Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rosalyn Carter: Confidence
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalyn Carter. Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta A Queen Before Her Time (beliefnet.com)
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Aharon Barak: Democracy
Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. -Aharon Barak, law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel (b.1936)
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Tom Krause: Courage
Image via Wikipedia “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ~ Tom Krause.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset: Attention and You
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Bob Dylan: Naked President
But even the President of the United States / Sometimes must have / To stand naked. – Bob Dylan
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Enjoyment and Endurance
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Make Use Of Suffering
Image via Wikipedia You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. –Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) Related articles by Zemanta Integrity (linusfernandes.com) Magniloquent French Sage Bernard-Henri Levy Stumped by Dastardly Totalitarian ‘Wikipedia’ [Phil-lol-sophers] (gawker.com) Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 5 |…
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Linda Ellis: Carnival of life
I’ve learned that life is like a carnival with all its sights and sounds; sometimes you need to skip the rides and just hang out with the clowns. ~ Linda Ellis
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John Lennon: Life
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College” Related articles by Zemanta John Lennon’s 70th Birthday To Be Marked By Two Month Festival (beatcrave.com) John Lennons Bio ‘Nowhere Boy’ Movie Poster (screenhead.com)
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Zig Ziglar: Friends
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
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Aldous Huxley: Try to be a little kinder
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.” -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
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Paulo Coelho: Path in life
“You may not know your path, but you must know what you don’t want in life.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Thomas Edison: Capabilities
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” ~ Thomas Edison http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/158250780
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Hugh Allen: Several small opportunities
“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.” ~Hugh Allen, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College”.
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Michel de Montaigne: Differences
Image via Wikipedia “There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.” — Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Les Brown: Opinion and reality
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” —Les Brown.
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Anonymous: Smiling outside, smiling inside
Cover via Amazon “It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Like Mother, Like Daughter“.
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Arthur Rubinstein: Life and love
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ~Arthur Rubinstein, quoted in “Tales of Golf and Sport”
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Oscar Wilde: The Old, The Middle Aged and The Young
Image via Wikipedia “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Samuel Johnson: Remarriage
Image via Wikipedia “Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.” —Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784).
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Charles Swindoll: Attitude
Image via Wikipedia “The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude – I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” …~ Charles Swindoll Related articles by Zemanta Work-Life Balance and All the Joy…
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Rudyard Kipling: Who, Why, What, When, How and Where
Cover via Amazon ‘I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I know. Their names are Who, Why, What, When, How and Where.’ Rudyard Kipling Related articles by Zemanta Kipling’s poignant Jungle Book inscription comes to light (guardian.co.uk) The trick of being a man (annezelenka.com)
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Victor Hugo: Idleness And Thought
Image via Wikipedia A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. –Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (1802-1885)
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Martha Graham: Only One Of You
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr ”There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” ~ Martha Graham.
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Mother Teresa: Kind echoes
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa
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Clarence Budington Kelland: Watch him do it
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~Clarence Budington Kelland, quoted in “Thanks Dad”
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R H Delaney: Love
Image via Wikipedia “Love builds bridges where there are none.” ~R.H. Delaney, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People”. Related articles by Zemanta Love & Fantasy – Just Fantastic! (linusfernandes.com)
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Mark Victor Hansen: Inspire
“One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be, and hopefully be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen.
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Arnold Bennett: Change
Any change,even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
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Pamela Vaull Starr: Reach high
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Pamela Vaull Starr
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Marie Louise de la Ramee: Cruel Familiarity
Image via Wikipedia “Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.” —Ouida [pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee], novelist (1839-1908).
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Edith Wharton: Little healing
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. –Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald: On The Past
Image via Wikipedia It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author, and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948), U.S. writer. First published in Esquire (New York, June 1934). “Show…
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Sigmund Freud: Excremental
The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals—inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: “Anatomy is destiny.” Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 11, eds.…
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Norman Vincent Peale: Go forward confidently
Image via Wikipedia “Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.” ~Norman Vincent Peale, quoted in “Loving Our Dogs”
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Unknown: Dogs and cats
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” ~Unknown, quoted in “Loving Our Cats”. Embed from Getty Images
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Bono: More malleable than you think
“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” ~Bono.
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Ben Jonson: Talking and speaking
Image via Wikipedia“ To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.”~Ben Jonson, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad.
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Unknown: Inch by inch, yard by yard
“Inch by inch, life’s a cinch; yard by yard, life is hard.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Empty Nesters”. Related articles by Zemanta Inch by Inch…. (jer979.blogspot.com)
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G. K. Chesterton: Granted gratitude
Image via Wikipedia “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ~ G. K. Chesterton.
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Edmund Hillary: The Mountain In Ourselves
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~ Edmund Hillary, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners
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Kahlil Gibran: Sunshine, warmth, thunder, lightning
Image via Wikipedia “If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.” ~ Kahlil Gibran; Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul.
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Ivy Baker Priest: Round world
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” ~Ivy Baker Priest, quoted in “My Resolution” Related articles by Zemanta Economics Quote (linusfernandes.com) Godly Quote (linusfernandes.com) Patriotic Quote (linusfernandes.com) Just Quotes (linusfernandes.com) Copycat Quote (linusfernandes.com)
