Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Eckhart Tolle: Surrender
“Your relationships will be changed profoundly by surrender. If you can never accept what is, by implication you will not be able to accept anybody the way they are. You will judge, criticize, label, reject, or attempt to change people.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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G K Chesterton: Imbecile habit
“An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that…some dogma was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Macri: Live powerfully
“No amount of regret can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. Live powerfully in the present moment.” ― Michael Macri.
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G K Chesterton: Cruel judgments
“If you knowingly permit unreasonable judgments, they will very soon be unjust judgments. If you knowingly permit unjust judgments they will very soon be cruel judgments.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Civilization and civility
“If there was one thing which we did suppose was done for us by civilization, it was to make us civil. The very word politeness is really the Greek for civilization, just as the very word civilization is really Latin for politeness.” —G K Chesterton.
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Arthur Miller: Right regrets
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” —-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005).
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G K Chesterton: Every creed except his own
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Never gave a thought to Christ
“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! Some…were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.” —C S Lewis.
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Norm MacDonald: Comedy is surprises
“Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.” —Norm MacDonald.
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Malcolm X: Most powerful entity on earth
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that’s power because they control the minds of the masses.” —Malcolm X.
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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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T S Eliot: Half of the harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.” —T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965).
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Busily employed
“One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, economist.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence
“Confidence is believing you’re good. Cockiness is believing you’re better than anyone else. Leaders need to be confident not cocky.” —Simon Sinek.
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Noah Webster: Lexicographer’s business
“A lexicographer’s business is solely to collect, arrange, and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are.” —-Noah Webster, lexicographer (16 Oct 1758-1843).
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Charlie Munger: That’s the game
“The game in our kind of life is being able to recognize a good idea when…it rarely is presented to you. And I think that’s something you have to prepare for over a long period. What is the old saying? That opportunity comes to the prepared mind? And I don’t think you can teach people…
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James Newman: How far away you are
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.” —James Newman.
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Christopher Dawson: Spiritual alienation
“This spiritual alienation of its own greatest minds is the price that every civilization has to pay when it loses its religious foundations, and is contented with a purely material success.” —Christopher Dawson.
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G K Chesterton: Socialism
“What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. Great leaders try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Compound interest
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which…you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” —C S Lewis.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Mountains of truth
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900).
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Christopher Dawson: Society
“A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Charlie Munger: More felicity
“Generally speaking, there’s more felicity to be gained…from reducing expectations than in any other way.” —Charlie Munger.
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Jeff Bezos: Part of the process
“If you’re going to do anything new or different in the world, it is going to be misunderstood. Sometimes by well-meaning critics. Sometimes by self-interested critics. You’ll get all kinds. And it’s okay. It’s all part of the process. The only way to avoid criticism altogether is to be completely conventional in everything you do.…
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G K Chesterton: Opponents of Christianity
“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Not an everlasting coincidence
“A horrible suspicion that has sometimes haunted me is that the Conservative and the Progressive are secretly in partnership. That the quarrel they keep up in public is a put-up job, and that the way they perpetually play into each other’s hands is not an everlasting coincidence.” –G K Chesterton.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join the book burners
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Tests
“Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.” —Lois McMaster Bujold, writer.
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G K Chesterton: Nothing can be irrelevant
“If Christianity should happen to be true, then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Dignity of human nature
“There are some things more important than peace, and one of them is the dignity of human nature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Summer Sanders: To be a champion
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. Its not about winning and losing, its about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. Its about embracing the pain that youll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard…
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Yahia Lababidi: Aphorisms
“Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly.” —Yahia Lababidi, aphorist (b. 25 Sep 1973).
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Simon Sinek: Goal of life
“The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alice Childress: Just a short walk
“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.” —Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (12 Oct 1916-1994).
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G K Chesterton: Good government
“A poor man has much more interest in good government than a rich man. A poor man must stay and be misgoverned; a rich man has a yacht.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: No master plan
“We don’t have a master plan…. Charlie and I do not sit around and strategize or talk about the future of various industries or do anything of that sort. It just doesn’t happen. We don’t have any reports. We don’t have any staff. We don’t have any of that…. We try to look at what…
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Petronius Arbiter: Illusion of progress
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency…
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G K Chesterton: Public education
“Public education has not produced an educated public.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: To the end of the world
“A man can be a Christian to the end of the world, for the simple reason that a man could have been an Atheist from the beginning of it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Luciano Pavarotti: No brains required
“You don’t need any brains to listen to music.” —Luciano Pavarotti.
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Mark Twain: Not enough said
“I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough.” —Mark Twain, humorist and writer.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Forever
“All lies come to an end. The truth, however, will last forever.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: The Future
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time–for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Wise enough
“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?” —Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (11 Oct 1884-1962).
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Seth Klarman: Sentiment
“Students of financial history can point to historic levels of valuation to suggest that we are in a bubble. But students of psychology may be needed to complete the picture. For one thing, the financial markets have been so strong for so long that fear of market risk has mostly evaporated. People who used to…
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen: Your economics
“The basic problem of the economic world is a spiritual one: what is the nature of man? Tell me what you believe about a man, and I will tell you your economics.” —Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
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Emily Deschanel: Recycle
“It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup – and each time you do, that’s a victory.” —Emily Deschanel.
