QOTD August 11 2019
Sunday, August 11th, 2019Henry David Thoreau: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Irish Proverb: “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Randy Pausch: “It’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.”
Emily Dickinson: “Forever is composed of nows.”
Jean Nidetch: “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”
Waiter Rant: “But seduction isnβt making someone do what they donβt want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.”
Hugh White: “When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
Askhari Johnson Hodari: βIf everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.β
H. G. Wells: “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
Carl Jung: “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Eric Schmidt: “Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It’s not to have a detailed plan of everything that you’re going to do. You can’t plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”