QOTD January 26 2014
Sunday, January 26th, 2014J.K. Rowling: “We touch other peoples lives simply by existing.”
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QOTD January 25 2014
Saturday, January 25th, 2014Steve Jobs: “Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
QOTD January 24 2014
Friday, January 24th, 2014Barack Obama: “The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what’s truly important.”
QOTD January 23 2014
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014Henry David Thoreau: “What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
QOTD January 22 2014
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014Salma Hayek: “People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
QOTD January 21 2014
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014Kurt Cobain: “Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.”
QOTD January 20 2014
Monday, January 20th, 2014J. K. Rowling: “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”
QOTD January 19 2014
Sunday, January 19th, 2014Claudia Jewett Jarrett: “It is the caring and sharing that count—-love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.”
QOTD January 18 2014
Saturday, January 18th, 2014Jean-Paul Sartre: “In love, one and one are one.”
QOTD January 17 2014
Friday, January 17th, 2014Hugh Macleod: “Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it’s primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it’s a primal calling.”
QOTD January 16 2014
Thursday, January 16th, 2014Lawana Blackwell: “Age is no guarantee of maturity.”
QOTD January 15 2014
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014L. M. Montgomery: “One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.”
QOTD January 14 2014
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
QOTD January 13 2014
Monday, January 13th, 2014Maria Montessori: “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
QOTD January 12 2014
Sunday, January 12th, 2014Dinah Shore: “Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”
QOTD January 11 2014
Saturday, January 11th, 2014Sophy Burnham: “To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.”
QOTD January 10 2014
Friday, January 10th, 2014Muriel Spark: “Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
QOTD January 9 2014
Thursday, January 9th, 2014Steven Wright: “Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it”
QOTD January 8 2014
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014Max Frisch: “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
QOTD January 7 2014
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014William Shakespeare: “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
