Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Common sense revival
“I do indeed call for a revival, a common sense revival, in defense of justice, freedom, property, and the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Free will
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” —C S Lewis.
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Graham Greene: Champagne
“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.” —Graham Greene.
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G K Chesterton: No standard
“If we have no standard for judging whether anything is right, how on earth can we decide that the world is wrong?” —G K Chesterton.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Opinionative
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader and emperor.
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G K Chesterton: Right is right
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Act as if you did
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.” —C S Lewis.
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Jhumpa Lahiri: Being a writer
‘Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me”.’ ~Jhumpa Lahiri.
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G K Chesterton: Draw the line somewhere
“It is not easy to draw the line anywhere; that is why it is so necessary to draw the line somewhere.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Happiest of human fates
“The happiest of human fates is to find something to love; but the second happiest fate is certainly to find something to fight.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marcus Aurelius: Bad behaviour
“When faced with people’s bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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C S Lewis: His prayer for them
“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” —C S Lewis.
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Eckhart Tolle: Human relationships
“Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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G K Chesterton: Bad arguments
“I strongly object to bad arguments even for good causes — or rather, especially for good causes.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Truth and error
“Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.” —G K Chesterton.
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Dale Dauten: Don’t burn bridges
“There aren’t too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you’re a professional athlete, don’t offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don’t burn bridges.” —Dale Dauten.
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G K Chesterton: Howled down
“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” —G K Chesterton.
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Confucius: Equal
“When you see someone who is worthy, concentrate upon becoming their equal; when you see someone who is unworthy, use this as an opportunity to look within yourself.” —Confucius.
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C S Lewis: Appointed consummation
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: False theory
“It can still occasionally be dangerous that the public should be deceived on points of fact, but it is far more dangerous that the public should be deceived on points of theory; for one false theory will falsify a hundred facts.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Metaphors
“Men tell more truth by their metaphors than by their statements.” —G K Chesterton.
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Jay Samit: Energy
“Your energy is a valuable resource; distribute it wisely.” —Jay Samit, digital media innovator.
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John Cage: Ideas
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” —John Cage, composer (5 Sep 1912-1992).
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G K Chesterton: Persecution
“When the world next tries persecution seriously it will probably be under some new name or with some new excuse.” —G K Chesterton.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: By character
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956).
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.” —Simon Sinek.
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Harold Taylor: Roots of true achievement
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” —Harold Taylor.
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Dorothy Parker: Quicksilver
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967).
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Howard Marks: Judgment
“There can’t be a rule that always works…. These things cannot be reduced to a rule. The market operates so as to confound rule makers…. It all comes down to judgment. If we’re going to have superior investment performance we have to have superior judgment. You can work on your processes, both intellectually and emotionally,…
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G K Chesterton: Truth is sacred
“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Diane Abbott: Junk food
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.” —Diane Abbott.
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Erma Bombeck: Laugh at it
“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” —Erma Bombeck, humorist.
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Stephen Fry: Incurious
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oldest and most foolish failing there is.” — Stephen Fry.
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Simon Sinek: Experimentation
“The value of experimentation is not the trying. It’s the trying again after the experiment fails.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Children
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Haddon: Prime numbers
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” —Mark Haddon.
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Daisaku Ikeda: Life is best lived
“Life is best lived by being bold and daring. People tend to grow fearful when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions..” —Daisaku Ikeda.
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G K Chesterton: When we are miserable
“A man does not yield when the mere universe has turned against him; he yields when his own heart has turned against him. We surrender, not when circumstances are miserable, but when we are miserable.” —G K Chesterton.
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Charlie Munger: Valued in two different ways
“Well, generally, you can say that stocks are valued in two different ways. One, they’re valued much the way wheat is valued, in terms of its perceived practical utility to the user of the wheat. And there’s a second way that stocks are valued, which is the way Rembrandts are valued. And to some extent,…
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G K Chesterton: Women are not cowards
“If there is one thing that is glaringly obvious in human life, it is that women are not cowards.” –G K Chesterton.
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Will Smith: Let God
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” —Will Smith.
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Rumi: Your road alone
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi.
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Anonymous: Closed to different thought processes
“You can argue with a mind which is willing to soak in information and learn; not with one that is closed to different thought processes.” —Anonymous.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nia Vardalos: Enough
“You’re not ethnic enough. You’re not fat enough. You’re not thin enough. You’re not blond enough. You’re not dark enough. You’re not young enough. You’re not old enough.” —Nia Vardalos.
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Black Elk: Wiser than waking
“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” —Black Elk, medicine man and teacher.
