"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become."
-Ben Herbster
Greatest waste of potential
Lead themself
"Nothing so conclusively proves a person's ability to lead others as what they do from day to day to lead themself."
-Thomas Watson
Needs constant reinvigoration
"Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile."
- Elizabeth Drew, author, critic (1887-1965)
There is enough for all...
"I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race."
-Don Marquis, humorist and poet (29 Jul 1878-1937)
Live as well as....
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas closer
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
Social creatures
"We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong."
-Karl Popper, philosopher and a professor (28 Jul 1902-1994)
Permanently unresolved
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
-Kathleen Norris, novelist and columnist (27 Jul 1880-1966)
Happy Birthday George Bernard Shaw
"I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat."
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (26 Jul 1856-1950)
Work and dedication
"Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."
-Roger Staubach
Make.... Create
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find, make them."
-George Bernard Shaw
Crystallized past...
"Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past."
-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
Moral & immoral
"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
-Ernest Hemingway, author, journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)
Hard to be Religious
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
-Bill Watterson, comic star
-Bill Watterson, comic star
Open Heart & Peace
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
-Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)
-Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)
What's War?
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
-Eve Merriam, poet and writer (19 Jul 1916-1992)
-Eve Merriam, poet and writer (19 Jul 1916-1992)
Making room for
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
-Napoleon Hill
Om Guruve Namaha !
The true meaning of Guru is "one who dispels darkness of ignorance".
"Gu" means "darkness of ignorance" and "Ru" means "one who removes".
Another meaning for Guru is "One who reveals the Guri (target) to the disciple". He does this by removing the darkness of ignorance. Guri here refers to the Atmic principle present in every human being. The real Guru who can reveal the Atmic principle is a Jnaanamurthy (embodiment of wisdom); He is the very embodiment of Divine principles; and He is one who takes upon Himself a form to teach the same to the disciple; he is God Himself.
Use words lightly - use Silence
"It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die."
-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013)
-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013)
Fruit of sense
"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
-Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)
Only One Master...
"Choose only one master -- Nature."
-Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669)
Energy & Drive
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence."
-Sloan Wilson
Literature encourages
"Literature encourages tolerance - bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities."
-Northrop Frye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)
Gain the great
"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never understand one
"You can never understand one language until you understand at least two."
-Ronald Searle, artist (1920-2011)
Easy & Difficult
What is the ''most easy'' & ''most difficult" thing in life?
Ans: ''Mistake''.
Easy to judge when others do.
Difficult to realize when we do.
Pure Magic
"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen."
-Foka Gomez
Light within
"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004)
Felt with the heart
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
Highway to...
"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."
-John Keats
Hard to be religious
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958) [Calvin & Hobbes]
Did your best
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
-John Wooden
To Do or not to
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
-Joe Dimaggio
English Usage
"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
Go half way to meet
"When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it."
-Sigmund Freud
Bad Discovery
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1 Jul 1742-1799)
Grow for ages
"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone."
-Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (30 Jun 1911-2004)
Daily Goal
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
-Maxwell Maltz
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