Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Marcus Aurelius: Heaps of sand
“Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Catholicity
“No Catholic thinks he is a good Catholic; or he would by that thought become a bad Catholic.” —G K Chesterton.
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William Lamb Melbourne: Popular to unpopular
“It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy. . . but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.” —William Lamb Melbourne.
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Shunryu Suzuki: Only enlightened actions
“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people. Only enlightened actions.” —Shunryu Suzuki.
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Simon Sinek: Magic
“A good question should never be wasted. The answer just might be magic.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Third thing on top
“When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top— credit for the good deed or a favor in return?” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Rights and wrongs
“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Let the Chinese invade Europe
“What can make us realize our European philosophy once more? The foreigner. Let the Chinese invade Europe. I pray for it. I hope for it. Nay, I insist upon it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Progress
“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.” —C S Lewis.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Holiness
“I can understand why the world is against holiness. I can’t understand why churches are against it.” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Ryan Campbell: Commenting code
“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” – Ryan Campbell.
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Albert Einstein: Infinite
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein.
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Marcus Aurelius: Death overshadows you
“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Modern people
“Modern people, especially urban people, think that anything which has got itself printed has somehow passed an examination and received a diploma; has somehow, in fact, shown itself to be true.” —G K Chesterton.
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Joe Biden: Demand change
“No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.” —Joe Biden.
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G K Chesterton: Read exclusively
“If the sentimental literature of the present day is a curse, it is not so much because it is read widely, as because it is read exclusively.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Sentimental literature
“lf sentimental literature is to be condemned it must emphatically not be because it is sentimental, it must be because it is not literature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Soul love
“The more a soul loves, the more it realizes its own sins; the more it realizes its own sins, the more it loves.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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G K Chesterton: Sentimentality
“Sentimentality ought not to be anything but a passing mood; people who are sentimental day and night are among the most atrocious of the enemies of society. Dealing with them is like seeing an interminable number of poetical sunsets going on in the early morning.” —G K Chesterton.
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Max Panzer: Empty
“Is your life Empty? – sugar, empty – TV, empty – MSM, empty – celebrities, empty – booze, empty – porn, empty – status, empty – vanity, empty – materialism, empty – gossip, empty – envy, empty First step… Empty your life of empty.” —Max Panzer.
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Paul Fix: Unfamiliar territory
“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” —Paul Fix.
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Sharad Pawar: Prices, distress and market rates
“If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.” —Sharad Pawar.
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Felicity Huffman: Beauty
“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn’t good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.” —Felicity Huffman.
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Marcus Aurelius: Change
“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be…
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Shreya Ghoshal: Music reality shows
“Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.” —Shreya Ghoshal.
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Seneca: Natural desires
“Natural desires are limited; but those which spring from false opinion can have no stopping-point. The false has no limits. When you are travelling on a road, there must be an end; but when astray, your wanderings are limitless. Recall your steps, therefore, from idle things, and when you would know whether that which you…
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Howard Marks: Thankful heart
“The philosopher Cicero said something beautiful. He said, ‘The thankful heart is not only the greatest of all the virtues, but it is the parent of all the other virtues.’ And I think what that means is that people who are lucky should thank their luck, acknowledge it and revel in it. I think it…
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G K Chesterton: Always partial
“The people who pretend to be impartial are always partial, whether they are judges or (worse still) historians.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Impartiality
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Only lizards
“One of the eternal paradoxes of human politics is the fact that it is only the man who is brave enough to challenge dragons who can discover that they are only lizards.” —G K Chesterton.
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Joseph Sobran: Metaphorical violence everywhere
“A liberal can see metaphorical violence everywhere except in skull-crushing late-term abortions.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Edward Albee: Source material
“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.” —Edward Albee.
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Marie Kondō: Person we are becoming now
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” —Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Raye Montague: Change obstacles into challenges
“Change obstacles into challenges. You might have to step back and go a different direction, but you can achieve.” —Raye Montague.
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Christopher Thompson: Monday’s code
“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” – Christopher Thompson.
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Marcus Aurelius: Let not future things disturb you
“Let not future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with you the same reason which you now use for present things.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Competence and integrity
“Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: I don’t know the answer
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” —Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001).
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Margaret Thatcher: Being powerful
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”- Margaret Thatcher.
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Rumi: No such thing as separation
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul. There is no such thing as separation.” —Rumi.
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Dr. George Sheehan: Out on the roads
“Out on the roads, there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.” –Dr. George Sheehan.
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Douglas Adams: Ingenuity of complete fools
“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams.
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Jennifer Lopez: Negativity
“If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they’re true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.” —Jennifer Lopez, True Love.
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Jack Wild: Fame
“It’s very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can’t be wrong.” —Jack Wild.
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Ann Coulter: Ouija board
“The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.” —Ann Coulter.
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Marcus Aurelius: I must be emerald
“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Pete Davidson: Bombing
“I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn’t matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes – I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it’s not going well, I can just have fun.” —Pete Davidson.
