Happy Birthday SRK: 30 Life lessons by Shah Rukh Khan to inspire you!

The king of romance - Shah Rukh Khan turns 52 today. The actor, who has been spreading love and joy among millions of his fans across the globe has also clocked 25 years in the industry. With every passing day, the actor has only tried to better himself.

Shah Rukh has taken risks at various points in his career, risks which he knew, may not pay off well for him, but still he took the chance anyway. The actor not only inspires us all with his work on screen but also through his words. 

Every time SRK speaks on a platform, he effortlessly ends up giving us all several life lessons, without sounding preechy or boring at all. It's impossible to escape his wit and charm, as much as it's impossible to be in awe of him. 

On his 52nd birthday, here's taking a look at 30 life lessons by SRK from his speeches and interviews over the years:

1) Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

2) If you want to excel at something, there shouldn't be a single person around you who can claim to be more familiar with its mechanics than you are.

3) Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

4) In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

5) Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

6) Hindi filmon ki tarah, life mein bhi, anth mein sab kuch  theek ho jaata hai. Aur agar na ho, toh woh anth nahi hai...picture abhi  baaki hai mere doston.

7) Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules. Don't hurt anybody, and never ever live somebody else's dream.

8) It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.

9) Art is more important than the artist - have no attachment to your own art. It's regressive, move on.

10) Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

11) If you aren't charged up about doing something, if you don't  have, what in Hindi we call the "Josh", the fire in your belly for it,  then don't do it.

12) Chak De! India taught me that whatever it is that is pulling you  back, is not going away unless you stand up and start forging your own  path with all your might in the opposite direction. Stop whining and  start moving.

13) Laugh at yourself when you are despairing, shed a tear or two when one of my movie plots makes you hysterical with laughter.

14) Live now, live today. Don't be bound by rules, live your own dream.

15) I thank God for happiness and sadness. If you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is.

16) The eye is not attractive because it is beautiful; it’s the thought behind that eye, it’s the emotion behind that eye

17) Sports teaches you how to lose and not be a loser 

18) You don't become a loser by losing. You become a loser when you fail to handle loss.

19) Do every task in such a manner, such that task could feel proud, that it has been done by you" / Har kaam ko aise karo, ki kaam ko khud par fakr ho, ki use tumne kiya hai !

21) The most beautiful and creative people in the world who discovered and invented things, they did so because they embraced their own idiosyncrasies

22) Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of.

23) Sometimes when things are broken, the greatest creativity emanates from the fragments.

24) Taking your blessings for granted is the most ungracious stupidity, both in chess and in life. 

25) A moment will come when there isn't anything that's going right, but don't panic, With a little embarrassment, you will survive it.

26) My biggest fear is that I will wake up one morning and will not have any more parts left to leave in a film. This is how I approach acting.

27) Learn to laugh at yourself, at every chance you get. If you manage to learn to not take yourself too seriously, no matter how big shot you become, you'll instantly disarm life's power to beat you down.

28) Sometimes, in order to move forward, you might need to take a few steps back and there's no loss in doing something that hurts in the short run but proves worthwhile in time.

29) Relationships kill love.Relationships have rules and rules are misinterpreted.

30) A 'perfect life' is a farce. God isn't making utopian ad films and screening them on th clouds to sell its USP to you. It's a man-made idea and we're buying into it all the time!