QOTD September 7 2013
Saturday, September 7th, 2013John Ruskin: “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
John Ruskin: “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
Gertrude Stein: “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
Fritjof Capra: “During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.”
Lisa Williams: “The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.”
Christine Bovee : “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
Spanish Proverb : “Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.”
Adelle Davis: “As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
Malcolm Gladwell: “You can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison: “The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
George C. Marshall: “When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
Martha Grimes: “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”
Elmer Davis: “The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.”
Malcolm X: “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Eric Schmidt: “In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.”
Martha Graham: “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
Herodotus: “If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
Robin Norwood: “Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.”