By “Appreciation is a good thing, it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well”
(Voltaire)
These were the words I said when I was given the opportunity to say the morning Thought For The Day in the morning school assembly. I remember memorizing these words the night before to appear confident.
However, it was not what happened on stage that deserved applause- that was just the tip of the iceberg. I had spent a week finding the quote that I could say as the TFTD. Those were the times when internet was not so common or pretty expensive and simply googling for the ‘best inspiring quotations’ or something on those lines was not an option.
It was then that I decided to maintain a notebook on the Thought for the Days or simply the book of TFTDs. I continued to fill into the pages as and when I came across a quote or a statement that was worth penning down.
These thoughts could either be from the books, newspapers or magazines that I read or television series or movies that I watched. At times I also wrote down parables or short stories with profound meaning. I wrote down dialogues from movies and also certain personal one liner conversations that were suitable to be written.
Given below are some of the thoughts from my TFTD book:
- “A diplomat is a man who remembers a women’s birthday but never her age”
(Robert Frost)
- “And our philanthropists, instead of providing work for them (beggars), give them alms.”
(M.K Gandhi in his autobiography ‘My Experiments with Truth’)
- “Coffee, chocolate and men – some things are better rich”
(seen at a students t-shirt in college)
- “So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready and that’s how I run my life.”
(Will Smith)
- “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem to be wonderful at all”
(Michelangelo)
Over a period of time, I also included my own thoughts and conversations. An illustration is given below:
Classmate: What are you doing nowadays? Studying a lot aaa…?
Me: Nowadays I am minding my own business, what about you?
This website ‘ Whomsover…from the Goddess in Exile” is a digital extension of that book of TFTD with the added element of myself.
