Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Shekhar Kapur: Patience and waiting
“Lessons of life: Patience and waiting are not the same thing. Patience is not to be over anxious about result of activity. Waiting is inactivity.” ~Shekhar Kapur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Burning books
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Helmuth von Moltke: Considerations and risks
“First weigh the considerations , then take the risks.” ~Helmuth von Moltke.
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Maru-ki-Var: Egoism
“Where egoism exists, Thou are not experienced. Where thou art, is not egoism.” ~Maru-ki-Var.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ” —Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Anonymous: Lose teeth, keep head
“When I was a fighter, I kept my head. I lost some teeth, but I kept my head.” —Anonymous.
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Priyanka Chopra: Guarding, hitting and moving
“But it’s not all physical, there’s a mental aspect too. The skill is to learn both, in the ring and in life… when you need to guard yourself; looking for the opportunity to strike and to keep moving, which allows you not only to keep your opponent on their toes but also gives you time…
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Bill Watterson: Self-discovery
“I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.” —Bill Watterson.
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Allen Klein: Volunteerism
“Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.” —Allen Klein. Embed from Getty Images
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Jaron Lanier: Distributed volunteer labor
“Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.” ~Jaron Lanier. Embed from Getty Images
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Josh Billings: Happiness
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ” —Josh Billings.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Incapable
“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Talmud: Vengeance
“Who takes vengeance or bears a grudge acts like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.” ~Talmud, Nedarim 9.4.
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Stephen King: Caged
“When you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.” ~Stephen King.
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Joyce Meyer: Church volunteerism
“It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!” ~Joyce Meyer.
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Peter Drucker: Volunteerism
“Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” ~Peter Drucker.
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Martin Amis: Bullets
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.” —Martin Amis, novelist (b. 1949).
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Edgar R. Fiedler: Economists and answers
“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. ” —Edgar R. Fiedler.
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Ray Bradbury: Television
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012).
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Bertrand Russell: Kind of treachery
“Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.” ~Bertrand Russell. Embed from Getty Images
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Erich Fromm: Faith
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ” ~Erich Fromm.
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Lao Tzu: Ego
“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle… Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the centre, watching. And then forget that you are there.” ~Lao Tzu.
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Tomas Halik: Believers and unbelievers
“Believers and unbelievers are not two clearly separate groups like two soccer teams. The playing field for the contest between belief and unbelief is within each individual human heart and human mind.” ~Tomas Halik.
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Edith Head: Dress sense
“Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.” ~Edith Head. Embed from Getty Images
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Tomas Halik: Faith
“Let it be said over and over again; faith is not a question of problems but of mystery. …We must never abandon the path of seeking and asking. A problem can be solved once forever. A Mystery—unlike problems—cannot be overcome. A Mystery invites us to try and understand it again, to go deeper and deeper.”…
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Mahatma Gandhi: Real 'Swaraj'
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51346898 “The Real ‘Swaraj’ will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when abused.” ~Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Ernest Hello: Separated souls
“When they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.” ~Ernest Hello.
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Priyanka Chopra: Rest…
“…rest if you must, but don’t you ever quit!” ~Priyanka Chopra in her second installment of “Lessons From The Ring” learned while enacting the title role “Mary Kom”. Embed from Getty Images
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Tomas Halik: Atheist’s God
“When an atheist tells me his image of God, I say, ‘thank God you don’t believe in him. I don’t believe in him either.’” ~Tomas Halik.
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Alison Sweeney: Running
“During a run, I work through emotions and scenarios. After five miles, my worries don’t seem so bad.” —Alison Sweeney, Host of The Biggest Loser.
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Gabriel García Márquez: Sex and love
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” ― Gabriel García Márquez. Embed from Getty Images
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Sylvia Plath: Lust for love
“If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
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Samuel Johnson: Man
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.” ~Samuel Johnson. Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: Freedom
“But oh, to be free… such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/183741067
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Jarod Kintz: Lovely dilemma
“She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to. ” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title.
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Desmond Tutu: Peace
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” ~Desmond Tutu. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/154252273
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Kaushik Basu: Education
“The reason India is trailing in its once-strong higher education is not that it’s doing things differently but not doing things differently.” ~Kaushik Basu, World Bank chief economist. Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: Bad times
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/85364535 “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” ~Robin Williams.
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Thomas Jefferson: Honesty
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~Thomas Jefferson. Embed from Getty Images
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William Hazlitt: Silence of a friend
“The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.” ~William Hazlitt. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463950149
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Robin Williams: Women
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” ~Robin Williams.
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Bertrand Russell: Collective fear
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and produces ferocity toward those not regarded as members of the herd.” ~Bertrand Russell. Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: George W Bush
“When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, “Can I use a lifeline?” ~Robin Williams.
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I have NEVER been afraid of the police…
Originally posted on Kassie Nette's Korner: I have NEVER been afraid of the police. Sure, the names that made national headlines are etched into my brain like lyrics to my favorite song: Sean Bell. Oscar Grant. Ronald Madison. James Brisette. Eric Gardner. Then there are the ones who did not make headlines continuously on…
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Robin Williams: Destiny
“I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.” ~Robin Williams.
