Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Laura Lee: Too old for all that upheaval
“I’ve been in love and it doesn’t last. And when it’s over, it’s hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.” —Laura Lee.
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Winston Churchill: Quarrel between past and present
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” —Winston Churchill.
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Ireland Baldwin: Life’s too short
“Life’s too short not to have fun with what you wear.” —Ireland Baldwin.
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Winona Ryder: Feeling confused
“When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.” —Winona Ryder.
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Simon Sinek: Being comfortable
“Being comfortable with asking for help is important, but it’s more important to be comfortable with accepting help when it is offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Merton: Goodness of God
“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.” — Thomas Merton.
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Bernard Sahlins: Being funny
“Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.” —Bernard Sahlins.
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Nelson Mandela: Returning to a place
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —-Nelson Mandela.
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G K Chesterton: Praise
“Praise is obviously the highest function in man, since it is the one function that he can properly employ towards God.” —G K Chesterton.
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Charlie Munger: Ideal for us
“A business with something glorious underneath, disguised by terrible numbers that cause cutoff points in other people’s minds, is ideal for us, if we can figure it out.” —Charlie Munger.
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Kofi Annan: Wonderful advantage
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” —Kofi Annan.
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C S Lewis: Higher tribunal than Him
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: These are the days
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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Matthew Perry: Let that be a lesson
“Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn’t good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I’ve just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there.” —Matthew Perry.
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Albert Einstein: Same way
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” —Albert Einstein.
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African proverb: Until the lion
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. ” —African proverb.
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Eckhart Tolle: Gratefulness
“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Major Peter Colquhoun: Unacceptable
“5 Minutes Early Is On Time; On Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable. ” — Major Peter Colquhoun, Australian Army.
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Simon Sinek: Title
“Great leaders may have the title. What makes them great, however, is that they don’t wear the title.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nelson Mandela: Sinner who keeps on trying
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” —Nelson Mandela.
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Nelson Mandela: Sinner who keeps on trying
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” —Nelson Mandela.
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Eckhart Tolle: Drama
“When you feel sorry for yourself, that’s drama. When you feel guilty or anxious, that’s drama. When you let the past or future obscure the present, you are creating time, psychological time – the stuff out of which drama is made.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Same plastic surgeon
“If, in some wealthy communities, you run into people who look like cousins, it is more probable that they use the same plastic surgeon.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Patrick Swayze: Honor their spirit
“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep…
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Maya Angelou: Reduced by it
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou.
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Davy Crockett: Rather be politically buried
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” —Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and politician (17 Aug 1786-1836).
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Charlie Munger: Nature of things
“I think it’s the nature of things that some businesses die. It’s also in the nature of things that, in some cases, you shouldn’t fight it. There is no logical answer, in some cases, except to wring the money out and go elsewhere.” —Charlie Munger.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Let me not cave in
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.” — Rabindranath Tagore.
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G K Chesterton: Drawing the line somewhere
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” —G K Chesterton.
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Rob Thompson: Yesterday’s comfort zone
“There is nothing more dangerous than the moment you become a hostage to yesterday’s comfort zone.” — Rob Thompson.
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Aretha Franklin: Music does a lot of things
“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Simon Sinek: When we’re nice
“When we’re nice to people, turns out, people are nice back. P.S. the opposite is also true.” —Simon Sinek.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Equanimity
“Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.” —Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Aretha Franklin: Losing weight
“I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Profit from it
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, monk and peace activist.
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Charles Spurgeon: No brains
“He who does not read, will not be read, he who does not quote will not be quoted and he who refuses to use the thoughts of another man’s brains proves that he himself has no brains.” — Charles Spurgeon.
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C S Lewis: Humility
“Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.” —C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
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John Paul Jones: Fear and faith
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” — John Paul Jones.
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Charlie Munger: Competency
“Competency is a relative concept…. What I needed to get ahead was to compete against idiots, and luckily there’s a large supply.” —Charlie Munger.
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Brian Tracy: Consequence
“Every behavior you participate in will have a consequence.” — Brian Tracy.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Routine
“Any work you do in the comfort of a routine risks being taken over by a robot.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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G K Chesterton: Planet of lunatics
“The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.” —G K Chesterton.
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Steve Brown: Freedom and joy
“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.” ― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom.
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Alejandro G Inarritu: Illegal
“There is no human being who, as a result of desiring to build a better life, should be named or declared illegal.” —Alejandro G. Inarritu, film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 15 Aug 1963).
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Walter Savage Landor: Ambition
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.” —Walter Savage Landor.
