Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Susanna Kaysen: Crazy
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is … Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. Its you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever…” —Susanna Kaysen.
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Shams Tabrizi: Faces, characters and names
“We all have different faces, characters and names. If god wanted us to be all same, he would have done it.” —Shams Tabrizi.
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Shannon L. Alder: Cruel and kind people
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” ― Shannon L. Alder.
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John Updike: Books
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.” —John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009).
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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan: Character
“If you are well-disposed towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit good character. But , if you behave well with those holding divergent views from you, then you have an excellent character.” —Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.
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Philip Roth: Giving
“It’s best to give while your hand is still warm.” —Philip Roth, novelist (b. 19 Mar 1933).
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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.
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Fred Rogers: Heroes
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” —Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (20 Mar 1928-2003).
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Sunny Leone: Critics
“When people say mean things about you, punch you, and push you, and if you fall down, you have to get up and come back with a smile on your face.” —Sunny Leone.
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Erich Fromm: Revolutionary
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” —Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980).
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Michael Bassey Johnson: Pity
“When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poetry
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and painter (b. 24 Mar 1919).
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Harsha Bhogle: Need to be offended
“The one thing that unites all faiths and religions in India is the need to be offended.” —Harsha Bhogle.
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Yogi Berra: Four or six
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” —Yogi Berra.
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Richelle E. Goodrich: Walk with me
“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year.
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Yogi Berra: Theory and practice
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” —Yogi Berra.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman: Pride and pity
“Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest.
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Pity
“Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.” ― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia.
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Yogi Berra: Little league baseball
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” —Yogi Berra.
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Matt Litton: Pity and compassion
“While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.” ― Matt Litton,…
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Yogi Berra: Yogisms
“A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.” —Yogi Berra.
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Yogi Berra: Someplace else
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” —Yogi Berra.
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George Adams: Praise
“To praise is an investment in happiness.” — George Adams, newspaper columnist. Embed from Getty Images
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Stefan Zweig: Pity
“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart’s impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another’s unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one’s own soul…
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Yogi Berra: Love and baseball
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” —Yogi Berra.
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Confucius: Concern
“I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.” —Confucius.
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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). Embed from Getty Images
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Amitabh Bachchan: Butterflies
“I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.” —Amitabh Bachchan.
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Henry Lawson: Lost on a road
“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.” —Henry Lawson.
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Alice Walker: Activism
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.” —Alice Walker, author (b. 9 Feb 1944).
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Judge Judy: Smart, not gorgeous
“They don’t keep me here because I’m gorgeous, they keep me here because I’m smart.” ~Judge Judy.
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H.W. Fowler: A good writer
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” —H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933) .
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Judge Judy: Eating shoes
“I love the truth. If you don’t tell me the truth, you’re gonna be eating your shoes.” —Judge Judy.
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Steve Prefontaine: The gift
‘To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift’ – Legendary seven time American track record long-distance runner, Steve Prefontaine.
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Judge Judy: Singing pigs
“Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn’t work, and it annoys the pig.” —Judge Judy.
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Giorgos Seferis: Influence
“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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Salman Rushdie: Optimism and betrayal
“There are two things in Indian history—one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Dean Koontz: Friends
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life — and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” ~Dean Koontz.
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William H. Gass: World into words
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” —William H. Gass, writer and professor (b. 1924).
