LIFE LESSON IN QUOTES - UPRIGHT

 One must have noticed that the oft used pronoun is "you" especially to shift the onus from oneself. Therefore, the choice for the human trait desirable fell naturally onto "upright". Marcus Aurelius laid out the principle crisply:

A man should be upright, not be kept upright

To answer the question as to with dreams shattered whether one can be upright, Mehmet Murat Ildan said,

The greatest victory for man is 

not 

that his dreams were fulfilled

 but 

it is that to stand upright 

even 

when none of his dreams are fulfilled

As though to goad us to be upright Israelmore Ayivor decreed

The table that cannot stand upright

is

an insult to the carpenter who makes it

This makes it clear that we become responsible even for the acts of the persons whom we mentor

Confucius, the great teacher laid out the truth in saying

Man is born with uprightness.

If one loses it,

he will be lucky 

if he escapes with his life

Contrast these with the warning of Chanakya

Do not be very upright in your dealings

for you would see by going to the forest

that

straight trees are cut down

while

crooked ones are left standing

Thus, the value of being upright as well as its pitfalls if not being reasoned has been brought out by the wise men.

LIFE LESSON IN QUOTES - TRUST

 The A to Z series was left unfinished belying the trust of the readers. Therefore, the quality of trust is picked ahead of truth for the letter "T". Trust is a delicate and defining emotion. Many would have come across the expression - set a thief to catch a thief.  Henry L Simson gave a positive spin to it by stating as under:

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him

Don Peppers gave another perspective to it by laying a new principle:

Being Trustworthy requires:

Doing the right thing 

 and

Doing things rights

Stephen Covey made Trust the foundation for any relationship in these words:

Trust is the glue of life.

It is the foundational principle that holds all relationships

John Pepper prescribed it as an antidote to fear in the following words:

Trust is the antidote that overcomes fear 

– and 

fear is the greatest inhibitor of all 

to a relationship that welcomes and nurtures new ideas

The charitable Warren Buffet placed trust on par with air while propounding:

Trust is like the air we breathe – 

when it’s present, nobody really notices; 

when it’s absent, everybody notices

It was Richard Fragerlin who hit the nail on the head by not making the cause or the process but the result in these words:

Trust isn’t what we do; it is what results from what we do.

Thus, what better way to regain the trust of readers than trusting them to overlook the long hibernation in posting on the A to Z series.