Sparks from this book
Vicissitudes of Life
All 14 Sparks drawn from Vicissitudes of Life, in the order they appear in the book. Each one carries a walk-through.
Chapters 1–12
- 1Consider a person truly fortunate when he can ride the highs and lows of life, good times and bad times, and still maintain love for life.
- 2Work is sweet to a productive soul once deprived by circumstance.
- 3Misfortune in your life draws the line between those who care and those who just pretend to, and you will not need anyone to tell you which side they…
- 4When everything was said to be over, I could only see a chance to start afresh.
- 4When you've hit rock bottom, the fear of failure dies a permanent death in your life.
- 5A good idea is a highly infectious virus with no cure, that will destroy all fallacious beliefs in its host's mind.
- 5Though it might feel as if you are groping in the dark, you should never stop looking for answers. No matter how dark the hour, the light switch you…
- 6Sometimes all you need to make sense of things is to just be alone. I truly was alone, as no one understood me.
- 7Life is a problem; one that no one has yet been able to solve. Living it is a never-ending, problem-solving process.
- 7Where you are privileged, you are disadvantaged multiple times more: you don't know how cold the world can get if you're locked up in a warm house…
- 9Defiance is not always about acting out. Changing your mind can defy fortune.
- 10Avoid falling apart as your life falls apart. Who then will pick up the pieces? Keep it together and discover what holds your life together.
- 11Hard-to-achieve things remain so until one of us chooses to take the chance and not give up.
- 12My mind was sharpened by life's abrasion. I was like a blunt pencil, but I was cut and it sharpened my life's focus. Now I draw my life's picture in…