Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mary Tyler Moore: Pain and courage
“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” Mary Tyler Moore. Embed from Getty Images
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Euripides: Authority
“Authority is never without hate. ” —Euripides. Related articles Of Paradoxes and Caves(rogueclassicism.com)
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Tracy Kidder: Purpose of life
“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. ” —Tracy Kidder.
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Peter Arno: Tell me about yourself…
“Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ” Peter Arno. Related articles A head for numbers (thehindu.com)
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Thomas Hardy: Way to the better? Look at the worst!
“If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.” —Thomas Hardy.
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Emma Goldman: What the mind craves…
“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. ” —Emma Goldman.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel: Depression
“A human being can survive almost anything as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, so that it’s impossible to see the end.” ~Elizabeth Wurtzel.
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Blaise Pascal: Happiness
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy. ” –—Blaise Pascal.
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Mark Twain: Instructive
Portrait of Samuel Clemens as a youth holding a printer’s composing stick with letters SAM. Daguerreotype; sixth plate. Plate mark: Scovill. Inscribed in case well: G.H.[?] Jones Jonco? / Hannibal Mo / 1850 / Nov. 29th. On case pad: Samuel L. Clem-/ens – [illegible] / Taken Dec. 1850 / Age 15. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “I…
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Kahlil Gibran: Confidence and doubt
“Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Deborah Tannen: Communication and action
“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ” —-Deborah Tannen.
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James Goldsmith: Praise
“Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.” —James Goldsmith.
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Confucius: Distant sorrow
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.” —Confucius.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Pain and beauty
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.” —Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist [responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis] (25 Feb 1841-1919).
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Lucille Ball: Everyday religion
“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. ” —Lucille Ball.
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Theodor Adorno: Self-consciousness
“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. ” —Theodor Adorno.
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Red Auerbach: Natural abilities
“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. “ —Red Auerbach.
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Dale Carnegie: Inaction
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~Dale Carnegie. Action Builds Confidence!(erinschreyer.com)
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Pat Riley: Management
“Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission. ” Pat Riley. Related articles Pat Riley Moved into an $11 Million Penthouse in Miami Beach(slamonline.com)
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Brian Tracy: Move out of your comfort zone
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” —Brian Tracy, self-help author and motivational speaker. [13/366] La marca de su empresa (Photo credit: César González – Destinos360 )
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J K Rowling: Measure of a man
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ” —J K Rowling.
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Albert Einstein: Crowding
“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” —Albert Einstein
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El Sarcastico: Silence
“Silence doesn’t mean I’ve quit, it means you’re just not worth it.”—El Sarcastico.
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Micah True: Authenticity
If I were to be remembered for anything at all, I would want that to be that I am/was authentic. No Mas. Run Free! Micah True, American ultrarunner and a central character in Christopher McDougall‘s book Born to Run.
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Bruce Nauman: No excuses
“If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. ” —Bruce Nauman.
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Len Wein: Brevity
“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you’re halfway home. ” —Len Wein. Embed from Getty Images
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David McCullough: Success
“There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.” —David McCullough.
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Benjamin Franklin: Liberty versus security
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ” ~Benjamin Franklin. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/180269750
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Life
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. ” –—Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Maureen Duffy: Rise
We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us. -Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright, and novelist (b. 1933). Embed from Getty Images
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Corrie Ten Boom: Worry
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ” —Corrie Ten Boom
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Merlin Olsen: Life's most painful moments
“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared. ” Merlin Olsen. Embed from Getty Images
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Viktor E. Frankl: Answering to life
“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. ” Viktor E. Frankl. Embed from Getty Images
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Suze Orman: Doing and not doing
“It’s better to do nothing with your money than something you don’t understand.” Suze Orman. Embed from Getty Images
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Jack Handey: Listen to yourself
“I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF” Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts.
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Woody Allen: Love and suffering
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer…” ~Woody Allen. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/178223386
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Haruki Murakami: Love
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.” ~Haruki Murakami. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84813590
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Aristotle Onassis: The sea never rests
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. ” Aristotle Onassis. Embed from Getty Images
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Galway Kinell: Scars, fall in love!
“Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ”—Galway Kinell.
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Virginia Woolf: The truth
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” —Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3320744
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Jacqueline Bisset: Looks are temporary
“We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life. ” —Jacqueline Bisset. Embed from Getty Images
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Albert Einstein: Science and religion
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ” —Albert Einstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Stephen Leacock: Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ” –—Stephen Leacock
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Dore Schary: Fusion
“The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be. ” –—Dore Schary
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music and odors
“Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.” –— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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R D Hitchcock: Control
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.” R D Hitchcock.
