QOTD September 30 2017
Saturday, September 30th, 2017Eric Hoffer: “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
Eric Hoffer: “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
John J. Plomp: “You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Dr. Smiley Blanton: “The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.”
Roy M. Cohn: “Go after a man’s weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you’re going to follow through, because if you don’t, the next time you won’t be taken seriously.”
Christopher Morley: “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Elizabeth David: “Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.”
Hugh Macleod: “The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.”
Orison Swett Marden: “We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere – your ideal of what you long to attain – the ideal of health, efficiency, success.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
Gloria Swanson: “Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
Eugene Delacroix: “I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.”
Mike Ditka: “Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.”
Louis Schwartzberg: “Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.”
Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
L. M. Montgomery: “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
Clifton Fadiman: “Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.”
Margot Fonteyn: “If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”