Nagesh Belludi

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Protestant Theologian)

In moments of progress the noble succeed, because things are going their way: in moments of decadence the base succeed for the same reason: hence the world is never without the exhilaration of contemporary success.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over… your problem won’t improve with age.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Scratch the surface of any thinking ideologue and you’ll find doubts. Ask, “Ever wondered whether the other side might be right?”
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German Writer)

The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

A radical is one of whom people say ‘He goes too far.’ A conservative, on the other hand, is one ‘who doesn’t go far enough.’ Then there is the reactionary, ‘one who doesn’t go at all.’ All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term progressive.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
—Steve Jobs (American Entrepreneur)

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

We do not know what to do with this short life, but we want another that will be eternal.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
—Salvatore Satta

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
—John Quincy Adams (American Head of State)

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Silence is the mother of truth.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
—Claudian (Roman Poet)

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (American-born British Politician)

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

We reproach people for talking about themselves, but it is the subject they treat best.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Whoever makes great presents expects great presents in return.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

When you are alone you are all your own.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

In the depth of winter I finally learned there was inside me an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—Robertson Davies (Canada Journalist)

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Poet)

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
—J. P. Morgan (American Businessperson)

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian Philosopher)

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man, and character is the test of that manifestation.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
—Virginia Woolf (English Novelist)

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind? Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
—Vita Sackville-West (English Gardener)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool”). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought”. And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man’s habits change quickly enough?
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems. And remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
—Solomon Short

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Christian Author)

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)