Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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 CNN,…
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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.
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James E. Faust: Assignments
“Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.” —James E. Faust
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Julius Caesar: Volunteering
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” —Julius Caesar. Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: Seize the check
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/50985907 “Carpe per diem—seize the check.” ~Robin Williams.
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Jarod Kintz: Going on about…
“I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I’m still going on about her.” ― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me. Embed from Getty Images
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Miguel de Cervantes: Degree of loss
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. ” ~Miguel de Cervantes. Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: The worst thing in life
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/133568938
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Anne Fortier: Lust and love
Embed from Getty Images “There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin…
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Brian Aldiss: Creativity
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.” ~Brian Aldiss.
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Kahlil Gibran: Salt
Embed from Getty Images “There must be something sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” ~Kahlil Gibran.
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Walter Scott: Willows and oaks
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832). Embed from Getty Images
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Robin Williams: Cocaine
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/93682726 “Cocaine is God’s way of saying you are making too much money.” ~Robin Williams.
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Robin Williams: Tornado divorce
“You know the difference between a tornado and a divorce in the South? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.” ~Robin Williams.
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G K Chesterton: Children
“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” ~G K Chesterton.
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Robin Williams: Steady job
“The idea of having a steady job is appealing.” ~Robin Williams. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/56537234
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Robin Williams: Poetry, beauty, romance, love
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/157818333 “Poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.” ~Robin Williams.
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Marc Maron: Self-help books
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/148068357 “Every book is a self-help book.” ~Marc Maron.
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Robin Williams: Gay burglars
“We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.” ~Robin Williams.
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Robin Williams: Ugly person
“Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.” ~Robin Williams.
