Summary of Who Will Cry When You Die

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I am here giving the crux of Who Will Cry When You Die. The number written before each point represents the chapter number. For the full list of chapter headings, click here.

When you were first born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.

Mahatma Gandhi noted: “Be the change you want to see most in your world.”

The golden thread of a highly meaningful life is self-discipline.

The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.

7. Thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering your life.

You become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past events or 

mistakes unless you want to experience them for the second time.

Have the bravery to try something and then fail than never to have tried it.

Booker T. Washington said, “I’ve learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

12. Chita burns the dead while Chinta burns the living.

15. A saying of the ancient Romans, “means sana in the corpse sano,” Latin for, “In a sound body rests a solid mind.”

Exercise will not only add life to your years, it could add years to your life.

Life’s greatest pleasures are often the life’s simplest ones.

16. Thoreau said, “It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?”

18. It is the quality rather than the quantity of sleep that matters most.

Tips to help sleep more deeply:

·         Don’t rehearse activities of your day while sleeping.

·         Don’t eat after 8 P.M.

·         Don’t watch the news before you go to sleep.

·         Don't read in bed.

19. Pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success.

It is during life most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies within us.

20. Willian Jones observed, “We don’t laugh because we are happy, we are happy because we laugh.”

21. Life is nothing more than a game of numbers – the more risks you take, the more rewards you will receive or in the words of Sophocles, “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted”

Stop spending your days searching for security and start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who points out how the strong men stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit goes to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

26. The person who tries to do everything ultimately achieves nothing.

The real secret to getting things done is to know what things need to be left undone.

28. Knowing how to read but failing to do so puts in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.

31. “A problem well stated is a problem half-solved,” said Charles Kettering.

32. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.

Knowledge is only potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.

38. Words are like arrows, once released they are impossible to retrieve.

41. “He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for the lifetime,” goes the wise Chinese proverb.

Somerset Maughem: “It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

44. Norman Cousins once noted: “The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

Too many people spend more time focusing on a weakness rather than developing their strengths.

 48. If you set goals, the actions you take will be based on your life’s mission rather than on your day-to-day moods.

49. Remember the rule of 31.

50. When you hear bear a grudge against someone, it is almost as if you carry that around on your back with you. He drains you out of your energy, enthusiasm and peace of mind.

56. Persian Proverb: I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no legs.

62. Blaise Pascal wrote: “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”

63. Time is a priceless commodity. It slips through your hands like grains of sand, and the time live life greatly is not tomorrow but today.

67. If you follow the crowd, the place you will most likely end up at is the exit.

Emerson: “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; It is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

70. At the end of the day, the only thing we can take with us is our memory of all those great life experiences that add meaning to our lives.

Dale Carnegie wrote, “We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden beyond the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

 71. What makes relationships, communities and countries great are not the things that we have in common but the differences that make us unique.

75. An old saying goes, “We see the world not as it is as we are.”

76. Francis Bacon said, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

81. The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers.

84. Sleep less.

Thomas Edison: “Sleep is like a drug, take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality, and opportunities.”

We often sleep as an escape from reality during difficult times. Fatigue is often a mental creation that stems from doing things you do not like to do.

87. Fake it till you make it. Pretend to be the kind of person who you wish to be.

88. The British Statesman Benjamin Disraeli once said, “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will not go any higher than you think”

91. One of the most wonderful things about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. No matter how much time you have squandered in the past, the next hour that comes your way will be perfect, unspoiled and ready for you to make the very best of it.

93. L.F. Phelan once said, “Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. People grow old only by deserting their ideals and outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul……. You are as old as your fear, your doubt, and your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

101. Happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.