QOTD October 17 2013
Thursday, October 17th, 2013George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
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.”
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.”
A. Whitney Brown: “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.” π
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.”
Mother Teresa: “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
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.”
Anonymous: “Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”
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.”
Julie Morgenstern: “How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!”
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.”
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!'”
Marie De Vichy-Chaconne: “It is only the first step that is difficult.”
George Orwell: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
Mark Twain: “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
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.”
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.”
Norman Cousins: “Laughter is inner jogging.”
Zig Ziglar: “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
John Green: “Maybe I want strangers to think Iβm cool since people who actually know me donβt.” π