WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE
Pic.: Chetna Shetty I had first come across the famous quote - ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’, in Dale Carnegie’s classic – ‘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.’ He had credited it to Julius Rosenwald. Obviously, lemons are bitter and sour and lemonade is sweet. So, the line reminds us: When life gives you bitterness and sourness, please don’t complain. Instead, learn to make a sweet recipe out it. As a young-struggler in his twenties – jobless and worried – I had found a lot of solace in the line… It had filled me with hope and courage. Dale Carnegie, also, had introduced me to one of the most inspiring essays ever written – ‘A Message to Garcia’ by Elbert Hubbard. Many say, that it was Hubbard who had first penned the line - “When life gives you lemons…” in the obituary to his dwarf-actor-friend, Marshall P. Wilder. He had written: "He was a walking refutation of that dogmatic statement, Mens sana in ...