Trust is the first step to love.
-Premchand, novelist and poet (1880-1936)
Protracted war...
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (1805-1859)
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 professor (Jul 1902-1994)
for long haul
"Invest for the long haul. Don't get too greedy and don't get too scared."
- Shelby M.C. Davis
needs more...
Today I will think OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. The world needs more creativity and today I will bring it! |
I did it again
It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most.
-Hilaire Belloc, writer and poet (1870-1953)
Courage is the...
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
~ Aristotle
both are transformed
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)
Old vs Young
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-George McGovern, senator and author (1922-2012)
Silence of solitude
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 (1918-2013)
most in the least...
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
- Orson Scott Card
- Orson Scott Card
Light the way for humankind
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
-Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (1921-1944)
can be made...
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
-Iris Murdoch, writer (15 Jul 1919-1999)
Life as an...
Live your life as an experiment.
-Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author (b. 14 Jul 1936)
Small wins can..
"What I like about small wins is that they can cascade. One can lead right into another."
- Dan Pink
Strong positive effect
"People's inner work lives seemed to lift or drag depending on whether or not their project moved forward, even by small increments. Small wins often had a surprisingly strong positive effect, and small losses a surprisingly negative one."
- Teresa Amiable
Threat to freedom
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
-Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)
Happy Guru Purnima
I bow to the one who has inspired me and taught the right way of life!
You are the inspiration who made me overcome every hurdle in life.
It wouldn't have been possible without you. Thanks for making me who I am.
You introduced me to myself and showed me the right way. Thanks for making me who I am.
Wishing you a happy Guru Purnima Day!
You are the inspiration who made me overcome every hurdle in life.
It wouldn't have been possible without you. Thanks for making me who I am.
You introduced me to myself and showed me the right way. Thanks for making me who I am.
Wishing you a happy Guru Purnima Day!
feed for lifetime
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Party of principle?
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Short and Long
Love is so short and forgetting is so long.
-Pablo Neruda, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1904-1973)
uneasy about...
I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management.
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
Value of money
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
-Nikola Tesla, inventor (1856-1943)
not always evident
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
- Francesco Guicciardini
...animals are our equals
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
-Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946)
Intelligent life...
The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.
-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958)
Torch of truth...
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
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