1883, aged 13, Gandhi was married to Kasturba Makhanji, a girl also aged 13, through the arrangement of their respective parents, as is customary in India. Following his entry into Samaldas College, at the University of Bombay, she bore him the first of four sons, in 1888. Gandhi was unhappy at college, following his parent’s wishes to take the bar, and when he was offered the opportunity of furthering his studies overseas, at University College London, aged 18, he accepted with alacrity, starting there in September 1888.Following admission to the English Bar, and his return to India, he found work difficult to come by and, in 1893, accepted a year’s contract to work for an Indian firm in Natal, South Africa.

Despite arriving on a year’s contract, Gandhi spent the next 21 years living in South Africa, and railed against the injustice of racial segregation. On one occasion he was thrown from a first class train carriage, despite being in possession of a valid ticket. Witnessing the racial bias experienced by his countrymen served as a catalyst for his later activism, and he attempted to fight segregation at all levels. He founded a political movement, known as the Natal Indian Congress, and developed his theoretical belief in non-violent civil protest into a tangible political stance, when he opposed the introduction of registration for all Indians, within South Africa, via non-cooperation with the relevant civic authorities.

On his return to India in 1916, Gandhi developed his practice of non-violent civic disobedience still further, raising awareness of oppressive practices in Bihar, in 1918, which saw the local populace oppressed by their largely British masters. He also encouraged oppressed villagers to improve their own circumstances, leading peaceful strikes and protests. His fame spread, and he became widely referred to as ‘Mahatma’ or ‘Great Soul’.

The Indian National Congress began to splinter during his incarceration, and he remained largely out of the public eye following his release from prison in February 1924, returning four years later, in 1928, to campaign for the granting of ‘dominion status’ to India by the British. When the British introduced a tax on salt in 1930, he famously led a 250-mile march to the sea to collect his own salt. Recognising his political influence nationally, the British authorities were forced to negotiate various settlements with Gandhi over the following years, which resulted in the alleviation of poverty, granted status to the ‘untouchables’, enshrined rights for women, and led inexorably to Gandhi’s goal of ‘Swaraj’: political independence from Britain.

During the first years of the Second World War, Gandhi’s mission to achieve independence from Britain reached its zenith: he saw no reason why Indians should fight for British sovereignty, in other parts of the world, when they were subjugated at home, which led to the worst instances of civil uprising under his direction, through his ‘Quit India’ movement. As a result, he was arrested on 9th August 1942, and held for two years at the Aga Khan Palace in Pune. In February 1944, 3 months before his release, his wife Kasturbai died in the same prison.

May 1944, the time of his release from prison, saw the second attempt made on his life, this time certainly led by Nathuram Godse, although the attempt was fairly half-hearted. When word reached Godse that Gandhi was staying in a hill station near Pune, recovering from his prison ordeal, he organised a group of like-minded individuals who descended on the area, and mounted a vocal anti-Gandhi protest. When invited to speak to Gandhi, Godse declined, but he attended a prayer meeting later that day, where he rushed towards Gandhi, brandishing a dagger and shouting anti-Gandhi slogans. He was overpowered swiftly by fellow worshippers, and came nowhere near achieving his goal. Godse was not prosecuted at the time.

Four months later, in September 1944, Godse led a group of Hindu activist demonstrators who accosted Gandhi at a train station, on his return from political talks. Godse was again found to be in possession of a dagger that, although not drawn, was assumed to be the means by which he would again seek to assassinate Gandhi. It was officially regarded as the third assassination attempt, by the commission set up to investigate Gandhi’s death in 1948.

On 30th January 1948, whilst Gandhi was on his way to a prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi, Nathuram Godse managed to get close enough to him in the crowd to be able to shoot him three times in the chest, at point-blank range. Gandhi’s dying words were claimed to be “Hé Rām”, which translates as “Oh God”, although some witnesses claim he spoke no words at all.

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