Beautiful lines I have read

These are selected few sentences I have loved in the context of their books as well as out of it. 

1. "After all, tomorrow is another day." - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." - The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 
3. "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
4. "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." - The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
5. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
6. "I wondered if that was how forgiving budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night" - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
7. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
8. "I have never met a strong person with an easy past." - To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
9. "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
10. "Great men are not born great, they grow great". - The Godfather by Mario Puzo 

गुलजार

ऐ उम्र !

कुछ कहा मैँने,

पर शायद तूने सुना नहीं .. 

तू छीन सकती है बचपन मेरा,

पर बचपना नहीं!!

हर बात का कोई जवाब नही होता 

हर इश्क का नाम खराब नही होता। 

यु तो झूम लेते है नशेमें पीनेवाले 

मगर हर नशे का नाम शराब नही होता।

खामोश चहरे पर हजारों पहरे होते है 

हंसती आखों में भी जख्म गहरे होते है 

जिनसे अक्सर रूठ जाते है हम,

असल में उनसे ही रिश्ते गहरे होते है। 

किसी ने खुदासे दुआ मांगी 

दुआ में अपनी मौत मांगी,

खुदा ने कहा, मौत तो तुझे दे दू मगर,

उसे क्या कहु जिसने तेरी जिंदगी की दुआ मांगी .. 

हर इन्सान का दिल बुरा नहीं होता 

हर एक इन्सान बुरा नहीं होता 

बुझ जाते है दिये कभी तेल की कमी से ..  

हर बार कुसूर हवा का नहीं होता!!!

What you see is what you get

Although an experiment meant for photographers to emphasize their importance in photography (see the write up of this experiment here), it speaks equally about how our prejudices influence the way we see people. How our judgments corrupt our vision. And how, with just a change in paradigm we can alter what we see!

The model in these photo sessions came in the same clothes, met the photographers at the same location and greeted them in the same way! The only difference was the background of the model informed to the photographers which they were supposed to capture. The experiment was to suggest that the quality of photos depends more on who's behind the camera than who's in front of it! But in behavioral context it holds more than true, how our prejudices define the way we see things!