book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Life

In pain, you know what you are. In pleasure, you forget who you are.
He who lives by his convictions lives in tranquility.
Luck is preparation and patience, because opportunity always comes.
Many stumble upon power or fortune without deserving them.
When excitement subsides, the boredom returns if you have nothing of enduring value in you to fall back upon.
Custom acquires currency in shared experience.
You cannot harm a person impervious to life like a suicide killer. All pain and accountability is with life.
Will to power is the villain of peace.
The best affront to your opponent’s tirades is indifference.
Sense understands, talent comprehends and competence performs.
Fame is fleeting, reputation is enduring.
Appreciation by the equals is praise and by the unequals, flattery.
The test of a civilized person is to keep his bathroom clean.
Bigots beget ridicule.
One does not lose one’s temper. One is seized by it.
Life should be lived not for awe and submission but for love and compassion.
The meaning of life is that it has no meaning outside you. Man is the touchstone of all values.
Generosity is sharing with others what yon cherish. Charity is giving to others what you discard, such as your second-hand clothes.
Wit sparkles when inspiration and presence of mind coincide at the opportune moment.
Every age determines a major rule of respectability to exclude its majority. For us, it is wealth .
Success in any profession requires an untiring capacity for indifference to the drudgery of hard work.
You like a person you admire, because you identify with him, but you are wary of a person you envy, because you want to compete with him.
In prosperity, doing nothing is good enough. In adversity, doing even your best is not good enough.
Culture is collective nurture.
In the world of glamour and fashion, there is no elegant or passe taste, unless critics make it so.
Some life is lived in retrospect, when it is understood in maturity.
The value of beauty is that it is beautiful.
Some problems are solved by refusing to recognize them often to one’s detriment.
Repentance is cleansing the conscience to err again.
We live life in the vivid memories which we gradually forget when their freshness slowly fades to the last blurs, as the vanishing patches oflight in the horizon after sunset. This is the way life is lived in the flux of time and this is the way it ends in the darkness of eternal night, when the sun of our lives finally sets .
Life languishes leisurely, but surely.
Colour, fragrance and taste are not definable. They can only be experienced like life.
One should be unbending in holding principles, but compromising in holding relations.
A person beyond reproach is feared because he cannot be faulted.
Coyness concealed is coyness revealed.
Contentment is to patiently accept what you have, when you did not get what you wished .
A hurt should be forgiven, but should not be forgotten to discourage repetition.
Phenomenon of existence does not make sense per se. Human perception imparts meaning to it. A piece of cloth is a mere piece of cloth, but after acquiring the status of a flag, it becomes a proud symbol of a nation.
Nothing is precise in this imprecise world, where change is the rule of life.
Compared to eternity, our lives are footprints on the sands of time erased as soon as they are made.
Silence is the ultimate destiny of all life.
Two wrongs do not make a right, but they surely make a cleverly misleading argument.
The meaning of life is that it has no meaning outside man.
It is the journey of life that matters, not the journey’s end.
A miracle is believed precisely for the reason that the believers are gullible.
Individuality of experience is a variation on the theme of life.
Cherish life until it melts into nothingness .
Only the spirit, if it is infused ·with fervour, can create passion for life.
The impact of an advice is not felt, unless transformed into experience .
You smile at a person you are polite with, but you laugh with a person you are intimate with.
For the man of our acquisitive age, sufficient unto the day are not the pleasures thereof.
A pessimist is a person who thinks that the plane he is flying in might fall, but an optimist hopes that it will not fall on the day he flies.
We make our sycophants and our sycophants make us.
A beginning is made in the hopeful anticipation of a desired end. But the pleasure is in the process of pursuit.
Unless you have passion for music to evoke an aching heart, you will have lived in vain.
What is prescribed also proscribes, depending upon the context.
One should be hopeful despite adversity. Storms do not deter sailors from setting out to the sea.
I wish I could feel like a child the sharp freshness and intense newness of the ordinary. Routine has made the experience stale.
It is our own inclination to feel enchanted. Otherwise, there is no elixir to make life joyous.
Life is a biological procession of birth and death. Emergence of man’s intelligence is a freak phenomenon. It may prove either boon or bane for him in the evolutionary saga.
Reform is a solution of the problems created by the specific circumstances. Once the circumstances change, the reform itself becomes the problem to be solved. There are no permanent solutions to the problems of life which keep on changing, introducing new challenges and necessitating fresh resolutions.
There can be no concept of eternity without matter, which exists in the sequence of time. Time is the function of matter. Both are inseparable. Time is infinite, as long as matter is eternal. Time without matter is timelessness, having no timelines of past, present and future. The idea of time without someone knowing about time is meaningless; and that someone has to have some relation with matter.
In the beginning, many were reduced to one in the whimper of a super massive black hole. an immense and gigantic singularity of void. Then God said “Let there be light” and billions of galaxies issued forth with a bang. It takes eons for the universe to restart. This is one way of looking at the beginning of the universe.
Simplicity attracts with the absence of adornment by presenting contrast to the glamorous. Similarly, the glamorous is sought, if fashion is also replete with simplicity. It is natural to be enamored by the rare and bizarre, however sensible or silly. Variety is a way of life.
What is harmonious with human nature is good and what is in discord with it is evil. The things are good or bad in relations to their impact upon us and our reaction to them. There is nothing good or bad in abstract without reference to man, who is the touchstone in accepting or repulsing the stimuli. To do good for the sake of good is contrived by the idealist. We do good because it is useful or pleasurable. Pragmatism is pre-eminent in human conduct.
For most, life is a wayward existence lived from moment to moment. Only a few pause to brood about it.
One is intensely religious in emotion, if one asks questions whose answers bewilder and hurt.
Inward journey of the myriad ideas begins with the initial inspiration.
It is easy to be an armchair reformer by talking about what thing are and what they should be. This specie is, generally, found in highbrow society, living in comfort and plenty.
When excitement subsides, the boredom returns, if you have nothing of enduring value in you to fall back upon .
Luck is preparation and patience, because opportunity always comes.
Life is what we make of it.
We believe in immortal life, because we want it.
Feel like a child the sharp freshness and intense newness of the ordinary. Routine makes the experience stale.
They also desire immortality, who cannot live one life sensibly.
We give meaning to life by assigning values to it.
Like the mist in the early morn, Like the dew on the silvery lawn, life passes.
Inward journey of myriad ideas begins with the initial inspiration.
Power without restraint leads to tyranny.
Wine is neither a soft drink, nor a hard drink. It is a nice drink.
lnspite of favourable factors in life, success and failure also rest on chance and the timely courage, ability and dexterity to hold on to it.
Acute poverty or debility takes away the dignity of the afflicted and replaces it with pity or aversion, depending upon the humanity or its absence in the observer.
If a train swiftly passes a roadside electrical pole, what is moving, the train or the pole? It depends upon who is observing from where? Existence creates meaning, when the observer observes. Without the observer, there is no existence, because there is no experience of existence in time and space .
Only noteworthy are quoteworthy in press.
Safety of the persons lying in a rut is not a mean thing to disdain. It saves from the unknown hazards those multitudes, who have no guts to take risks.
A life lived well is both an achievement and an example .
For some rich and famous, amusements are amusing. They prefer orgies.
A person impressed by the lush spring thinks life is green pastures.
Early to bed and early to rise does not necessarily make you healthy, wealthy and wise, and you miss all the fun of late nights.

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