QOTD January 6 2014
Monday, January 6th, 2014Wally Lamb: “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Wally Lamb: “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Vaclav Havel: “Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”
Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
Plato: “Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Booker T. Washington: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
Louis Armstrong: “What we play is life.”
Hasidic Saying: “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”
Rebecca Beard: “The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
Diana Spencer: “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
Ruth Benedict: “The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.”
Steven Conrad: “You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it, period.”
Jean Paul Richter: “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
Henry Moore: “One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.”
H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”
Gloria Swanson: “Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
Haddon W. Robinson: “What worries you masters you.”
Epictetus: “If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
Hugh Macleod: “The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve ‘made it’.”
Hugh Macleod: “Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.”
Florence Shinn: “The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”