Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sri Aurobindo: Yoga
“The practice of yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.” —Sri Aurobindo.
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John Allen Paulos: Numerator and denominator
“There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.” ~John Allen Paulos.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Justice
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Queer mixture
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.” —Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri: Simplicity
“I am not as simple as I look.” —Lal Bahadur Shastri. Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: My mind
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Marcel Proust: Discovery
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust.
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Katrina Kaif: Love
“In love, opposition comes from either outside force or the person you are in love with. Every relationship and love story has its own conflicts. Sometimes it can be conflict of third party, of being afraid of commitment, therein being so many conflicts.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Audre Lorde: Differences
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~Audre Lorde.
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Len Deighton: Air conditioner
“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well.” ~Len Deighton.
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Herman Melvillle: Good dinner
“If you can get nothing better of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.” ~Herman Melville.
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Helen Keller: Sun and shadow
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” ~Helen Keller.
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Plato: Specialization
“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.” ~Plato.
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Guy de Maupassant: Government’s duty
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” —Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893).
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George Clooney: Organ donation
“I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a large way.” ~George Clooney.
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Washington Irving: Misfortune
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.” — Washington Irving, writer, historian and diplomat.
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P.D. James: Not by the self-regarding
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” —P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014).
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Divine religion
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (4 Aug 1792-1822).
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John Lennon: System’s game of violence
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle…
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Samuel Johnson: Wine
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.” ~Samuel Johnson.
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Maya Angelou: Untold story
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~Maya Angelou.
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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Think positive
“Engage in some positive engineering of your mind. Negative thinking breeds hatred and pride. You have to do merciless introspection. It is our test to convert the thinking of people from negative to positive.” ~Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thin ice
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Azim Premji: Supermen and superwomen
“In a country our size and complexity, a few supermen or superwomen can’t change the nation. We should engage and energize the average citizens.” —Azim Premji.
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Kishore Kumar: Crazy world
“In this crazy world, only the truly sane man appears to be mad.” ~Kishore Kumar.
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Tommy Douglas: Symbols and monuments
“I don’t mind being a symbol but I don’t want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I’ve seen what the pigeons can do to them.” ~Tommy Douglas.
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Helen Keller: Optimism
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller, author and political activist.
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Caroline Flack: Social media
“You can think social media is real life but you have to remember that it’s not. Someone wouldn’t come up to you in the street and say: ‘You’re a big fat ugly s****’, yet they find it really easy to say online.” —Caroline Flack.
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Viktor Frankl: Tolerance
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.” — Viktor Frankl, neurologist and psychiatrist.
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John Wooden: What you can do
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden, basketball coach.
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D Simone: May your arms never tire
“May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.” ― D.…
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Warren Bennis: Excellence Vs Mediocrity
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.” ~Warren Bennis.
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Satyajit Ray: Killing oneself
“Killing oneself without leaving a note behind is like issuing a threat to no one in particular and everyone in general.” ~Satyajit Ray.
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Paulo Coelho: Political Attitude
“Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.” ~Paulo Coelho.
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Salvador Dali: Intelligence and ambition
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~Salvador Dali.
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Haruki Murakami: Start and end
“Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.” ~Haruki Murakami.
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Albert Einstein: Rules of the game
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” ~Albert Einstein.
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Dinah Maria Mulock: Christmas time
“It is the Christmas time: And up and down ‘twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.” —Dinah Maria Mulock.
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Michio Karu: Murderous thoughts
“I suggest we put a chip in robots’ brains to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.” ~Michio Karu.
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Ansel Adams: Sharp image, fuzzy concept
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” —Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984).
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Margaret Mead: Thoughtful citizens
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978).
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William Faulkner: Victory
“No battle is ever won … Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” ~William Faulkner.
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Mata Amritanandamayi: Sleep without fear
“Everyone in the world should sleep without fear for at least one night. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. Love is the way.” ~Mata Amritanandamayi.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Separation
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or an European, or anything else, you are being violent. Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Stewart Brand: Style and form
“Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student.” —Stewart Brand, writer and editor (b. 14 Dec 1938).
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Khaled Hosseini: Unhappiness
“Some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely and without recourse.” —Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed.
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Priyanka Chopra: Relationships
“I don’t think you should be in a relationship if your partner is in love with someone else. It is terrible. I believe you should be with the one you love and with whomever you find happiness—this applies to men and women. There are no excuses if you are unhappy in a relationship.” —Priyanka Chopra.
