Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870).
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Margaret Atwood: Perfection
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/175784969 “If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” —Margaret Atwood.
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Alanis Obomsawin: Can't eat money
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. -Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker (b. 1932). Embed from Getty Images
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Tom Wilkinson: Understand
“If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you… then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it. ” —Tom Wilkinson.
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Haile Gebrselassie: Running
“For me, a day without running is like a day without eating. It’s like going without food.” —Haile Gebrselassie.
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Bob Dylan: Don't speak too soon
“Don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’ For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'” —Bob Dylan in “The Times They Are A-Changin”
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Bob Dylan: Define nothing
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ” —Bob Dylan.
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Margaret Thatcher: Success
Embed from Getty Images “Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing. ” Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Atwood: A word after a word
“A word after a word after a word is power.” —Margaret Atwood. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/175784965
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One-Way Street: Dragging wet feet
Embed from Getty Images Congrats! You’re the owner of a new time machine. The catch? It comes in two models, each traveling one way only: the past OR the future. Which do you choose, and why? (Thanks for the great prompt suggestion, Purvi Gadia!) Embed from Getty Images “The future arrives one day at a time.”…
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Virginia Woolf: Laughter and anguish
“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ” ~Virginia Woolf
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Alison Sweeney: Special club
“I’m a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that’s a special club.” —Alison Sweeney, Host of The Biggest Loser. Embed from Getty Images
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Ryan Gosling: No limits
“I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.” —Ryan Gosling. Embed from Getty Images
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Oprah Winfrey: Gratitude
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Martin Bashir: Keep asking
“If somebody’s not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. ” Martin Bashir.
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Adele Adkins: Insecurity
“I have insecurities of course but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.” —Adele Adkins. Embed from Getty Images
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Richard Branson: Rules
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” —Sir Richard Branson. Embed from Getty Images
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Brian Chesky: Building
“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” —Brian Chesky. Embed from Getty Images
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Jessica Sonday: Running
You’ll have bad runs, but 99 percent of them will make you feel like a rock star. Cherish that rock-star feeling.—Jessica Sonday, Runner’s World Challenger. Embed from Getty Images
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Sophia Amoruso: Faking it
“You can’t act like you’ve arrived when you’re only just receiving the invitation.” —Sophia Amoruso. Embed from Getty Images
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Sir Richard Branson: Great pride
You want to run the kind of company where when your employees are asked in the pub who they work for, they can answer with great pride.” –Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson. Embed from Getty Images
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Enrico Fermi: Measurements and discoveries
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. -Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel laureate (1901-1954). Embed from Getty Images
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A Special Place In My Heart
My Positive Outlooks There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very loveable. — Unknown View original post
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Mahatma Gandhi: Motherhood
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/51346898
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Truth
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” —Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: Outcome
“Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.” —Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: Anger and pride
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. —Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Getting over a painful experience…
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Mahatma Gandhi: Ignorance
“To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.” —Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” —Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Mahatma Gandhi: Blind eye
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi. Embed from Getty Images
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Elie Wiesel: Neutrality and silence
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928). Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Less mischievous than boredom
Embed from Getty Images Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increases. —Unknown. Embed from Getty Images
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Chanakya: Mercy
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.” ~Chanakya.
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Johann Schiller: Mercy
“As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.” ~Johann Schiller. Embed from Getty Images
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Bryant H. McGill: Great convictions
“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ” —Bryant H. McGill.
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Victor Hugo: Amnesty
Embed from Getty Images “Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it.” ~Victor Hugo.
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Alan Alda: Assumptions
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ~Alan Alda. Embed from Getty Images
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Alphonse Karr: Three characters
“Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ” —Alphonse Karr.
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Choose To Be Respected
My Positive Outlooks There will be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Always pick being respected, that love without respect is always fleeting — but that respect could grow into real, lasting LOVE. — Unknown View original post
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Three classes of people
“There are three classes of people: Those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Joan Didion: A place of belonging
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” – Joan Didion. Embed from Getty Images
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Ben Hecht: News and the world
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964). Embed from Getty Images
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Virginia Woolf: Peace
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/55853534 “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Virginia Woolf: Valuing life
“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” —Virginia Woolf. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171122185
