Aruna Shanbaug

Whenever you feel life's been tough on you, consider this.

Aruna Shanbaug. Assaulted in her 20s, in a vegetative state for 37 years.

I am born to be a free bird!

To sing, To fly

To go as much as I care

To go as much as high

To do what I love

And do it at my pace

I just don't want to compete with them

It has been and it's just my own race

I don't want to answer anyone

My accountability is to the mirror

If I can look to it straight in the eye

There is nothing out there that can make me shy

My convictions are worth a fight

If it does not make us happy

How does anything become right?!

So often I don't seem to fit in

Never ever have followed the herd

Something inside me keeps reminding me

that I am born

I am born to be a free bird

I am waiting for the day I will break free

Either I will live or I will die

But I see only this one life

And I don't want to be caged

I am born to be a free bird and I want to fly

Conscience!

A clear conscience fears nothing.

The gossip mongers

Pity the gossip mongers. They are so bored of themselves that they get time to talk about other people.

"Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people."

fame or notoriety

fame or notoriety prone; well, some people just tend to get known

The John Galt speech

the Galt speech from Atlas Shrugged

super thought of the day

People and books should only be read till they are interesting enough. The good ones should be read over and over

Amar's thought factory