Nagesh Belludi

The religious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, and for him the blessing of the sacred comes into being.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
—Benjamin Graham (American Investor)

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
—Lee Kuan Yew (Singaporean Statesman)

Calculation never made a hero.
—John Henry Newman (British Theologian, Poet)

Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
—Leon Trotsky (Russian Revolutionary)

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
—Lydia H. Sigourney (American Poetaster, Author)

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher, Mathematician)

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
—Christopher Hampton (British Playwright, Screenwriter)

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
—Sylvester Stallone (American Actor)

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gloamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.
—James Fenimore Cooper (American Novelist)

Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee.
—The Dhammapada (Buddhist Anthology of Verses)

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. If the Government or majorities think an individual is right, no one will interfere with him; but when agitators talk against the things considered holy, or when radicals criticise, or satirize the political gods, or question the justice of our laws and institutions, or pacifists talk against war, how the old inquisition awakens, and ostracism, the excommunication of the church, the prison, the wheel, the torture-chamber, the mob, are called to suppress the free expression of thought.
—Harry Weinberger (American Lawyer)

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
—Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Head of State)

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
—Juvenal (Roman Poet)

To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.
—Derek Sivers (American Entrepreneur)

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it.—It unloosens the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman’s task in another’s hands.
—Laurence Sterne (Irish Anglican Novelist)

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Live while you live, the epicure would say, and seize the pleasures of the passing day.—Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, and give to God each moment as it flies.—Lord, in my views, let both united be. I live in pleasure while I live to thee.
—Philip Doddridge (English Nonconformist Religious Leader)

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
—Horace Greeley (American Journalist)

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)

We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and use of such of her forces as we may understand.
—Beryl Markham (English-African Aviator)

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
—James Joyce (Irish Novelist)

Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will of renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of work; acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual worker. Without that you will do nothing, at least nothing worth while.
—Antonin Sertillanges (French Catholic Philosopher)

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
—Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian Author)

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.
—Chinese Proverb

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world—it is thin.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (American Poet)

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Theologian)

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
—Charles Baudelaire (French Poet)

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)

Nought venture nought have.
—John Heywood

A house of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in.
—Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian Author)

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

He who invokes history is always secure. The dead will not rise to witness against him.
—Czeslaw Milosz (Polish-American Poet, Novelist)

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
—John Tillotson