You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, "Nothing happens to you, it happens for you". See the positive in negative events.
- Joel Osteen
What's your present today
"Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift…that is why it is called the present."
- Master Oogway,
From the movie KungFu Panda
Fight or Fly but not fear
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
Q&A
You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.
way to perfect lives, knowledge and design
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
- William Gibson, Zero History
there are people who live their whole lives on the default settings never realizing you can customize
Funny take on plagiarism
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
Bitter to Sweet
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
Author, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Trust the winds of change within you
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
caged by the masters you chose
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Ayn Rand
time to share bless deposits
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
- John Calvin
tune in to a positive beat
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand
sense what others are insensitive to
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
- Mark Twain
go along before you change your way
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Lifie
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful life becomes.
be a package, not a baggage
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Audience
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
The Overwhelm
"the overwhelm" is a function not so much of how many things [we] have to do but of how much time [we] spend thinking about how many things [we] have to do.
Work may not set us free, but it lends meaning to our days, and without it we'd be lost.
The new wealth is so highly concentrated that only a very few people have the wherewithal to stop and smell the roses, which have been flown in at great expense from Ecuador.
compulsive profit syndrome
The disproportionately compensated have a disproportionate motive to keep on working.
No time for free time
inequality has grown, that leisure is scarce, that even the rich complain of being overwhelmed. And yet so much of what we do, collectively and individually, suggests that we still believe more wealth is the answer. Reëxamining this belief would probably be a good idea—that is, if anyone had the time for it.
- No Time by Elizabeth Kolbert
compulsive consumption syndrome
a Swedish economist named Staffan B. Linder coined the phrase "the harried leisure class." Linder argued that as people became wealthier they would inevitably feel more squeezed, because they would feel compelled to consume more and more goods per unit of free time. Linder envisioned his harried protagonist "drinking Brazilian coffee" while "smoking a Dutch cigar, sipping a French cognac, reading The New York Times, listening to a Brandenburg Concerto and entertaining his Swedish wife."
- No Time by Elizabeth Kolbert
Load Zero to Head
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.
- Eckhart Tolle, author, "The New Earth"
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
- Carrie Latet
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Unsinkable soul
An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
- Goi Nasu
Happy Birthday sunosuno
I just realized that this blog has lived for a decade now.
I have been a fan of motivational quotes since school days... used to collect lots of small inspiring literary stuff in a personal diary.
suno suno in hindi is a phrase spoken aloud to attract your audience to hear the message you want to deliver.
I try my best to mention the source/author of the quote.
If there is any unclaimed quote, I would be more than happy to attribute it to its progenitor.
cowsay fun :)
Nothing so needs change as other people's habits.
The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
Google, Orwell's new Big Brother
Google knows more about every digital active citizen than George Orwell dared 1984 ever imagine in his wildest visions.
Mathias Döpfner,
CEO, Axel Springer
(German media empire)
Tiny Sparks can cause major fire
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Live or Dead, Full or Flat, Pain or Gain
Are we - and all living beings - just survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes, as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?
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World is flat because the cunning people have punctured it.
- Rahul Gupta
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever.
- Lance Armstrong, 5 time Winner of Tour De France
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Time is a great teacher; what an year teaches you days didn't know.
- A dialogue from "Shadows in the Sun"
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Time is a great teacher; what an year teaches you days didn't know.
- A dialogue from "Shadows in the Sun"
Need of the Hour
It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.
- Unknown (picked up from cowsay)
Truth lessens the load on working memory
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Quack Quack
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
Spirit - The toughest metal
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
- Bernard Williams
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Don't let worries worry you
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie ten Boom
Its Life! not a balance machine
"There is no such thing as work/life balance—there is only life. You don't have to be the last one at the office every night, and you don't have to change every diaper. Make the choices you believe in your heart are right, and make no apologies." - Mary Ann Byrnes
Manimal
We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals and we must respect our fellow animals.
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