QOTD November 5 2019
November 5th, 2019 on 22:34Joseph Addison: “True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”
Joseph Addison: “True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”
Sir Francis Bacon: “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Christopher Reeve: “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
John M. Capozzi: “Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.”
Erich Fromm: “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”
Arthur Brisbane: “Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Difficulties come when you don’t pay attention to life’s whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you’ll get a scream.”
Unknown: “Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.”
Aristotle: “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe: “The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
Maya Angelou: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Rex Hudler: “Be a fountain, not a drain.”
George MacDonald: “Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.”
William Raspberry: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”
Ali Vincent: “Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.”
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
Stephen King: “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
Jennifer Hudson: “That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”
C. S. Lewis: “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”