QOTD August 31 2015
Monday, August 31st, 2015Harriet Martineau: “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
Harriet Martineau: “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
A. R. Ammons: “Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.”
Agatha Christie: “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
Rodin: “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Confucius: “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Salma Hayek: โPeople often say that โbeauty is in the eye of the beholder,โ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.โ
Sean Stewart: “There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.”
Stephen Ambrose: “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
Hugh Macleod: “The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.”
Steve Jobs: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”
Henry Fielding: “Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”
Irish Proverb: “Praise youth and it will prosper.”
Japanese Proverb: “When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
Rabbi Abraham Heschel: “Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.”
Clifton Fadiman: “Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.”
Brendan Francis: “If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.”