Nagesh Belludi

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
—William Blake (English Poet)

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
—Paul Vixie (American Scientist)

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel

Just because something is tradition doesn’t make it right.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
—Sam Keen

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
—Malcolm Muggeridge (English Journalist)

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.
—Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
—Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
—Alice Walker

Examine the contents, not the bottle.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you’re down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you’re moving.
—Roberto Goizueta (Cuban Businessperson)

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

To get to heaven we must take it with us.
—Henry Drummond

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
—George S. Patton (American Military Leader)

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
—Arabic Proverb

Climb high, climb far.|Your goal is the sky, your aim the star.
—Unknown

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn … and change.
—Carl Rogers (American Psychologist)

By depending on the great,|The small may rise high.|See: the little plant ascending the tall tree|Has climbed to the top.
—Sakya Pandita

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
—Pythagoras (Greek Philosopher)

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide ‘ll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (American Abolitionist)

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
—Panchatantra

There is one art of which every man should be a master—the art of reflection.—If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)

Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them.
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician)

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you’ve worked on your own corner.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being an optimist is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)

The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself.
—Henry Miller (American Novelist)

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
—Lucian

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.
—Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (French Writer)

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
—Claudian (Roman Poet)

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don’t want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
—Kurt Russell

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)

You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.
—Icelandic Proverb

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
—Booker T. Washington (American Educator)

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)