Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Conor McGregor: Seek the uncomfortable
“The more you seek the uncomfortable the more you become comfortable.” —Conor McGregor.
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Margot Robbie: Playing a bad guy
“Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.” —Margot Robbie.
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Brian Wilson: Much harder to function
“If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.” —Brian Wilson.
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Mel Gibson: Between conversation and chocolate
“After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.” —Mel Gibson.
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Toni Braxton: Therapy
“If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it’s the same for your heart.” —Toni Braxton.
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Ruby Rose: Work hard
“You don’t wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult – you have to work hard to become them.” —Ruby Rose.
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Queen Elizabeth: Lacked statesmanship
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.” —Queen Elizabeth.
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Britney Spears: Answering machine
“I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.” —Britney Spears.
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Confucius: Superior man
“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.”…
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Happier
“I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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G K Chesterton: Laws
“When you break the big laws you do not get liberty: you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” —G K Chesterton.
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Konrad Adenauer: History
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” —Konrad Adenauer.
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Simon Sinek: Friends
“Our friends don’t love us for what we do. Our friends love us for who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Max Eastman: Sense of humor
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” —Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969.
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Christopher Dawson: Secularism
“Secularism is terrible not only on account of its emptiness but because there is a positive power of evil waiting to fill the void, like the unclean spirit in the parable that came out of the waste places into the empty soul.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Dyan Cannon: Unconditional love, patience and acceptance
“I found it when I came to understand that I had to practice unconditional love, patience, and acceptance first before I could expect that from any partner. I had to become the person that I wanted to fall in love with.” —Dyan Cannon.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Truth, much worse
“It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Warren Buffett: Inflation
“Inflation is the one thing that, over a long period of time, can turn investors’ results, in aggregate, into a negative figure. And it’s the investors’ enemy.” —Warren Buffett.
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C S Lewis: Pain
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” —G K Chesterton.
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Anna Pavlova: Success and happiness
“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” —Anna Pavlova.
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Justin Trudeau: Feminist
“Quite frankly I talk about the fact that I’m a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do it gets huge reaction and media reacts and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I’m a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction…
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Simon Sinek: Much more exciting
“The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past.” —Simon Sinek.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
‘There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”‘—Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer…
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Walter Brueggemann: Dangerous alternatives
“Newness happens in the world when long silenced people get their voice enough to sing dangerous alternatives.” ~ Walter Brueggemann.
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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.
