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               The NP Chronicle                           1st May QUOTES BY THE BUDDHA: "What we think, we become". *Quotes by Gautam Buddha :*  "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional". "The root of suffering is attachment". "Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most".  "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path". "If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down".  "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without". "Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change". "If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment". "A jug fills drop by drop".  "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule". "Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth". "Radi...

               The NP Chronicle                         30th April   Today is: ▪︎ International Jazz Day ▪︎ World Veterinary Day ▪︎ Ayushman Bharat Diwas in India  ▪︎ National Honesty Day in USA ▪︎ National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Anandamayi Ma, Dadasaheb Phalke, Rohit Sharma ▪︎ Death anniversary of Adolf Hitler

               The NP Chronicle                         29th April  "History is not just what happened, but how we remember it."                          -- Ramachandra Guha  "Never, never underestimate a politician's need to survive."                          -- Ramachandra Guha  "The destruction of forests, the want of permanent springs and the existence of torents are three phenomena closely connected together."                          -- Ramachandra Guha  Today is: ▪︎ International Dance Day ▪︎ International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes ▪︎ World Stationery Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Emperor Hirohito, Alexander II of Russia, Andre Agassi, and Ramachand...

               The NP Chronicle                         28th April  "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." -- Harper Lee in _To Kill a Mockingbird_  "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -- Harper Lee in _To Kill a Mockingbird_  "People in their right minds never take pride of their talents." -- Harper Lee in _To Kill a Mockingbird_  Today is: ▪︎ World Day for Safety and Health at Work ▪︎ Workers' Memorial Day ▪︎ Save The Frogs Day ▪︎ Global Pay It Forward Day ▪︎ National Great Poetry Reading Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Harper Lee, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba ▪︎ Death anniversary of Benito Mussolini

               The NP Chronicle                          27th April  Today is: ▪︎ Freedom Day in South Africa  ▪︎ Independence Day in Sierra Leone ▪︎ Independence Day in Togo ▪︎ World Design Day ▪︎ World Tapir Day ▪︎ National Tell a Story Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Mumtaz Mahal, Wallace Carothers ▪︎ Death anniversary of Manoj Das, Karl Pearson, Antonio Gramsci, Edmund Husserl

               The NP Chronicle                          26th April  "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."                          -- Marcus Aurelius  "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."                          -- Marcus Aurelius  "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."                          -- Marcus Aurelius  "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."                           -- Marcus Aurelius  "Our life is what our thoughts make it."         ...

               The NP Chronicle                         25th April  "Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time."                          -- Guglielmo Marconi  "In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio."                          -- Guglielmo Marconi  "The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous."                          -- Guglielmo Marconi  "We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of."                          -...

               The NP Chronicle                         24th April  "People throw stones at you and you turn them into milestones."                          -- Sachin Tendulkar  "Whatever level you reach, getting better never stops."                          -- Sachin Tendulkar  "There is only one religion --  religion of love, and only one caste -- humanity."                          -- Sathya Sai Baba  Today is: ▪︎ World Day for Animals in Laboratories  ▪︎ National Panhayati Raj Day in India  ▪︎ Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day  ▪︎ Democracy Day in Nepal ▪︎ Concord Day in Niger ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Sachin Tendulkar  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Sa...

               The NP Chronicle                         23rd April  "The course of true love never did run smooth." -- William Shakespeare in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_  "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." -- William Shakespeare in _Twelfth Night_  "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -- William Shakespeare in _As You Like It_  "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare in _Romeo and Juliet_  "All that glitters is not gold." -- William Shakespeare in _The Merchant of Venice_  "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." -- William Shakespeare in _Julius Caesar_  Today is: ▪︎ World Book and Copyright Day (UNESCO) ▪︎ English Languag...

               The NP Chronicle                         22nd April  "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."                          -- Albert Einstein  "Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us."                          -- Amit Ray "We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical."                          -- Radhanath Swami Today is: ▪︎ International Mother Earth Day (Earth Day) ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, Immanuel Kant, Robert Oppenheimer, Vladimir Nabokov, Henri La Fontaine

               The NP Chronicle                         21st April  "Grief is the price we pay for love."                          -- Queen Elizabeth II  "I have to be seen to be believed."                          -- Queen Elizabeth II  "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."                          -- Mark Twain  "People who have faith in themselves can change the world."                          -- Muhammad Iqbal  "Failure is not fatal until we surrender; trying again is the key of glorious victory."                       ...

               The NP Chronicle                         20th April  "If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it."                          -- Adolf Hitler "Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat."                          -- Adolf Hitler  "When diplomacy ends, war begins."                          -- Adolf Hitler  Today is: ▪︎ UN Chinese Language Day ▪︎ Easter Monday ▪︎ Volunteer Recognition Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Adolf Hitler ▪︎ Death anniversary of Pope Clement V

               The NP Chronicle                         19th April  "Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development."                          -- Mukesh Ambani "I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across."                          -- Mukesh Ambani  "My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer."                          -- Mukesh Ambani  Today is: ▪︎ World Liver Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Mukesh Ambani, Maria Sarapova, Kate Hudson, and Ashley Judd ▪︎ Death anniversary of Charles Darwin, ...

