QOTD April 30 2019
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Patricia Neal: “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”
Eddie Cantor: “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “If you can’t do what you want, do what you can.”
Duke Ellington: “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Steve Jobs: “I don’t think it’s good that we’re perceived as different I think it’s important we’re perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that’d be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don’t care about being different, but we’ll have to be different in some ways to be much better.”
Susan Rice: “Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.”
Yoda: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
Samahria Lyte Kaufman: “Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.”
Ann Radcliffe: “Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.”
Phil Knight: “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
Dorothy Day: “I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
Milan Kundera: “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
John Milton: “He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!”
Oprah Winfrey: “You really haven’t changed, you’ve just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.”
Rabbi Abraham Heschel: “Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
Adele Brookman: “Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”