Archive for February, 2018

QOTD February 28 2018

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

Dee Hock: “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”

 

QOTD February 27 2018

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

Freya Madeline Stark: “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

 

QOTD February 26 2018

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”

 

QOTD February 25 2018

Sunday, February 25th, 2018

Hugh Macleod: “If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you’re better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don’t feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.”

 

QOTD February 24 2018

Saturday, February 24th, 2018

Thich Nhat Hanh: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”

 

QOTD February 23 2018

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”

 

QOTD February 22 2018

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

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.”

 

QOTD February 21 2018

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Lydia M. Child: “You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.”

 

QOTD February 20 2018

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Susan Ertz: “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

 

QOTD February 19 2018

Monday, February 19th, 2018

Thomas a Kempis: “Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.”

 

QOTD February 18 2018

Sunday, February 18th, 2018

Shakti Gawain: “When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.”

 

QOTD February 17 2018

Saturday, February 17th, 2018

James Bryant Conant: “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”

 

QOTD February 16 2018

Friday, February 16th, 2018

Julia Sorel: “If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”

 

QOTD February 15 2018

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

Seneca: “What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing–to live in accord with his nature.”

 

QOTD February 14 2018

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Og Mandino: “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

QOTD February 13 2018

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

 

QOTD February 12 2018

Monday, February 12th, 2018

John Updike: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”

 

QOTD February 11 2018

Sunday, February 11th, 2018

Sharon Salzberg: “Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

 

QOTD February 10 2018

Saturday, February 10th, 2018

Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”

 

QOTD February 9 2018

Friday, February 9th, 2018

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.”