गुज़रे ज़माने का अब रहा ही क्या 

अच्छा गुज़र गया, बहुत अच्छा गुज़र गया 

******

- dont know the name of the poet 

Funny Witty Quotes - II

Sometimes its hard to tell whether you are carving a niche for yourself or digging a hole! 

************ 

There was a time when the artist had to suffer. Now, its the viewer. 

*********** 

I'd like to apply for a credit card. I am tired of my cheques bouncing all over the place. 

** 

To err is human. To forgive, infrequent. 

* 

Gather ye rosebuds where ye may, florists are very expensive. 

*** 

Anybody who can still do at 60 what s/he was doing at 20, wasn't doing much at 20. 

**** 

Nothing can spoil a class reunion like running into the guy who has all his hair, married your girl, and made his money from computers. 

**** 

Tolerance is based on patience, respect, and the suspicion that the other fellow may be right. 

**** 

The problem with doing nothing is, you never know when you are done.

*** 

No two people are exactly alike, and chances are, both are glad of it. 

****** 

life isn't a bed of roses or a bowl of cherries. Its a bunch of raisins - raisin' kids, raisin' hell, and raisin' money. 

*** 

Now that I finally have it all together, I've forgotten where i put it! 

*** 

Nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it themselves. 

*** 

If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. 

**** 

Ideas are a lot like children - our own are wonderful! 

****** 

A well-adjusted person is someone who can make the same mistake twice without being nervous. 

******* 

The trouble with work is - its so daily. 

******* 

Constructive criticism is when I criticise you. Destructive criticism is when you criticise me. 

******** 

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. 

Quotes from the old diary

 I tried to walk without a dream, and I fell down. 

*** 

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do, because she is enchanged with all the wonderful things her grandchildren do. 

** 

At most jobs you can make a living. Its making a life that matters. 

****

Life is fragile - handle with care.

***** 

The real productive ups and downs are getting up in the morning and getting down to work. 

*** 

The door to the human heart can only be opened from the inside. 

*** 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. 

***** 

The best thing to do behind a person's back is to pat it. 

*** * 

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for people with erasers. 

******** 

Grief may be able to take care of itself, but to get full value out of joy, you must have someone to share it with. 

**** 

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. 

******* 

Happiness is not something you get. It's something you do. 

********* 

Happiness vanishes when envy appears. 

****** 

The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't be little. 

****** 

Average is as close to the bottom as the top. 

******** 

The happiest misers are the ones who can save up every friend that they have. 

***** 

You will never get ahead of anyone you are trying to get even with. 

********* 

Live so friends can defend you but never have to. 

**** 

Earth is here so kind, 

Tickle her with a hoe 

and she responds with a harvest. 

***** 

Great souls have wills, feeble ones have wishes. 

******* 

Humility is a strange thing - the minute you think you've got it, you've lost it. 

********

What makes us happy is not our position, but our disposition. 

********* 

The reason so few people recognise an opportunity is that it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. 

*********** 

The greatest underdeveloped territory in the world lies under your hat. 

********** 

Everything comes to those who wait - if they work while they wait. 

***** 

If you blame others for your failure, do you credit them for your success?

** 

There is no better exercise than reaching down and lifting someone up. 

*** 

A faultless person is possible only in a faultless world. 

*** 

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. 

******* 

Everyone smiles in the same language. 

***** 

If you sow kindness, you reap a crop of friends. 

*** 

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. 

Book Review: Post office by Charles Bukowski

Bukowski is an author who handles pain, disappointment, and other dark emotions easily. 

So, it is with a lot of expectation that one picks up a novel (novella?) by this author. 

Writing a review whose headline is "Damp Squib" feels bad. 

One is not sorry for the time one lost reading the book cover to cover (though the last pages before the final cover were harder to get through than the ones closer to the front cover.) 

The book is, to put it simply, inane. It has neither a story nor much telling. In brief, it can be summed up as: I drank. I fucked someone. I made some money.  I drank some more. And oh, the world is full of idiots. I am not an idiot. 

Its a short book. I suspect that is because even the author realised there is only so much "I drank. I earned. I fucked." that you can put in a book. 

I'd call it pulp fiction, but pulp fiction would feel insulted, and i have no intention of hurting the feelings of a genre that is, at the very least, entertaining - which is more than one can say about this book. 

Suno...

मुझे इतना भूल जाना 

कि जब याद करो, 

तो बस अच्छी बातें ही याद आयें। 

मुझे इतना याद रखना 

कि जब बिल्कुल भूल जाओ 

तब तुम्हारे सपनों में आने लगूँ। 

katran - Take care!

अपना ख्याल रखना। मैंने कुछ गलत कह दिया हो तो माफ करना। 

किया। 

क्या? 

माफ किया। 

मैंने क्या गलत कहा, ये भी बता दो। 

तुमने कहा, "अपना ख्याल रखना।" 

ये गलत था? 

हाँ। सरासर गलत। ख्याल रखने की क्रिया बनी ही एक दूसरे के लिए है। 

जब ख्याल रखने की जरूरत होती है, उस वक़्त कुव्वत नहीं होती। जब कुव्वत होती है, तब जरूरत कहाँ होती है? 

Death By overwork

 I work from 4 pm to 3 am every day.

And then? Do you watch Netflix?

No, then its death by fatigue. Once upon a time, they had a dessert called 'Death by chocolate' at a dessert shop in Bengaluru. I should have understood then that this industry is about to create some rather innovative deaths.

कतरन: कुछ

सुनो... 

कहो ... 

कहने के लिए कुछ मिला कहाँ ? 

हर बार "सुनो" के जवाब में एक "कहो" आए.. इस से बड़ा भी कुछ है दुनिया में? 

