Nagesh Belludi

Education is a debt due from the present to the future generations.
—George Peabody (American Financier)

Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
—Charles F. Kettering (American Inventor)

It is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens.
—Lama Surya Das

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not easy to forget.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Irish-born British Playwright)

Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
—Harvey Fierstein (American Actor)

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
—Natalie Goldberg (American Buddhist Author)

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
—Jon Bon Jovi (American Musician)

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”
—Erich Fromm (German Psychologist)

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
—D. H. Lawrence (English Novelist)

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.
—Bob Dylan (American Singer)

Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (American Baptist Clergyman)

Knowledge that puffs up the possessor’s mind is ever more of a pernicious kind.
—William Mather (British Businessperson)

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
—William Safire (American Columnist)

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
—Adam Smith (Scottish Philosopher)

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
—Lawrence Durrell (British Biographer)

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
—Claude Monet (French Painter)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
—Bernard Malamud (American Novelist)

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
—W. H. Auden (British-born American Poet)

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
—Enoch Powell (British Politician)

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
—Kimberly Johnson (American Poet)

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise.
—Homer (Ancient Greek Poet)

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
—Taisen Deshimaru (Japanese Buddhist Teacher)

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

Do not waste a minute—not a second—in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)

Four be the things I am wiser to know:|Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.|Four be the things I’d been better without:|Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.|Three be the things I shall never attain:|Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.|Three be the things I shall have till I die:|Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
—Dorothy Parker (American Poet)

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)

No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.
—Russian Proverb

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.
—John Wesley (British Methodist Religious Leader)

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

Things done well and with care, exempt themselves from fear.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
—Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Poet)

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
—Isaac Watts (English Hymn writer)

Capability means imagination…
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
—Elizabeth I of England (British Monarch)

My father said whoever tells the longest story is always the liar. The truth isn’t that complicated.
—Bill Joy (American Computer Scientist)

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
—Mary Kay Ash (American Entrepreneur)

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
—Edmund Burke (Irish Political leader)

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)

I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.
—Leonardo DiCaprio (American Actor)

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
—Marianne Williamson (American Activist)

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
—William Cowper (English Anglican Poet)

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Morse had one, and he did all right.
—Kirk Douglas (American Actor)

All good things come to those who wait.
—English Proverb

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
—Bernard Malamud (American Novelist)

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
—Pamela Hansford Johnson (English Novelist)

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
—Bruno Bettelheim (Austrian-born American Psychologist)

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
—Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian Monk)

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
—Barbara Bush (American First Lady)

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
—Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Film Producer)

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
—Harvey Fierstein (American Actor)

A wise person should pursue knowledge and wealth as if he was to live young forever. He should practice moral principles as if death has grabbed him by his hair.
—Hitopadesha

Pray to God, but row for the shore.
—Russian Proverb

If you have a clearly good idea, to avoid getting talked out of it, get input only on how to better execute it.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
—Philip Roth (American Novelist)

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
—Taisen Deshimaru (Japanese Buddhist Teacher)

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don’t get it, prune.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

A thought that does not result in action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
—Georges Bernanos (French Author)

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
—Stephen King (American Novelist)

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
—Philip K. Dick (American Novelist)

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery—courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
—James Harvey Robinson (American Historian)

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of a dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
—Barbara Kingsolver (American Novelist)

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
—Octave Mirbeau (French Journalist)

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
—Lou Reed (American Musician)

It’s the ride that counts.
—Brad Feld (American Entrepreneur, Investor)