1 It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live
Dreams are worth sacrificing for but you only understand how heavy the price is when you reach there. Dreams sometimes kill the human inside us. We get so ambitious to achieve just one goal that we have nothing else left when we achieve it. This feels us with remorse and regret
2 It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be
We have no control over certain things in life. But we do have control over the aftermath of these things. We can control how we react to all the situations in our life. Our reaction decides most of the course of our life.
3 It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities
We are most likely to choose something we like. What we choose decides most of the things that we will choose in future. These things will further decide for us. We are bound by our choices and they shape us as individuals. All that we are today is because we chose one thing over another
4 It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated
Problems are a part of life. We can never eradicate them fully from our life. But what we can surely do is to never lose hope and keep fighting with whatever obstacle comes our way.
5 People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right
It is easier to forgive than to forget. Forgiving is also easy only when you know that the other person is wrong because the other person being right makes you stand with the wrong argument. Even forgiving becomes very difficult when you realise that the other person has always been right.
6 To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure
There is peace in death. The real adventures do not see it as an end to everything. Even death is a start of a new journey for them. Death is something that all of us have heard of but never heard how it feels to experience death unless we do it ourselves.
7 You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
We may not feel their presence physically but people who truly love and care for us stand by our side in every storm and rain. These people are our soulmates. They understand us in an overwhelming way that makes us want to keep our fears aside and start living.
8 It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends
It takes years to build a trust and seconds to break it. Maintaining the same trust is the most difficult part of a friendship. Once broken, friends which are gems in our life, never come back.
9 We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
A story told to all of us in our childhood about how a single stick can be easily broken, but it becomes all the more difficult to break a bundle. Unity makes us all stand together fight against any odds and we cannot do it alone. That would be misleading to success.
10 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Happiness only comes when you listen to your heart. Even if it doesn’t give you the materialistic pleasures of fame, money and riches, your happiness keeps you alive. Always and always follow your heart because at the end, you won’t end up regretting if you did.
11 Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open
Love has no language. The barrier of language, religion, or anything of such sort lies only in one place and that’s our mind. If we really want to be with someone with all our might, nothing ever can stop us from doing so
12 It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies
Truth hurts us badly. It inflicts pain on us. We are afraid that pain may be inevitable that’s why we are afraid of the truth. But the truth about lies is they make us regret in the end. And regrets never let us live peacefully.
13 We must all face the choice between what is right, and what is easy
Easy paths may give us short term pleasure and happiness, but they never take us to our destination. Difficult paths may expose us to a lot of hardships but the end is always beautiful. Afterall nobody remembers easy in the end, they all remember the blood and the sweat.
14 For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud
Dreams are the only place where we can be completely ourselves. We can hide our dream from everybody but not from ourselves. In our dreams, there are absolutely no restrictions, no expectations of the society. It’s our own world and it works our way
15 The best of us sometimes eat our words
Sometimes we are stuck in a situation for which we have absolutely no words. You may understand the ‘why’, but it nevertheless makes the ‘what’ hurt any less. But time is a great healer. It makes you habitual to live with the pain.