Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Art Linkletter: Think Positive
Image via Wikipedia ”Things turn out for the best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” ~ Art Linkletter, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive.
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Francesca Reigler: Happiness
Image via Wikipedia Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~Francesca Reigler, quoted in “Count Your Blessings”.
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Jean de La Bruyère: Difficult miracles
Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ~ Jean de La Bruyère, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Book of Miracles. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463969921
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Stephen R. Covey: Self-growth
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” ~Stephen R. Covey, quoted in “Empty Nesters” Related articles by Zemanta Poor Time Management: Going through the Motions (brighthub.com) Time Management Advice: Start Managing Time and Stop Managing Emergencies (brighthub.com)
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Roy L. Smith: Daily trial, daily judgment
Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment. -Roy L. Smith
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H.L. Mencken: Live language
“A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.” -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956).
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Abraham Lincoln: Power
Image by George Eastman House via Flickr Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln.
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Chicken Soup for Soul: Indian Mothers
“My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.” ~ Chicken Soup for Soul: Indian Mothers.
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Martin H. Fischer: Exercise
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. – Martin H. Fischer.
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Anonymous: Company
“It’s not where you go or what you do, it’s who you take along with you.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Happily Ever After” Related articles by Zemanta Quote of the Day: Billing Practices (abovethelaw.com) How Scientists See the World (neatorama.com)
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Michael Athsuler: Time
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Althsuler , Chicken Soup for the Soul .
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Samuel Smiles: Mistakes
“He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.” ~Samuel Smiles, quoted in “Empty Nesters”. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463897017
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Boring geniuses
Image via Wikipedia “Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet.
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Elizabeth Bibesco: Giving and taking
Image via Wikipedia “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” ~ Elizabeth Bibesco.
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Pastor Rick Warren: Grace
When darkness seems to hide his face, I rest on his unchanging grace. Pastor Rick Warren
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Hugh Downs: Attitudes
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” ~Hugh Downs, quoted in “My Resolution”. Embed from Getty Images
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Paul Carvel: INTERNET
Image via Wikipedia “INTERNET: absolute communication, absolute isolation.”~ Paul Carvel
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Chinese proverb: Tension and relaxation
“Tension is what you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” —Chinese proverb. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/490963209
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Rick Warren: Prominence and significance
“Never confuse prominence with significance. You heart matters more than your nose.Unseen doesn’t equal unimportant.” — Rick Warren.
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Dave Scott: Goals and winning
Image via Wikipedia If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race; it’s up to you.” ~Dave Scott, triathlete, quoted in “Runners”
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Paulo Coelho: Love your enemy
“Love your enemy. But don’t forget he is not your friend..” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/111697325
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Zig Ziglar: Failure
Cover of Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar Failure is an event, not a person. So regardless of what happens to you along the way, you must keep on going and doing the right thing in the right way. – Zig Ziglar. Related articles by Zemanta How Do You Acquire An Entrepreneur’s Mindset? (tokitover.com) Seth…
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Virginia Woolf: Fame and obscurity
Image by spratmackrel via Flickr “While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth…
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William A Ward: Adversity
“Adversity causes some people to break; others to break records.” – William A Ward.
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E L Doctorow: Writing
“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.” -E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: What to do?
Image via Wikipedia “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in “Runners”.
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Hippocrates: Walking
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” —Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE)
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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt
Image via Wikipedia “Faith and doubt are both needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.” ~Lillian Smith, quoted in “Moms Know Best”
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Afflicting the comfortable
Image via Wikipedia In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. –John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006) Related articles by Zemanta A Harvard Economist on Why He Supports The Daily Beast Manifesto (thedailybeast.com) 1 reviews of John Kenneth…
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Elaine Agather: Backbone, funny bone and wishbone
“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone to go with it.” – Elaine Agather.
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Anonymous: Self-portrait
Image by maureen_sill via Flickr Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. – Anonymous
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Francis Picabia: Round heads
Image via Wikipedia Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. –Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
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Samuel Johnson: Praise and flattery
Image via Wikipedia Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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Horace Mann : Truth and greatness
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” —Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859).
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Determinism and free will
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”~ Jawaharlal Nehru
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Evan Esar: Success
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” ~ Evan Esar
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Lao Tzu: Time
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’ ~Lao Tzu Related articles by Zemanta Advantages of Time Management (socyberty.com) On Staying Motivated (socyberty.com)
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Hafez: Right and wrong
Image via Wikipedia “Now is the time to understand / That all your ideas of right and wrong / Were just a child’s training wheels / To be laid aside / When you finally live / With veracity / And love.” —Hafez, poet (1315-1390).
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Reba McEntire: Wishbones, backbones and funnybones
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.” ~Reba McEntire, quoted in “Count Your Blessings“.
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Edith Hamilton: On Education
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.” —Edith Hamilton, educator…
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Francesca Reigler: Happiness—an attitude
Cover via Amazon “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~Francesca Reigler, quoted in “Count Your Blessings“.
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George Fisher: Perfection
“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.” ~George Fisher, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College”
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Paulo Coelho: Love
“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/111697325
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Oscar Wilde: Mask and men
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
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Arthur Buddhold: Passionate success
“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.” ~Arthur Buddhold, quoted in “Tales of Golf and Sport” http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/137870124
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Roman Jakobson: Languages
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. -Roman Jakobson, linguist (1896-1982)
