Lessons I Learnt From Life

1. Your most trustworthy friend will betray you.

2. People will leave you when you will need them badly.

3. There is no such thing as permanent friendship. 

4. People have priorities and preferences which change with time and so does friendship and relationship.

5. Things do not happen at once, critical mass takes time to gather.

6. Your partner can not love or support you permanently. There are low points in relationships. 

7. What is happening at your back is more important than things happening at your front but people will seldom tell you about those things.

8. Don't accept things at their face value. Apply your own correction factor.

9. If you want to find true love, watch a movie on love story.

10. You have to accept people at the level of their imperfections. Important point is on what characteristics you are compromising.

11. There are good people, normal people and bad people. Most of them including you are normal people.

12. You feel dejected because of expectations so don't have expectations from people if you want to stay happy.

13. Lack of communication is the biggest reason of relationship failure.

14. Money doesn't solve problems, it may provide you temporary relief and deception that all is well. Money actually create many more complicated problems at the cost of solving a few.

15. People love you as long as you are needed.

16. People are nice till the time there is no conflict of interest.

17. It is a difficult art to learn: when to take stand, when to compromise and when to bow down.

18. Your children will hurt you mostly for wrong reasons, no matter how deep you love each other.

19. Don't leave if you truly love him or her. Problem is that at early age you lack emotional stability and perception depth so take and accept advice from previous generation. They have gone through all this.

20. In your youth you believe that you are the most important and smartest person on the planet. Factually opposite is true.

21. You don't care about what you have in hand until you loose it.

22. Out of reach things are always attractive but when you get them, they lose the charm.

23. Most dangerous people are not your critique but your yes men and close confidant.

24. No matter how smart you are, you will fell down more than once.

25. How you raise up again is more important than your falling down.

26. Failures are important but more important is the fact that how you accept them.

27. At times you have to leave the table with your grace and integrity in tact.

28. Successful people have more failures than successes. They however know the art of learning from mistakes and moving on.

29. When you are deeply demotivated, only Prayers will help you.

30. Even your most successful strategy will fail in due time.

31. Negative emotions will add insult to your injury.

32. You may pass through most difficult time through persistence and patience.

33. Good thing about difficult times is that it doesn't stay permanently.

34. Dragging relationships will make things worse.

35. Handle mutiny with iron hand. It is not good to be nice all the time.

36. Your biggest enemy is your temperament. People stop sharing with you and slowly you move away from reality.

37. Find out the real story behind unexpected behavior. Find the size of the iceberg behind the tip of the iceberg.

38. Very few people will be happy with your progress and achievements.

39. Beware of the people disguising themselves behind religious masks.

40. You will know the true worth of people when they will leave you.

41. If you will help people regularly, they will lean on you.

42. It is dangerous to tell unnecessary truths.

43. Cheating will come back to the place from where it originated.

44. People are rarely grateful. Whatever they get, they think it was their right. What they don't get, they blame their surroundings.

45. There is no substitute to hard work and being on the right path.

46. It is good to be little selfish.

47. Whatever you will do for others they will never realize it's true worth.

48. Reading books, interaction with people and traveling add depth to your experience.

49. You are your own best friend and worst enemy.

50. Bad temperament destroys everything.

51. If someone is more sincere than your father then soon he/she will prove to be a devil.

52. You carry on with the reputation built by your parents. Better build on that rather than trying to develop your own identity. You will be lost.

53. Always have a formal mentor and a coach. This will increase your success rate.

54. People have their own biases, perspectives and prejudices. You will be surprised to know that how they are interpreting a fact different from what is very obvious and simple. They mostly interpret with an angle which suits them.

55. People keep on raising their expectation level till the point of disappointment. 

56. Managers give results not reasons.

57. Leadership is sincerity and sacrifice to help people reach their destination.