Archive for November, 2018

QOTD November 30 2018

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Jeffrey Rowland: “We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to comprehend.”

 

QOTD November 29 2018

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

Victor Hugo: “There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.”

 

QOTD November 28 2018

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Norman Vincent Peale: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”

 

QOTD November 27 2018

Tuesday, November 27th, 2018

Dianne Hales: “Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.”

 

QOTD November 26 2018

Monday, November 26th, 2018

Lord Byron: “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

 

QOTD November 25 2018

Sunday, November 25th, 2018

Seneca: “It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.”

 

QOTD November 24 2018

Saturday, November 24th, 2018

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

 

QOTD November 23 2018

Friday, November 23rd, 2018

Bernadette Peters: “You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?”

 

QOTD November 22 2018

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Saint Jerome: “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

 

QOTD November 21 2018

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Cynthia Ozick: “To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.”

 

QOTD November 20 2018

Tuesday, November 20th, 2018

Tom Morris: “The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.”

 

QOTD November 19 2018

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Bob Dylan: “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.”

 

QOTD November 18 2018

Sunday, November 18th, 2018

Reggie Leach: “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

 

QOTD November 17 2018

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

W. Somerset Maugham: “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”

 

QOTD November 16 2018

Friday, November 16th, 2018

The Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

 

QOTD November 15 2018

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Colby Dorr Dam: “Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.”

 

QOTD November 14 2018

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Marcel Proust: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

 

QOTD November 13 2018

Tuesday, November 13th, 2018

Marlene Dietrich: “Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

 

QOTD November 12 2018

Monday, November 12th, 2018

Oprah Winfrey: “Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.”

 

QOTD November 11 2018

Sunday, November 11th, 2018

Norman Douglas: “If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”