Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD October 17 2013

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”

QOTD October 16 2013

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Erich Fromm: “Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.”

QOTD October 15 2013

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Francis Maitland Balfour: “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

QOTD October 14 2013

Monday, October 14th, 2013

A. Whitney Brown: “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.” πŸ˜‰

QOTD October 13 2013

Sunday, October 13th, 2013

Rebecca West: “There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”

QOTD October 12 2013

Saturday, October 12th, 2013

Mother Teresa: “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”

QOTD October 11 2013

Friday, October 11th, 2013

William Hazlitt: “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”

QOTD October 10 2013

Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Anonymous: “Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”

QOTD October 9 2013

Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

Wayne Dyer: “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

QOTD October 8 2013

Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Julie Morgenstern: “How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!”

QOTD October 7 2013

Monday, October 7th, 2013

David M. Ogilvy: “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.”

QOTD October 6 2013

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

John F. Kennedy: “The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'”

QOTD October 5 2013

Saturday, October 5th, 2013

Marie De Vichy-Chaconne: “It is only the first step that is difficult.”

QOTD October 4 2013

Friday, October 4th, 2013

George Orwell: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

QOTD October 3 2013

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

Mark Twain: “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

QOTD October 2 2013

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

Margaret Cho: “I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.”

QOTD October 1 2013

Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Katherine Mansfield: “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.”

QOTD September 30 2013

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Norman Cousins: “Laughter is inner jogging.”

QOTD September 29 2013

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

Zig Ziglar: “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

QOTD September 28 2013

Saturday, September 28th, 2013

John Green: “Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.” πŸ˜‰