QOTD July 11 2017
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”
Brian Adams: “Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.”
Wil Wheaton,: “Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it’s surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.”
Abigail van Buren: “The best index to a person’s character is
(a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.”
Joanna Field: “I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Jules Renard: “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
Michel de Montaigne: “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
Marianne Williamson: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
J. K. Rowling: “It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”