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               The NP Chronicle                           1st June Quotes by Marilyn Monroe: "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." "I restore myself when I'm alone." "I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else ." "If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never got anywhere ." "I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me." Today is: ▪︎ Global Day of Parents ▪︎ World Milk Day  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe , Tom Holland, Nargis Dutt  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Helen Keller, John Dewey  

               The NP Chronicle                          31st May  "Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."                          -- Walt Whitman  "Peace is always beautiful." --  Walt Whitman , Leaves of Grass "Resist much, obey little." --  Walt Whitman , Leaves of Grass "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." -- Walt Whitman , Leaves of Grass Today is: ▪︎ World No Tobacco Day ▪︎ World Parrot Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Walt Whitman , Brooke Shields, Genghis Khan ▪︎ Death anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn, Timothy Leary

               The NP Chronicle                          30th May   "Act, and God will act."                          -- Joan of Arc "I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."                          -- Joan of Arc "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."                          -- Voltaire "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."                          -- Voltaire  "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."                   ...

               The NP Chronicle                          29th May " I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life."                          - - Tenzing Norgay  "To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live."                            -- Tenzing Norgay  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of UN Peacekeepers  ▪︎ International Mount Everest Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Tenzing Norgay, Peter Higgs, John F. Kennedy, King Charles II, Danny Elfman, Laverne Cox

               The NP Chronicle                          28th May "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."                          -- Maya Angelou  "Try to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud."                          -- Maya Angelou  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Action for Women's Health  ▪︎ Amnesty International Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Ian Fleming, Kylie Minogue, Jim Thorpe, Jerry West, N. T. Rama Rao  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Maya Angelou , Anne Bronte, Noah Webster

               The NP Chronicle                          27th May  "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."                          -- Henry Kissinger  "Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem."                          -- Henry Kissinger  "A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."                          -- Henry Kissinger  Today is: ▪︎ World Otter Day ▪︎ National Senior Health and Fitness Day ▪︎ Eid al-Adha (Bakrid) ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Lee, Rachel Carson ▪︎ Death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, Niccolo Paganini, Robert Koch

               The NP Chronicle                         26th May  Today is: ▪︎ National Sorry Day in Australia  ▪︎ National Paper Airplane Day in the US ▪︎ Kazi Nazrul Islam Jayanti in India  ▪︎ World Dracula Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Sally Ride ▪︎ Death anniversary of Martin Heidegger

               The NP Chronicle                          25th May Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson:  "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." "It is not the length of life, but the depth." "Life is a journey, not a destination." Today is: ▪︎ Africa Day ▪︎ African Liberation Day ▪︎ World Thyroid Day ▪︎ International Missing Children's Day ▪︎ Geek Pride Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson  ▪︎ Death anniversary of George Floyd, Sunil Dutt, Madame C.J. Walker

               The NP Chronicle                          24th May "Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."                          -- Bob Dylan  "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."                          -- Bob Dylan  "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."                          -- Bob Dylan  "I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do."                           -- Bob Dylan  "You can never be wise a...

               The NP Chronicle                          23rd May  Quotes by John D. Rockefeller: "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." "The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well." "I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything." " Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it." "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." "If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it." Today is: ▪︎ World Turtle Day ▪︎ Labour Day in Jamaica ▪︎ Students' Day in Mexico ▪︎ Constitution Day in Germany  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Carl Linnaeus, Drew Carey, Joan Collins, Jewel Kilcher ▪︎ Death anniversary of Henrik Libsen, John...

               The NP Chronicle                          22nd May  Quotes by Raja Ram Mohan Roy: "Cows are of different colours, but the colour of their milk is the same. Different teachers have different opinions, but the essence of every religion is the same." "The foundation of true religion is to be found in morality and not in ritual." "No religion prescribes the burning of a woman's body; the scriptures do not allow the destruction of a woman's soul."   "Ignorance is the root cause of all evil." "Education is the key to eliminating ignorance and raising the value of mankind." "If mankind are brought into existence, and by nature formed to enjoy the comforts of society and the pleasure of an improved mind, they may be justified in opposing any system, religious, domestic or political, which is inimical to the happiness of society, or calculated to debase the human inte...

               The NP Chronicle                          21st May  "To err is human, to forgive, divine." -- Alexander Pope, _An Essay On Criticism_  "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." -- Alexander Pope   "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." -- Alexander Pope, _The Rape of the Lock_  "Fools rush where angels fear to tread." -- Alexander Pope, _An Essay On Criticism_  "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." -- Alexander Pope  "Better a brain drain than a brain in the drain." -- Rajiv Gandhi  Today is: ▪︎ World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development  ▪︎ International Tea Day ▪︎ National Anti-Terrorism Day in India ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Alexander Pope , Ha...

               The NP Chronicle                          20th May "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."                          -- Christopher Columbus  "Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams."                          -- Christopher Columbus  "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."                          -- John Stuart Mill " Ihave learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."                       ...

               The NP Chronicle                          19th May "Live close to Nature and you will never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer."                          -- Ruskin Bond "To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast."                          -- Ruskin Bond  "Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often."                          -- Ruskin Bond  "It's courage, not luck, that takes us throug...

               The NP Chronicle                          18th May "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."                          -- Bertrand Russell  "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."                          -- Bertrand Russell  "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."                          -- Bertrand Russell  "The future starts today, not tomorrow."             ...

               The NP Chronicle                          17th May  Today is:  ▪︎ World Telecommunication and Information Society Dat ▪︎ World Hypertension Day ▪︎ International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia ▪︎ International AIDS Candlelight Memorial  ▪︎ Norway Constitution Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Edward Jenner, Nikki Reed, Pankaj Udhas ▪︎ Death anniversary of Herman Wouk, Gordon Lightfoot, S.P. Hinduja

               The NP Chronicle                          16th May  "We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily."                          -- Dalai Lama "Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating."                          -- Pope Francis  "Ignorance and stupidity are the most dangerous viruses that jeopardize our living together. Calamity cannot be prevented nor cured, simply as a result of unawareness."                          -- Erik Pevernagie Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Living Together in Peace ▪︎ International Day of Light  ▪︎ International Day of the Boy Child ▪︎ National Dengue Day in India...

               The NP Chronicle                          15th May  "We must eat, drink, sleep, be idle, love, touch the sweetest things of life and yet not succumb to them. It is necessary that, in doing all this, the higher thoughts to which one is dedicated remain dominant and continue their unmoved course in our poor heads. It is necessary to make a dream of life, and to make of a dream a reality."                          -- Pierre Curie ""Hope" is the thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the tune without the words -- And never stops -- at all --."                          -- Emily Dickinson  "Firever is composed of nows."                          -- Emil...

               The NP Chronicle                          14th May  "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."                          -- Mark Zuckerberg  "Ideas don't come out fully formed, they only become clearer as you work on them. You just have to get started."                          -- Mark Zuckerberg  "The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail."                          -- Mark Zuckerberg  "Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."                     ...

               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  "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."                          -- John Stuart Mill "Ihave learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."                          -- John Stuart Mill "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 !"                     ...

               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...