Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four days.” —Zig Ziglar.
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Dolly Parton: Another turkey
“A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.” —Dolly Parton.
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50 Cents: Glass house
“You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.” —50 Cents.
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Thomas Jefferson: Governments and newspapers
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (1743-1826).
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Samantha Morton: We are who we are
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.” —Samantha Morton.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: No room for fear, doubt or hesitation
“When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.
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John Adams: Brains shaken out
“If we take a survey of the greatest actions…in the world…we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose brains had been shaken out of their natural position.” —John Adams.
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Carly Rae Jepsen: Candy apple red
“Candy apple red is my favorite color. It’s a powerful color to wear. It’s always been that way – I’ve always been really attracted to that color.” —Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Elvis Presley: All leg movements
“My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.” —Elvis Presley.
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Anwar Sadat: Change reality
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.” —Anwar Sadat.
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Benjamin Franklin: Wrong thing in the tempting place
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing in the tempting place.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Peace Pilgrim: Power to wound
“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.” —Peace Pilgrim, Peace Pilgrim.
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Henry David Thoreau: One striking at the root
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root…” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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Buddha: Reactions create delusions
“Through our reactions we create delusions. Without reactions the world becomes clear.” —Buddha.
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Lao-Tzu: Patience
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” —Lao-Tzu.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Eternal public
‘The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought…If it awaken you to think, if it lift you from your feet with a great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; if the pages instruct you not,…
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Gustave Flaubert: Like a pump
“[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Robert Frost: Brave poetry
“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.” —Robert Frost.
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Paul Rogat Loeb: Manageable scale
‘As Joanna Macy reminds us, “Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness.” Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human–and thus manageable–scale.’ — Paul Rogat Loeb, Soul of…
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Paul H Ray & Sherry Ruth Anderson: Tipping point
‘Toward the end of Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez’s luminous fable of a quest to an unknown land, a wise old female Badger explains that telling true stories of where you’ve been and what you’ve seen is how people care for each other. “Sometimes,” Badger says, “a person needs a story more than food to…
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Native American proverb: One who tells the stories
“The one who tells the stories rules the world.” —Native American (Hopi) Proverb.
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John Briggs & F David Peat: Butterfly power
“[Chaos theory] says that complex and chaotic systems — which means most of the systems we encounter in nature and in society — cannot accurately be predicted or exclusively controlled. Neither can rigid systems be easily budged. However, there’s a loophole. What if we acted through the myriad tiny feedback loops that hold a society…
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Albert Schweitzer: Effects of energy
“None of us knows what he accomplishes and what he gives to humanity. That is hidden from us, and should remain so. Sometimes we are allowed to see just a little of it, so we will not be discouraged. The effects of energy are mysterious in all realms.” —Albert Schweitzer, The Teaching of Reverence for…
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Chris Maser: Restoring land to health
“The very process of the restoring the land to health is the process through which we become attuned to Nature and, through Nature, with ourselves.” —Chris Maser, Forest Primeval.
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Ronald Fisher: What the experiment died of
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” —Ronald Fisher.
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Yoko Ono: Spring, summer, autumn, winter
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono.
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Charles M Schultz: Bumper sticker
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.” – Charles M. Schulz.
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Robert F Kennedy: Numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of…
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Vaclav Havel: Things that make sense
“I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time–in short, things that make sense.” —Vaclav Havel, Open Letters.
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Abraham Lincoln: One-third and two-thirds
“When I’m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say—and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Vehemence springs from the will
“Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.” —Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Marianne Williamson: Child of God
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of…
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Hazel Henderson: Don’t wait for anyone
“Don’t wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself…and put one foot in front of the other.” —Hazel Henderson.
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Henry David Thoreau: Reality
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe…till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is…” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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Vaclav Havel: Orientation map
“Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will…seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself–in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what…
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Marlon Williams: Trying to refine a song
“You could go on forever trying to refine a song.” —Marlon Williams.
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Karl Marx: Tragedy and farce
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx.
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Don Cheadle: No nuance
“So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we’re either the noble savage or we’re completely a savage, and there’s no nuance.” —Don Cheadle.
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Amy Locane: Therapeutic
“Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.” —Amy Locane.
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Lee Radziwill: Regrets
“Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven’t are either liars… or narcissists.” —Lee Radziwill.
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Shawn Mendes: What you don’t say
“I think it’s not about what you say; it’s about what you don’t say.” —Shawn Mendes.
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Danielle Orner: Dangerous profession
“Writing is a dangerous profession. There is no telling what hole you may rip in society’s carefully woven master narrative.” —Danielle Orner.
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Olivia Newton-John: Family, nature and health
“Family, nature and health all go together.” —Olivia Newton-John.
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C S Lewis: Childish books
“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary person
“A man who attacks the Christian religion in the modern world is not an unheard-of or extraordinary person. The extraordinary person is the person who defends the Christian religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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Adlai Stevenson: Not a free man
“A hungry man is not a free man.” —Adlai Stevenson, statesman (5 Feb 1900-1965.