               The NP Chronicle                         18th April  "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."                          -- Albert Einstein  "In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."                          -- Albert Einstein  "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."                          -- Albert Einstein  "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."                          -- Albert Einstein  "Only a life lived for others is a life worthliving."             ...

               The NP Chronicle                         17th April  "A penny saved is a penny earned."                          -- Benjamin Franklin  "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."                          -- Benjamin Franklin  "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."                          -- Benjamin Franklin  "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."                           -- Benjamin Franklin  "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."                 ...

               The NP Chronicle                         16th April  "More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."                          -- Charlie Chaplin  "I love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears."                          -- Charlie Chaplin  "The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."                           -- Pope Benedict XVI  "Truth is not determined by a majority vote."                           -- Pope Benedict XVI  "One who has hope lives differently."     ...

               The NP Chronicle                         15th April  "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."                          -- Leonardo da Vinci  "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."                          -- Leonardo da Vinci  "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."                          -- Leonardo da Vinci  "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."                          -- Leonardo da Vinci  "Learning never exhausts the mind."       ...

               The NP Chronicle                        14th April  "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."                          -- Charles Dickens  "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."                          -- Robert Frost "The earth laughs in flowers."                          -- R.W. Emerson  "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."                          -- William Shakespeare  "Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."                          -- Lucy Maud Mon...

               The NP Chronicle                        13th April  "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."                          -- Thomas Jefferson  "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."                          -- Thomas Jefferson  "Words are the clothes thoughts wear."                          -- Samuel Beckett  "You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."                          -- Samuel Beckett  "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."                     ...

               The NP Chronicle                         12th April  "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."                          -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."                          -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  "Men are not prisoners of fate,  but only prisoners of their own minds."                          -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Human Space Flight ▪︎ International Day for Street Children ▪︎ Death anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt

               The NP Chronicle                         11th April  "Motherhood: all love begins and ends there."                              -- Robert Browning  "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."                           -- Barbara Kingsolver Today is: ▪︎ National Safe Motherhood Day in India ▪︎ World Parkinson's Day ▪︎ National Pet Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Dr. James Parkinson

               The NP Chronicle                         10th April  "The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way."                          -- Samuel Hahnemann  "The physician's highest calling,  his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed."                          -- Samuel Hahnemann  Today is: ▪︎ World Homoeopathy Day ▪︎ National Siblings Day ▪︎ National Hug Your Dog Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann , and Mani Shankar Aiyar ▪︎ Death anniversary of Kahlil Gibran, and Morarji Desai

               The NP Chronicle                           9th April  Today is: ▪︎ National Unicorn Day ▪︎ National Cherish an Antique Day

               The NP Chronicle                          8th April  "In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence."                          -- Robert Lynd "Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly."                          -- John Lennon  "I would like to paint the way a bird sings."                          -- Claude Monet "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."                          -- E.E. Cummings  "Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive."       ...

               The NP Chronicle                          7th April  "The greatest wealth is health."                           -- Virgil "He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."                          -- Arabian Proverb "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."                          -- World Health Organization  Today is: ▪︎ World Health Day ▪︎ Foundation Day of World Health Organization  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola, Jackie Chan, Russell Crowe, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ram Gopal Varma ▪︎ Death anniversary of Peter Grunberg, Henry Ford, Guru Kelucharan Mohap...

               The NP Chronicle                          6th April   "Sport transcends boundaries and promotes tolerance, perseverance, and respect within and between cultures... to promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies."                          -- Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the UN General Assembly "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does."                          -- Nelson Mandela  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

               The NP Chronicle                          5th April  "Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."                           -- Arthur Schopenhauer  "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise."                            -- Phillips Brooks "A clear conscience is a good pillow." -- French Proverb "Let your conscience be your guide."                              -- Elizabeth Gilbert  "The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience."                 ...

               The NP Chronicle                          4th April  "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice."                          -- Martin Luther King Jr.  "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."                          -- Martin Luther King Jr.  "I find that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."                          -- Martin Luther King Jr.  "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for t...

               The NP Chronicle                         3rd April  Jesus Teachings: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." (Matthew 5:44) "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:39) "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed... nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 70:20) Today is: ▪︎ Good Friday  ▪︎ World Party Day ▪︎ Death anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr., Chhtrapati Shivaji Maharaj 

               The NP Chronicle                          2nd April  "Faith and reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which it soars to the truth."                          -- Pope John Paul II  "It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman."                          -- Pope John Paul II  "War is a defeat for humanity."                          -- Pope John Paul II  "Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."                          -- Pope John Paul II  Today is: ▪︎ International Children's Book Day ▪︎ World Autism Awareness D...