QOTD September 30 2015
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
Etty Hillesum: “I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.”
Henry Van Dyke: “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Margaret Fuller: “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
Epicurus: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we’re all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.”
Amber Deckers: “Never regret something that once made you smile.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
Norman Vincent Peale: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Julia Child: “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.”
Oprah Winfrey: “It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about.”
Meladee McCarty: “Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”
Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
Thomas Moore: “To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.”
Euripides: “Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Elizabeth Stone: “The particular human chain we’re part of is central to our individual identity.”