Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Mere Watan



میرے وطن کے اداس لوگو *
نہ خود کو اتنا حقیر سمجھو *
کہ کوئی تم سے حساب مانگے *
خواہشوں کی کتاب مانگے *
نہ خود کو اتنا قلیل سمجھو *
کہ کوئی اٹھ کر کہے یہ تم سے *
وفائیں اپنی ہمیں لٹا دو *
وطن کو اپنے ہمیں تھما دو *
اٹھو اور اٹھ کے بتا دو ان کو *
کہ ہم ہیں اہل ایمان سارے *
نہ ہم میں کوئی صنم کدہ ہے *
ہمارے دل میں تو ایک خدا ہے *
میرے وطن کے اداس لوگو ۔۔۔
جھکے سروں کو اٹھا کے دیکھو *
قدم تو آگے بڑھا کے دیکھو *
ہے ایک طاقت تمہارے سر پر *
کرے گی سایہ جو ان سروں پر *
قدم قدم پر جو ساتھ دے گی *
اگر گرے تو سنبھال دے گی *
میرے وطن کے اداس لوگو ۔۔
اٹھو ، چلو اور وطن سنبھالو

12 Uplifting Quotes from Muhammad Ali


1. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

2. “If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

3. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around my small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

4. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If not pretend you are.”

5. “What you are thinking is what you are becoming.”

6. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

7. “What keeps me going is goals.”

8. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

9. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.”

10. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

11. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

12. “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”

Monday, January 17, 2011

Here it goes ...

Hello world,

Nothing is said that has not been said before ... Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

So procrastinate now, don't put it off.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen :)

The main things which seem important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep ... think about it !!!