Archive for July, 2017

QOTD July 11 2017

Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”

QOTD July 10 2017

Monday, July 10th, 2017

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.”

 

QOTD July 9 2017

Sunday, July 9th, 2017

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.”

 

QOTD July 8 2017

Saturday, July 8th, 2017

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.”

 

QOTD July 7 2017

Friday, July 7th, 2017

Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.”

 

QOTD July 6 2017

Thursday, July 6th, 2017

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.”

 

QOTD July 5 2017

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”

 

QOTD July 4 2017

Tuesday, July 4th, 2017

Jules Renard: “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

QOTD July 3 2017

Monday, July 3rd, 2017

Michel de Montaigne: “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”

 

QOTD July 2 2017

Sunday, July 2nd, 2017

Marianne Williamson: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

 

QOTD July 1 2017

Saturday, July 1st, 2017

J. K. Rowling: “It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”