Two past lovers can never remain friends:

Because, if two past lovers still continue to be good friends, they are either still in love... or they never were...

the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me...

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

This statement by Sir Isaac Newton shortly before his death in 1727 eloquently reflects the sentiments of all mature scientists from the ancient past to the present.

love is...

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

- Bible~I Corinthians 13:4-8

towards perfection...*

Who will make the task less complex?
And who will clear the million roads
That finally lead to perfection?

- Ya. Polonsky

hours of determined labour...

The single joy is work
In field, at bench, and table:
Work till the sweat runs hot,
Work without counting the cost,
Hours of determined labour.

- V. Bryusov

hail the path!

Hail the time!
Hail the path!
Be reckless:
Run the risk, don't be shy.

- P. Antokolsky

You don't get to choose..you just fall in..

“You don't choose the people you love”

- Vikram A. Sarabhai

Boldness...

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

– Goethe

Nothing more necessary...

There is nothing more necessary to the man of science than its history, and the logic of discovery...: the way error is detected, the use of hypothesis, of imagination, the mode of testing.

- Lord Acton

Friendship

They are siblings God chose not to give us. They are the ones who ask us how we are and wait for an answer. Friendship itself, is the purest form of love. A friend pours out his love, yet expects nothing in return. Though, a hug is worth innumerable words, a friend is worth even more.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? I thought I was the only one." - C. S. Lewis

:)) Hi! Happy Friendship Day..!!

Byee,..

Rohan

"There's no point in living, if you can't feel alive." - Shirley Ann Manson, in song performed by Garbage, The World Is Not Enough.

spend life in your own way...

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way".

-Christopher Morley, US author & journalist, 1890-1957

from one to another...

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm".

-Churchill

looks like work...

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

what you had to give...

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in "Life's Little Instruction Book"

ideal of service...

"It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service".

-A. E.

it's impossible...

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.

-Charles Hamilton (1876-1961), English Writer

ability, motivation, and attitude...

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

-Lou Holtz

dare to live...

"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."

- ??

spring of...

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away."

-William Shakespeare from The Two Gentlemen of Verona (I, iii, 84-87)

better to have...

I hold it true, whate'er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson