Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Linus Torvalds: Theory and practice
“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.” —Linus Torvalds.
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George Eliot: Realm of silence
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.” —George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).
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Anne Lamont: Good marriages and friendships
“A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal, and this is true also of our friendships.” —Anne Lamont.
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Daniel Kahneman: Gambles
“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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Warren Buffett: Weather vane
“You really should not make decisions in securities based on what other people think. If you’re doing that, you should think about doing something else. A public opinion poll will not get you rich on Wall Street. So you really want to stick with businesses that you feel you can somehow evaluate yourself. Charlie and…
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Rumi: Ego
“The ego is a ladder that we climb and from which we all fall in the end. The higher the ego climbs, the more devastating will be the fall. In its foolishness the inflated ego claims equality with God. Die to yourself and live through Him if you are seeking Unity. Aiming to reign with…
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Rumi: Hollow drum of words
“Those who conquer their ego before death become mentors of the angels and protectors of the poor. They have glimpsed Spirit and know how to live. Shams, what road you took departing by which secret way did you return? Was it the same the souls take each night leaving behind a town of empty cages?…
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Rumi: When one is alone with God
“There is a loneliness more precious than life there is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: What are you looking for, my friend?
“What are you looking for, my friend, completely absorbed in the affairs of this world? Unless you strive for Spirit your bread will remain unbaked and your destiny unfulfilled. Do not waste your life decorating your gravestone. Instead dig a grave and bury your ego, surrender to Him so His breath may replenish your being.”…
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Voltaire: Just hard, sadly wise
“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.” —-Voltaire.
