Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Bell Hooks: True love
“True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption.” —Bell Hooks.
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G K Chesterton: Luckiest
“Many a man has been lucky in marrying the woman he loves. But he is luckiest in loving the woman he marries.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Best definition of love
“The best definition of love I ever heard: giving someone the power to destroy you & trusting they won’t use it.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Happiness
“Happiness is not to be found by dancing after any heathen god of love; but by looking up to where a more terrible but a more tender god of love hangs, not on Olympus but on Calvary.” —G K Chesterton.
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Theodore Isaac Rubin: Happiness
“Happiness doesn’t come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” —Theodore Isaac Rubin.
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G K Chesterton: Romance
“Romance is the deepest thing in life; romance is deeper even than reality.” —G K Chesterton.
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Dilip Kumar: Fame
“If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become a nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.” —Dilip Kumar.
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Andy Cohen: Only option
“Sometimes, the only option is to say you’re sorry, even if you have no idea what someone is talking about.” —Andy Cohen, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year.
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Tamar Braxton: You gotta keep trying
“The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there’s opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don’t forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented.…
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Virginia Satir: Hugs
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” —Virginia Satir.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Act now, without delay
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Kevin Ngo: Priceless
“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Tide will turn
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Charlie Munger: Future opportunity cost
“Everything we do comes back to opportunity cost. But it, to some extent — in fact, to some considerable extent — we are guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warren is basically saying that he’s guessing that he’ll have opportunities in due course to put out money at pretty attractive rates of return, and therefore,…
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Warren Buffett: 10 percent or greater
“I will bet you that a lot of years in the future we, or you, will be able to find equities that you understand, or we understand, and that have the probability of returns at 10 percent or greater. Now, once you find a group of equities in that range, and leaving aside the problem…
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Yogi Berra: Careful
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” —Yogi Berra.
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Fr. Vincent McNabb: Better to be on the cross
“It is better to be on the Cross than looking at it.” —Fr. Vincent McNabb.
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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: When we love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho.
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G K Chesterton: Not absentminded
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Korda: Momentum
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” —Michael Korda.
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Michael Phelps: There are no limits
“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps.
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W Clement Stone: Aim for the moon
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” —W. Clement Stone.
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George Whitefield: Strive for the mark set before you
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield.
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George Herbert: Start where you stand
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert.
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Pauline Kael: Pry the door open
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” —Pauline Kael.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Believe in yourself
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Miriam Margolyes: Walk off the stage
“What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.” —Miriam Margolyes.
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Rachel Riley: Compliments
“It’s always flattering when you get compliments, but it’s more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.” —Rachel Riley.
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Madhubala: Shock so great
“It is true that one learns something from every experience but when the experience is evil, the shock is so great that one feels as though one can never recover from it.” —Manju Gupta, Madhubala: I don’t want to die….
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Bill Cosby: In a deeper voice
“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.” —Bill Cosby.
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Denise Richards: Loving a person
“Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.” —Denise Richards.
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Miranda Lambert: Heartbreak
“Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.” —Miranda Lambert.
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Ryan Adams: Soft time
“There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It’s a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over…
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Ogden Nash: They really don’t want it
“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.” —Ogden Nash.
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Christopher Dawson: Indistinguishable
“As soon as men decide all means are permitted to fight an evil, their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Edmond About: Duel in midst of battle
“Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.” —Edmont About.
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Joseph Sobran: Conformity
‘”Diversity” now means conformity. It means making sensible people afraid to contradict nonsense so obvious as to insult their intelligence.’ —Joseph Sobran.
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Simon Sinek: When we go to something
“Never opt for change simply to leave something we don’t like. Change works best when we go to something, even if it is the unknown.” —Simon Sinek.
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Katrina Kaif: Trends
“There’s no such things as trends. Every time you follow a trend, something new will happen and that will become the new trend.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Roald Dahl: Television
Television The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, …
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Jordan B Peterson: Capacity for good and evil
“I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” —Jordan B. Peterson.
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Ogden Nash: Wolves, shepherds and butchers
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash.
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Chinese proverb: Knowing and doing
“It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.” —Chinese proverb.
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Rebel Wilson: Comic stereotype
“In comedy, it’s not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They’re either every man or every woman, they’re either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.” —Rebel Wilson.
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G K Chesterton: Grace
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Kelly: No garbage trucks in space
“It’s important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don’t have that in space.” —Mark Kelly.
