QOTD March 31 2018
Saturday, March 31st, 2018Ralph Waldo Emerson: “In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Partake of some of life’s sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.”
Anna Quindlen: “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.”
Estee Lauder: “Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”
Randy K. Milholland: “In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”
Henry L. Stimson: “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.”
Meredith Willson: “You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.”
Whitney Young: “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life…, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.”
Kevin Smith: “My father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”
Anna Quindlen: “When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.”
Lynn Johnston: “The most profound statements are often said in silence.”
William Hazlitt: “He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”
Chris Messina: “Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn’t come from inside.”
Thomas Moore: “To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.”
Cecil B. DeMille: “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”
Elizabeth Aston: “There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “You can’t change what you’ve done, so you might as well just take pride in it.
Mahatma Gandhi: “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
George S. Patton: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”