QOTD November 30 2017
Thursday, November 30th, 2017Charles de Gaulle: “We may go to the moon, but that’s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”
Charles de Gaulle: “We may go to the moon, but that’s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”
James Carroll: “We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.”
Catherine de Hueck Doherty: “Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.”
Voltaire: “Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
Lord Chesterfield: “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Oscar Wilde: “I can resist anything but temptation.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life.”
Michael Hainey: “I learned early that sometimes you have to dig through garbage to get anywhere.”
Peter McWilliams: “The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.”
Tennessee Williams: “Make voyages! – Attempt them! – there’s nothing else…”
Meryl Streep: “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
Maria Edgeworth: “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
Robert J. Sawyer: “General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”
Rebecca Beard: “The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
Edith Sodergran: “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
Michael Patrick King: “That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.”
Rodin: “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Og Mandino: “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”