Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Now
Image via Wikipedia “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Judging ourselves and others judging us
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/169968729
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Paulo Coelho: Opportunities everywhere
“An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/101953289
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Grant Lin: The time to make a change is now
“Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned, though, is that the time to make a change is now — what’s in the past is done, and what’s in the future depends on the present.” ~Grant Lin; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens
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Diogenes: Superiors’ fire
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. -Diogenes, philosopher (412?-323 BCE)
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Scott Adams: Some days
Image via Wikipedia “Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.” —Scott Adams in Dilbert
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Robert Frost: Poetry
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” —Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963).
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Ruth E. Renkl: Unhappy times, wasted times
“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” ~ Ruth E. Renkl
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Benjamin Franklin: Well done is better than well said
Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Irvin S. Cobb: Writers as businessmen
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. –Irvin S. Cobb, author and journalist (1876-1944) Related articles Writer’s immunity? (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Writer’s Tip #39: Get Rid of Qualifiers (worddreams.wordpress.com)
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Henry David Thoreau: Adhering words
Image via Wikipedia The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. –Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862).
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Cadet Maxim: Risk more, care more, dream more, expect more
Image via Wikipedia “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. “ ~ Cadet Maxim
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T.E. Lawrence: Dreamers of the day
Image via Wikipedia “All men dream, but not equally. those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” -T.E.…
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Paulo Coelho: Yes and no
Image via Wikipedia ‘”No”is not a sin. “Yes” is not a virtue.’ —Paulo Coelho.
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Mark Twain: Heroes
Our heroes are the men who do things which we recognize with regret and sometimes with a secret shame that we cannot do. – Mark Twain.
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Oscar Wilde: Kindness
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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Harry S Truman: The fruit’s on a limb
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb… that’s where the fruit is.” – Harry S Truman.
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Nelson Mandela: Passion
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Enthusiasm
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Daniel L. Reardon: Optimism and pessimism
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.” ~ Daniel L. Reardon
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Angela Schwindt: Life and children
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” Angela Schwindt; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Teachers
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William Somerset Maugham: Happy chance
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” —William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965).
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Ezra Pound: Human wisdom and human comprehension
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. -Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)
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Paramahansa Yogananda: Magnetic heart
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, Chicken Soup for the Indian Armed Forces Soul
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Aldous Huxley: Excuses
Image via Wikipedia “Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963).
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Gloria Steinem: Planning and dreaming
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” ~Gloria Steinem, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms
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Willa Cather: Calm and storm
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm” ~Willa Cather, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms
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Anais Nin: Dream As A Kite
Image via Wikipedia “Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.” —Anais Nin, author (1903-1977).
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Salman Rushdie: Unthinkable thinkable
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.” ~ Salman Rushdie; Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul
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Mortimer J Adler: Good books
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” —Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Dare
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jim Rohn: Success
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn.
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Frank Zappa: From information to beauty
“Information is not knowledge;knowledge is not wisdom;wisdom is not truth;truth is not beauty.” – Frank Zappa.
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Joann Thomas: Good, firm push
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. – Joann Thomas.
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Henry Fielding: Envy and emulation
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)
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Tommy Lasorda: Determination
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” ~Tommy Lasorda, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
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W S Gilbert: What’s on the chairs?
“It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.” ~ W.S. Gilbert, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
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Mahatma Gandhi: Remake ourselves
“As human beings, our greatness lies not in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, from Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul
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Arthur Koestler: Creative Activity
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” —Arthur Koestler, novelist and journalist (1905-1983). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/114338860
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Phil Whyman: Who’s in charge?
“Giving up is your brain’s idea. Ask yourself, who’s in charge here?” ~Phil Whyman, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
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Emily Dickinson: Faith
“Faith” is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
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James Runcieman Sutherland: Modern prose
Modern prose has become, like modern manners and modern dress, a good deal less formal than it was in the nineteenth century. -James Runcieman Sutherland, professor and writer (1900-1996)
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Washington Allston: Only competition
Image via Wikipedia “The only competition of a wise man is with himself.” ~Washington Allston, quoted in “Runners”
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Gene Fowler: For themselves…
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. -Gene Fowler, journalist and author (1890-1960)
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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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Rick Warren: Integrity
Image via Wikipedia Integrity is like virginity.Once you give it up it’s gone for good.”The dishonest are ruined by their own duplicity”Pr11:3 Rick Warren on Facebook.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Extreme justice and injustice
“Extreme justice is extreme injustice.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE).
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Oliver Goldsmith: Better sermon
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”—Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (1730-1774)
