Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Cuba Gooding Jr: Don’t let people disrespect you
“Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” —Cuba Gooding Jr.
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Simon Sinek: Others
“The best way to find joy in our lives or overcome struggle is with the help of others.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Object of a New Year
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.” —G K Chesterton.
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Sydney Harris: Regret
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” — Sydney Harris.
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E M Forster: Life waiting for us
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster, novelist (1 Jan 1879-1970).
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Christine Lagarde: Doubt all the time
“Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince – move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.” —Christine Lagarde.
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John Morley: Laws of heat
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.” —-John Morley, statesman and writer (24 Dec 1838-1923).
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it. Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Marshall: War
“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” —George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (31 Dec 1880-1959).
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G K Chesterton: Christ-child
The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s breast His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning are the kings, But here the true hearts are.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s heart, His…
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Val Kilmer: Work
“The only time it’s ever like work is when you don’t like what you’ve done.” —Val Kilmer.
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Joan Oliver Goldsmith: Wrong notes
“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” —Joan Oliver Goldsmith, writer.
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L P Hartley: Foreign country
“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” —L P Hartley.
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Lucy Lippard: Travel and our own neighborhoods
“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.” —Lucy Lippard, writer and art critic.
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Erwin Schrödinger: Think
“The task is not so much to see what no one has seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ” —Erwin Schrödinger.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Woe to that nation
“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008).
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Howard Marks: Very, almost depressing
“There are three words which are among the most important words in our business: I don’t know. And if you don’t know something…you should admit it—to yourself and to everybody around you. And I think personally that it’s very freeing to say ‘I don’t know.’ I think it’s very, almost depressing, to feel that you…
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Anthony van Leeuwenhoek: Craving after knowledge
“My work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to…
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Paulo Coelho: Invisible
“The soul is invisible. An angel is invisible. The wind is invisible. Thoughts are invisible. And yet, with sensitivity you can see the soul, you can guess the angel, you can feel the wind, you can change the world with only a few thoughts.” —Paulo Coelho.
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C S Lewis: Goodness
“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.” —C S Lewis.
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David Archuleta: Energy
“It’s so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, Oh, my life is horrible, and I’m not pretty enough. How do you know? There’s this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.” —David Archuleta.
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David Sedaris: Prospective candidates
“I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” —David Sedaris, writer and comedian.
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Pico Iyer: Expanding our emotional range
“Widening our attention span is a technical term for simply expanding our emotional range—which is why the longer we can give our attention to something, the happier we are.” —Pico Iyer.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Art of war
“You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war.” — Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Marlene Dietrich: Friends
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” —Marlene Dietrich.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: By character
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writer.
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Baba Amte: Ideal in life
“I don’t want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oilcan: that is my…
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Ben Franklin: Continual Christmas
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.” —Ben Franklin.
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Sydney Harris: Only fault
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.” —Sydney Harris, essayist and drama critic.
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Carlos Castaneda: Does this path have a heart?
“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.” —Carlos Castaneda.
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Enemies
“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavor to have those who do us honor.” —Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, writer and literary critic.
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Shane Parrish: Impeccable character
“One drawback to surrounding yourself with only people of impeccable character is that over time you think that’s the norm.” —Shane Parrish.
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Pico Iyer: When young
“When young we laugh at the world because we’re so sure we’re on top of it; older, we laugh mostly at ourselves because we realize we don’t have a clue.” —Pico Iyer.
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Saint Ignatius: Solid virtues
“Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will — that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Things will have to change
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” —Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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Lady Bird Johnson: Children
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.” —Lady Bird Johnson.
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G K Chesterton: Next great heresy
“The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially sexual morality. And it is coming from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last…The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mikheil Saakashvili: Create crises
“The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.” —Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Simon Sinek: Confident versus insecure
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Beauty and the Beast
“Beauty and the Beast deals with a very deep idea: that love creates beauty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bill Walsh: Writing headlines
“Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldnt write a headline to save their lives.” —Bill Walsh.
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William Arthur Ward: Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” —William Arthur Ward.
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Lillian Smith: Return to anguish
“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.” —Lillian Smith,writer and social critic.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Our value is not determined by how many people show up; our value is determined by how the people who show up feel when they leave.” —Simon Sinek.
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Phil Ochs: You must protest
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976).
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G K Chesterton: Moral standard
“A moral standard must remain the same or it is not a moral standard.” —G K Chesterton.
