QOTD May 13 2018
Sunday, May 13th, 2018Chinese Proverb: “Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.”
Chinese Proverb: “Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.”
Steve Jobs: “You’ve got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you’ve found it.”
Oriental Proverb: “If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.”
Abraham Lincoln: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Brenda Ueland: “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.”
Malcolm X: “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Unknown: “Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.”
Peter McWilliams: “Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”
Plutarch: “The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
Dale Carnegie: “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
Madeleine L’Engle: “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway: “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
John F. Kennedy: “We need men who can dream of things that never were.”