Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Joseph Addison: Time
Cover via Amazon “The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” ~ Joseph Addison, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grand and Great.
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Jorge Luis Borges: Life—a quotation
Image by Yellow Snow Photography via Flickr “Life itself is a quotation.” – Jorge Luis Borges
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Yahia Lababidi: Collisions
Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions. -Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)
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Benjamin Franklin: Energy and persistence
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Bill Gates: Teachers and bosses
Image via Wikipedia If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. he doesn’t have tenure. ~ ~ Bill Gates.
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George Lucas: Do or do not
Image via Wikipedia “Do or do not. There is no ‘try.’” ~ George Lucas, Jedi Master Yoda, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners. Embed from Getty Images
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H.G. Wells: Bend a little
Image via Wikipedia “Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.” ~H.G. Wells, quoted in “Happily Ever After.”
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Albert Einstein: Miraculous life
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
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Franz Stampfl: Coach’s job
Embed from Getty Images “The coach’s main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.” ~Franz Stampfl, quoted in “Runners.” Related articles by Zemanta Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Jogging Mommy (beliefnet.com)
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Thomas Edwards: To rejoice and to mitigate
“To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.” —Thomas Edwards. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/155888597
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John Updike: Artist
“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.” —John Updike, writer (1932-2009).
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George Bernard Shaw: Lifetime of happiness
Image via Wikipedia “But a lifetime of happiness! No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Garrison Keillor: Shallow life
Image via Wikipedia It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. – Garrison Keillor on Salon.com Related articles by Zemanta “Employing tricks like needless pagination, auto-refreshing (see Salon.com), misleading headlines,…” (marco.org) Salon.com Boosts Readership and Revenue in Second Quarter 2010 (eon.businesswire.com) Salon.com Announces First Book in Brand-new Reading Club (eon.businesswire.com) GARRISON…
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Beauty in life
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and other half discreditable.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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Florence Scovel Shinn: Game of boomerangs
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn, writer, artist and teacher (1871-1940)
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: No opinion at all
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
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Confucius: Choose a job you love
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —Confucius.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: Eternal vibration
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin Embed from Getty Images
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John L. Spalding: Finding time
“What we love to do we find time to do.” ~John L. Spalding, quoted in “Older & Wiser.”
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Jean Toomer: Thank everyone
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. -Jean Toomer, poet and novelist (1894-1967).
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John E. Southard: Getting even
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” ~John E. Southard, quoted in “Older & Wiser”
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Aurobindo: Difficulties
Image via Wikipedia But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.” ~Aurobindo, quoted in “Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul“ Related articles by Zemanta Is There a ‘Chicken Soup’ for that Soul? (neatorama.com) Sri Aurobindo’s Non-dual Experiences (prophet666.com)
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William Thackeray: Kind word
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” —William Thackeray. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3069774
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Italian proverb: King and pawn
“After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.” —Italian Proverb
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Loaded pistols
Words are loaded pistols. -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980).
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Vanity, Habit and Fear
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/173344829
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Jean Anouilh: Love
Image via Wikipedia Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. – Jean Anouilh Related articles by Zemanta One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well –but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its…
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More reflections…
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Arthur Ashe: Success
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” ~Arthur Ashe, quoted in “Campus Chronicles”.
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Challenge and controversy
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr., quoted in “Older & Wiser” http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74280021
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Helen Keller: Alone, together
Image via Wikipedia “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller.
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Michel de Montaigne: Own legs, own bottom
Image via Wikipedia “No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Julia Soul: Taking chances
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/124564672 “If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.” ~Julia Soul.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr: Poetic dictionary
Image via Wikipedia When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively, but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages. –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., writer and physician…
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Louis de Bonald: Literature
Image via Wikipedia “Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man.” —Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840).
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Carl Sagan: Humdrum existence
Image via Wikipedia For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner … on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. … That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and…
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Ralph Blum: New beginnings
“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” – Ralph Blum. Embed from Getty Images
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Cassie Campbell: Heart
Image via Wikipedia Embed from Getty Images “A winner’s strongest muscle is her heart.” ~Cassie Campbell, quoted in “Runners” Related articles by Zemanta Three Angles To Cardio-Vascular Training (linusfernandes.com)
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Red Skelton: Enemies
“I don’t hate my enemies. After all, I made ’em.” –Red Skelton, comedian (1913-1997).
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Indian Proverb: Love
Image via Wikipedia Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.” ~Indian Proverb, quoted in “True Love” Related articles by Zemanta Promises, Promises (godlessgirl.com) Spanish proverb filter (ask.metafilter.com) Spanish Sayings on Love: For Mother’s Day or any Other Occasion (brighthub.com)
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Tommy Lasorda: Impossible and possible
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda. Embed from Getty Images
