Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Augustus Hare: Intellect of the wise
“The intellect of the wise is like glass: It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.” — Augustus Hare, writer.
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John Gay: Life, a jest
“Life is a jest, and all things show it, / I thought so once, and now I know it.” —John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732) .
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Biz Stone: Creativity
“Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out.” –– Biz Stone.
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J K Rowling: Mistakes
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” JK Rowling’s Albus Dumbledore.
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Alexander Woollcott: Illegal, immoral or fattening
“Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.” ~Alexander Woollcott.
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Ayn Rand: Second rater
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.” ~Ayn Rand.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Every existing thing
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Jack Kerouac: Kindness in the wilderness
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” ~Jack Kerouac.
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Scott Alexander: Easy
“Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” ~Scott Alexander, US scriptwriter.
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George Marshall: Next objective
“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” — George Marshall, military leader.
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Joseph Joubert: Obscure words
Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. -Joseph Joubert, moralist and essayist (1754-1824).
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mediator
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and statesman.
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Kahlil Gibran: Rebellion
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” — Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist.
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Candace Pert: Mind and body
“Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied…Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or emotions. But the body and mind are not separate; we cannot treat one without the other.” ~Candace Pert.
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Paul McCartney: Slaughterhouses
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” —Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter, composer, poet, and activist (b. 18 Jun 1942).
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Phyllis Diller: Ironing
“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.” ~Phyllis Diller.
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Charles Dickens: Simple truth
“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” ~Charles Dickens.
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Twinkle Khanna: Selfies
“In the last year, I have posed for more selfies than I can count; with short people where I have to hunch over and tall people where I have to stand on my tiptoes, with fat people where I am pushed to one corner of the frame and with thin people where I am hogging…
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B.C. Forbes: Business
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” — B.C. Forbes, financial journalist.
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Leo Buscaglia: Idealization
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.” —Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (31 Mar 1924-1998).
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Haruki Murakami: End of the world
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” ~Haruki Murakami.
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Anne McCaffrey: Compassionate judgment
“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.” —Anne McCaffrey, writer (1 Apr 1926-2011).
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Herman Hesse: Changing fortune
“I have always believed and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” ~Herman Hesse.
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Giorgos Seferis: Literary lion
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.” —Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971).
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Flannery O’Connor: Truth
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” —Flannery O’Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964).
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Yip Harburg: Kisses and fools
“O innocent victims of Cupid, / Remember this terse little verse: / To let a fool kiss you is stupid, / To let a kiss fool you is worse.” —Yip Harburg, lyricist (8 Apr 1896-1981).
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Richard Dawkins: Simply wrong
“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.” —Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar 1941).
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Mark Haddon: Comedy and darkness
“Humour and high seriousness… Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.” —Mark Haddon.
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Mark Haddon: Insights
“No one wants to know how clever you are. They don’t want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.” —Mark Haddon.
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Alfred de Vigny: History
“History is a novel whose author is the people.” —Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863).
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein, actor and writer.
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Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin: Tomorrow
“The sun’ll come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There’ll be sun!” –“Tomorrow” from ANNIE, by Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin.
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Vincent van Gogh: Blazing hearth
“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” —Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890).
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Margaret Mitchell: Life
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ― Margaret Mitchell.
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Tom Lehrer: Bad weather
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” —Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928).
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George Eliot: Roses
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” ― George Eliot.
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Douglas Fairbanks: Fear and failure
“In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear comes with the thought of failure.” ~Douglas Fairbanks.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux: Attach yourself
“Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and literary critic. Embed from Getty Images
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Confucius: Goals and steps
“When it is obvious that the goal cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” —Confucius.
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Philip Roth: Conversation
“Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets; they’re little gifts, containing meanings!” ~Philip Roth.
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Sigmund Freud: Founder of civilization
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” —Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107875010
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Richard Bach: Next world
“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.” ~Richard Bach.
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Emile Zola: Fate of animals
“The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.” —Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lengthened shadow
“Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (25 May 1803-1882).
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Edward Everett Hale: Trouble
“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” —Edward Everett Hale, author (3 Apr 1822-1909).
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Arianna Huffington: Success and failure
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes but—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ~Arianna Huffington.
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William Ellery Channing: Books
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. -William Ellery Channing, clergyman and writer (7 Apr 1780-1842).
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Bob Goff: Love and acceptance
“Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.” —Bob Goff.
