Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Amelia Earhart: Kindness
“No kind action ever stop with itself. One kind action leads to another. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” ~ Amelia Earhart; A 2nd Helping of…
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Piet Hein: On The Past
The past, — well, it’s just like / our Great-Aunt Laura, / who cannot or will not perceive / that though she is welcome, / and though we adore her, / yet now it is time to leave. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996).
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Omar Khayyam: Hell, paradise and flowers
“Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain — this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.” —Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131).
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Paulo Coelho: Tears
Tears of joy, tears of sadness. Tears are words that need to be written, spoken, shared. – Paulo Coleho.
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Carol Welch: Movement
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” ~Carol Welch, quoted in “What I Learned from the Dog”.
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Jefferson Carter: There’s no such thing as a stupid question
All the good questions have been asked. Am I my brother’s keeper? Are you my pork chop? What’s a guy gotta do to get a drink around here? I’ve been dreaming about my brother, who lived on Crete. I dragged him out of the surf, dead drunk, 150-pound carp, but hairier & muttering every pariah’s…
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Louis D. Brandeis: Sin Of Neutrality
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.” —Louis D. Brandeis. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/96795389
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Annie Gottlier: Hard and easy
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” ~Annie Gottlier, quoted in “My Resolution”
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Grief, loneliness and revenge
“Each to his grief, each tohis loneliness and fidgety revenge.” —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. Boy Breaking Glass (l. 13–14). . .Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
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Diane Wakoski: Disguised words
“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.” —Diane Wakoski, poet (b. 1937).
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Joseph Campbell: Privilege of a lifetime
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~Joseph Campbell, quoted in “The Golf Book“.
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Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine: Amiability, happiness & success
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857).
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Anatole France: Dictionary
“Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2628406
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Lady Bird Johnson: Shyness
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” ~Lady Bird Johnson, quoted in “My Resolution”.
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Byron Pulsifer: Character
“Character is a commodity that cannot be bought, cannot be stolen, and cannot be borrowed from any other.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
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Chicken soup for the soul: Indian fathers
” Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.” ~ From our forthcoming Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Fathers.
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Unknown: Niceness and you
Image via Wikipedia “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” ~ Author Unknown Related articles by Zemanta A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother…
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Samuel Butler: Morality
“Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.” —Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902).
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Samuel Johnson: Poetry
Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language…
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Sophia Loren: Motherhood
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ~ Sophia Loren; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Mothers.
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Lillian Dickson: Like a coin
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” ~Lillian Dickson, quoted in “Teens Talk Growing Up”
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Walter Savage Landor: Effectiveness
Image via Wikipedia People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. – Walter Savage Landor Related articles by Zemanta A Terrible Ugliness Is Born (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) Yet another Excuse! (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Paulo Coelho: Disobedience
When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue. – Paulo Coelho.
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Chicken soup for the soul: Extraordinary teens
Image via Wikipedia ”Always remember to love yourself enough to give yourself a chance.” ~ Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens.
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Dr. Billy Graham: Well-beaten path
“Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path.” ~Dr. Billy Graham, quoted in “Inside Basketball”.
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Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine: Illusions and age
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857)
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Louis L’amour: Anger
Anger is a killing thing; kills the man who angers, For each rage leaves him less than he had been Before it takes something from HIM. – LOUIS L’AMOUR.
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Hendrick Ibsen: One deed
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” ~Henrick Ibsen, quoted in “On Being a Parent” Related articles by Zemanta ‘It was as if Ibsen had dropped a bomb’ (telegraph.co.uk)
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Paulo Coelho: Killing our dreams
The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. -…
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Vannii Acrci: Friends are like stars
“Friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Vannii Acrci.
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Lynn Johnston: Apology
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” ~ Lynn Johnston, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk, Tough Times.
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Kevin Spacey: Send the elevator back down
If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down. – Kevin Spacey. Related articles by Zemanta Cate Blanchett & Kevin Spacey: Watch Out!!! (justjared.buzznet.com) Kevin Spacey: Star of screen, stage and Las Vegas? (cnn.com) Kevin Spacey’s Blue Suit: Hit Or Miss? (PHOTOS, POLL) (huffingtonpost.com)
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Action and despair
Image via Wikipedia I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. – Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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Chinese proverb: Tigers and naps
“Even tigers sometimes take naps.” —unknown author,Chinese proverb.
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Philip K. Dick: Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick (1928–1982), U.S. science fiction writer. Quoted by Dick in “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” introduction, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1986).
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Byron Pulsifer: Memories
“Memories are created by what we do not by what we think.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
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Raymond Hull: To suit everyone
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” ~Raymond Hull, quoted in “Like Mother, Like Daughter”.
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Christopher Dodd: Legislation
“We can’t legislate wisdom or passion. We can’t legislate competency. All we can do is create the structures and hope that good people will be appointed who will attract other good people.” – Senator Christopher Dodd, trying to justify the expanded discretionary power given to regulators to constrain excesses in the financial services industry.
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Erich Fromm: Mother’s Love
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” ~Erich Fromm, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian Mothers
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Chuck Palahnium: Real discoveries from chaos
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that seems wrong and stupid. – Chuck Palahniun
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E E Cummings: Laughter
Image via Wikipedia The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ~ E.E. Cummings Related articles by Zemanta You gotta be joking (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Intriguing Facebook statuses (I hope!) – Mine! (linusfernandes.com) Keep travelling, keep smiling (blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Muhammad Ali: Faith
Embed from Getty Images “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Leave a trail
Image via Wikipedia “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners”.
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Mark Twain: Keep away
Image via Wikipedia “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens.
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Mahatma Gandhi: The weak and the strong
Image by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in “Teens Talk Growing Up” Related articles by Zemanta Gandhi (milkandcookies.com) Learning from mahatma gandhi dr shriniwas kashalikar (slideshare.net) Seek & Forgive (thisido.blogspot.com) Marathi, mahatma gandhi and namasmaran dr shriniwas kashalikar (slideshare.net) Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地…
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James Bryce: Worth of a book
Image via Wikipedia “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” ~ James Bryce
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Brad Henry: Families
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry.
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Geoff Crane: Assumptions
Image via WikipediaOne of the things I constantly grapple with are assumptions. When dealing with someone during negotiations, my tendency to assume my counterparty possesses a piece of knowledge that they may not sometimes gets me into trouble. I constantly have to remind myself not to assume that people know anything, and to use language…
