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First published in 2012

in RAINLIGHT by Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj

New Delhi 110002

Sales Centres:

Allahabad Bengaluru Chennai

Hyderabad Jaipur Kathmandu

Kolkata Mumbai

Copyright Ruskin Bond 2012

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

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Ruskin Bond asserts the moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.

Printed in India by
Replika Press Pvt. Ltd
310-311 EPIP Kundli
Haryana 131028

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated, without the publisher's prior consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published.

Introduction

As a schoolboy with literary inclinations, I read almost everything that came my way, from the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the thrillers of Bulldog Drummond, a forerunner of James Bond. A book that left a strong impression on me was a handsome volume called Words to Live By , in which various achievers or people of eminence selected passages from the classics and various works of philosophy or religion. These passages or lines had inspired them at crucial moments, or during difficult periods of their lives.

This prompted me to keep my own little notebook or diary in which I put down the words of wisdom that I came across in the books I read. Seventy years later, I am still doing it; as much out of habit as out of a need for advice from the great and the famous.

Well, there is always something to learn no matter how old we are, and I still turn to my little book in order to find words that might cheer me up when I am down in the dumpsas we all are, from time to time.

Perhaps you, dear reader, will find it helpful too. And I have asked my publisher to provide you with a few blank pages between sections, so that you can jot down your own thoughts, observations, or favourite quotes.

Keep this little book by your bedside, or on your desk, or on the kitchen shelf, and turn to it from time to time. It will have something comforting or helpful to say to you.

Ruskin Bond

Believe in yourself.
Soon others will believe
in you too.

Love the beautiful,
desire the good, and do
your best.

Study the face of nature
and you will never
be bored.

Life can only be
understood backwards, but
it must be lived forwards.

Sren Kierkegaard

Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

Never tell an unnecessary
lie. The truth has
great authority.

P.D. James

Do not pray for an easy life.
Pray to be a stronger
person.

Help a stranger in distress,
and one day you will
receive help when you least
expect it.

Most ideas never work
unless you do.

Light suppers make
long lives.

Grannys kitchen proverb

If you live for yourself
alone, you are in great
danger of being bored
to death.

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind
does move
Silently, invisibly.

William Blake

We take it all for granted
when we are youngthe
leaping, the running,
the loving, the fighting

You have to be old before
you can appreciate
being young.

And then, of course,
you can only look back
on youth with a certain
wistfulness.

Winston Churchill: We are
all worms, but I do believe
I am a glow-worm.

By all means observe
the conventions, but
remember that it is only in
personal independence that
happiness is to be found.
Stay free!

The greatest victory is the
one you win over yourself.

Courtesy is a powerful
weaponthe more so when
it is used in the face of
arrogance and hostility.

If you rest on your laurels,
you are wearing them in
the wrong place.

Grandmother defined a
true gentleman thus: He
must be gentle as a woman,
and manly as a man.

Politics is the art by which
politicians obtain campaign
contributions from the rich
and votes from the poor on
the pretext of protecting
each from the other.

Oscar Ameringer

He who is always trying, is
doing; and he who is always
doing, does.

Life will always give us what
we know we are worth.
It never fails to take us at
our own valuation.

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