Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sara Teasdale: Plowed by pain
“My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.” —Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933).
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C S Lewis: Perfect church service
“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Chase the dream
“We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.” —Simon Sinek.
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Salma Hayek: Beauty
“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.” — Salma Hayek.
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Al Oerter: True introspective state
“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.” —Al Oerter.
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Richard Hofstadter: Mood of a society
“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.” —Richard Hofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970).
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Alan B Shepard: Research and development
“And I think that still is true of this business – which is basically research and development – that you probably spend more time planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope wth them, than you do for things to go right.” — Alan B. Shepard.
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Cunningham’s Law: Post the wrong answer
“The best way to get the right answer [..] is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” — Cunningham’s Law.
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Christian Lous Lange: All species
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.” —Christian Lous Lange.
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Hafez: Fear
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” — Hāfez.
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Dr. Robert H Schuller: What would you attempt to do?
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” —Dr. Robert H Schuller.
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein: Improbable
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.” —Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein, writer.
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Warren Buffett: When we look at businesses
“When we look at businesses, we try to think of what can go wrong with them. We try to look [for] businesses that are good businesses now, and we think about what can go wrong with them. If we can think of very much that can go wrong with them, we just forget it. We…
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Absence
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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John Ruskin: Highest reward
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” —John Ruskin.
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Sydney J Harris: Elitism
“Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.” —Sydney J. Harris, journalist (14 Sep 1917-1986).
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Solomon Asch: Social acts
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.” —Solomon Asch.
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G K Chesterton: Idea of property
“For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions—the idea of property. The average man cannot cut clay into the shape of a man; but he can cut earth into the shape of a garden; and though he arranges it with red geraniums…
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Jacqueline Bisset: Three lives
“Ideally, couples need three lives, one for him, one for her, and one for them together.” —Jacqueline Bisset.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Young as I am
“I never lie down at night without reflecting that — young as I am — I may not live to see another day.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer.
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Malcolm De Chazal: More votes for a measure
“The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.” —Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (12 Sep 1902-1981).
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Heidi Klum: People born that way
“Some people are born skinny, and that’s just the way it is. You can’t point a finger at them and say they’re ill or anorexic. It isn’t fair to people born that way.” —Heidi Klum.
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Elizabeth Smart: Attitude
“… your attitude is not your mood.” —Elizabeth Smart, Where There’s Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up.
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C S Lewis: Moving you
“Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is).” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Christianity
“Christianity never promised that it would impose universal peace. It had a great deal too much respect for personal liberty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Service and serving
“There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving, but only one is generous.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stanislaw Lem: Good books
“Good books tell the truth, even when they’re about things that never have been and never will be. They’re truthful in a different way.” —Stanislaw Lem.
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G K Chesterton: Cold, lawless and cynical journalism
“Just as we have lived to see the rise of a cold and lewd sort of novel, so we have lived to see the rise of a cold and lawless and quite cynical sort of journalism. It does not share the national prejudices, but only exploits them. Nay, more, it actually manufactures them.” —G K…
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Timothy Keller: Idealized version of yourself
“If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshiping an idealized version of yourself.” —Timothy Keller.
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G K Chesterton: Fight for it
“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Joanna Baillie: Pampered vanity
“Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.” —Joanna Baillie.
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G K Chesterton: Suicide
“Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.”…
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C S Lewis: Imaginary God
“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.” —C S Lewis.
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Lilly Pulitzer: Heart trouble
“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” —Lilly Pulitzer.
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G K Chesterton: Politics and religion
“I never discuss anything else except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.” —G K Chesterton.
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Stephen Covey: Schedule your priorities
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” —Stephen Covey,writer and educator.
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C S Lewis: Literary experience
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality… in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see.” —C S Lewis.
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Cyril Connolly: Memories
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” —Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (10 Sep 1903-1974).
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Joanna Lumley: China invaded Tibet
“China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It’s called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn’t it?” —Joanna Lumley.
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Wayne Gretzky: Procrastination
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” —Wayne Gretzky.
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Olivia Munn: Geeks
“The word ‘geek’ today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn’t the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you’re passionate about something.” —Olivia Munn.
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G K Chesterton: Hundred arts and no philosophy
“It is the mark of our time, above almost everything else, that it goes by associations and not by arguments; that is why it has a hundred arts and no philosophy.” —G K Chesterton.
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton: Society and solitude
“We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.” —Philip Gilbert Hamerton.
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Eckhart Tolle: Power and simplicity of Now
“You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of the Now, that anxiety gap will be your constant companion.” —Eckhart Tolle.
