Footprints on the Sand: Book of Poetic Expression

By M. Azizur Rahman

Footprints on the Sand is a book of poetic expressions. The poets views of the everyday aspects of life are written about in poetic form. Love, marriage, aspirations, friendship, courage, etc., are some of the issues touched in happiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514448816

M. Azizur Rahman

Prof. M. Azizur Rahman, PhD, Vanderbilt University, USA, is a renowned academician of the country of Bangladesh and an eminent economist of international repute. He has completed his graduation in 1972 from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in the Department of Agricultural Economics by standing first in the first class and has obtained a Master’s Degree from the same department at BAU in 1973. He went to USA for his higher studies leading to PhD in Economics with the World Bank Scholarship. He successfully achieved his PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University, a Nobel Laureate School, USA in 1987. He has twenty-five years of university teaching experience at home and abroad. He worked as an Economic Adviser of USAID of the US Embassy in Bangladesh from 1989 to 1997. Many of his research articles on social, economic and human resource development have been published in international journals. Dr Rahman is the esteemed founder chairman of numerous educational institutes of Bangladesh and Uttara University in particular. Dr Rahman is the founder vice-chancellor/CEO of Uttara University. The motto of Uttara University is to range higher education in every nook and corner of the country at affordable tuition. His aims and objectives are to help achieve an extensive development of higher education industry around the country of Bangladesh. The essence of his ideas for the development of higher education is limited to the fact that he never compromises with the discipline and quality of education. Dr Rahman is a renowned Freedom Fighter who was ready to risk his life during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. He is a lifetime member of Bangladesh Economic Association. He has been working for the overall development of the educational system of the country of Bangladesh.

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Copyright © 2016 by M. Azizur Rahman.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1.   Money Is a Means to an End

