Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Virginia Satir: Greatest gift
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” —Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988).
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C S Lewis: Courage
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” —C S Lewis.
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Walt Whitman: Providence
“I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” —Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892).
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Simon Sinek: Goal
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: Nationalist
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” —George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950).
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Hal Clement: Speculation, superstition and science
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” —Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003).
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Henry Ward Beecher: Never excuse yourself
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” —Henry Ward Beecher.
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James Baldwin: No limitations
“If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” —James Baldwin.
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C S Lewis: Made for another world
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” —C S Lewis.
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George Bernard Shaw: Old measurements
“The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Giambattista Vico: Common sense
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.” —Giambattista Vico.
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Norman Mailer: Welfare
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of…
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Being insincere
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C S Lewis: Society of possible gods and goddesses
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship…You have never talked to a mere mortal.” —C…
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Elisabeth Elliott: Rupture
“The self, small and hard and resisting as a nut, will have to be ruptured. My own purposes and desires and hopes will have to at times be exploded. The rupture of the self is death, but out of death comes life. The acorn must rupture if an oak tree is to grow.” —Elisabeth Elliott.
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Billy Wilder: Critical genius
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.” —Billy Wilder.
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C S Lewis: Redeemed humanity
“For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity.” —C S Lewis.
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W H Auden: Discipline passion, discipline time
“A modern stoic knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.” —W H Auden.
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (21 Jun 1935-2004).
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Charlie Munger: Best business getter
“When I was a lawyer, I used to say, ‘The best business getter any lawyer has is the work that’s already on his desk.’…it’s a very old-fashioned idea. You just do well with what you already have and more of the same comes in.” —-Charlie Munger.
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Esther Perel: Self-esteem
“Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in high regard.” —Esther Perel.
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Juliette Lewis: Fame
“Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.” —Juliette Lewis.
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Lloyd Alexander: Story
“Story, finally, is humanity’s autobiography.” —Lloyd Alexander, novelist (30 Jan 1924-2007).
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David Oglivy: Throw away the pawns
“In your day-to-day negotiations with clients and colleagues fight for the kings and queens and bishops but throw away the pawns. A habit of graceful surrender on trivial issues will make you difficult to resist on those rare occasions when you must stand and fight on a major issue.” —David Ogilvy.
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G K Chesterton: Only in the air
“It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air.” —G K Chesterton.
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Erich Fromm: Love
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” — Erich Fromm.
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C S Lewis: Miracles
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” —C S Lewis.
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Seneca: How you bear it
“It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.” —Seneca (“Of Providence”).
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Simon Sinek: Innovation
“Innovation is not born from the dream. Innovation is born from the struggle.” —Simon Sinek.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey: Moral test of government
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” —Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May…
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C S Lewis: Afflictions
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Infallible
“Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.” —Simon Sinek.
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Blaise Pascal: Four friends
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
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Blaise Pascal: Mediocrity
“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Jonathan Swift: Vein of gold
“Men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.” —Jonathan Swift, writer and cleric.
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Roger Ebert: Problem with being sure
“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.” —Roger Ebert, film-critic (18 Jun 1942-2013).
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Paul McCartney: Weird
“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.” —Paul McCartney.
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Paul McCartney: Buy, buy, why, why
“Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.” —Paul McCartney.
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C S Lewis: Heaven
“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Progress
“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.” —C S Lewis.
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Georges St. Pierre: The way you train
“The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” —Georges St. Pierre.
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C S Lewis: Where we find difficulty
“Where we find difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us.” —C S Lewis.
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Ursula K Le Guin: Journey that matters
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” —Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Igor Stravinsky: Constraints
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.” —Igor Stravinsky.
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Eve Ensler: Stop fixing your bodies
“Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!” —Eve Ensler, playwright and activist (b. 25 May 1953).
