Nagesh Belludi

Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.
—Connie Zweig (American Minister)

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault (French Philosopher)

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
—Thomas De Witt Talmage (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
—Theodore Dreiser (American Novelist, Journalist)

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
—C. P. Snow (British Novelist, Scientist)

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
—M. C. Richards (American Poet, Potter, Writer)

Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
—Karl Leberecht Immermann (German Novelist, Dramatist)

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
—David Puttnam (British Film Producer)

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
—Franklin P. Adams (American Columnist)

Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.
—Victor Kiam (American Entrepreneur)

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of those liberties which make the defense of the nation worthwhile.
—Earl Warren (American Judge)

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
—Mikhail Lermontov (Russian Novelist, Poet)

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
—Mike Ditka (American Sportsperson)

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
—George Horace Lorimer (American Editor)

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
—Jim Carrey (Canadian Actor)

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom.
—Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (English Politician)

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me.
—Henri Rousseau (French Painter)

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
—Karlfried Graf Durckheim (German Zen Teacher)

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
—Louis Auchincloss (American Novelist, Lawyer)

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (American Jewish Rabbi)

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.
—Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Leader)

A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away?
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
—Fulton J. Sheen (American Catholic Religious Leader)

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.”
—Harmon Killebrew (American Baseball Player)