QOTD February 28 2017
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce: “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Publilius Syrus: “Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
Abraham Lincoln: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Eugene S. Wilson: “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
Joan Lunden: “Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
Peter McWilliams: “Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power.””
Steve Jobs: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Juvenal: “Be gentle with the young.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”
Celia Thaxter: “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
John Lennon: “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.”
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.”
Sir Francis Bacon: “Knowledge is power.”
Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Carol Burnett: “Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
Annie Lennox: “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Ruben Studdard: “You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.”
Beverly Sills: “I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.”
Abraham Lincoln: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”