The NP Chronicle

               The NP Chronicle                         13th May  "A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life."                          -- R. K. Narayan  "Everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly."                          -- R. K. Narayan  "Don't ever fight. No cause is worth a clash."                          -- R. K. Narayan  "You become a writer by writing. It is a yoga."                          -- R. K. Narayan  Today is: ▪︎ National Frog Jumping Day ▪︎ National Receptionists Day ▪︎ National Third Shift Workers Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Robert Pattinson, ...

               The NP Chronicle                          12th May  "The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."                           -- Florence Nightingale  "I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."                          -- Florence Nightingale  "Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it."                          -- Florence Nightingale  "Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you."                      ...

               The NP Chronicle                          11th May  "The ego as a self-centered, thought-constructed entity rooted in memory, conflict, and the constant desire to "become" something else."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "The ego is a structure that individuals build psychologically, which becomes an extraordinary reality. Thought constructs this structure constantly."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "The ego impulsively builds a story around its pain. This is how it stays alive. The ego cannot exist without a story."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable ...

               The NP Chronicle                          10th May "Motherhood: all love begins and ends there."                          -- Robert Browning  "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."                          -- Abraham Lincoln  "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."                          -- Oprah Winfrey  Today is: ▪︎ Mother's Day ▪︎ Mother Ocean Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Donovan, Dennis Bergkamp  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Gustav Stressemann, Kaifi Azmi

               The NP Chronicle                            9th May   Today is: ▪︎ Victory Day ▪︎ Europe Day ▪︎ Maharana Pratap Jayanti ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap, Richard Adams, Friedrich Schiller, Gopal Krishna Gokhale ▪︎ Death anniversary of Little Richard, Obafemi Awolowo

               The NP Chronicle                            8th May  "Our real enemy is not the neighbouring nation; it's hunger, cold, poverty, ignorance, superstition and prejudice."                          -- Henry Dunant  "By Thy power, let there be peace, O God !"                          -- Henry Dunant  "Do your duty and history will do you justice."                          -- Harry S. Truman  "No one can become rich through politics unless he is a crook."                          -- Harry S. Truman "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source o...

               The NP Chronicle                           7th May  "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."                          -- Rabindranath Tagore in  _Gitanjali_  "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."                         ...

               The NP Chronicle                           6th May "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."                          -- Sigmund Freud  "Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."                          -- Sigmund Freud  "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."                          -- Sigmund Freud  Today is: ▪︎ International No Diet Day ▪︎ International Interpreter Appreciation Day ▪︎ National Nurses Day in the US ▪︎ National Tourist Appreciation Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Sigmund Freud, George Clooney, Naomi Scott ▪︎ Death ...

              The NP Chronicle                          5th May "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making mistake."                          -- Napoleon Bonaparte  "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."                          -- Napoleon Bonaparte  "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."                          -- Napoleon Bonaparte  "Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."                          -- Napoleon Bonaparte  "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of foo...

               The NP Chronicle                           4th May  Today is: ▪︎ International Firefighters' Day ▪︎ Coal Miners Day in India ▪︎ Remembrance of the Dead in Netherlands  ▪︎ Bird Day in USA ▪︎ National Day of Reason in USA ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Audrey Hepburn, Horace Mann ▪︎ Death anniversary of Tipu Sultan

               The NP Chronicle                           3rd May "Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."                          -- Machiavelli  "Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."                          -- Machiavelli  "Never was anything great achieved without danger."                          -- Machiavelli  "Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear."                          -- Machiavelli  "All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and actin...

               The NP Chronicle                           2nd May "The only solutions that ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."                               -- Satyajit Ray Today is: ▪︎ World Tuna Day ▪︎ International Harry Potter Day ▪︎ National Brothers and Sisters Day ▪︎ National Fitness Day ▪︎ Baby Day ▪︎ International Scurvy Awareness Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of David Beckham, Catherine the Great, James Dyson, Satyajit Ray , Brian Lara ▪︎ Death anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci