Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Muir: Anything by itself
Image via Wikipedia When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. –John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
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Robert Brault: Little things
Image via Wikipedia ”Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Robert Brault. Related articles Courage (linusfernandes.com)
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Bertrand Russell: Individual existence
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose…
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Elizabeth Kubler Ross: People
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” ~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Unknown: Accept, learn, let go
There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. ~ Author Unknown.
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Robert Southey: Words and sunbeams
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. -Robert Southey, poet (1774-1843). Embed from Getty Images
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Fr. Craig Scott: Scars
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived. – Fr. Craig Scott.
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Lie Yona Yosephine: No time to love?
Lie Yona Yosephine If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Angus Grossart: Exhaustion or boredom
“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~ Angus Grossart. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Rabindranath Tagore: Shutting truth out
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941). Embed from Getty Images
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Mark Abley: Modern English
Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist (b. 1955)
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Anonymous: Younger today than tomorrow
“You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.” ~ Anonymous
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Secret history of enemies
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/158374024
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Aldous Huxley: Experience
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963).
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Winifred Holtby: Things worth doing
“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.” ~ Winifred Holtby
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Thomas Jefferson: Luck and hard work
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Unvarnished truth
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008). Embed from Getty Images
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Francis Bacon: Root of all superstition
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” —Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/149418203
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Vincent Van Gogh: Not by impulse
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”~ Vincent Van Gogh. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/109891498
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Virginia Woolf: The strongest natures
The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/55853534
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Albert Schweitzer: What a man can do
“A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.” ~ Albert Schweitzer.
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Julia Child: Happiness and good health
Image via Wikipedia “Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” ~ Julia Child
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Unknown: If you want to feel rich
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” ~ Author Unknown. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Gary Zukav: Love is all there is
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” ~ Gary Zukav. Chicken Soup for the Soul. Embed from Getty Images
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Albert Einstein: Don’t stop questioning
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Blaise Pascal: Words and meanings
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662).
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Treating mankind
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca,…
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George Washington Carver: How far you go in life
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver, scientist (1864-1943)
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Raoul Vaneigem: More truths
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies. -Raoul Vaneigem, writer and philosopher (b.1934)
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Unknown: Faith and love
“Faith makes all things possible…. love makes all things easy.” ~ Author Unknown. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Jonathan Swift: Reason
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” —Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745).
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Joseph Conrad: Illusions
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. -Joseph Conrad, novelist (1857-1924).
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Martin Luther King Jr: Cruel Jest
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968).
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Unknown: Lifetime
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” ~ Author Unknown. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Ellen DeGeneres: Catch-and-release
”Catch-and-release? That’s like running down pedestrians in your car & then, when they get up & limp away, saying “Off you go! I just wanted to see if I could hit you.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres.
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John F. Kennedy: Unafraid
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1474151
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Not by the harvest
”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3380511
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Carl Jung: Looking outside and looking in
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” ~ Carl Jung, psychologist. Chicken Soup for the Soul Related articles Carl Jung on God (jungiananalysis.wordpress.com) Carl Jung’s tour of self discovery (2embracethelight.wordpress.com) Quickly Quotable #42 – Carl Jung (myliteraryquest.wordpress.com) Carl Gustav Jung (nateprentice.wordpress.com)
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Eudora Welty: Same excursion
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”~ Eudora Welty. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Paulo Coelho: Fragile love
“The strongest love is love that can demonstrate its fragility.” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/145759031
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Jimmy Buffett: Life, as a search
“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.” ~ Jimmy Buffett, Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Plutarch: World of his own
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. -Plutarch, biographer (c. 46-120)
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Elizabeth Rundle Charles: To know and to dare
“To know how to say what other people only think is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both.“ —Elizabeth Rundle Charles, writer (1828-1896).
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Bill Cosby: Key to failure
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” ~ Bill Cosby. Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Rita Mae Brown: Be who you are
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. Rita Mae Brown
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Beverly Hills: A happy woman and a cheerful woman
“A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn’t let them get her down.” ~ Beverly Sills Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Paulo Coelho: Change
“Change. If you cannot find reasons to be free, invent them. And think seriously of finding another activity that is more like what you expect from life, more dignified, more human.” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/115849199
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Paulo Coelho: Life is short
“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.“ —Paulo Coelho.
