Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Friedrich Schiller: Truth and clamor
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ”Friedrich Schiller.
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Murray Walker: Halving it…
“With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go. ” — Murray Walker
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Victor Hugo: Greater need of the ideal
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” —Victor Hugo.
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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Felicia Anjani: Statement, promise and responsibility
“I’m Sorry” is a statement. “I won’t do it again” is a promise. “How do I make it up to you” is a responsibility. ~ Felicia Anjani.
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Pat Riley: Winning
“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” ~Pat Riley, former coach and player in the NBA. Embed from Getty Images
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Susan B. Anthony: Independence is happiness
“Independence is happiness. ” Susan B. Anthony. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2673287
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Andrew Card: Quotes
Embed from Getty Images “You shouldn’t presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. ” Andrew Card.
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Anaïs Nin: Idea of them
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ‘idea of them’.” ~Anaïs Nin. Embed from Getty Images
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Stephen Hawking: Predestined
“I have noticed people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” ~Stephen Hawking. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181169057
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Saadi: Sorrow and joy
“That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.” —Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291).
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Henry Kissinger: Businessman
“If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. ” —Henry Kissinger. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/454553452
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John Henry Newman: Words and ideas
“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ” John Henry Newman. Embed from Getty Images
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Ideals
“Our ideals are our better selves. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463900769
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Don Bosco: Jesus crucified
“Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.” —Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Politics
“In 1848, I realized that if I wanted to get anywhere in doing some good, I had to put politics aside. From then on, I always shied away from politics and managed to do good without interference. In addition, I found help where I least expected it.” – Don Bosco.
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Don Bosco: Honey
“I’d like you to learn how to make honey as the bees do. Do you know how they go about it? First, they do not act independently, each on its own, but as a team under the direction of a queen bee, whom they obey in every detail. Secondly, they go from flower to flower…
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J. Bronowski: Impersonal world
“Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy’s dignity Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt And who has not thought that the impersonal world Deserves no better than to be destroyed By one fabulous sign of his displeasure.” ~J. Bronowski. Embed from Getty Images
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Ursula K Le Guin: Thousand men
“It does not take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.” “It might to keep it open.” ~Ursula K Le Guin. Embed from Getty Images
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St. Francis of Assisi: Pardon
“Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ” St. Francis of Assisi. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/486702881
