Nagesh Belludi

Never does a wise man commit a sin for the sake of his happiness. Never will he discard Morality because of his personal love or hatred, even though he may suffer and meet with a failure.
—Buddhist Teaching

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)

The double truth of feeling totally unimportant and at the same time of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering life in it’s various aspects.
—Hans Taeger

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends is insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer)

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.
—Chuck Swindoll (American Christian Pastor)

Good taste is, of course, an utterly dispensable part of any journalist’s equipment.
—Michael Hogg (American Psychologist)

Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
—Robert Fulghum (American Unitarian Universalist Author)

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
—John Witherspoon (American Clergyman)

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
—Sophie Swetchine (Russian Mystic, Writer)

Pleasure that isn’t paid for is as insipid as everything else that’s free.
—Anita Loos (American Actor)

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
—Wilson Mizner (American Playwright)

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
—Gerald M. Weinberg (American Computer Scientist)

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
—Brother Lawrence (French Carmelite Monk)

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever marry, I’ll try to forget the fact.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Playwright)

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world’s problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive – it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
—Bert Williams (American Entertainer)

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
—Timothy Leary (American Psychologist)

A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated.
—Horace Mann (American Educator)

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

Creativity is not limited to people practising one of the traditional forms of art, and even in the case of artists, creativity is not confined to the exercise of their art. Each one of us has a creative potential, which is hidden by competitiveness and success-aggression. To recognize, explore and develop this potential is the task of the School. Creation—whether it be a painting, sculpture, symphony or novel—involves not merely talent, intuition, powers of imagination and application, but also the ability to shape material that could be expanded to other socially relevant spheres.
—Heinrich Boll (German Writer)

All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?
—Walter Kaufmann (German-American Philosopher)

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (Persian Muslim Mystic)

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Austrian Novelist)

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician, Philosopher)

God loveth a cheerful giver.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens…. Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson (American Author)

Trust, but verify.
—Russian Proverb

Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (Swiss Theologian, Poet)

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.
—Christopher Hitchens (Anglo-American Social Critic)

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)

Nothing is so beautiful as spring—when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (English Poet)

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn’t like it; indeed, especially when one doesn’t like it.
—Charlie Munger (American Investor, Philanthropist)

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
—John Naisbitt (American Trend Analyst)

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
—Wendell Phillips (American Abolitionist)