Treasure

The gmail catch-lines or status messages had always been an object of interest to me. The one among them that I admire most is that of Prasha.... He was with our lab. for quite some amount of time (during is Masters program) and is still very much involved. His today's status line says

- "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

How true! Not that I have seen the end. But imagine and pray, it would be one like that.

Then there was following link in status space of Vino.., a 3rd year undergrad student here. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA There is Steve Job, addressing Stanford graduates on farewell day. The whole text can be found in http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html . Some excerpts

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. "

Steve Job at other places with unmatched clarity.

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me."

"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."

"I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."

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More from Prasha... :

A person that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

If you do not know where you are going, then any road will take you there.

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending, Give without ending, Build without rending.

Some persons make people around happy wherever they go; some whenever they go.

From Vino...

if u don't stand for something, u will fall for everything.