Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mario Fusco: Old programs
“Programs, like people, get old. We can’t prevent ageing, but we can understand its causes, limit its effects and reverse some of the damage.” —Mario Fusco.
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James Thurber: Two kinds of light
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” —James Thurber.
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Willa Cather: Happiness
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather.
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Alan Rosenberg: Leverage
“Fair play doesn’t pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.” —Alan Rosenberg.
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Leo Tolstoy: All else is folly
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” —Leo Tolstoy.
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Kahlil Gibran: Said a blade of grass
‘Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf: “You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams.” Said the leaf indignant: “Lowborn and low-dwelling! Song-less, peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tell the sound of singing.” Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth…
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Christina Rosssetti: Work never begun
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” —Christina Rossetti.
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Rumi: Expansive love
“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Two kinds of intelligence
“There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard…
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Rumi: Let the lover be
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Poetry can be dangerous
“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Love comes with a knife
“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!” ― Rumi.
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Thomas Carlyle: Accomplish something
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.” —Thomas Carlyle.
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Ann Patchett: Disturb the world around you
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” —Ann Patchett.
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Roedy Green: Longer, harder
The longer it takes for a bug to surface, the harder it is to find.” —Roedy Green.
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Rumi: Look at the giver
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Relationship booster
“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.” ― Rumi.
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Sarah Silverman: Taboo
“I like talking about things that are taboo because it makes them not taboo anymore.” -Sarah Silverman.
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Rumi: Sorrow
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath…
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Rumi: Words are a pretext
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Be notorious
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Seek for love
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi.
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Jonathan Swift: Never reasoned into
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” -Jonathan Swift.
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Rumi: Denier
“Trust me: I won’t be this same believer in the next moment. It is very boring to believe without doubt. Faith is not born from assurance but it emerges out of denial. I love this daring denier – who lives inside me – who turns me into a better believer every day.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Conflict
“This ‘me’ does not believe in me and I keep telling him: “Now that you don’t trust me, please set me free, leave me alone, please!” and he always answers: ” I will not, I will stay here and I will always deny your existence.” Are you watching this? He is ‘me’, and even he…
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Rumi: Joy
“I have no acquaintance with sorrow. Sorrow is rooted in existence and I do not exist. I am full of joy.” —Rumi.
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Peter Lynch: No shame
“There’s no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.” —Peter Lynch.
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Naval Ravikant: Value yourself
“No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. You just have to set a very high personal hourly rate and you have to stick to it. Even when I was young, I just decided I was worth a lot more than the market thought I was worth, and I started treating…
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Shams Tabrizi: Easy
“Don’t bother fighting too hard! No matter how tough you swim, no matter how strong you are, this savage sea of life will break you down in pieces if she feels you intend to defeat her. Just take it easy, loosen up yourself in her skirt, or even play dead. Then, she will kindly carry…
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Warren Buffet: Swimming naked
“After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” –Warren Buffet.
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Louisa May Alcott: Rejoice when victory is won
“If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.” —Louisa May Alcott.
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Charles Lindbergh: Miracle of life
“In wilderness, I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.” – Charles Lindbergh.
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Benjamin Graham: Investment operation
“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.” –Benjamin Graham.
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Rumi: Golden words, worthless doings
“Even if your words are gold, if your doings are worthless, you are worth nothing in people’s eyes.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Result
“The intelligent person sees with her heart the result from the beginning; The one lacking in knowledge only discovers it at the end.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Speech
“If there is no benefit in speech, do not speak; and if there is, leave off making objections, and endeavor to give thanks.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Our purpose
“We did not come to this world to destroy, divide or break. We came to fix the broken, bring together the separated and serve as a bridge between the enemies.” —Rumi.
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Seneca: Like sheep
“We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go.” —Seneca.
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Seth Klarman: Risk
“When there is no price for incurring excessive risk, more will be born. When there is no cost for failure, there will be more and more of it.” —Seth Klarman.
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James Somers: Speed matters
“Slowness seems to make a special contribution to this picture in our heads. Time is especially valuable. So as we learn that a task is slow, an especial cost accrues to it. Whenever we think of doing the task again, we see how expensive it is, and bail. That’s why speed matters.” —James Somers.
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Richard Feynman: Study hard
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.” — Richard Feynman.
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Carol Dweck: Special talent
“The other thing exceptional people seem to have is a special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes.” —Carol Dweck.
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Meir Lehman: Evolving system
“An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.” – Meir Lehman.
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Arundhati Roy: Flags
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” —Arundhati Roy.
