Nagesh Belludi

In ancient times, do you think that there was not the ignorant, and the shallow minded? And why after all should you embrace so fondly a carcass of dead thoughts. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
—Subramanya Bharathi (Indian Tamil Poet)

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
—Dan Millman (American Children’s Books Writer)

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet, Rhetorician)

Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.
—Russell Banks (American Author)

The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one’s neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.
—John Shelby Spong (American Episcopal Bishop)

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
—Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian Playwright)

Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach (American Self-help Author)

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
—Dwight L. Moody (Christian Religious Leader)

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
—Maxwell Maltz (American Surgeon)

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
—Anita Brookner (English Novelist, Art Historian)

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That’s it. Don’t worry about making a living, don’t worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do and what you make count more than what you own.
—David McCullough (American Historian)

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French Moralist)

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
—German Proverb

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
—Bertolt Brecht (German Poet)

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
—Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher)

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
—Alfred A. Montapert (American Engineer, Philosopher)

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
—John Ciardi (American Poet)

It is no use trying to tug the glacier backwards.
—Tibetan Proverb

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
—Arthur Koestler (British Writer, Journalist)

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
—Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (English Politician)

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
—Francis Marion Crawford (Italian-born American Novelist)

One man lies in his work, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
—Kabir (Indian Mystic)