Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD January 6 2014

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Wally Lamb: “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”

QOTD January 5 2014

Sunday, January 5th, 2014

Vaclav Havel: “Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”

QOTD January 4 2014

Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

QOTD January 3 2014

Friday, January 3rd, 2014

Plato: “Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

QOTD January 2 2014

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

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.”

QOTD January 1 2014

Wednesday, January 1st, 2014

Louis Armstrong: “What we play is life.”

QOTD December 31 2013

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

Hasidic Saying: “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”

QOTD December 30 2013

Monday, December 30th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 29 2013

Sunday, December 29th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 28 2013

Saturday, December 28th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 2013

Friday, December 27th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 26 2013

Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Jean Paul Richter: “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”

QOTD December 25 2013

Wednesday, December 25th, 2013

Henry Moore: “One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.”

QOTD December 24 2013

Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

H. Norman Schwarzkopf: “You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

QOTD December 22 2013

Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 21 2013

Saturday, December 21st, 2013

Haddon W. Robinson: “What worries you masters you.”

QOTD December 20 2013

Friday, December 20th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 19 2013

Thursday, December 19th, 2013

Hugh Macleod: “The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve ‘made it’.”

QOTD December 18 2013

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

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.”

QOTD December 17 2013

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

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.”