A good book adorns morality...

A good book adorns morality, builds up the personality and teaches the secrets of life. However useless books should be discarded as harmful books impair ones intelligence. A wise man has said, “Let me know what you are reading, so that I may tell you what you are.” Shouphenhauer has said, “Life is more precious than the time spent in reading useless books.” We must spare some time every day for reading useful books that increase our knowledge and we must consider the book as our best friend.

There is no friend in the world better than a book. No one is more sympathetic than a good book in this house of sorrow. In moments of solitude there are thousands of bounties in the company of a book and not a single hardship. Making Use of Opportunities People do get enough opportunities and time but they do not take the advantage of this golden key to success and miss the chance due to procrastination.

One should not only complete today’s work today but if possible also do the next day’s work today. Once Abu Muslim Khurasani was asked, “What is the secret of your success?” His response was, “I have never postponed today’s work for tomorrow.” Sometimes it also so happens that energy spent in postponing a job proves enough for finishing the same work.

Some students who are not allowed to appear in the March-April examinations and who have to appear in October-November take the maximum advantage of this time and opportunity whereas some waste their time in repenting and in meaningless thoughts until the time of examination arrives. Such pupils not only face failure they also retreat a few steps backward. Some people only shed tears on the past and say: “Had we purchased that garden we would have a earned much benefit.

Had we enrolled in this university we would have become among the VIPs of the country today...” Such people waste all their time in repenting and shedding tears on ‘yesterday’s grave’, though, if even now, they become wise and restart their jobs they can fulfill all, or at least, some of their aspirations. But they continue to cry on spilt milk. You cannot repurchase time that is spent. Hence it is better not to sell it in the first place as time is a precious pearl.

Some people have the opposite nature. They think of the future but their worry is so much that in that anxiety, they are unable to do anything during the time that is at their disposal.