QOTD November 26 2013
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013James Hilton: “Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does.”
James Hilton: “Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Emily Dickinson: “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Lydia M. Child: “You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.”
George Asaf: “What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.”
Henry David Thoreau: “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
George Herbert: “The best mirror is an old friend.”
Stephen Covey: “The way we see the problem is the problem.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.: “If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.”
John Barth: “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
Logan Pearsall Smith: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
Oprah Winfrey: “I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.”
Samuel Johnson: “If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
John Barth: “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
Ali Vincent: “To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.”
Ugo Betti: “When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.”
Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
Will Rogers: “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Phyllis Mcginley: “A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”