 OR 

हर बार "सुनो" के जवाब में एक "कहो" आए - इससे भी खूबसूरत कुछ है दुनिया में?

- Take the ending you want :) 

Sapne

लेकर अपने अपने हिस्से के सपने 

सब गुम हैं 

अपने ही किसी खुद के साथ। 

कोई उन सपनों को दिखा रहा है 

उम्मीद की नई धूप 

कोई कर रहा उन पर से 

शहर के धुएँ की परत साफ! 

कोई भागे चला जा रहा है 

उनके संग 

बर्फ के उस पार। 

पर तुम अभी भी 

कांच के इन टूटे टुकड़ों को 

लगा रहे हो अपने ही दर-ओ-दीवार पर 

करेंगे तुम्हें ही लहूलुहान 

और उसे भी 

जो दूर गली में 

देख रहा है एकटक 

अपने सपने में 

तुम्हें। 

- poet unknown 

- I have grown more fond of this poem in the recent past bcs i read it everyday. 

more urdu poetry

वो कदम टूट गए जो तेरी महफ़िल की तरफ 

सोते सोते भी मचल जाते थे चलने के लिए 

*********** 

मुझको थकने नहीं देता ये ज़रूरत का पहाड़ 

मेरे बच्चे मुझे बूढ़ा नहीं होने देते 

**************

ये एक अदा रुलाएगी हमें तमाम उम्र, 

जाते हुए न प्यार से यूं मुस्कुराइए 

********* 

poets unknown

****** 

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. 

******** 

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. 

Suna hai aasmaanon par khudaa hai

खुशी है या गमों का सिलसिला है 

न जाने व्यक्त की मुट्ठी में क्या है 

मेरी आँखें लगी हैं आसमानों पर 

सुना है आसमानों पर खुदा है 

जहां से जब भी खुद को जोड़ता हूँ 

मेरे अंदर कहीं कुछ टूटता है 

तेरे हिस्से में तेरी मंज़िलें हैं 

मेरे हिस्से में मेरा रास्ता है 

-poet unkown 

Funny Witty quotes

Diplomacy: Laying another's life for one's country. 

******** 

The duties of our leaders great who occupy the thrones 

Are to address gatherings and lay foundation stones. 

*********** 

Minister: A person who causes a mini-stir wherever he goes. 

********* 

Flattery is like cologne water - to be smelled, but not swallowed. 

************ 

Joint Account: An account in which one person deposits and the other withdraws. 

******* 

Money: The mint makes it first, and it is up to us to make it last. 

***** 

Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables the kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose. 

************ 

I don't know who wrote these witty quotes. They are all from my childhood diaries. 

*************** 

Life begins at 40, but only a fool would wait that long. 

*** 

Calories don't count. They multiply. 

**** 

Floods are rivers too big for their bridges. 

********* 

The good thing about growing old is that you only have to do it once. 

******** 

Shock absorbers in buses are called passengers. 

***** 

If you think a dog can't count, try putting three biscuits in your pocket and giving your dog only two. 

**************** 

The modern economy has changed many a nest's egg into chicken feed. 

****** 

We are born with mouths open and eyes closed, and we spend our entire lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. 

********* 

Compromise is the art of dividing the cake so that everyone thinks they got the largest piece. 

******** 

Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And then, you will have a chair to sit on. 

******* 

The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. 

******* 

For every problem, there is a neat, simple solution, and its always wrong. 

******** 

When all else fails, read the instructions. 

**** 

GOD is real, unless declared as an integer. 

********** 

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. 

************ 

The solution to a problem changes the problem. 

********* 

When the bad has become worse, the cycle will repeat itself. 

***** 

Grapevine: The only communication system in no danger of being replaced by electronics. 

********** 

Hospital: A place where a patient's friends meet to tell him their symptoms. 

********** 

- dont know who has written or said these quotes. 

Itni mushkil duniya mein

गीता हूँ कुरान हूँ मैं 

मुझको पढ़ इंसान हूँ मैं 

ज़िंदा हूँ सच बोल के भी, 

देख के खुद हैरान हूँ मैं 

इतनी मुश्किल दुनिया में 

क्यूँ इतना आसान हूँ मैं? 

चेहरों के इक जंगल में 

खोई हुई पहचान हूँ मैं 

क्या मैं, क्या मेरा वजूद? 

मुफलिस का अरमान हूँ मैं 

मुझको खबर है दुनिया की 

बस खुद से अनजान हूँ मैं 

दफन हैं जिस में ख्वाब ही ख्वाब 

ऐसा कब्रिस्तान हूँ मैं 

- poet not known (to me) 

Har ek raah kahin aur jaa niklati thee

वो याद आए तो जी से दुआ निकलती थी 

हर एक ज़ख्म से ठंडी हवा निकलती थी 

तेरी तलाश में क्या क्या न मरहले आए 

हर एक राह कहीं और जा निकलती थी! 

मिला जो साया तो दीवार आ गिरी सर पर

जहां खुला था कोई दर बला निकलती थी 

 Poet unknown 

Mera Bachpan thaa aaine jaisaa

मेरा बचपन था आईने जैसा 

हर खिलौने का मुंह टाका करना 

चेहरा - चेहरा मेरी किताबें हैं 

पढ़ने वालो, मुझे पढ़ा करना 

ये रवायत बहुत पुरानी है 

नींद में रेत पर चला करना 

रास्ते में कई खंडहर होंगे 

शहसवारों, वहाँ रुका करना! 

जब बहुत हंस चुको तो चेहरे को 

आंसुओं से भी धो लिया करना 

These are pieces i used to like and write in my diary in childhood. Unfortunately, i didnt record the names of the poets.