2.   Honest Donation Brings in the Social Affluence

3.   Honesty Is Powerless without Efficiency

4.   Remaining Healthy by Following the Healthy Rule in Life

5.   Wake Up Early and Go for a Walk

6.   Try to Have Good Manners in Conversation

7.   Don’t Keep the Work Pending

8.   Try to Learn How to Trust Others

9.   Get Rid of Any Pride and Develop Honest Thinking

10.   Learn How to Say No to Anything Not Desired

11.   Once You Are Angry, Do Not Decide on Something or Anything

12.   Chinese Food

13.   End’s Well Is the All Well

14.   It Is Better to Remain Single than to Marry the Wrong Person

15.   Carrying a Firearm Makes a Difference in Behaviour

16.   Enlighten Your Environment in the Light of Truth

17.   Think Positive to Be Relatively More Competitive in Life

18.   Human Beings Think Alike Rationally

19.   How to Be Happy in Life

20.   Play with the Card You Have in Hand

21.   None Can Hurt You If You Are Busy with the Work of Your Interest

22.   Get Your Work Accompanied by Those of the Others Contributing to the Society

23.   Record What Is Good and What Is Bad for People to Go Through

24.   Did You Think about Your Ability, including Those of Physical and Mental Abilities in Particular?

25.   Take Laughter as the Best Exercise to Remain Healthy

26.   To Be Implicitly Accompanied by Good Time, Think of Those Who Are Expected to Love You

27.   Beauty Is Something Else Other than the Body Colour

28.   They Can’t Be Your Good Friends Those Who Keep Their Eye Constantly on Your Possessions

29.   Try to Learn How to Trust People

30.   Think about Honesty and Sincerity in Going with Your Life and Living

31.   Let’s Get Rid of Pride by Not Being Proud in Anything

32.   Try Your Best to Control Your Mind to Completely Do the Job with Quality

33.   Life Is Water, and Water Is Life in the Sense of Strict Interdependence between Life and Water

34.   Try to Have a Healthy Environment to Help You Remain Healthy Both Physically and Psychologically

35.   A King Doesn’t Need to Learn How to Behave with the One, or the Other King

36.   I Love Everything in My Life and Living except Death

37.   Can You Reasonably Estimate the Value of Your Brain to See How Important You Are?

38.   Family Understanding

39.   Don’t Create an Enemy as You Will See His Shadow Everywhere

40.   Knowledge Is Powerful, but Wisdom Is Always Better

41.   Being Insulted Is Worse than Getting Beaten and Is Difficult to Forget

42.   You Will, for Sure, Fall in Life If You Cannot Stay Away Being Proud

43.   If You Are Sober and Polite, You Can Proceed Fast in Any Kind of Society

44.   A New Medicine to Never to Die

45.   Women Empowerment Makes Women Relatively More Powerful than Saying Anything Negative about Them

46.   No News Is Good News: As It Has No Bad Element in It, Good News Is Reluctant to Move Fast to Us

47.   I Agree with All of You That the Cat Sometimes Is Harmful to Us, But Who Will Go to Bell the Cat?

48.   Rickshaw-Pulling in Bangladesh

49.   Man Is Not Mortal If He Can Really Do the Following

50.   About Sri Lanka

51.   First Come, First Served

52.   We Always Love Those Who Admire Us, and We Do Not Always Love Those Whom We Admire

53.   A Refusal of Praise Is a Desire to Be Praised Twice

54.   Hypocrisy Is the Homage the Vice Pays to Virtue

55.   Small Minds Are Much Distressed by Little Things; Great Minds See Them All but Are Not Upset by Them

56.   He Who Lives Without Folly Is Not So Wise as He Imagines

57.   Whatever Good Things People Say of Us, They Tell Us Nothing New

58.   A Man’s Worth Has Its Season, Like Fruit

59.   The Greatest Miracle of Love Is the Cure of Coquetry

60.   True Bravery Is to Do without a Witness What One Might Be Capable of Doing before All the World

61.   Many Young Persons Believe Themselves Natural When They Are Only Impolite and Coarse

62.   How Can We Expect Another to Keep Our Secret If We Can’t Keep It Ourselves?

63.   Our Misdeeds Are Easily Forgotten When They Are Known Only to Ourselves

64.   The Man Whom No One Pleases Is Much Unhappier than the Man Who Pleases None

65.   The Happiness and Misery of Men Depend No Less on Temper than Future

66.   Marriage Is the Only War in Which You Sleep with the Enemy

67.   We Confess Our Little Faults to Persuade People That We Have No Large Ones

68.   Everyone Complains of His Memory, and Nobody Complains of His Mind

69.   The Love of Justice in Most Men Is Only the Fear of Themselves Suffering by Injustice

70.   Excessive Hatred Brings Us Down Below the Level of Those Who Hate

71.   In Jealousy, There Is More Self-Love than Love

72.   The Defects of the Mind, Like Those of the Face, Grow Worse with Age

73.   What Keeps Us from Abandoning Ourselves Entirely to One Vice Often Is the Fact That We Have Several

74.   It Is Easier to Be Wise for Others than for Ourselves

75.   The Only Thing That Should Astonish Us Is That We Are Still Capable of Astonishment

76.   If We Resist Our Passion, It Is More Due to Our Weakness than Our Strength

77.   When a Man Is in Love, He Doubts Very Often What He Most Firmly Believes

78.   We Are Sometimes Different from Ourselves as We Are from Others

79.   The Gratitude of Most Men Is but a

Secret Desire of Receiving Greater Benefits

80.   However Rare True Love May Be, It Is Less So than True Friendship

81.   If We Had No Faults of Our Own, We Would Not Take So Much Pleasure in Noticing Those of Others

82.   We Often Forgive Those Who Bore Us, but We Cannot Forgive Those Whom We Bore

83.   We Can Never Be Certain of Our Courage Until We Have Faced Danger

84.   We Are Never as Happy or Unhappy as We Imagine

85.   A True Friend is the Greatest of All Blessings and That Which We Take the Least Care of All to Acquire

86.   Weakness of Character Is the Only Defect Which Cannot Be Amended

87.   Absence Diminishes Small Passions and Increases Great Ones as the Wind Extinguishes Candles and Fans a Fire

88.   Passion Makes Us Commit Faults; Love Makes Us Commit the Most Ridiculous Ones

89.   We Promise According to Our Hopes and Perform According to Our Fears

90.   True Love Is Like a Ghost, Which Everyone Talks about and a Few Have Seen

91.   When a Man Must Force Himself to Be Faithful to His Love, This Is Hardly Better than Unfaithfulness

92.   The Pleasure of Love Is in Loving: We Are Happier in the Passion We Feel than in What Excites Us

93.   We All Have Strength Enough to Endure the Misfortunes of Others

94.   Jealousy Feeds upon Suspicion, and It Turns into Fury or It Ends as Soon as We Pass from Suspicion to Certainty

95.   Good Advice Is Something a Man Gives When He Is Too Old to Set a Bad Example

96.   Confidence Contributes More to Conversation than Wit

97.   We Are Nearer Loving Those Who Hate Us than Those Who Love Us More than We Wish

98.   We Do Not Despise All Those Who Have Vices, but We Do Despise Those Who Have No Virtue

99.   The First Rule of Writing Is Not to Omit the Thing You Mean to Say

100.   Good Writing and Brilliant Conversation Are Perpetual Allegories

101.   All That Can Be Thought Can Be Written

102.   There Is a Great Secret in Knowing What to Keep Out of the Mind as Well as What to Put In

103.   The Glance Reveals What the Gaze Obscures

104.   What We Are, That Only Can We See

105.   The Way to Write Is to Throw Your Entire Body at the Target after All Your Arrows Are Spent

106.   Avoid Adjectives to Let the Noun Do the Work

107.   It Is the Best Part of the Writer Which Has Nothing Private in It

108.   An Institution Is the Lengthened Shadow of One Man

109.   Always That Work Is More Pleasant to the Imagination Which Is Not Now Required

110.   Our Moods Do Not Believe in Each Other

111.   Life Is Our Dictionary

112.   Wealth Consists Not in Having Great Possessions But in Having Few Wants

113.   Don’t Explain Your Philosophy; Embody It

114.   Books Are the Training Weights of the Mind

115.   The Golden Saying of Epictetus: ‘Only the Educated Are Free’

116.   Seek Not the Good in External Things; Seek It in Yourself