QOTD March 31 2015
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
Milan Kundera: “Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.”
Barbara Hall: “Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
The kid who wrote this answer to a test question must LOVE to dance! Of course he/she could also have been ‘brainwashed’ by his parents or he/she just saw one of the Madagascar movies! 🙂
For those of you who don’t understand the answer, check out the YouTube video below and dance to it like we all used to do, way back in the 90’s…I like to MOVE IT! 🙂
Holly Lisle: “You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.”
This performance of the Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman song ‘Time to say Goodbye’ by Solomia, a 13 year old girl participating in the German version The Voice Kids, just brings me to tears…WoW!!!!
(yes, she *is* only 13 years old, I can’t believe it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-iBdontn44
Welsh Proverb: “Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
Elizabeth Aston: “One’s life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one’s life or circumstances.”
Hugh Macleod: “Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.”
Public transport is by definition not cool 😉 , the Danes though have succeeded in adding some coolness to public transport. ‘Some’ coolness?? Well, watch the Youtube video below and you will agree; this is *the* most epic ad for public transportation ever created! I guess you too will be practicing to say “I am cool” in Danish. (“Jeg er cool.” 🙂 )
Well, that was three years ago, recently the Danish public transit company Midttrafik released the sequel…must admit, the bus is COOL!! 🙂
Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
Confucius: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
‘Other women’ are probably *the* #1 cause for arguments (/fights) between men and women in relationships…check out the Youtube video below in which Dennis Prager of Prager University explains and debunks this. Yes, men and women *are* different, there is nothing new with that and surely nothing to worry about!
Hmm, now only hope that women will understand it!! 🙂
(perhaps Dennis Prager should have been Denise Prager?! 🙂 )
Ann Richards: “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick: “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
Nicole Kidman: “When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
Mary Field Belenky: “Really listening and suspending one’s own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.”
The Northern Lights are just pure magic in the sky and last night was the first time since I moved to Norway that I witnessed it conveniently at home!
At first it looks like some shady clouds are closing in from the northern horizon, then these ‘clouds’ start to move from left to right, they move faster and faster, towards an incredible speed as if a t.l. tries to light up, and then you realise; hey, these are no clouds…something magical is happening in the sky…those ‘clouds’ are actually somewhat greenish instead of hazy white…the flares are everywhere, there, there *and* there…left, right, directly above me and even more at the horizon…Northern Lights mannnn, I love it! Unfortunately they were a tad weak, at least too weak to be captured on my iPhone (despite a special camera app allowing for a long shutter time)…so, less spectacular and far from the intensity that I experienced last year, but hey, I got a falling star as a bonus so no complains here, ha!
Check out the Youtube video below which was taken (not by me) in Oslo yesterday:
Ken Keyes Jr.: “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”