Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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C S Lewis: Jesus Christ did not say
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right’.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Arguing versus quarrelling
“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Hilton: Mistakes
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.” —James Hilton.
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Herman Melville: Chosen vehicle
“A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.” —Herman Melville, writer.
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Piers Morgan: Horses in a pasture
“Don’t chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don’t go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.” —Piers Morgan.
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C S Lewis: Safest road to hell
“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing…the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones…” —C S Lewis.
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Robbie Williams: People change
“People change. I wouldn’t like to be accountable for the interviews I’ve done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.” —Robbie Williams.
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Boris Johnson: Ping-pong
“Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an…
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Anna Kendrick: Chess game
“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” —Anna Kendrick.
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Emma Thompson: Most wonderful audiences
“Children are the most wonderful audiences. What’s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.” —Emma Thompson.
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Paul McCartney: Wedding bells
“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.” —Paul McCartney.
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Elon Musk: Extraordinary
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” —Elon Musk.
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Alexander Mackendrick: Better actors than adults
“Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.” —Alexander Mackendrick.
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G K Chesterton: History
“History does not consist of completed and crumbling ruins; rather it consists of half-built villas abandoned by a bankrupt-builder. This world is more like an unfinished suburb than a deserted cemetery.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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C S Lewis: Blurred
“The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred. ” —C S Lewis.
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Confucius: Moral courage
“To shirk your duty when you see it before you shows want of moral courage.” —Confucius, philosopher and teacher.
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G K Chesterton: Christianity
“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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Ryan Reynolds: Voyeur of own life
“There’s a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself – where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It’s kind of crazy.” —Ryan…
